Chapter 83: Wind Ghost Lantern

Four white light orbs. The first was still the spiritual energy light orb used to warm up his hands.

The spiritual energy light orb brought by the youth was enormous. After Lu Yuan’s divine sense lightly touched it, a continuous spiritual rain began falling over the cave abode’s core region.

The spirit energy concentration across the entire cave abode rose slightly.

His divine sense continued on to touch the second white light orb.

The light orb burst apart, revealing an ancient, plain-looking scroll inside.

Mountain-Lake Moon Reflection Diagram, a third-rank array diagram.

An illusory array called Mountain-Lake Moon Reflection had been arranged within it.

On the surface of the array diagram was painted a patch of emerald lake. The lake was encircled by mountains, and above those mountains, a cold crescent moon hung high in the sky, scattering chilly radiance over the green waters and mountain peaks.

Lu Yuan’s divine sense discovered that the scene on the array diagram seemed to be constantly changing.

The lake surface shimmered with ripples, layer after layer. The mountains continuously shifted their positions, while the moon at the top of the array diagram kept changing between a jade disk and a jade hook.

A third-rank array diagram could stop most Foundation Establishment cultivators, far surpassing the original arrays inside the cave abode, such as the Mist-Concealing Confusion Array and the Chaotic Stone Array.

After the third white light orb was opened, what appeared was a bead spinning round and round without pause.

Green mist curled around the bead, and very soon, a thin layer of cool moisture appeared over its surface.

Mirage Yin Pearl, an exotic treasure refined from the blood essence of ninety-nine supreme-yin bodies born in a yin year, yin month, and yin hour.

When placed in a river or lake, it could attract and gather the yin qi within the water, giving rise to yin souls and resentful thoughts.

Lu Yuan was pleased.

He had tossed so many corpses and skeletons into the lake that he had previously thought that with so many cultivators and demonic beasts dying wrongfully inside his body, quite a few things like yin souls should appear.

Yet even now, nothing like yin souls or resentful thoughts had been produced. With this Mirage Yin Pearl to speed things along, he estimated that they were not far from being born.

Such a vast lake had only one lonely Python-Sparrow Eel and its two accessories. It was a little too desolate.

This Mirage Yin Pearl could be used to catalyze yin souls and resentful thoughts, just in time to recruit a few more little companions for the Python-Sparrow Eel and the others.

The final white light orb was also the largest one, with the densest points of light.

Filled with anticipation, Lu Yuan lightly touched it with his divine sense.

The light orb burst apart with a bang. Countless points of light filled the entire stone cave, even drawing the Red-Footed Golden Crow on the cave ceiling over.

Afterward, the points of light instantly shrank and gathered together, revealing the small object within.

A red lantern the size of a fist.

The lantern handle had been refined from the bone of some unknown demonic beast. It was as white as jade, clear and crystalline, and exuded a faint chill.

The lantern body was bright red all over, as if it had been soaked in blood for countless days. When Lu Yuan’s divine sense gathered toward it, he felt as though he had entered an endless blood sea that wanted to melt his thoughts into it.

The wick was a black candle. The candle was packed with countless resentful souls. They howled in pain and kept squeezing toward the lantern base, terrified that they would be burned away completely by the constantly descending flame.

Thousands upon hundreds of thin red tentacles extended from the base, forming the lantern’s tassels. The tentacles curved and linked together, brimming with vitality.

Lu Yuan’s divine sense gathered onto the lantern, and detailed information about it surfaced in turn.

Wind Ghost Lantern, Strange Grade. It can designate a lantern bearer and control them. The wick can burn the souls of cultivators and demonic beasts, and the lantern also possesses a powerful ability to command wind.

A Strange Grade weird entity? Then it was on the same level as the Little Paper Man.

The difference was that the Little Paper Man had already entered its mature stage, while the Wind Ghost Lantern had only just emerged. It was still a long way from maturity.

Watching the little red lantern curiously spin around in the air, Lu Yuan felt pleasantly surprised.

The cave abode’s high-end combat strength had received a major supplement.

