Chapter 64

Certain that Mumu's strength had greatly diminished and was being heavily suppressed by the evil cultivator, and that his body was being corroded by the puppet, Lu Xiaodeng no longer hesitated. Her divine soul transformed into a beam of light and pounced on him, opening her mouth to start biting.

"Get lost!" Mumu grabbed her, unable to do anything else, and began to bite back with large bites.

Without the help of a cultivator, the process of devouring the other's divine soul was a long one. You take a bite, and I bite back. It was a matter of who could hold out longer.

Mumu was somewhat unlucky. After just two bites, his main body, the Black Corpse Tree, would gain great strength, but then it would be suppressed by Yuan Zhi. Although he was several times stronger than Lu Xiaodeng, the feeling of being forced to spit out what he had eaten and being suppressed after just a couple of bites was terrible. Even worse, Lu Xiaodeng would take the opportunity to bite him a few more times.

As she devoured more and more divine souls, Lu Xiaodeng felt her own divine soul becoming uncomfortable, as if it had absorbed too much and could no longer contain it.

What should she do? Should she just stop?

Her whole body was filled with power, with nowhere to release it. The feeling of bursting became more and more severe, and even her divine soul began to hurt. Only when Mumu devoured her did she feel a bit of relief, wishing to give all her divine soul to him.

Mumu was now very close to her and sensed the change in her divine soul. He shouted in alarm, "You're about to advance in cultivation!"

Lu Xiaodeng, upon hearing this, suddenly woke up. This wasn't about dying but advancing in cultivation, like taking a powerful tonic. She immediately started biting fiercely, making Mumu deeply regret his words.

With Yuan Zhi's help, Mumu's divine soul became increasingly weak, while Lu Xiaodeng clearly had the upper hand. As her divine soul was about to burst, she instinctively directed the devoured divine soul to a place, a sleeve technique the size of an egg.

Even though she knew that her divine soul would burst and she would advance, she still couldn't help but want to ease the feeling. She opened a small gap, and the divine soul rushed in, far exceeding the capacity of an egg.

Before her divine soul burst, the sleeve technique was already burst by the divine soul. There was a loud bang inside her divine soul, and the explosion of the sleeve technique caused the entire divine soul to vibrate. Lu Xiaodeng roared and pushed Mumu away forcefully, spraying out countless violent divine souls that no one could approach, falling into a daze.

Mumu took several deep breaths, relieved to be pushed away. If it continued, he would have been completely devoured. He struggled to retreat but noticed that something was wrong with Lu Xiaodeng. This wasn't the appearance of advancing from the initial stage to the middle stage of the Spirit Realm. The power was too great, and it looked more like her divine soul was about to burst from overeating.

Could it be that his words had accidentally made her eat more, and now she was in trouble?

But before he could be happy, he saw the divine soul energy spewing from Lu Xiaodeng's body begin to circle around her, calm and peaceful, unwilling to leave. Then, the divine soul energy quickly rushed into her divine soul, as if something was rapidly absorbing it.

Lu Xiaodeng felt something strange in her divine soul. She could clearly sense the existence of the sleeve technique, the egg-sized sleeve technique, which was frantically absorbing the divine soul in the Spirit Realm. Then it began to condense and compress, squeezing the divine soul into a pale green gas ball the size of an egg. The feeling of this gas ball was like the spiritual energy that usually passed through her body and then left.

She suddenly woke up from her daze, looked up at Mumu, and smiled sweetly, "Since I had a body, I always felt something was wrong. I didn't have a spirit meridian and lost the spiritual techniques of a divine soul. But now, I can feel the spiritual techniques again. From this moment on, I truly have a body."

"Before, although I had the divine soul of the initial stage of the Spirit Realm, I only had a body that hadn't even reached the Qi Condensation stage. It's like a mortal getting a divine soul artifact. Although the artifact is powerful, the mortal can't control it, making it useless."

"Now, I have control over my divine soul." Lu Xiaodeng looked at Mumu, tilted her head, and smiled, "In the Spirit Realm, even without a cultivator suppressing you, you can't defeat me."

She extended her palm toward Mumu and smiled, "Landing Cauldron Spiritual Technique."

A pale green light flashed in her palm, and a cauldron made of light appeared above Mumu. Before he could react, it fell straight down with a loud bang. Despite being made of light, it caused a powerful shock, directly shattering Mumu's divine soul into pieces.

Lu Xiaodeng took a deep breath, and these shattered divine souls were all absorbed into her body, most of them quickly drilling into the egg-sized sleeve technique. After devouring all of Mumu's divine soul, she waved her hand and removed the Spirit Realm, reappearing in the stone room.

Mumu's peach heart had been corroded by the puppet, and after one last beat, it hung motionless. If it hadn't lost its divine soul, this heart wouldn't have died from the corrosion, as the life force of trees was very strong.

At the same time, Yuan Zhi finally calmed down. The Black Corpse Tree, which had been struggling repeatedly, finally became quiet. Seeing that it had been re-subdued, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, having consumed most of his spiritual power on the Thousand Souls Mirror but managing to save the Black Wood Fruit.

