“Boom!”

The Immortal Cave’s door opened, and the two walked out.

“Brother Ling Tian, where should we go next? Should I use the Qingqiu Divination to tell our fortune?” Su Meier asked.

“You can do that?” Ling Tian was a little surprised.

“Of course!” Su Meier gave a playful smile. The qingqiu imperial seal on her brow glowed with moonlight. She ran her fingers over Ling Tian’s wound, and her blood-stained fingertip drew a Qingqiu totem in the Void Realm. The still-wet blood beads suddenly floated, forming a map of mountains.

“The Kan position is the Life Gate, the Xun Palace hides treasures.” The young girl’s fox ears twitched slightly, and the emperor seal reflected the purple Qi flowing through the mountains in the southwest. “There’s an omen of spiritual mist turning into a Dragon four hundred li to the southeast, indicating a treasure has appeared.”

Watching Su Meier’s earnest divination, Ling Tian was momentarily lost in thought.

“Brother Ling Tian, what are you spacing out for?” Su Meier chided softly. Only then did Ling Tian snap back to attention.

The jade dragon sword unsheathed! Ling Tian and Su Meier stepped onto the Jade Dragon. Ling Tian held Su Meier’s waist, and her hands shyly clasped together, but her nine tails honestly wrapped around his wrist. As the two flew through the clouds on their swords, the lingering warmth of the Flame Dragon on Ling Tian’s back heated Su Meier’s cheeks. Recalling her bold actions in the Immortal Cave, her nine fox tails unconsciously formed a barrier in mid-air.

After flying for about an hour, they finally passed through three layers of bewildering mist. The ancient seal script covered in moss on the mountain rock wall confirmed the divination. Ling Tian swung his jade dragon sword, and the Flame Dragon Sword Qi instantly cleaved open the Restriction of the Immortal Cave. The Spiritual Qi mist that rushed out actually condensed into a Dragon shape, lunging at them. The Qingqiu emperor seal phantom that flew from Su Meier’s brow instantly expanded to the size of a millstone, and a profound ice barrier enveloped the two. Through the flowing ice crystal gaps, myriad rainbow colors could be seen reflecting from deep within the cave.

Tens of thousands of stalactite pillars hung from the cave’s dome, each like an inverted glazed treasure sword. The thinnest were as delicate as hair, while the thickest were comparable to thousand-year-old ancient trees. The natural spiral patterns on the surface of the stone pillars actually aligned with the earth’s pulse . Ling Tian lightly touched the rock wall with his sword tip, and the unique clear Dragon roar of the jade dragon sword caused a continuous resonance within the cave. This was no ordinary rock wall; it was clearly a Spiritual Marrow Vein formed by crystallized Spiritual Qi!

“The southwest Xun position gives birth to the essence of water and wood.” Su Meier’s fingertips ignited with Qingqiu Fox Fire, illuminating the depths. “Brother Ling Tian, look at the base of those stalagmites.”

Ling Tian looked intently. At the base of the inverted conical stalagmites, emerald-colored roots were intertwined, visibly inhaling and exhaling spiritual mist. Each time the roots contracted, clear spiritual liquid dripped down the stalactites, condensing into fist-sized water spirit beads in mid-air before falling into the deep pool below. The pool water displayed a rare seven-colored luster, and lotus leaves materialized from Spiritual Qi floated on the surface, each holding a dewdrop flowing with Dao rhyme in its center.

About three zhang from the pool’s edge, Ling Tian’s boot suddenly sank into some kind of gelatinous barrier. Su Meier’s nine tails promptly lashed out, wrapping around his waist: “It’s a Weak Water barrier!” Before she finished speaking, the tip of his boot that had touched the barrier had already turned to dust. This seemingly calm pool water was actually the essence of the legendary Weak Water, on which not even a feather could float!

