Chapter 977 977: Chanyang Mountain Ranges!
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When Tang Li Xue and her team were heading to the Chanyang Mountain Ranges, the cultivators from Yama Palace came to the location where several Nascent Soul Stage Masters had been killed.
Although Xi’er had already cleaned up the spot and dissolved all of the fallen Nascent Soul Stage Masters’ bodies with her black gas-like Death Energy, but the traces of the violent battle still could not be completely erased.
After some of them had examined thoroughly for an hour or so, they immediately concluded the identities of the other fallen group of Nascent Soul Stage Masters.
“They should be fighting against the masters from the Samsara Temple.” The people who investigated concluded.
But their group leader, who had the cultivation level of Great Perfection Nascent Soul Stage, frowned deeply in displeasure after he heard their words.
“I already know that, you idiots! I am the one who sends them to get the treasure map’s fragment from the Samsara Temple’s people! What I want to know is who killed them and who took the treasure map’s fragments from them in the end?!” The group leader scolded coldly.
“This…” The other Yama Palace’s masters looked at each other in puzzlement since they did not know what to do.
However, they were quite sure that the people who took the treasure map’s fragments in the end should not be from the Samsara Temple.
Because if it were Samsara Temple’s people who won and obtained the treasure map’s fragments in the end, they should bring the dead bodies of their comrades back instead of trying to eliminate them here.
When the group leader saw his people fall silent and could not think of any solution, he began to explain the severity of this matter to them.
“More than a thousand years ago, there was an ordinary villager boy named Nie Jun, but in just 100 years, that boy could reach the Spirit Transformation Realm.” The group leader told his people.
“Reach the Spirit Transformation Realm in just 100 years?!” All of the masters from Yama Palace grasped in shock and disbelief.
The group leader continued to say: “It was rumored that Grandmaster Nie Jun accidentally obtained Immortal Treasure when he was young, which was the main reason for him to be able to reach that feat.”
“The missing treasure map’s fragments are related to Grandmaster Nie Jun, and it might even lead to Grandmaster Nie Jun’s inheritance. There is a high chance that the Immortal Treasure is actually among Grandmaster Nie Jun’s inheritance!” The group leader concluded his explanation.
“Immortal Treasure~!” The masters from Yama Palace instantly went crazy after they heard it.
Even though most of them had already reached the Nascent Soul Stage, but breaking through from the Nascent Soul Stage to the Spirit Transformation Realm was as hard as reaching the sky in one step.
Mastering any Profound Law was extremely hard to do, not to mention the Heaven Tribulation they had to face was too dangerous.
Among 1,000 Nascent Soul Stage Masters who trying to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, perhaps only less than ten of them would succeed.
An Immortal Treasure that could 100% help them break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm was clearly an irresistible temptation for them!
Finally, one of Yama Palace’s masters stepped forward and said his suggestion: “Leader Long, I heard that there is a unique treasure called Karma Incense stored in our treasure warehouse.”
“If we use that Karma Incense, we can surely track the killers. I am sure the treasure map’s fragments should be in the killers’ hands.” The Yama Palace’s master concluded his suggestion and waited for the Group Leader’s decision.
Group Leader Long’s eyes were shining with joy as he hastily took out his jade badge, threw it toward one of the masters, and instructed him: “Go back to our branch quarter and show my jade badge to the warehouse’s guardian. Bring the Karma Incense here as soon as possible!”
“Understood, Leader Long!” The Nascent Soul Master replied while catching the jade badge thrown by Group Leader Long, then he turned around and flew as fast as he could toward the branch quarter.
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Tang Li Xue and her team still did not know that the Masters from Yama Palace had found a way to track them down.
After Lucia flew non-stop at high speed for several days, they finally managed to reach the Chanyang Mountain Ranges.
The Chanyang Mountain Ranges consisted of many tall mountains that were covered with thick snow.
To make it worse, the weather in the Chanyang Mountain Ranges was always bad.
Snowstorms always hit the Chanyang Mountain Ranges all day long.
Normally, even cultivators were too lazy to pass through the Chanyang Mountain Ranges because of this weather.
Tang Li Xue immediately understood why the person tried to hide the treasures here.
Looking for the hidden treasures here in such extreme weather and covered in thick snow everywhere was so much harder than looking for a needle in a haystack.
