Chapter 34

Listening to the commotion behind him, Su Shier did not dare to be careless, using one escape talisman after another.

At this moment, he could only secretly rejoice. It was fortunate that he had taken the time to study and make a pile of talismans before coming. Otherwise, encountering such a situation would have been disastrous.

"Damn that stinking woman, she actually runs so fast and chases after me. She’s determined to kill me!"

Su Shier looked gloomy. The plan had already succeeded, and the female cultivator with the surname Chu had indeed engaged Zhao Yan in battle.

However, the female cultivator disengaged from the fight so quickly, which was something he hadn’t anticipated.

Rapidly darting through the underground stone forest, he could only continue running, hoping to quickly put some distance between himself and the two.

Suddenly, his body plummeted, crashing into an underground cavity.

Su Shier was startled. Just as he was about to steady himself, he found that he had already landed.

A ball of fire appeared in his hand, and in the next second, he used the light to see the situation below.

What he saw was a large hall made of stone. The hall was over ten feet high and about twenty to thirty feet long and wide.

On each of the four walls, there were two rusted candle holders. The entire hall was empty, with only a pile of pulverized wood chips.

His gaze quickly swept the area, and feeling no threat, he temporarily relaxed.

He quickly held an escape talisman in his hand, ready to continue running, but hesitated and then stuck to the stone wall to wait.

After half an hour with no commotion, he put away the escape talisman and let out a long sigh of relief.

"I’ve managed to save my life. It seems I really can’t underestimate anyone!"

"Judging by the appearance of this place, there must have been some furniture here before, but it has turned to dust over time. Could this have been the abode of an ancient cultivator?"

Su Shier silently speculated, knowing that the place where they were undergoing their trial was an ancient restricted area. This place had also been inhabited by cultivators in ancient times.

His gaze swept the area, and he noticed that on the right side of the wall, there was a smaller room connected. This small room was emitting a strong earth spirit energy.

"Hmm? Such a strong earth spirit energy. Could this be the location of the materials I was tracking?"

His eyebrows raised, and Su Shier immediately realized this.

He casually picked up the eight candle holders and put them in his storage bag, then held the fire ball and walked towards the small room.

The candle holders were rusted, but the materials used to make them were clearly spiritual materials.

Upon entering the small room, his pupils dilated.

Before him was a skeleton sitting cross-legged in a robe.

Under the skeleton was a mat, from which the strong earth spirit energy was emanating.

Apart from this, there was nothing else in the small room.

"It seems my guess was correct. This must have been the abode of this person. I wonder what he did, why he built his abode underground, and why he died?"

Su Shier stood at the door, his eyes narrowed, and he silently cast a wind summoning spell.

The wind blew, and the skeleton along with its robe turned to ashes, clearly already decayed.

"Clank!"

Immediately, a blue, ancient ring rolled to the ground.

Looking at the mat and the ring on the ground, Su Shier quickly used the object manipulation spell to retrieve both items and then returned to the hall.

"This mat is actually made from a whole second-grade spirit plant, Earth Vine, and is a high-quality magical tool! The cultivators of the past were truly extravagant!"

"This magical tool can’t be used in combat, but perhaps it has some benefit for cultivation?"

Thinking of the skeleton before it turned to ashes, Su Shier quickly put down the mat and sat on it to try it out.

His cultivation technique began to circulate, and in the next second, he felt the earth spirit energy rapidly surging. The speed of refining the spirit energy was several times faster than on Cuihuan Mountain.

"The dense earth spirit energy here is one factor, but the key is this mat, which has the effect of accelerating the refinement of earth spirit energy. This... this is a good thing!"

Upon discovering the mat’s effectiveness, Su Shier’s face lit up with joy.

Although he had a mysterious alchemy furnace that continuously refined various medicines, his spiritual roots were indeed too poor. Even with the help of medicines, he could only勉强赶上普通弟子的水平。

如果不是他足够刻苦，这五年，能修炼到炼气期三重只怕就是极限了。

但有了这东西，以后的修炼速度又能更快一些。越快提升实力，才能越快报仇！

确认了蒲团的用途后，苏十二激动地坐在上面，这才将目光落在那古朴戒指上。

这戒指入手质感就很是不俗，上面雕刻着一团古朴花纹。

然而，不管苏十二怎么看，都感应不到丝毫的灵力波动。但他心里清楚，此物能历经岁月而不朽，不可能简单。

“注入真元试试！”

看不出什么名堂，苏十二尝试将真元注入其中。真元触碰到这戒指，好似碰到一层薄薄的隔膜。

苏十二眉头一挑，真元猛冲，直接冲破这层隔膜。

下一秒，他脑中一震，脑海中浮现出一个一百方大小的空间。

“这竟然是个和储物袋一样的储物法器？！这么大的空间，至少也是上品储物法器才可能达到吧？！”

苏十二大吃一惊，忙集中精力查探起

这储物戒空间。

空间不小，但里面空空荡荡，只有一截一指长，两指宽的圆筒和一块半截巴掌大小的玉牌。

心念一动，两件东西被他从储物戒中取了出来。

将储物戒戴在自己手上，苏十二忙拿起那圆筒查看起来。

圆筒上雕刻着古朴花纹，上面隐约可见三个小字：玉瞳筒！

“嗯？玉瞳筒？好像某本杂记中提到过，这是上古修士用来记录功法和感悟信息的载体？”

看到三个小字，苏十二立刻回忆起来。

回想着杂记上提到的信息，他将这玉瞳筒贴住眉心。

随即，脑海中迅速掠过几段信息。眨眼功夫，就将这玉瞳筒中的信息消化。

“小周天练气功？小周天敛息术？雷锻功？”

“周天宗！原来这玉瞳筒是那周天宗发放给入门弟子的物品。这么说来，那坐化之人，应该是上古修士中的一个小小炼气士才对。”

“只是……这小周天练气功竟然有十二重炼气期的运功法门，这又是怎么回事呢？宗门的基础吐纳功分明介绍得很清楚，炼气期九重为圆满才对？”

苏十二眨着眼，一脸疑惑。

这个问题，他暂时想不通，也只能放下。

“倒是这小周天敛息术，竟能隐匿修为，这倒是要修炼一下。”

“还有雷锻功，居然是增强体魄的锻体功法。练到极致，竟能让身躯拥有堪比极品法器的防御力？只可惜这功法，需要借助弱雷电，倒是不好操作。”

念头一转，苏十二又将目光落在另一块玉牌上。