Ripples suddenly spread across the center of the pool, and nine twin lotuses slowly rose from the bottom. As the lotus petals opened and closed, Spiritual Qi so dense it condensed into liquid gushed forth, forming a seven-colored auspicious cloud on the dome. Most remarkably, each lotus reflected a different lunar phase, cycling from new moon to full moon, clearly transformed from the essence of the Great Yin.

“No… the lotus hearts are devouring the moonlight!” Ling Tian said.

As if responding to his insight, the entire cave suddenly shook violently. Stalactite pillars exploded one after another, and the splashing jade marrow reformed in the air into a thirty-six sword Formation. The pool water boiled, sending up three water spouts, and Innate water patterns emerged in the center of each spout.

“Who disturbs this Immortal’s slumber?”

A deep rumble came from the bottom of the pool. The nine twin lotuses condensed into a transparent humanoid figure ten zhang tall. The lotus spirit’s entire body flowed with liquid Dao patterns, and water droplets dripping from its hair transformed into a sky-filling sword rain. It raised its hand and made a grasping motion, and the three water spouts instantly condensed into water spears. The power of Weak Water entwined around the spear tips made even Ling Tian feel a hint of threat!

“A Nascent Soul Early Stage twin lotus spirit!” Ling Tian exclaimed, immediately activating “Burning Body” and “Burning Sea.” A phantom of the Flame Dragon rose behind him, spewing golden flames that evaporated the incoming water spears into mist. Then, the jade dragon sword was plunged into the ground, and the aftershock of the Flame Dragon Breath shattered dozens of stalactite pillars. The broken jade marrow spikes flew towards the lotus spirit, but before they could touch it, they were captured by the Weak Water arms conjured by the lotus spirit.

“Nine Dragon Soul Lock!” This was a Formation recorded in the Myriad Talisman Guide. Ling Tian bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of vital blood, and nine blood-colored Talismans tore through the air, wrapping around the lotus spirit’s limbs. Su Meier seized the opportunity to throw out the qingqiu imperial seal, and the profound ice barrier instantly froze the surging Weak Water. The nine-tailed fox phantom and the Nine Dragon Soul Lock formed a pincer attack.

The lotus spirit roared, splitting into three Clones, while its main body suddenly submerged into the bottom of the pool. The entire cold pool began to rotate counter-clockwise, forming a terrifying vortex that devoured Spiritual Qi. The rock layers beneath Ling Tian’s feet cracked inch by inch, exposing ten-thousand-year-old profound ice buried deep within the earth’s pulse —this spiritual spring was actually the Formation eye suppressing an extremely Yin earth pulse !

“Be careful!” Ling Tian embraced Su Meier’s waist and retreated swiftly. Nine Nether Profound Ice spikes erupted from their previous position, and the chilling Qi froze even the Burning Sea golden flames into ice sculptures. The lotus spirit’s true body emerged from the ice spike thicket, transforming into a hundred streams of Weak Water, each water chain entwined with a jade marrow sword condensed from jade marrow. Ling Tian stepped on the Flame Dragon Fire Lotus and soared into the air.

“Dragon Spirit! Transform! Thunder Dragon Instant Prison Slash!”

The jade dragon sword activated the Thunder Dragon to strike the center of the pool, but the lightning was reflected to the cave ceiling by a suddenly rising profound ice wall.

“Boom!”

The stalactite pillars exploded in response, and myriad jade marrow fragments, controlled by the lotus spirit, formed the Zhou Tian Sword Formation. Su Meier’s fox tails swept across the qingqiu imperial seal, and the Qingqiu technique condensed into three hundred ice crystal arrows: “Profound Ice Arrows, break!” The ice arrows pierced through the Life Gate of the sword Formation. Ling Tian seized the opportunity to throw a Wind God Talisman. The cyan Talisman swelled violently against the wind, actually condensing the entire sword Formation into a cyan meteor that counter-attacked the lotus spirit.

“Petty tricks!”

The lotus spirit plunged its arms into the pool water, and nine Weak Water coiling Dragons burst forth from the waves. Each Dragon Breath carried an extreme cold that could freeze a Nascent Soul, and the cave was instantly covered in ice shards.

