lerbook #310 - Dig through the secret room!
#310 - Dig through the secret room!
Chapter 309: Tunneling Through the Secret Chamber!
Ma Zhou patted Liu Feng on the shoulder, his voice full of joy, "Good brother, rest assured. We are so compatible. If I am ever conferred the title of Water God of the Miluo River, I will definitely seek a Water God position for you in a tributary of the Miluo River, so you can be immortal alongside me."
Upon hearing this, Liu Feng gnashed his teeth in his heart: 'He wants me to be a tributary god? And he gets the main stream god position? What a scoundrel! All these god positions are mine! All of them! Without my management, where would today's Miluo River Water God position come from? You're just here to reap the rewards, how dare you say such a thing?'
Liu Feng's heart itched with hatred, but he didn't say much. Instead, he silently continued drinking. After a few rounds of drinks, Ma Zhou felt a dizzy spell, and then collapsed to the ground, unable to open his eyes.
Liu Feng looked at Ma Zhou lying on the ground, his eyes full of coldness: "Senior Brother Ma, my Hundred Herbs Brew is enough to keep you asleep for seven days. If you miss the hour for the conferral ceremony tomorrow, don't blame me for taking your place."
The matter of bestowing godhood requires the right timing, location, people, and even the hour; none can be missing.
Once the other party misses the hour, the god position will dissipate, and he will have a legitimate reason to take his place.
Liu Feng collected all the wine on the table, then slowly stood up, walked out of the gate, and said to the disciples guarding the gate: "Senior Brother Ma Zhou is drunk. Guard the gate and do not allow anyone to disturb Senior Brother Ma Zhou."
The night passed, and the morning bell rang the next day. All the Huangli Temple disciples bathed and purified themselves, finished their morning lessons, ate breakfast, and then led the guests to the altar to watch the ceremony.
Liu Feng, as the host of the sacrificial ceremony, ascended the high platform at this time and began to lead the disciples in performing the sacrificial ritual.
After a three-hour-long sacrificial ritual, accompanied by mysterious and ancient rites, a water-blue talisman slowly rose from the underground pool of faith, seemingly drawn by some mysterious power.
At this moment, all the power of faith within the entire Huangtian Sect was emptied. Zhang Chen, next door, watched the yellow divine light attached to the wall dim, a look of joy appearing in his eyes: "As expected, the Huangtian Sect's consecration ceremony will definitely draw a large amount of incense and faith power. This is the best time for me to act."
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen no longer hesitated, directly urging his mouthparts to pierce into the incense faith on the wall. The incense faith flickered, and facing Zhang Chen's devouring, it was actually in short supply, directly sucking it dry.
"I knew it! Pangolin, dig for me!" Zhang Chen devoured the incense faith while directing the pangolin to dig the cave.
As for why not use Penetration Technique?
Because if he used Penetration Technique, he would not be able to continue absorbing the incense faith. When the power of incense permeated, it would directly re-permeate the stone wall with the power of incense, and Zhang Chen would not be able to penetrate the stone wall attached with the power of incense.
As the pangolin dug the stone wall, a thought flashed in Zhang Chen's mind: "If someone is guarding the stone wall next door, and I run into them head-on, wouldn't I be in trouble? I'd be caught red-handed?"
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen felt that hiding underground was not safe, and quickly controlled the pangolin to stop: "But if I control the pangolin from a distance, I won't be able to continue absorbing the divine power of incense on the stone wall, and the pangolin won't be able to dig through the stone wall attached with the divine power of incense either?"
Just as Zhang Chen was feeling a little tangled, accompanied by the holding of the external sacrificial ceremony, the power of incense was mobilized, and the power of incense attached to the wall was actually completely drawn away.
"It really is what I wanted, a pillow when I'm sleepy." Zhang Chen's heart stirred at this time, his eyes full of surprise. In the next moment, the Penetration Technique was activated, and he quietly returned to his small residence, and began to remotely control the pangolin, digging through the rocks in the stone wall.
At the same time, Zhang Chen mobilized the underground water, turning it into water vapor to flow in the stone cave, sensing everything in the stone cave.
The stone wall attached with the aura of incense was not thick to begin with. After only an hour, the stone wall was actually dug through by the pangolin, and then a large amount of water vapor poured into the stone chamber next door. Zhang Chen used the water vapor's induction to determine that there was no human 'shape' in the stone chamber next door. Zhang Chen then controlled the pangolin to drill in.
If there was someone next door, even if the other party had the ability to hide from his water vapor's perception, but as the pangolin drilled in, the other party would definitely suppress and kill the pangolin. However, after the pangolin wandered around the stone chamber next door, there were no abnormalities.
