Awaken Chapter 289

The Middle Continent Immortal Collection.

The Cave World.

This is like an underground world, with mountains, rivers and ancient trees that emanate vitality.

This area is like a fairyland on earth.

High mountains and waterfalls, aura like water, and many creatures, walking among the gra*slands.

They were foreign beasts, with scaly armour on them, like a qilin, and their bodies were crimson, looking very extraordinary.

“It’s a blood qi beast.”

“Hiss, this foreign beast, which went extinct a thousand years ago, his blood, which can refine a strand of qilin true blood, is extremely useful to martial artists, and can refine a fourth-grade realm-breaking pellet.”

He said so.

He looked extraordinarily excited.

“Is it one head or how many?”

Xu Qingnian was a little surprised and couldn’t help but ask in a hurry.

“A single Blood Qilin beast can refine a fourth-grade realm-breaking pellet.”

Dan Shen Gu Jing said excitedly.

In an instant, Xu Qingnian smacked his lips.

This was because at a glance, there were thousands of Blood Qi Beasts running around, and if they were all caught, they could refine tens of thousands of fourth-grade pills.

Wouldn’t Great Wei be able to birth tens of thousands of fourth-grade powerhouses out of thin air by then?

That would be somewhat terrifying.

A fourth-grade martial artist, in the midst of a real battle, could not make much of an impact, perhaps for a first-grade martial artist, it would be just an extra slap in the face.

But for a war of scale, 10,000 fourth-grade martial artists would be an almost invincible existence.

Only, what stunned Xu Qingnian was more than that.

In the distance.

A large mountain, reflected in front of him.

This great mountain, towering among the clouds, emanated a pale gold colour all over.

It was a few dozen miles away.

At a glance, Xu Qingnian’s entire body was dumbfounded.

Extremely high quality spirit gold.

That’s right.

It was extremely high quality spirit gold.

A very high quality spirit gold forged from a large mountain.

This scene made Xu Qingnian’s entire body dumbfounded.

Extreme-grade spirit gold was incomparably precious in the outside world, but what was unexpected was that in the Central Continent Immortal Collection, there was a large mountain.

Xu Qingnian was dumbfounded.

Even Dan Shen Gu Jing was also dumbfounded.

One simply did not expect that such a place would hide such treasures.

“Little friend, with so much stuff, how many First Grade Divine Martial Cannons can be refined?”

Dan Shen Gu Jing inquired.

“I don’t know, a few thousand, tens of thousands, it shouldn’t be a big problem.”

Xu Qingnian wasn’t sure, generally speaking, a hundred catties of extremely high quality spirit gold could create a divine Martial Cannon, except that this kind of divine Martial Cannon was very problematic, and could only be released three or four times in a short period of time.

Any more than that and it will self-destruct.

And it can only be released about twenty times in its lifetime, and this is still theoretical.

But if a divine martial artillery cannon is refined with two hundred pounds, there is no such problem, at least twenty times in a row, but the scrapping is not expected to escape.

This is the problem of the material itself.

A big mountain forged out of extremely high quality spirit gold, if you really want to refine it, a million divine martial artillery cannons would be no problem.

It was only a matter of whether or not it could be refined.

“This place, it really is an immortal treasure, just here alone, there are so many divine items, wouldn’t there be something even better deeper?”

Xu Qingnian uttered, he was completely shocked by the Midcontinent Immortal Collection.

“The Midcontinent Immortal Treasure, among the rumours, is an out-of-this-world paradise, containing all the treasures between heaven and earth, this area is so isolated from the world that no one may have set foot in it for millions of years.”

“It’s normal to have these treasures, but you should be blinded by these things, be careful, in case there is any danger, it will be the end.”

Dan Shen Ancient Scripture was still a bit more cautious and sober on earth.

“Okay, I understand.”

Xu Qingnian nodded.

And then walked towards the golden mountain.

The purpose of his coming to the Central Continent Immortal Collection was for the Extreme Spiritual Gold, and if he could just get the Extreme Spiritual Gold to come, there would be no need to continue exploring.

One hundred divine Martial Cannons would be enough to solve all the disturbances outside.

At that moment, Xu Qingnian rushed towards the outside.

He was extremely fast.

Only, as Xu Qingnian continued to go deeper and deeper, inexplicably, there was a force that was suppressing him.

“There’s a force here that will suppress my strength, I’m only afraid that there’s danger ahead.”

Xu Qingnian spoke, looking more and more cautious.

“Then go back?”

Dan Shen Gu Jing inquired.

At that moment, Xu Qingnian was somewhat silent, and without any hesitation, he hurried towards the golden mountain.

The deeper he went, the stronger the suppression became.

First grade.

Second grade.