“Burning Sea!”

Crimson flames erupted around Ling Tian, and the Flame Dragon Power surged in the sea of flames. However, the evaporated Weak Water gathered on the dome, pouring down as a torrential rain.

Su Meier suddenly bit her fingertip, and after the emperor seal was stained with blood, a fox phantom barrier erupted: “Qingqiu Lunar Eclipse!” Time within the barrier slowed dramatically. Ling Tian seized this fleeting moment, and the Thunder Dragon Instant Prison Slash instantly charged towards the lotus spirit’s neck. The pool water suddenly boiled, and to their surprise, the lotus spirit severed its own head, transforming into Weak Water and escaping.

“To the southwest!”

Su Meier warned. Ling Tian plunged his jade dragon sword into a rock crevice, and the Flame Dragon Fire stirred up earth fire to gush forth. Su Meier’s nine tails fully extended, and profound ice arrows pinned the ripples in the Void Realm. The lotus spirit’s true body appeared under the pincer attack of fire and profound ice, now covered in visible cracks.

As the last wisp of the lotus spirit’s true body was incinerated by the Flame Dragon golden flames, the stalactites on the cave’s dome suddenly resonated in unison. The lotus spirit’s unwilling roar transformed into a torrential downpour, each drop of Weak Water etching deep pits into the ground. Su Meier, panting, leaned against the jade wall, the radiance of her emperor seal greatly diminished.

As the downpour ceased, the pool water gradually regained its clarity. Su Meier lightly touched the water’s surface, and the emperor seal suddenly reflected a double image: “This… this is a Yin and Yang Spring that requires spiritual bodies to merge to activate?”

Ling Tian sat down with his back turned, and three Talismans formed a Restriction at the cave entrance. A faint splashing sound came from behind him. He tightened his grip on his sword: “I will act as Protector at the cave entrance. Meier, absorb at ease.”

A crimson silk ribbon suddenly spread across the water’s surface, and Su Meier’s voice came with a hint of shyness: “Silly brother, the spring eye can only be fully opened with both Yin and Yang spirits…” The surroundings were quiet for a while, then a heavy splash was heard behind Su Meier. Ling Tian, his profound robes half-open, immersed himself in the spring, the jade dragon sword laid horizontally between the two: “With this sword as a boundary, three-tenths of the spiritual power is enough for me.”

Su Meier secretly turned her head, her face flushed as she looked at Ling Tian, who had his eyes closed across from her. Her fox tails quietly wrapped around Ling Tian’s hair tips immersed in the water. When the first ray of moonlight shone through the crack in the cave ceiling into the spiritual spring, the spiritual power around the two actually spontaneously formed a Yin and Yang fish Formation diagram.

Two hours later, the Nascent Soul in Ling Tian’s Purple Mansion suddenly opened its eyes. Although he had not broken through his Realm, he could clearly feel that his Nascent Soul Early Stage Realm was being tempered to be as solid as a rock. In contrast, Su Meier’s qingqiu imperial seal had condensed into a lunar wheel between her brows, and nine-tailed Dao patterns appeared on the surface of her Golden Core.

“She’s about to Breakthrough.” Ling Tian came ashore and waved his hand, setting up a twelve-fold Talisman Formation. The Flame Dragon golden flames condensed into a protective Flame Dragon at the Formation eye. Fox Fire rose around Su Meier, and the Golden Core within her body was slowly shattering and condensing. Not until the morning sun first rose did Su Meier slowly open her eyes.

“Golden Core Middle Stage…” Su Meier looked up at Ling Tian, who was acting as her Protector on the stone platform by the shore. Her fox tails rolled up the gauze dress by the pool. She moved silently to Ling Tian’s side, pecked his cheek quickly like a chick pecking rice, then shot out of the Immortal Cave like a streak of light, leaving only Ling Tian, his face slightly red, still sitting by the shore.