Immortality and Cultivation: This old man seeks enlightenment through mere survival.

Have you ever seen a seed sprout?

Lu Zaian's calm voice echoed in the quiet corridor.

The group exchanged bewildered glances. A seed sprouting? What the heck?

Lu Zaian then took out three blank circular array plates and said:

"Just you wait, it'll happen soon."

Lu Zaian sat cross-legged on the spot and began to draw in the air with his finger.

As he flicked his fingers, tiny glimmers of light emerged from his fingertips.

These rays of light seemed to have a life of their own, intertwining and entwining in mid-air, gradually forming several complete and clearly visible array patterns!

These array patterns emitted a strong blue light, as fresh and vibrant as newly sprouted leaves in spring.

"This is a Wood-Growing Array, which has the effect of promoting the growth of spiritual plants, but it only applies to spiritual plants without medicinal properties, such as thorn vines, iron cliff wood, and cage-eating flowers..."

As Lu Zaian spoke, he infused the Life Wood Array Pattern into the array plate and placed the Iron Cliff Wood Seed in the groove at the center of the array plate.

Take several spirit stones, grind them into powder, and sprinkle them on the array plate.

Then Lu Zaian replicated the same method on the other two array plates.

Then, Lu Zaian placed the array plate precisely in the gap below the stone gate, barely managing to fit it in, with the seed facing the plane below the stone gate.

"Water nourishes wood, and wood overcomes earth. As long as I use the array to stimulate the growth of Iron Cliff Wood, I can pry open this stone door!"

Lu Zaian clapped his hands and said.

An old man behind him looked incredulous. "How is that possible? Even a full-force attack from a seventh-level Qi Refining cultivator couldn't break through the stone door. What kind of seed could possibly open it?"

“Exactly, how could there be such a miraculous logic?” the middle-aged cultivator echoed.

"No, no..." Lu Zaian shook his head and smiled, speaking eloquently.

"The art of formations actually draws upon the natural power of heaven and earth, and the power of nature is so wondrous and miraculous."

A tiny ant can lift something four hundred times its own weight.

Even a fragile seed can break through layers of soil and even take root and sprout on rocks!

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Zaian flicked his finger, and three wisps of water vapor enveloped the array plate.

"Flooded!"

The cyan patterns on the array plate were activated, and the iron cliff wood seed in the groove frantically absorbed the power of water vapor and spirit stone powder, expanding to more than twice its original size!

"Swelling up!"

The tender green shoots broke through the skin, just like Thumbelina stretching after waking up, and gradually stretched their bodies against the stone gate!

"Ingmu!"

As Lu Zai'an activated the formation with all his might, the seeds of the Iron Cliff Wood grew wildly, transforming into three saplings half a foot tall!

Click…click…click…

The stone gate shook violently, emitting a series of trembling sounds, and fragments of stone kept falling to the ground.

One side is an earth-based formation, weathered by time and lifeless.

On one side are vibrant, wildly growing wood-type spirit plants.

The two are constantly locked in a power struggle!

"The vitality isn't enough, quickly help inject wood-type magic power into it!" Lu Zaian shouted softly!

Zhu Youzhi and another old man in the group practiced wood-based techniques. Upon hearing this, their expressions brightened, and they quickly stepped forward and pushed with both hands!

The rich blue light magic power was injected into the array plate, and after passing through the wood grain, it was transformed into a continuous source of life force and transported into the iron cliff tree sapling.

The balance that had been locked in a stalemate was instantly shattered!

Three iron cliff trees were seen growing wildly and savagely upwards, gradually crushing the stone gate inch by inch!

The array patterns on the stone gate were dull and lifeless, and countless cracks spread outwards from below in all directions.

It then exploded into a pile of rubble with a loud "bang!"

"It actually... opened?"

The voluptuous female cultivator covered her O-shaped red lips with one hand and gasped.

"Array masters, terrifying indeed." The old man withdrew his hands and swallowed.

The old man and the middle-aged cultivator, who were also waiting to be proven wrong, were dumbfounded and stood there in a daze.

"Haha, well done, Junior Brother Lu!! I knew I hadn't misjudged you!"

Zhu Youzhi laughed heartily, patted Lu Zaian's shoulder, and said with a smile.

"Go in!"

The three Iron Cliff Trees that had been nurtured by the array patterns had exhausted all their life force and withered and collapsed in the blink of an eye.

"Tsk tsk... It's a pity that such life-giving array patterns are equivalent to prematurely exhausting the vitality of spiritual plants and forcing them to grow. Otherwise, wouldn't it be wonderful to use them for spiritual plant cultivation?"

Behind the stone gate was another long corridor, but there were several open secret rooms on the left and right sides of the corridor.

As the group crossed the pile of rubble, Zhu Youzhi was still marveling at the wonder of the formation they had just witnessed.

Lu Zaian didn't reply, but instead sniffed the air.

"There seems to be a strange smell..."

"It's pills! Is this an alchemy room?"

In the secret room on the left side of the corridor, rows of cabinets and shelves appeared.

The shelves were filled with countless jade bottles used to hold elixirs.

The middle-aged cultivator at the front of the group's eyes lit up. He immediately broke away from the group, flashed to the shelf, and reached out to pick up a bottle.

Suddenly, a pair of tiny, bluish lights, no bigger than mung beans, appeared on the dark cabinet, followed by a scream from the middle-aged cultivator.

"Ahhh!!"

The middle-aged cultivator grabbed the pill and retreated rapidly.

hum!

The faint blue light also shot out along with a dark shadow!

Only then did everyone get a clear look at the object.

It turned out to be a centipede with wings!

Its beady eyes gleamed with a cold light, its mouthparts clenched menacingly, and beneath its five-inch-long body were a hundred pairs of slender arms and legs, while behind it flapped a pair of transparent wings as thin as cicada wings!

"Two-winged, venomous centipede!"

Zhu Youzhi's expression darkened, and he flashed to the middle-aged cultivator's side, waving his hand to form a blade and severing the cultivator's right arm cleanly at the root!

He then raised his hand and threw a wooden ring magic weapon at the centipede.

The centipede flapped its wings slightly in mid-air and changed its flight direction at an extremely fast speed, easily avoiding the oncoming wooden ring!

However, all of this was under Zhu Youzhi's control. He bent his finger, and the wooden ring suddenly increased in speed, rushing towards the centipede like an arrow released from a bow!

In the blink of an eye, the wooden ring was accurately placed on the centipede's writhing body.

"Wood and Fire, burn!"

Zhu Youzhi's cold voice rang out, and the wooden ring suddenly tightened, tightly encircling the centipede's body, and blue flames ignited around the ring!

"Hiss!!"

The centipede struggled frantically, emitting a sharp hiss, its many legs flailing wildly in the air, unable to break free.

However, as the blue flames ignited, it was instantly burned to ashes, leaving only a pair of transparent wings as thin as cicada wings!

All of this happened in the blink of an eye.

The middle-aged cultivator with the severed arm lay paralyzed on the ground, clutching his bleeding right arm and groaning in pain.

"What are you doing, you surnamed Zhu?! You even severed my arm to steal my elixir!"

"Fool! Look at the arm on the ground before you speak!"

If I hadn't severed your right arm in time, you would probably have died from the poison already!

Zhu Youzhi interrupted the middle-aged cultivator's cries of pain with a cold shout.

Everyone looked at the severed arm that had been thrown to the ground.

In just a short time, the severed arm was covered with a layer of dark blue frost, stiff as a piece of frozen meat that had been frozen for ten years!