Third grade.

It was not until Xu Qingnian was close to the Golden Mountain that Xu Qingnian noticed that his realm had already been suppressed to the Third Grade realm.

If it wasn’t for the attraction of the extremely high quality spirit gold, Xu Qingnian would never have dared to take such a risk.

Only, Xu Qingnian was not really dazzled by the golden mountain, but he still had his bottom card hidden.

The Midcontinent Dragon Cauldron had not yet appeared.

If the Midcontinent Dragon Cauldron appeared, it could counteract this kind of pressure.

It was close to the golden mountain.

The spirit gold emitted a faint golden light, not blinding, giving off a faint glow.

“It is extremely high quality spirit gold without a doubt.”

Xu Qingnian could determine with a single glance that this was extremely high quality spirit gold, and that the quality was better than the extremely high quality spirit gold outside.

If I had to say so, this could only be called extremely fine spirit gold, without any hint of impurities.

“If we were to bring these extremely high quality spirit gold to Great Wei, I’m afraid that it would be difficult for Great Wei not to be unified.”

Xu Qingnian muttered in his heart.

His eyes were filled with a look of anticipation.

A mountain of extremely fine spirit gold, brought to Great Wei, would not be thousands or tens of thousands of divine Martial Cannons, but hundreds of thousands of divine Martial Cannons.

Of course, this was only a thought, and it was somewhat difficult just to collect it.

If one wanted to empty a mountain, it would be difficult to do so unless the millions of generals of the Great Wei were gathered here and some mining tools made of extremely high quality spirit gold had to be refined.

Emptying the mountain was just a thought of Xu Qingnian.

But taking away a hundred thousand pounds, a few hundred thousand pounds, should not be a problem.

Thinking of this, Xu Qingnian gathered the power of a Martial Emperor, and although it was weakened, there was no problem collecting this kind of spiritual gold.

But just then, a voice rang out.

“Don’t move yet, a great mountain birthed from extremely high quality spirit gold, there is only something extraordinary within it.”

“Perhaps there is something beyond extremely high quality spirit gold, that kind of thing is much more valuable, if you mine directly here, not to mention that you can’t pick much first, when you can really pick quite a lot, in case you attract something bad, it will be troublesome.”

Dan Shen Gu Jing spoke out.

Rather, it made Xu Qingnian cautious.

Indeed, this hellish place, whether there was any danger hidden was still unknown, and taking a risk by oneself was indeed a bit troublesome.

Moreover, the mountain body was made of high quality spirit gold, so if there was nothing good inside, Xu Qingnian himself would not believe it.

Thinking of this, Xu Qingnian put down his thoughts and then inspected the entire mountain.

He did find a few entrances.

Following the entrances in, the Haoran Wen Zhong hovered above his own head.

Just in case.

It took about half an hour to go deeper.

Xu Qingnian’s pace was not fast, and was even slower, mainly because he was worried about inexplicable dangers.

But as Xu Qingnian kept going deeper and deeper.

The did see some different ores.

“This is immortal gold.”

“Little friend, dig it down and take a look.”

Suddenly, the Dan Shen Ancient Scripture opened its mouth and appeared on a piece of light ink coloured mineral iron.

“Good.”

Without any nonsense, Xu Qingnian dug out this pale ink coloured ore.

The ore was pale ink in colour and was suffused with wisps of black Qi, it was very strong and Xu Qingnian tried to crush it with his Martial Emperor’s Qi.

But he found that even the Martial Emperor’s Qi could not crush this ore, it was too strong.

It took Xu Qingnian a full ten percent of his strength to shatter this ore.

But it was only shattered, not shattered into powder.

After using ten percent of his force, theoretically speaking, the very finest spirit gold would have to be turned into powder.

“Senior, what is this thing?”

Xu Qingnian really didn’t know what this was, it was written in the books that extremely high quality spirit gold was already the strongest material in the world.

“It is immortal gold, something that is said to be bred out of the very finest spirit gold, it takes more than a hundred thousand years to produce a piece of gold stone the size of your hand.”

Dan Shen Gu Jing said so.

“More than a hundred thousand years? Hm.”

“Wouldn’t that be a waste?”

Xu Qingnian was a little distressed, looking at the shattered immortal gold in his hand.

“You kid are just ratty, this isn’t even the end, you go further in, there might be more and more.”

“If there is no accident, getting a few hundred pounds or even a thousand pounds is not too much to ask.”

Dan Shen Gu Jing said so.

It also reminded Xu Qingnian.

Indeed, it hadn’t come to an end yet.

And as Xu Qingnian moved forward step by step, indeed a few more pieces of this immortal gold appeared.

Xu Qingnian dug them all down.

All the way forward, all the way digging.

