Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times-Chapter 260 - 135: "What a piece of junk." _2

This man of Golden Core Cultivation, his Spiritual Energy within was also running low, so he cautiously approached Brother Qiu and tentatively started speaking, "Brother Qiu, you have so much Spiritual Energy, could you cover me as well?"

"I’m running out of Spiritual Energy myself."

"Whatever gains I make later, I will give you half."

Chen Qiu, walking in front, released Spiritual Energy from his body to envelop the scholar and everyone else as well.

Hearing the voice from behind,

Chen Qiu stopped in his tracks, looked back at the man of Golden Core Cultivation, sized him up, and then shook his head, "Your words are a bit dangerous. If you listen to me and retreat now, you might be able to save yourself."

Indeed, he had more than enough Spiritual Energy within him.

The Spiritual Energy consumed by his Protective Spirit Qi wasn’t even comparable to what his Heavenly Dao Golden Core restored; not to mention covering Fat Long and the others, even if he covered a dozen more people, it wouldn’t be any pressure at all.

But why... one must have a reason for their actions.

The man didn’t understand Chen Qiu’s meaning, and with a forced smile, he shook his head, "Never mind, I’ll try again. If I run out of Spiritual Energy later, then I’ll leave."

Then, as Chen Qiu turned away,

a trace of resentment flashed through the man’s eyes. With an expression of anger, he stared fixedly at Chen Qiu’s back, thinking of collapsing the passage they came through if he was driven to leave due to lack of Spiritual Energy. No matter how much Spiritual Energy you have, you would still be poisoned alive here!

Blame yourself for being too selfish.

Just at that moment, Chen Qiu suddenly turned around again, and the man’s face froze with a mix of anger and resentment, awkwardly forcing out a smile uglier than crying, "Brother... Qiu, what’s wrong?"

Suddenly!

He felt his Sea of Consciousness being instantly shattered, and in the moment he lost consciousness, he saw the mild smile on Chen Qiu’s face.

...

Chen Qiu accepted the Jade Box that the scholar handed over, containing a Golden Core; then casting a glance at the corpse lying on the steps, he continued walking forward.

He had already given his warning, yet the man didn’t listen.

If the man had heeded the advice and retreated immediately, he most definitely would not have struck to kill, but since the man harbored hidden animosity and thus hated him, it was difficult to spare the man’s life.

With such people, when your Cultivation is higher than theirs, they certainly wouldn’t take revenge openly.

But if someday they found the opportunity to covertly strike at you, they definitely wouldn’t miss it.

"One should take advice when it is given."

Chen Qiu let out a light sigh, shook his head, and continued to descend the steps into the depths, feeling like he had a bone to pick with stairs these past few days. Just the day before yesterday at the Heavenly Pride Route’s initial screening Secret Realm, there was a staircase extending endlessly upwards, and now here again was a staircase going ever deeper down.

And as he went deeper,

he found his Spiritual Energy consumption increasing even more, which meant that the toxicity in the air was growing stronger, causing even more severe damage to Spiritual Energy.

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After descending for a full half hour,

the path ahead suddenly opened up.

When he emerged from the cramped passage, he found himself unexpectedly in the middle of a Green Stone Square, with a tablet inscribed with the words "first round" standing in the center.

The surrounding walls of the Green Stone Square were made of curved green stone.

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On the other end of the Green Stone Square, opposite their position, there was another corridor leading downward, still flanked with wall lamps and lined with steps.

"First round?"

Fat Long curiously examined the tablet inscribed with "first round" in the center of the Green Stone Square, scanning the surroundings, "It seems similar to the Secret Realm. Could it be that this place is also for some kind of inheritance?"

"What does ’first round’ mean? And I don’t see any content for the first round either."

The scholar looked thoughtfully towards the corridor on the opposite side, "Normally, you would face the first round of tests here on the Green Stone Square, and after passing, that corridor would open, leading to the second round."

"It seems that this was once a place of examination, but now it lies abandoned."

"I wonder which sect’s ground of examination this is, to have such resources. Just the amount of stone that blocks Divine Sense is not a small sum."

"This place actually is an Ancient Ruin, but these ever-burning oil lamps are a bit inconceivable."

"..."

Chen Qiu looked expressionless at the tablet standing in the dead center of the Green Stone Square, silent, feeling a striking sense of familiarity, incredibly familiar, as it was just a few days prior that he had seen it.

This Green Stone Square was almost identical to the one in the initial screening Secret Realm of the Heavenly Pride Route.

And the tablet inscribed with the words "first round" was a mirror image of the one from the Heavenly Pride Route’s Secret Realm.

He narrowed his eyes, scrutinizing the surroundings of the Green Stone Square; an inkling of a possibility passing through his mind.

Perhaps...

In times long past, before Da Xia Country became a cage, could a sect have created this stage, a replica of the Heavenly Pride initial screening Secret Realm?

Just then—

He found a set of skeletal remains in a corner, flesh and clothing long eroded by the vicissitudes of time, but tightly clutched in its hand bones was a Token, the "Heavenly Pride Order," now dull and tarnished, with characters that were extremely faint.

He picked up the "Heavenly Pride Order" and compared it with his own from his chest.

They were eighty percent similar.

The details differed somewhat, and the overall shape wasn’t quite the same, but the character script for "Heavenly Pride Order" was identical.

On the skeletal remains, no Storage Ring was found, unknown whether it had been taken away or lost somewhere.