Chapter 30: The Mysterious Slate
Lin Jing swallowed his saliva with difficulty.
'Maybe I'm mistaken...'
Lin Jing felt that this was just his guess after all, and it might not be accurate.
At this moment, a wisp of gray mist floated out of the crack in the stone wall, and it was very conspicuous in the white light.
"Huh?" Lin Jing stepped forward and touched the gray mist with his bone claw.
No response.
'To dig, or not to dig?' β
'Not right... I don't seem to have any way back...'
Lin Jing smiled bitterly. He was at a depth of many meters, with a dark river above his head, and only a few supplies on him. It seems that he has no choice.
Excavation.
...
Ten minutes later.
Lin Jing looked at the crack in front of him, and his heart made waves again.
I saw that in front of Lin Jing, on the unknown gray-black ground, a crack about one meter wide and four meters long was pouring out of a gray mist.
'Something else down there?' β
Lin Jing threw a stone down.
Smack-
It doesn't seem to be deep to listen to.
Lin Jing used his bone claws to dig out an anchor point in the rock, tied the rope, and jumped into the crack by grabbing the other end of the rope himself.
....
Lin Jing fell to the ground.
There were a lot of gravel scattered around Lin Jing's feet, and the ground under his feet was the same as the one above him just now. All around is an endless gray mist.
The only thing that stood out was an irregular stone slab in front of it.
Lin Jing walked over with a small wing and looked at the stone slab.
The material of the slate is the same as the ground, and it looks like it was forcibly chopped with a sharp weapon.
I saw it carved on the stone slab.
[I call this the Fog Realm]
[It is the cornerstone of the continent]
[The gray mist is quite miraculous, and has the effect of cutting off divine thoughts]
[There is another exit to the south here]
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"This is?!" Lin Jing was stunned for a moment, and a few thoughts flashed through his mind.
'Did I guess right?' β
'Rather... Seven Treasure Glazed Sect? No, I haven't heard of this person. β
'Which side is south?' β
Lin Jing's peripheral vision was aimed at a small arrow on the ground beside the stone slab.
"Yes, thank you, this can't be an ancient powerhouse who can leave traces on this material..."
Lin Jing had tried several times, but no matter what kind of soul technique he was, he couldn't leave even a trace of scratches on the gray and black material.
....
Three minutes later.
Lin Jing sensed that something was wrong, and the gray mist around him seemed to be surging towards him at an indiscretable speed.
'Huh? It feels like this... Shovel? β
Lin Jing summoned the shovel, only to see that the shovel was covered with a faint layer of mist.
After the shovel was summoned, the gray mist seemed to have found its target and began to rush towards the shovel frantically.
'Whatever you want??? β
Lin Jing hurriedly tried to take the shovel back, but was unsuccessful.
Moments later, a ring of gray mist was attached to the shovel.
'I'm dying, my shovel has a soul ring!' β
Lin Jing continued to move forward while studying his shovel.
...
Eight hours later.
The Great Lava Rift, the underground of the Fire Leopard Sect.
How deep it has to be. β
Lin Jing panted and squeezed out of an inconspicuous stone crevice. Even if he used his soul power and summoned the Eight Spider Spears, it took him two hours to climb from the gray-black "bedrock" to here.
I saw that the outside of the stone crack was still underground, but it was a very wide grotto, a lava river was flowing under the grotto, and many red magma pillars fell from the top of the grotto.
Lin Jing took advantage of the red light of magma and found a man-made platform not far away.
Fire Leopard Sect, underground square.
It's just that there is no one in this square now.
Lin Jing moved in the direction of the platform, found a suitable position, and used the Sky Soul Technique to jump over the magma river and jump onto the platform.
'Where is this?' Can you get out? ... Let's sneak in and check it out. β
Lin Jing used the Eight Spider Spear to cling to the top of a passage and continued to march towards the ground.
'Huh? Why did the shovel react again? β
Lin Jing looked at the two red arrows pointing in the same direction on the shovel and guessed in his heart.
...
Fire Leopard Sect.
A house hanging from a cliff on the side of the rift valley.
"Huh? I remember putting the ingredients here. A young man wearing the red and white costumes of the Fire Leopard Sect said with a puzzled expression.
"Don't look for it, there is such a big incident in the sect, you still know how to eat and eat!" The young man on the other side said angrily.
Outside the door.
Lin Jing had already changed into a red and white costume, and he was holding a red fruit while walking and eating.
'Let's wait a few days. β
...
Four days later.
"Lord Deacon, it's not good, Sect Master, he hanged himself in the room!" A disciple of the Fire Leopard Sect hurriedly came.