Until half an hour later.

Xu Qingnian froze again.

The mineral iron inside, all of which was immortal gold, also gave off some black gas.

It was devilish gas.

A very dense devilish gas.

Xu Qingnian could only continue on for a few hundred metres with his Martial Emperor’s power to block these demonic qi before he was a little overwhelmed.

“Why is there so much devilish Qi in a place like this?”

Xu Qingnian was somewhat curious, even if there were fierce beasts guarding the place, Xu Qingnian recognized it, but so much demonic Qi, it was a bit odd.

“The hell knows, maybe there is a great devil inside, be careful, I’d better advise you to hurry up and leave, it’s almost enough, the further you go inside the more trouble you’ll only get.”

Dan Shen Gu Jing didn’t know either.

He could only tell Xu Qingnian to hurry up and leave.

But Xu Qingnian did not do so, instead he condensed the Zhongzhou Dragon Cauldron.

Theoretically, Xu Qingnian still had the Three Demon Seal in, but this was something Xu Qingnian did not want to touch.

That was why the Three Demon Seals were not used.

When the Midcontinent Dragon Cauldron appeared, these demonic qi began to frantically avoid it, just as if they had seen a ghost.

And the immortal gold within the cave was taken into the Dragon Cauldron piece by piece by Xu Qingnian.

He knew that there were quite a few good things ahead as well, but he was also a little cautious about taking some immortal gold if he could if there was really some terrifying existence ahead.

The purpose of coming here was for the Divine Martial Cannon, and as soon as he had gathered the target of a hundred of them, Xu Qingnian would leave immediately.

An hour later.

As Xu Qingnian kept collecting, almost five thousand pounds of immortal gold was dug up by Xu Qingnian.

The internal cavern, which had expanded by about half a metre, was dug up and down by Xu Qingnian.

Five thousand pounds of immortal gold, this kind of thing was used to refine the Divine Martial Cannon, the power would remain the same, but there might not be a limit to it.

It would be able to unleash as much heavenly lightning power as it wanted.

Nowadays, instead, one has to consider whether there are that many formation jades, as well as the person who refines the weapon.

After all, refining a first-grade formation would also require a lot of time.

“Quite a lot has been dug up, can we go now?”

Dan Shen Gu Jing asked, he was inexplicably a little resistant to this place and wanted Xu Qingnian to hurry up and leave.

“Go in again and see, I’ll be the first to go if there’s any danger.”

The cave was generally deep and could still go on, there was one thing to say, Xu Qingnian was not greedy, mainly a little curious.

“Alas, greed is the bad root of people, even sub-saints.”

Dan Shen Gu Jing sighed.

There was nothing more he could say, and he could not control Xu Qingnian, so he could only follow Xu Qingnian and continue on his way.

In this way.

In the blink of an eye, it was another hour.

After going deeper once more.

A ray of light, reflected in front of him.

We had reached the end.

Xu Qingnian was a little hesitant, but after thinking about it, he continued on, the Haoran Wen Zhong hovering above his head and the Zhongzhou Dragon Cauldron surrounding him.

If there was any danger, he would be the first to flee from here.

One hundred metres.

Fifty metres.

Ten metres.

When he came to the exit, a huge empty valley appeared.

In the empty valley, there was a colourful light, but a scene that shocked both Xu Qingnian and Dan Shen Gu Jing appeared.

In this empty valley, there was a foreign beast, extremely large, with wings, eight heads, tiger, leopard, snake, cow and horse.

Their bodies were covered in black scales, and the head in the middle was a dragon’s head with dragon horns, giving off a terrifying aura.

And all of these ferocious beasts, at this moment, were gazing at Xu Qingnian.

“Nine-headed ferocious beasts.”

“How could there be such a thing in this place?”

“No, how come this kind of thing hasn’t died out yet?”

Dan Shen Gu Jing directly exploded.

He seemed to have seen something unimaginable.

And Xu Qingnian also went a little numb.

Through the aura, he could feel that each of the ferocious beasts, all of them were strong and terrifying, with incomparable and terrifying Qi and blood in their bodies.

But the grade was not high, just the third grade.

Only, the number was somewhat exaggerated, fixing his eyes on them, there were tens of thousands of them.

Xu Qingnian gulped his saliva.

Tens of thousands of third-grade ferocious beasts, the good thing was that one had the Midcontinent Dragon Cauldron, which effectively blocked the suppressing power of this area.

Otherwise, he would have been suppressed to the third rank.

This was a blessing among misfortunes.

“Senior, what are these things?”

Xu Qingnian did not act rashly, these vicious beasts kept looking at him but did not make a move, causing Xu Qingnian to not want to mess around either.

“Little friend, listen to me carefully.”