Zhang Chen's heart stirred, and he transformed into a stream of water again, penetrating downwards, all the way to the underground stone cave. He did not rush to reveal his tracks, but instead moved in the stone wall in the form of groundwater, and then water droplets penetrated the stone wall, attaching to the wall in the next room. Zhang Chen took the opportunity to observe the scene inside the stone wall. The entire stone chamber came into his view. The stone chamber was about forty square meters in size, with a pool about one meter wide in the center. The pool was flashing with divine light at this time, illuminating the dim stone chamber as bright as day.
Above the pool, a blue light flowed, and the light looked like a Taoist talisman paper from his previous life, with countless complex patterns flashing on it.
At this time, the power of incense in the pool of faith had been completely emptied by the blue rune, wrapping the blue rune and forming a protective cloud.
Zhang Chen revealed his true form in the stone chamber, his eyes looking at the water-blue rune, as if thousands of water-based laws were flowing within it. In Zhang Chen's eyes, the rune seemed to evolve into a boundless river, with surging and turbulent waves.
"The Miluo River Water God's position." The moment Zhang Chen saw the blue rune, a thought involuntarily popped into his head.
"Good fellow, this is actually the Miluo River Water God's position. Can I use the Devour skill to swallow it? Or can I seize it? It can be regarded as venting a breath of resentment in my heart?" Thoughts flashed in Zhang Chen's mind.
It must be said, he really felt that it was very possible! He mastered the Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearl, which could suppress thousands of seawater. I wonder if he could take the opportunity to suppress the Miluo River Water God's position?
However, Zhang Chen did not act rashly for the time being, but scanned the entire stone chamber with his eyes. On the left side of the stone chamber, there was a bookshelf with rows of books, which immediately attracted Zhang Chen's attention.
Zhang Chen opened his Dharma Eye to observe the books on the wall, and saw no mysterious power flowing, knowing that they were all ordinary books. He couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but he still stepped forward to pull out the books and examine them in his hand: "But they are just some account books and registers."
Zhang Chen took a few glances, somewhat disappointed, and continued to pull out books from the upper and lower shelves. Finally, at the top position, he found a book made of leather scrolls.
"This book is a bit interesting." Zhang Chen took the leather scroll book in his hand and looked at it, and then opened it in the next moment, and saw that the book actually recorded the Huangtiandao True Dragon Grand Frame, as well as the secret methods from Mingjin to Zuokua Baodan.
"This book is good. Even if I can't use it, my younger brother and sister can use it." Zhang Chen carefully put away the leather scroll, and then scanned the entire secret room with his eyes, but did not notice the trace of the Evergreen Tree Coffin.
“No Evergreen Tree Coffin. It seems I was mistaken.” Zhang Chen felt somewhat disappointed. The whereabouts of the Evergreen Tree Coffin were too mysterious, and he didn't know where that eunuch from the inner palace had hidden it.
He turned his head to look at the Pool of Faith again. He was very interested in the Pool of Faith. The Pool of Faith could actually absorb the faith of the world, which was quite strange. If he could obtain this secret method, wouldn't he also be able to collect the power of faith?
“I have the means to steal other people's power of faith. Why should I bother to spread the power of faith myself? It's truly a thankless task.” After a moment of contemplation, Zhang Chen gave up the idea of stealing the Pool of Faith. Besides, the Pool of Faith was embedded underground, and he couldn't steal it anyway.
Zhang Chen carefully observed the Pool of Faith and saw countless mysterious runes engraved on the inner wall of the pool. The runes flickered with strange power, but unfortunately, Zhang Chen's cultivation was limited, and he couldn't understand them very well.
“Huh, that's not right… There seems to be something at the bottom of that Pool of Faith.” Just as Zhang Chen was observing the key points of the Pool of Faith, he suddenly noticed something. He saw a box constantly floating up and down at the bottom of the Pool of Faith.
“There's actually a box at the bottom of the Pool of Faith?” Zhang Chen immediately perked up.
However, at this time, there was still a shallow layer of the power of faith in the Pool of Faith, just enough to cover the box, and Zhang Chen did not act rashly.
This Pool of Faith was the most important thing in the Yellow Dawn Temple, and he didn't dare to act rashly, lest he attract the high-level members of the Yellow Dawn Temple.
Just as Zhang Chen was staring at the box, thinking about how to fish it out, the last bit of faith power in the Pool of Faith was absorbed by the Divine Seat. At this time, the Divine Seat, having obtained an entire pool of faith power, immediately bloomed with a dazzling azure divine light, and soared into the sky, about to shoot into the clouds.
“Freeze!”
Seeing that the Divine Seat was about to leave, Zhang Chen didn't say a word and directly activated the Water-Fixing Pearl. A blue light burst out from the Water-Fixing Pearl, enveloping the Divine Seat.
The Divine Seat seemed to sense the danger and, like a frightened rabbit, accelerated its speed when it saw the light of the Water-Fixing Pearl enveloping it.
