My Optimized Immortal Life

Chen Qing had not expected that this True Lord Cheng Xiao would actually try to trick him in such a place. He looked at Cheng Xiao in front of him, whose eyes were slightly narrowed, his face calm but concealed a hint of joy.

Chen Qing couldn't help but frown slightly.

He had never heard of spiritual materials like the Earth Yuan Pearl, but if it could make a True Lord greedy, it must be extraordinary, at least a fourth-level spiritual material.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Qing said again.

"I wonder what would happen if Daoist Fellow Hou Tu and Senior Xuan Ming learned of Fellow Daoist Cheng Xiao's actions?"

Hearing this, Cheng Xiao smiled again.

"Fellow Daoist, you still don't know that Xuanming and Houtu already possessed a complete method of this Dao. They usually searched for the Quicksand Spirits in the Earth-Splitting Abyss, beheading and collecting the Earth Element Pearls. Only then did they achieve their current level of cultivation, and the Earth King Palace became even more powerful."

"Since fellow Daoists are already aware of the existence of this method, you should be able to guess that this so-called land disaster is the result of Xuanming and Houtu constantly searching for and killing the spirit of the quicksand, rather than a natural disaster."

Cheng Xiao smiled, but told Chen Qing the secret, which made Chen Qing's face darken and his expression suddenly become ugly.

"Fellow Daoist, please accept this method. After all, the Quicksand Spirit is formidable. Even I wouldn't dare to escape unscathed. Since you're so young, I doubt you'd be willing to perish here, right?"

Chen Qing looked at Cheng Xiao and suddenly smiled.

"In that case, I will respectfully obey your command."

After taking the jade slip on the small table, Chen Qing turned and left, no longer paying attention to Cheng Xiao.

After Chen Qing left, Cheng Xiao restrained his smile, his face became gloomy, and his eyes became deep.

Chen Qing has just been promoted to the Nascent Soul stage and lacks sufficient foundation, so he can be threatened by me. Moreover, he is not a simple-minded person and will definitely take revenge in the future.

Cheng Xiao thought of Chen Qing's last smile, and his fear of him increased.

However, if I can get enough Earth Yuan Pearls, I can try to break through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. Then, it will be easy to suppress this person.

His thoughts started to stir again.

The upcoming Central Region Competition is an excellent opportunity. As long as Chen Qing is injured on the fighting stage and his foundation is destroyed, he will no longer be a threat.

Cheng Xiao was just thinking about it when suddenly someone came from outside the door. The voice was soft and gentle, like a woman's.

When Cheng Xiao heard the voice, he couldn't help but smile, opened the cave and let the man in.

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Returning to his cave, Chen Qing first took a look at the jade slip that Cheng Xiao had given him. It did indeed record a method that was specifically designed to target the quicksand spirit.

After a preliminary look, Chen Qing did not find any errors or omissions.

After reading the jade slip, Chen Qing did not start practicing immediately, but pondered over what Cheng Xiao had just said.

Since the Earth King Palace is concealing this, there must be some hidden secret, which is most likely consistent with what Cheng Xiao said. If I can sense the concealment of the Earth King Palace, then Fairy Liuyun and Fellow Daoist Qingya must be able to sense it as well. These two should also go looking for Cheng Xiao, after all, the latter has just demonstrated his understanding of the Quicksand Spirit.

In this case, Liuyun and Qingya will probably be blackmailed by Chengxiao. However, I have just joined the alliance and am not clear about the relationship between these people. Maybe they are birds of a feather, so I cannot make this matter public. Chengxiao took this into consideration and dared to blackmail them unscrupulously.

Chen Qing couldn't help but shake his head.

In his opinion, what Cheng Xiao did today was perfectly normal. He could plan so much for the Di Yuan Zhu and was not hesitant to offend other Nascent Soul cultivators. This spiritual material must be extremely important to his practice. It was probably what he needed to break through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.

The 70:30 split shows how big his appetite is.

Chen Qing couldn't help but smile when he thought of this.

He joined an alliance, and the alliance was not just the Yuxiao Sect. Therefore, although Cheng Xiao's blackmail seemed difficult to expose, there was actually no need to worry about it.