“Don’t mess with this thing, it’s a descendant of the ancient Hydra, a descendant of the Demon God, with nine heads, a demon bred from the yin power of heaven and earth.”

“They can’t be killed, it even says that as long as you don’t chop off his nine heads in one breath, he won’t die and will grow stronger and stronger until he decapitates you.”

“This is a fierce beast from the ancient times, and can break through to the first rank in a short period of time.”

“If you provoke them, you will surely die.”

Dan Shen Gu Jing panicked and informed Xu Qingnian of the origins of these ferocious beasts.

“Break through to the first rank in a short period of time?”

“That’s impossible.”

“If that’s the case, these ten thousand or so heads would represent ten thousand First Grade powerhouses, enough to destroy the heavens and earth.”

Xu Qingnian’s first reaction was disbelief.

Ten thousand third-grade ferocious beasts had already shocked him, and now telling himself that these things could break through to the first grade in a short period of time, he was dead set against believing it.

“At this time, what are you still dwelling on this for?”

“The old man won’t lie to you.”

“However, these ferocious beasts, to break through to the first grade, is not an easy task either.”

“There are only nine heads, which are chopped off in turn, and after which a new head is birthed, and when the ninety-nine return to one, they can break through to the first grade, but after arriving at the first grade, they will also turn back into embryos and be birthed again.”

Dan Shen Gu Jing patiently explained.

“Then wouldn’t they be immortal beings?”

Xu Qingnian asked.

“Pretty much that, but if you can decapitate nine of their heads in one breath, it’s considered a direct decapitation.”

He replied.

“But don’t they only have eight heads? What about the other one?”

Xu Qingnian continued to ask.

“There’s another one hidden away, that’s the most absolute thing, they won’t coalesce a ninth head until the critical moment.”

“So this thing is hard to kill, don’t look at you now as a first grade, really kill, it’s not really possible to kill all of them, even under a protracted battle, these vicious beasts, maybe they will metamorphose into several hundred first grade vicious beasts, by then it will be hard for you not to want to die.”

“Listen to me, don’t say anything, I’ll count to three, then run.”

Dan Shen Gu Jing spoke.

His tone was tense, causing Xu Qingnian’s to indeed not dare to act recklessly.

“Three!”

Dan Shen Gu Jing shouted.

In an instant, Xu Qingnian froze, but soon without any hesitation, he pulled his legs out and ran towards the outside of the cave.

Xu Qingnian’s speed was extremely fast.

The ferocious beasts within the valley also charged straight out in an instant, chasing after Xu Qingnian.

Roar.

A furious roar rang out.

Thousands of nine-headed ferocious beasts covered the sky and rushed in towards the cave.

This time, Xu Qingnian understood why the cave looked so big.

It turned out to be inhabited by a group of such things.

“Senior, what are the ores within the valley again? Why is it coloured?”

Xu Qingnian opened his mouth and asked.

He was curious.

“What time is it that you still care about those immortal gold?”

Dan Shen Gu Jing was truly speechless.

But this was normal, after all, it wasn’t like Xu Qingnian knew how terrifying the Nine-Headed Vicious Beast was.

It was reasonable to not understand.

“That’s the Root of Immortal Gold, with that kind of thing, you can breed extremely high quality spirit gold, as well as immortal gold.”

“But don’t even think about it, with so many nine-headed ferocious beasts around, even if the entire Great Wei army showed up here, it would have to be wiped out.”

“This thing was killed off in ancient times, I didn’t think there would still be so many hidden in this hellhole.”

“I’m not joking with you, kid, if you let these things out, within six months, Zhongzhou will fall into ruin.”

“Don’t hit them.”

“You’ll be lucky to live.”

Dan Shen Gu Jing deliberately warned, just in case Xu Qingnian hit on these things.

Xu Qingnian wasn’t stupid either.

He knew that they were good things, but he also knew that it would be redundant if he didn’t have the life to take them.

Still, Xu Qingnian was extremely fast, and the power of the First Grade was definitely not bad.

The opponent was a third-grade, and although he had wings, he couldn’t outrun Xu Qingnian.

This was a good thing.

However, in the next scene, Xu Qingnian could not help but be dumbfounded.

Only to see that the nine-headed ferocious beast that was chasing the closest had bitten off one of its heads and let out a furious roar in a flash.

Then, a new head grew.

The speed had obviously increased a lot.

“This works?”

Xu Qingnian’s eyes widened in some disbelief.

“Cut the crap and run.”

Dan Shen Gu Jing shouted, telling Xu Qingnian to hurry up and run.

However, after flying out of the cave.

Thousands of nine-headed ferocious beasts had already appeared in front of them.

Ahead of them was the path of death.