Including the third-rank Mountain-Lake Moon Reflection Diagram and the exotic treasure Mirage Yin Pearl, this round of rewards could hardly be called anything less than generous.

“As expected, it still has to be someone with deep fortune…”

“Who would have thought that a youth with ordinary cultivation could bring such rare rewards?”

“Good thing I left a paper slip on him before he left. When the time comes, the Little Paper Man can follow the aura on the paper slip and smoothly find that youth, deepen our mutual fate, and conveniently cut another lush green leek.”

“There’s an old saying that fits perfectly: those brought together by fate can meet even from a thousand li away.”

With their fate so deep, Lu Yuan planned to develop the youth into a sustainable target, maintain that fate, and take it one step further.

After opening the rewards from the four light orbs, Lu Yuan’s divine sense carried the Mirage Yin Pearl to the lakeside.

The Treasure-Seeking Tower standing at the outer edge of the cave abode sensed the treasure aura coming from the Mirage Yin Pearl from far away. The wooden tower quickly rose upward, its two long, slender wooden legs unfolding nonstop as it swiftly ran toward the lake.

When Lu Yuan saw the Treasure-Seeking Tower’s figure, he knew that if he allowed the wooden tower to take the Mirage Yin Pearl into itself, then with its obsessive love of treasures, it would be difficult for him to see the precious pearl again in the future.

He hurriedly released his control over the Mirage Yin Pearl floating in the air. The bead dropped.

“No!”

Just as it was about to reach the lakeside, the Mirage Yin Pearl had already fallen into the water, leaving rings of ripples on the lake surface.

The wooden tower stretched out its arms with all its might. Its two long, slender wooden legs bent weakly, and with a clang, the entire wooden house shook violently on the lakeshore.

Only after a long while did it recover its spirits. As if thinking of something, it carefully arrived beside the lake and stretched its arms into the water.

It kept scooping and scooping, but aside from a few strands of dark aquatic grass, it found nothing else.

The Treasure-Seeking Tower collapsed completely by the lakeside. Having missed a treasure by the narrowest margin, its entire tower-life turned bleak and gray.

…

Inside Black Jade Tower.

A pale middle-aged cultivator without hair or beard stood to one side, his expression respectful.

“Senior Brother Huang, I have already investigated the interior of that stone cave clearly.”

“Oh? Tell me.”

The Senior Brother Huang he spoke of was none other than the withered old man who raised ghost infants.

At this moment, the ghost infants on his body had just eaten their fill not long ago and were hanging from various parts of him, sleeping deeply.

“I learned from Steward Wang of Hundred Treasures Pavilion that inside the stone cave, there is a mysterious Paper Figure, an Aberrant Grade weird entity, as well as a third-rank demonic beast, the Red-Footed Golden Crow.”

“As for the spiritual herbs inside, there are two kinds, both third-rank: Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood and Earthfire Heart Lotus.”

“That day, he and Bai Kun, the Li family’s guest sword cultivator, fought over several Earthfire Heart Lotus Seeds and left the stone cave first.

“Junior Sister’s target, meanwhile, was that Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood. She was likely no match for the Paper Figure and the Red-Footed Golden Crow while trying to seize the treasure, and died in the cave.”

At first, Steward Wang of Hundred Treasures Pavilion had refused in every possible way to reveal the situation inside the stone cave at the time. But merchants valued profit, and after the pale middle-aged cultivator continuously raised the compensation, he eventually disclosed the information about the stone cave to him.

He merely kept the fact that he and Bai Kun had joined forces to heavily injure the winged female cultivator hidden in his heart.

The cave abode had been saddled with a black pot for no reason at all.

“Third-rank Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood and Earthfire Heart Lotus? No wonder it was hidden so deeply. It seems the value of that secret realm needs to be reassessed.

“Send three more high-level Qi Refining cultivators to explore the area around the secret realm properly.”

Upon hearing that the secret realm contained the rare and unusual Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood and Earthfire Heart Lotus, the withered old man raised his eyelids, his interest piqued.

On his head and neck, the dark green-black little ghosts mumbled and turned over on the old man’s body.

The second chapter is being written… It will be a bit late, no need to wait…

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