Although I have never heard of spiritual materials like the Earth Yuan Pearl, I think they must be extremely precious. It is not bad to have such a harvest on this trip, and also to receive the reward from the Earth King Palace.

After finishing his recitation, Chen Qing began to practice the technique of refining the Earth Yuan Pearl given by Cheng Xiao.

This method is not complicated, but the cultivator required to practice it has very high magical powers, at least he must be a Nascent Soul cultivator to practice it.

Chen Qing practiced for half an hour and mastered it completely.

After mastering this method, Chen Qing no longer spent energy on it, but turned to cultivating his own magic power and improving his cultivation. After all, he is only in the early stage of Nascent Soul now, and there is still a very long distance to the middle stage.

When practicing, time passes extremely quickly and a day goes by in a flash.

The next day, everyone gathered again in the main hall.

Xuan Ming stood in the center, looked at everyone, and spoke.

"Everyone, today we will go deep into the abyss and deal with the quicksand spirit. After this is done, my palace will pay you back."

As soon as he finished speaking, he led everyone out of the main hall, flew into the air, and headed towards the Earth-Splitting Abyss.

Everyone flew all the way, and after leaving the formation, they headed in one direction.

The Earth-Splitting Abyss, as the foundation of the Earth King Palace, was not far away. After traveling only a few dozen miles, they saw an extremely wide and long black rift appear before their eyes.

Endless quicksand, along with the earth's energy, erupted continuously from it, covering the sky, obliterating the sunlight and cloaking it in a gloomy grey.

Seeing this, Chen Qing was also surprised.

Compared with this, the Sky Valley back then was like a worm compared to a dragon, the difference was huge.

"This place is the Earth-Splitting Abyss, which is bottomless. And according to the surveys conducted by our monks, most of the Quicksand Spirits are distributed around a thousand feet. When dealing with the Quicksand Spirits, you must be cautious and do not get trapped, otherwise it will be difficult to rescue them."

After Xuanming gave some further instructions, everyone entered together.

The quicksand was vast and seemed endless. Everyone was protected by spiritual shields, and it was difficult to see anything around them as it was all obscured by the quicksand. Only the spiritual consciousness was unaffected, and it was still as clear as seeing fire.

Chen Qing's spiritual awareness was deeper than anyone else present. Even Xuan Ming was a little inferior to him. However, Chen Qing did not reveal too much, just maintaining a normal range of spiritual awareness. His spiritual perception did not give any warning, so there was no need to worry too much.

Ten zhang, one hundred zhang, three hundred zhang, five hundred zhang.

The speed at which everyone went deeper into the cave gradually slowed down as they approached a thousand feet. There was no trace of light here at this time, and the surroundings were filled with whistling quicksand and surging earth energy. Everyone felt that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was suppressed here and was even more difficult to mobilize.

The divine consciousness spread, and everyone was wary of their surroundings. The speed slowed down, but it was gradually approaching a thousand feet.

"Look, that's the Quicksand Spirit."

Suddenly, Hou Tu spoke abruptly, pointing to a humanoid spirit creature hundreds of meters away, which attracted everyone's attention. Several spiritual senses were cast over and saw the appearance of the quicksand spirit.

In his spiritual consciousness, the spirit that Chen Qing saw had a very special appearance. Although it was in human form, it only had limbs but no fists or feet. Its entire body was made of quicksand. It was extremely large, about three meters tall.

Its face has no facial features, only depressions, in which quicksand flows, attracting the surrounding quicksand to gather.

The next moment, as Hou Tu's voice sounded, the spirit seemed to sense it, turned its head, and looked at everyone with its depression.

"It has discovered us. Everyone, first explore the location of its spirit core, then use your magic."

Cheng Xiao saw this and immediately spoke up.

Upon hearing this, Chen Qing activated the Qi-gazing technique.

Under the observation of Qigong, the soul was surrounded by a layer of earth energy, which continuously flowed around the soul and finally converged into a certain part of its body.

That must be where the spirit core is.

Chen Qing thought to himself.