Family Rise by Daily Intelligence-Chapter 470 - 233: Securing First Merit, Spirit Crystal Marrow, Unexpected Harvest_3
"I’ll give you half a cup of tea’s time."
With that, the figure vanished.
Fu Changsheng was momentarily stunned, as it was customary for a Demon Beast’s lair to harbor Companion Spirit Objects, yet Cao Xiang’er left without searching.
It was clear she intended to leave the spoils to him.
Fu Changsheng coughed lightly.
Though Cao Xiang’er seemed cold and distant, she had proven herself to be a person of her word in their encounters.
According to the intelligence provided,
the Insect Mother’s lair contained Spirit Crystal Marrow and Blood Replenishing Grass.
Among them,
Spirit Crystal Marrow was formed by the compression of countless years of Spiritual Qi, crystal-clear like water, with a slow flow of blue liquid inside. Its value was immeasurable, and for him, a piece of Spirit Crystal Marrow could propel him from the Eighth-Layer Foundation Establishment to the Ninth-Layer.
Taking a closer look,
deep within the Tai Chi Locust’s lair, a gentle blue light exuded from a massive rock’s crevice.
As Fu Changsheng approached, it was precisely the Spirit Crystal Marrow mentioned in the intelligence.
With a seal formed by his right hand.
Mana turned into Spirit Blades, cutting the rock cleanly, which he then stored in his storage bag.
As he rose to leave,
Fu Changsheng swept his Divine Sense over the area.
He suddenly let out a soft exclamation.
A stone emitting faintly glowing spots caught his attention. When he knocked on it, he found it was hollow.
A look of delight flashed in Fu Changsheng’s eyes.
Immediately, the Thunder Shock Sword descended from the air.
With a boom,
the stone shattered, revealing a cave before him.
The cave resembled a vast and mysterious underground palace, with its entrance shrouded in a light mist, creating a natural barrier against the outside world.
Inside the cave, the first thing he noticed was a spacious hall with a high ceiling, formed by the crisscrossing of enormous stalactites and stalagmites, resembling a natural stone dome, exuding a rugged and primitive beauty. The uneven ground was strewn with stones of various sizes and shallow pits, with occasional streams meandering through.
The cave was faintly lit.
As water vapor refracted in the cave, it created multicolored halos, casting luminous ripples on the surrounding rocks and stalactites.
The rhythmic sound of dripping water echoed within the cave, as drops fell from the stalactites, hitting the ground or the pools below, creating a crisp, rhythmic melody like the cave’s heartbeat.
In the center of the cave.
A small pond came into view.
In the pond, there were only ten drops of Spiritual Milk.
Yet, it emanated an intense aura of Spiritual Qi.
Closer inspection revealed,
these droplets of Spiritual Milk were deep and pure, with faint golden threads weaving through them, like threads wandering within the milk, resembling its lifeblood.
Fu Changsheng could sense a faint glow emanating from them, pulsing rhythmically like breath, sometimes bright, sometimes dim, each pulse seemed to release a mysterious force.
Recalling something, Fu Changsheng quickly patted his storage bag.
With a flash of Dawn Light,
an ancient jade scroll appeared in his hand.
Upon opening the jade scroll,
he found a section describing these ten drops of Spiritual Milk just as he saw them:
"It’s actually... Thousand-Year Spirit Milk?!"
Fu Changsheng exclaimed in shock.
A single drop of Thousand-Year Spirit Milk could restore the mana of a Great Cultivator of the Purple Mansion, and with his Late-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivation, diluting a third of it would be enough to fill his depleted Dantian.
Such Thousand-Year Spirit Milk was exceedingly rare outside.
For a cultivator,
During critical moments in Dharma Combat, this Thousand-Year Spirit Milk could be decisive.
Suppressing his excitement, Fu Changsheng quickly retrieved a pure white jade bottle from his storage bag, collecting the ten drops of Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, imposing layers of Restrictions before carefully placing the pill bottle back into his storage bag.
This adventure.
Undoubtedly yielded abundant rewards for him.
With a glance at the cave,
Fu Changsheng flew out, deploying Array Flags from his storage bag to shroud the cave’s entrance with an Array, before picking the Blood Replenishing Grass and flying towards the depths.
Delaying any longer,
and hesitating further would surely raise Cao Xiang’er’s suspicions.
....
On the surface,
following the sudden disappearance of the Tai Chi Locust,
the cultivators of the Noble Families, who had been barely hanging on, were momentarily stunned, then joy flickered in their eyes. Master Xu, weakly smiling, said:
"The Governor must have successfully slain the Tier Three Insect Mother. Let’s rest on the spot."
As he spoke,
Shangguan Feng returned from the west to the north Array Hub.
Only to surprisingly find Fu Changsheng missing.
A sense of dread filled his heart.
Clan Leader Lin, seeing this, quickly explained:
"Earlier, an Insect Tide erupted within the inner Array, and Fu Clan Leader alone charged in."
Seeing this, Shangguan Feng
immediately cast his gaze towards the inner Array.
At this moment, there was no sign of Fu Changsheng in the inner Array.
Master Xu also sighed softly:
"Earlier, the inner Array was critical, and Fu Clan Leader stepped forward, slaying a Tier Two Insect Tide that was about to explode, and then ventured deep into the mist to fight."
The implication was that,
Fu Changsheng had heroically sacrificed himself, leaving not even a corpse, clearly having perished within the Insect General’s stomach.
Shocked, Shangguan Feng muttered to himself:
"How could this happen!"
His mind flashed with memories of meeting Fu Changsheng.
He found it hard to accept this outcome.
At this moment, Clan Leader Gongsun felt a sense of satisfaction—as if even the heavens couldn’t tolerate Fu Changsheng any longer and had taken him away.
Murmuring in his heart,
"Eldest Brother, Second Brother... Seventh Brother, you can rest easy under the nether world."
Clan Leader Hee, who was on friendly terms with the Fu Family, showed a flash of grief, but soon wore a puzzled expression, as according to his Qi Observation Technique, Fu Changsheng did not seem like a short-lived person:
"Could it be....."
Clan Leader Hee had a bold idea.
His gaze fell towards the depths.
