Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect-Chapter 992 - 508: Yingdi Cave

Chen Xuantian carried a bamboo rod, pinched the water avoidance art, and followed the Primordial Spirit coordinates left on the bamboo slip, tracing Ran Yi’s trail into the depths of the Yunmeng Swamp.

Indeed, earlier he saw those two monsters pulling and tugging, fighting oddly, suspecting a trickery, so he used a minor spell, transforming with Primordial Spirit into a blinding technique, giving Nangong Che a hint, to prevent him from running headlong into the demons’ ambush.

As expected, those two demons were indeed acting, seemingly fighting thunderously, actually being directed by someone to secretly attack the young master of the Nangong family.

After all, with this young master’s habit of traveling lightly without guards, unrestrained and not hiding his ambition for the Great Treasure, even if he wouldn’t actively provoke demons, if he encountered two great monsters fighting, he would definitely have the thought of benefiting from the clam and the crane fighting. It was bound to fall into a trap.

Although the young master wasn’t entirely foolish, he was reminded by Chen Xuantian who threw a section of bamboo at him, immediately realized that his self-conceited disguise had already caught the eyes of the Immortals, making a night parade in splendid clothes quite laughable, and immediately ordered a retreat.

But it was evidently too late; those two demons, seeing their prey trying to escape, stopped pretending and rushed forward to grab him. Despite the timing and environmental advantages, guard Li Hu, though formidable, tore a crocodile apart in an instant and gave a fierce chase, but eventually was left behind by the monster, losing the young master’s trail in the vast marshes.

However, that didn’t matter, as Chen Xuantian was still pursuing, after all, he had never eaten Ran Yi fish, reputed to keep one awake and repel evil, its effects unknown but generally beneficial to health... 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

Well, alright, alright, it’s not just for the sake of eating; primarily, Chen Xuantian understood one principle.

The heavenly and earthly treasures in this world have long been divided up; if one wants any good thing, they can only steal, rob, or compete for it.

For example, when he was cultivating in the two mountains of Xian and Jing, the Central Plains had outstanding people and plentiful resources, not lacking in Earth Vein Spiritual Roots for cultivation. But the problem was, those Spirit Fruits and Fairy Vegetables, and Heavenly Materials Treasures he could calculate and deduce, others could also deduce.

So those delicacies hundreds or thousands of years old were not his to snatch; they had been picked decades ago. Even in deep forests, rarely visited by people, weren’t there demon beasts all over competing for them? So what remained were merely five or six years old, half-ripe and half-green, too sour to eat, yet a waste to discard, not even wild boars would deign to nibble them.

So later, Chen Xuantian learned to follow the demon beasts in the mountains to snatch food from their mouths, barely managing to eat some sweet fruits.

This Nangong Che was the same principle. It’s not that he would taste sour, but since demons and ghosts were coming to snatch, it indicated he was a good thing, worth the trouble to fight for. As long as the payoff was far greater than picking stones on the roadside, it wasn’t a loss to laboriously get involved.

So holding onto this guiding thought of ’if you snatch, I also snatch’, Chen Xuantian continued to track and search, one hand avoiding water, the other calculating, wandered around the bottom of Yun Meng Lake for about an hour, and indeed found a demon cave water mansion.

This place, called a demon cave, actually looked similar to a Mountain Man’s dwelling—they had chipped a hole in the underwater rock hill, creating a flat land, erected a four-zhang bronze gate at the entrance, with ’Lingyangze Yingdi Cave’ inscribed above it.

Click-click, the Hubei monsters are indeed cultured, knowing civilization; they imitate humans quite convincingly and even install a gate...

Chen Xuantian circled at the entrance a couple of times and calculated a few divinations, could ascertain that Nangong Che had been brought into the cave. However, with his current skills, directly storming in to grab people was a bit unsteady.

Thus, Chen Xuantian thought for a moment and decided to use intelligence, immediately snapped a section of bamboo, engraved Nangong Che’s location on it, then wrapped it in Qi Manipulation, sending a message for Li Hu to attack the front.

Then he stepped on Gang Dou, pinched a formula, muttered incantations, shaking left and bobbing right, using a Size Changing Technique, Submerging Abyss Shrinking Earth Passing Door Technique, with a shift of his body and a flicker of his shadow, he slipped through the crack in the door.

Well, it was basically the Wall-piercing Skill.

After all, Chen Xuantian didn’t spend nine years in seclusion eating and sleeping idly; besides breathing exercises and body-strengthening gymnastics every morning, practicing Sacred Crane of the Nine Heavens Divine Skill to fortify his health, he was doing Peng Ju’s scholarly work, learning the Daoist Skill of Lingxu’s direct lineage, practicing the Divine Skills personally passed down by Thunder Ancestor.

Inviting Immortals and Supporting Simurgh, Divination, Reading Scriptures and Reciting Skills, True Face and Holy Descent, Quiet and Non-action, Fasting and Meditation, Burning Grass and Smashing Tripod, Refining Stone and Taking Elixir, Hard Work Refining; he ultimately refined the Heavenly Gang Thirty-Six Techniques, Earthly Fiend Seventy-Two Arts, whether effective or not, he memorized all Talisman Seal Technique Spells, familiarizing himself with them completely.

Fortunately, this Wall-piercing Skill worked quite successfully, not sticking him in the door, and it seemed there was a Magic Barrier in the cave, surprisingly without water or wind, just a stench of monsters.

Chen Xuantian wasn’t in a hurry; he first manipulated Qi for protection, arranged defenses, then with his left hand performed Invisibility Illusion, his right hand did Upright No Shadow, thus being invisible and without trace or form, he headed deeper into the demon cave.

This demon cave was quite vast and there were many stone tables and stools; most likely, the cave’s owner could transform into a human.

The art of transformation into a human, while not a combat secret technique, could be mimicked by many Left Dao methods. Yet, if a monster wishes to transform into a human without being revealed by Spiritual Treasure Mirrors or Fiery Eyes, and reverted to its original form, it generally needs to reach the Nascent Soul Realm, apprentice under the Mystic Sect mountain to be ordained, to gain true Divine Skills.