“Urgh, I want to go home already…” Tang Li Xue muttered while her slender body was shivering in the cold.
Considerate Lucia immediately cast [Golden Light Spell] to create a transparent golden barrier around them to block the cold wind and snow.
Tang Li Xue took out the sleeping Little Loki from her System’s pet space, then she caressed Little Loki’s tiny furry head gently to wake it up.
“Little Loki, wake up for a moment~! We need your help to find the treasures hidden in this place.” Tang Li Xue whispered softly to Little Loki in a coaxing tone.
“Nyaaw~! (Okaaay~!)” Little Loki yawned sleepily while stretching its body lazily.
With Little Loki working as their treasure detector, Lucia began to fly more slowly around the Chanyang Mountain Ranges.
The Chanyang Mountain Ranges’ area was very vast.
Even with Little Loki’s help, it would take them some time to pinpoint the exact location of the hidden treasures.
Thankfully, the detection range of Little Loki’s treasure-finding ability had become much larger than before after it ate so many good things in the Yin Burial Ground.
After looking around relentlessly for more than two days, they finally found the location of the hidden treasures.
But there was actually nothing there other than thick snow!
“Now what?!” Tang Li Xue asked Xi’er.
After all, they all came here under Xi’er’s persuasion.
“Err, maybe the treasures are buried under the ground? Little Loki, can you please swallow all the snow and soil over there?” Xi’er tried to ask Little Loki for help.
Little Loki rolled its eyes and lazily lay down on Tang Li Xue’s lap as if it had not heard Xi’er’s words.
Even though Little Loki could eat anything, it did not mean it would be willing to eat any kind of trash.
“Okay, fine~!” Xi’er muttered helplessly as she jumped down from Lucia’s back.
Then Lucia condensed a pair of huge hands from her black fog-like Death Energy, then began to control them to dig the snow and soil.
After digging for fifteen minutes or so, Xi’er suddenly exclaimed in an excited tone: “Found it~!”
“Really?! Where are the treasures?!” Tang Li Xue happily jumped down from Lucia’s back, with Yaya and Little Loki sitting on her shoulder and hiding under her cloak.
But Tang Li Xue immediately became very disappointed because what Xi’er found was not any treasure, but some kind of round metal cover buried deep under the ground.
“This should be the entrance to the treasure room!” Xi’er said confidently.
Tang Li Xue rolled her topaz blue eyes and asked: “Isn’t that obvious?! Then do you know how to open it?”
Xi’er: “…..”
Xi’er ran and kneeled while begging Little Loki: “Please help me this time!”
Little Loki sighed while shaking its head before it patted its furry chest as if it was saying : “Sigh, you are really hopeless. Just leave it to me~!”
Little Loki opened its tiny mouth widely and activated its [Heaven’s Devour]!
The space around began to tremble violently before the round metal cover was sucked into Little Loki’s mouth and swallowed by it.
There was actually a dark tunnel under the round metal cover.
Xi’er was the strongest fighter among them, and she also could not be killed easily, so she took the lead and became the first one to jump down into the dark tunnel.
RUMBLE~! RUMBLE~! RUMBLE~!
BOOOM~! BAAANG~! BAAANG~! BOOOM~!
“Wow, what a grand welcome party!” Tang Li Xue exclaimed in amazement when she heard loud chain explosive sounds from inside the dark tunnel.
It was easy to imagine just how many traps were set in that dark tunnel.
If Tang Li Xue carelessly entered the dark tunnel first, she would have been killed by now.
“Okay, it is safe now~!” Xi’er’s voice echoed from inside the dark tunnel.
The dark tunnel was too narrow, so Tang Li Xue could not ride on Lucia’s back.
Lucia led right in front of Tang Li Xue as they entered the dark tunnel together.
Yaya and Little Loki sat on Tang Li Xue’s right and left shoulders, but they were ready to protect Tang Li Xue from any incoming danger at any time.
However, Tang Li Xue and the others no longer met any danger on their way since Xi’er had already cleaned up all the traps on the way for them.
After walking more than three hundred meters in the dark tunnel, they finally reached an ancient pagoda.
“A pagoda?! Are the treasures kept inside this pagoda?” Tang Li Xue muttered in a puzzled tone.
“Sister Xue, look at this!” Xi’er shouted to call Tang Li Xue.
Tang Li Xue walked toward Xi’er and found a stone monument right in front of Xi’er.