The middle-aged man sitting behind a long table stood up sharply.
"What!" The middle-aged man's eyes were slightly red.
"I went to serve the Sect Master in shifts today, but I didn't expect to just enter his room..."The Fire Leopard Sect disciple said in a panic.
...
As the news of Akashi's death spread, there was chaos within the sect.
The three Contra Douluo-level elders of the Fire Leopard Sect were all killed at this point.
And a bald young man dressed in the costume of the Fire Leopard Sect lowered his head and took the opportunity to quickly leave the chaotic crowd.
Here's your chance. This young man was none other than Lin Jing, and because his original skin had been necrotic and had fallen off, the new skin made him look very white.
On the other side, a black-robed man stood on the rocks above the Great Rift Valley, watching it all coldly.
...
It's been a long time.
In the underground cave, Lin Jing dug a shovel into the red stone wall in front of him. A wave of soul power fluctuated, this was the vigilance device of the Fire Leopard Sect's secret vault.
When Lin Jing first arrived at the Fire Leopard Sect four days ago, two dark red arrows appeared on his shovel, pointing in the same direction. After Lin Jing secretly excavated a passage, he found the red stone wall in front of him, and there were faint soul power fluctuations on the stone wall. Lin Jing didn't dare to act rashly, and kept waiting for the opportunity.
Bang β
The door to the vault was opened, and two Soul Emperors with six soul rings barged in and glanced around.
The secret vault is not large, only forty or fifty square meters, and there are more than a dozen stone platforms and a pile of golden soul coins like a small mountain.
"There's movement?" A Soul Emperor asked.
"No," the other Soul Emperor carefully inspected the various corners of the vault.
"Something went wrong with the Alert Soul Guide?"
"Maybe."
The two left.
Three minutes later.
Bang β
The door was opened again, and the two Soul Emperors returned, and powerful soul power fluctuations swept across the entire vault.
"Really?"
"I think it's fine."
The two left again.
...
A day later.
The time interval between the two Soul Emperors inspecting the vault is getting longer and longer.
As soon as the two of them left, a pile of mountain-like golden soul coins in the vault moved, and Lin Jing stood up from it.
At this time, Lin Jing's body was shrouded in a faint gray mist.
Lin Stealing Guevara Jing, cf. above.
The Fire Leopard Sect Soul Master itself is not good at probing, and ordinary soul masters below the Contra level can only use soul power fluctuations to sense targets.
If it was a Contra Douluo-level soul master, although he still couldn't find Lin Jing's breath, he could find a humanoid vacancy in the pile of golden soul coins.
'I can't overcharge a little interest... Let's go. β
Lin Jing quickly swept through the entire vault, and first went to take out the two wooden boxes pointed by the red arrows on the shovel.
When the wooden box was opened, two soul bones were impressively inside. This is the inheritance soul bone of the Fire Leopard Sect Master, and Red Star has not had time to absorb it. Of course, Lin Jing didn't know this.
I don't really understand why the soul bones are not used, but I still laugh at it, hehe. β
Immediately afterwards, Lin Jing picked up the six token-like soul guides placed on the stone platform on the side, which were all storage soul guides, which stored dozens of rare ores in different categories.
Lin Jing raised his hand, and the gray mist soul ring appeared, and streams of gray mist poured into each storage soul guide respectively.
Go on.
Fire Reishi +1
Strange Red Lotus +1
Unknown Sword Soul Guide +1
It's probably a fist glove soul guide +1
...
After Lin Jing searched the vault, there was nothing left in the vault except for the Golden Soul Coin and the title deed of Bigred's shop.
Lin Jing swept away the pile of Golden Soul Coins and removed the wooden plank underneath, revealing a square hole.
The gray mist is around, and it slips away.
....
A few hours later.
Bang β
The door opens.
"I said if you were suspicious... Groove !! The Soul Emperor was just about to say something to his companion, but he realized that something was wrong with the secret vault in front of him.
"Damn, shit!" The other Soul Emperor's eyes were split.
"It's over... We're done, the Fire Leopard Sect is finished. "That Soul Emperor lost his eyes.
"Take the pointing disc and chase!" The other Soul Emperor turned around and turned into an afterimage and left. The pointing disk and the six token soul guides that Lin Jing took were originally a set, of course, if the distance was too far, they would naturally not be traced.
At this point, the Fire Leopard Sect no longer has a Contra Douluo, and there are no more soul bones that are more than 10,000 years old.
....
Fourteen days later, Chi Xiaodi, the son of Red Star, returned from outside the sect and was elected as the young sect master, and the sect master was represented by another soul saint.