"Alright, everyone, rest quickly and recover your spiritual power. I need to personally check what Ge Pi and the others are doing," Yuan Zhi said, relieved, then took a pill. Just as he was about to leave to help the "waste" catch the three rats that had infiltrated, he heard Yuansizi exclaim in shock.

"The Black Corpse Tree is damaged!"

He looked up and saw the scene he least wanted to see. Black fragments were continuously falling from the Black Corpse Tree, which was restrained by the spirit talisman chain, like a piece of bean paste candy that had been bitten and instantly shattered.

"The Black Wood Fruit!" Yuan Zhi, who only cared about the Black Wood Fruit, reached out and grabbed the black fruit, which flew into his hand. The moment he took the Black Wood Fruit, the massive Black Corpse Tree, which was over twenty feet tall, turned into fragments.

Yuansizi quickly ran to his side and said with lingering fear, "Fortunately, we saved the Black Wood Fruit."

"Is that so?" Yuan Zhi opened his hand, and the two of them saw that the originally shiny black fruit had become dull and cracked, then broke into several pieces. There was nothing inside, just a few fragments similar to charcoal.

"This..." Yuansizi drew a sharp breath, looking at his brother in fear. Bringing this back would likely result in punishment from their master.

Yuan Zhi's face was cold and terrifying. He was abnormally calm, took out a jade box, and placed the black charcoal inside. After storing it in the sleeve technique, he looked at Yuansizi and said fiercely, "We need to find someone to take the blame. The Cloud Sword Sect has people here; we'll say they destroyed it."

"Okay." Yuansizi nodded. The two siblings understood that now wasn't the time to panic; they needed to focus on how to handle the aftermath.

At that moment, a loud rumble echoed from the cave, and the ground began to shake. Yuan Zhi raised his head coldly, and a Ghost Spirit Sect disciple rushed in, shouting, "Demon Lord, a Golden Core cultivator has attacked. They are numerous, and we have suffered heavy casualties."

"Why didn't you report earlier?" Yuan Zhi's divine sense checked and found that the wooden puppets he had sent out were still inactive, indicating that the enemy had experts in this field and had outsmarted them.

The disciple, not daring to raise his head, said, "We were searching for the three people in the cave. The pressure here is too strong, making it impossible to approach. Besides, Junior Uncle said he would report it."

Yuan Zhi remembered that the fool had indeed come to report. But when he confirmed, the fool ran off, saying he would check again and never returned.

"Useless fool, incapable of doing anything right," he cursed, and with a wave of his sleeve, he flew out. With a Golden Core cultivator attacking, only he could handle it.

The Cloud Sword Sect people had already arrived and were fighting the evil cultivators brought by Yuan Zhi, making the underground cave lively.

Meanwhile, in a hidden cave beneath the dark river, two people were struggling to break through the door of a stone cave. Unlike the natural stone caves above the water, this one was clearly dug out, with patterns and carvings on the walls.

It was a relatively small cave, but it was very exquisite. Three doors had already been broken, and the contents inside had been cleared out. Lu Yaohang and Bai Zhen, who had already made a good profit, were now trying to break the last and most powerful door.

"Bai Senior, this restriction is too powerful. We've used all our means, but we still can't break it," Lu Yaohang looked down at the Crying Sword in his hand. To break this door, Qi Qi had already come out. But due to his low cultivation, he couldn't unleash its full power, and after failing to break the restriction, Qi Qi returned to the sword, severely despising him.

Being unable to break a restriction was embarrassing, and he didn't want to come out and lose face with Lu Yaohang.

Bai Zhen also couldn't do anything about the door. He smiled helplessly, "It seems we either lack the right opportunity or haven't found the correct method. But our luck was good this time. We escaped and found this cave, and we've already taken the contents from the other three stone caves. Even if we can't open this door, it's still a worthwhile trip."

"Unfortunately, there must be some treasure behind this door," Lu Yaohang looked regretfully at the exquisite red door. The things in the other three stone caves were already good, and with such a powerful restriction, there must be even better things here.

"There's nothing we can do. We can seal the entrance and come back later with better restriction-breaking items or after improving our cultivation. As long as we don't leak the information, this place is so hidden that it won't be easily discovered," Bai Zhen also wanted to take the treasure but knew they had to act within their capabilities and couldn't exhaust themselves for the sake of the treasure.

Lu Yaohang nodded and the two decided to leave and join their fellow disciples. Just as they turned to leave, they heard a strange sound behind them. They quickly turned around and saw that the black vines hanging above the door, which would attack them once the restriction was broken, had instantly carbonized and shattered.

The two looked at each other, thinking that it was likely that a senior from their sect had arrived and destroyed something, causing the vines to die.

"Let's go check it out," Bai Zhen cautiously walked over and found that the restriction was indeed gone. They pushed the door, and it opened with a creak. They were delighted, thinking their luck was really good, and they stepped in to search for the treasure.

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