However, the light of the Water-Fixing Pearl ultimately grazed the Divine Seat, and a ball of light fell from the Divine Seat.
“It's a skill! To think that a skill would drop here?”
Seeing the falling blue light, Zhang Chen was overjoyed. Even if he didn't obtain the Divine Seat, it was good that a skill had dropped?
[Discovered a dropped skill, do you want to pick it up?]
“Pick it up!” Zhang Chen didn't even think about it and directly said.
The next moment, the ball of blue light flew up and was absorbed by the Golden Finger interface. Then, Zhang Chen's Golden Finger interface flickered for a while. The next moment, a ray of light circulated, and Zhang Chen had a new skill:
[New Skill: Water Flow Control]
“Water Flow Control? Isn't it the same as my Water Control Technique?” Zhang Chen's gaze fell on the new skill, and he felt that this skill was a bit useless and of no use to him.
At this time, the Golden Finger interface refreshed again: [Skill attribute overlap detected, [Water Control Technique] and [Water Flow Control] can be merged. After the merger, you can specify any of the skills to upgrade.]
Upon seeing this, Zhang Chen's heart stirred, and his gaze fell on his original skill, Water Control Technique:
[4 Skills (Fourth Order): Water Control Technique + Weak Water (0/5000000)]
Upgrading a Fourth Order skill requires five million points. He can now specify to upgrade it once, which can be considered as getting five million points for free, which is also somewhat useful.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen directly clicked on the Golden Finger, and then he saw the Water Control Technique directly upgrade:
[4 Skills (Fifth Order): Water Control Technique + Weak Water (0/50000000)]
[Note 1: Can control all water flow within one thousand meters, freezing range of ten meters]
The note was simple, but Zhang Chen watched it for a long time, and his eyes gradually began to shine: “All the flowing water within a thousand meters? If this is on a big river, wouldn't I be defying the heavens?”
How long is a thousand meters?
A normal playground track is two hundred meters per lap. How far is five laps?
“Not bad, really not bad!”
Zhang Chen secretly praised, “I just don't know, if my Water Control Technique's power competes with the Water God's authority, whose control will be greater?”
Zhang Chen thought in his heart, and the Water Control Technique activated. The water flow in the air turned into water vapor and dispersed, actually enveloping the entire Taoist temple. He could roughly sense the traces of all living things in the entire Taoist temple through the flow of water vapor.
“Awesome, a radius of a thousand meters, enveloping the entire Taoist temple. Especially the deeper groundwater, I know it like the back of my hand.” Zhang Chen secretly said in his heart.
Just as Zhang Chen was sensing, the situation outside changed again.
As the Divine Seat broke through the rocks and went away, the Divine Seat crossed the void and directly landed on the altar, suspended in the air above the altar.
At this moment, everyone's eyes turned to the Divine Seat hanging high above the altar, their eyes filled with burning desire.
“Everyone, as you can see, this is the natural Divine Seat of my Yellow Heaven Dao, the Divine Seat of the Miluo River Water God. Whoever obtains this Divine Seat can live forever and share the same fate as the Miluo River. If the Miluo River does not perish, the god will not die! From then on, break free from the shackles of lifespan and live as long as the heavens.” Liu Feng stood on the altar and slowly introduced to the onlookers.
Upon hearing the words “immortality,” everyone's breathing began to quicken, their eyes filled with burning desire.
“Is there really immortality in this world? Even ancient gods have perished in historical time and space. Is there really such a powerful energy in this world that can make people immortal?” Xie Lingyun's voice was somewhat disbelieving.
A noble next to him heard this and continued: “Whether or not one can live forever depends on this time! If one can really live forever, I am willing to give everything to exchange for the Yellow Heaven Dao's immortal Divine Seat. If it is fake, the Yellow Heaven Dao is afraid of suffering a fatal blow from the major forces, and it will lose the need to exist.”
Immortality! This is definitely the greatest obsession of all emperors and generals in this life.
As the saying goes: “Having a thousand coins, one wants ten thousand coins; becoming an emperor, one wants to ascend to immortality.”
For emperors, generals, and great nobles, the only pursuit in living in this world is to make themselves live a little longer.
At this time, a ray of purple light rose from the east. The highly anticipated link finally arrived. Liu Feng stopped the sacrifice, and a Taoist boy brought a tray and quickly came to Liu Feng's side. The tray was covered with red silk. Liu Feng stretched out his hand and casually tore off the silk on the tray, revealing a scroll.
“By the supreme Yellow Heaven's decree, and the Great Virtuous Teacher's order, today we hereby confer the position of the Miluo River Water God.” Liu Feng slowly picked up the scroll in the tray, his eyes swept across the guests in the field, and then he said loudly: “Where is Ma Zhou of the Yellow Heaven Dao?”
After waiting for a while without any movement, Liu Feng secretly得意in his heart, and had to pretend to shout: “Where is Ma Zhou?”