Chapter 60: The Vault Opens
Yanyun Kingdom can only be regarded as a small country in the land of Tianhua, but it is larger than most small countries and has a stronger strength, which can be regarded as the closest to the existence of a medium-sized country among many small countries. Yanyun State occupies all of Xuanhe Prefecture and most of Hanshan Prefecture, the country has been established for thousands of years, the monarchs of the past dynasties believe in Confucianism and Taoism, although there is no desire to dominate, never take the initiative to provoke wars, but also make great efforts to govern, to keep the land not lost. Because of its unremitting self-improvement and peaceful tradition, it has gradually gained a very good reputation among the surrounding countries, and these countries are also willing to make friends with Yanyun Kingdom, and there is an endless stream of merchants and merchants with each other, making this country more and more prosperous.
And late one night three years after the Blue Water Sect held the Blue Meeting, in the west of Yanyun Kingdom, which is also the west of Xuanhe Prefecture, a nameless barren mountain that is rarely visited suddenly shook violently, and for a while, the gravel on the mountain rolled down one after another, and with the passage of time, the movement became bigger and bigger, and there was a tendency of landslides and ground cracks, and the momentum was amazing.
But the strange thing is that except for the radius of ten miles where this mountain is located, the rest of the surrounding area has not been affected, and there is not a trace of shaking. And with the intensification of the change of this mountain, after more than an hour, this mountain with a height of more than 100 zhang and a width of about 70 or 80 zhang was actually split in two and cracked from the middle, revealing a dark deep hole.
Three days later, a person from a small sect called Huixinmen, who was more than 800 miles away, accidentally passed by here and found that this mountain was abnormal. This person was shocked, and immediately returned to the sect and reported the matter to the great elder of the sect, and the great elder in the late stage of foundation building suddenly felt that this matter was not trivial, and after ordering the news to be blocked, he secretly united with the monks of the same rank from several other small sects in the vicinity to quietly probe, but he still could not enter it. Aside from discovering that the cave may be the entrance to a small space, nothing else has been found.
But these people are unwilling to give up, they also know some treasure rumors that are widely circulated in the cultivation world, it is said that the entrance to the space that appears out of thin air like this is generally a cave inside, either the Futian Secret Cave left over from ancient times, or the treasure land of the Cave Mansion opened up by some powerful monks before the feathering. If you are lucky enough to enter it and find the magic weapons and elixirs that are cherished and difficult to find in the outside world, it is very possible to obtain the inheritance of the exercises against the sky. So these people had no choice but to take a piece of the pie even if they couldn't monopolize it, and after a little discussion, they reported the matter to the big sect located in the western land, Xuandong Mountain, one of the eight major factions in Xuanhe Prefecture.
After Xuandong Mountain learned of this, it immediately sent two elders of the Yuanying Realm to investigate, and finally came to the conclusion that the entrance to the space that appeared out of thin air was connected to the Xuantian Secret Treasure that had strangely disappeared after the last brief appearance, but it was still as expected before, only partially opened, and before the time was fully opened, it could only hunt for treasures in a small part of the periphery for the time being.
The Xuantian Secret Collection is said to be the cave space opened up by the great monk Xuantian more than 30,000 years ago, because of its age, there are only a few sporadic records in ancient books. The last time this vault appeared, although the eight major factions were not prepared without warning, after its disappearance, they still relied on some clues, and under the calculation of monks who were proficient in space formations, they came to the conclusion that this vault would reappear in eleven years, but the specific location of its appearance was impossible to calculate.
Because after the master feathers and loses the source of mana to maintain a certain position in the interface void, such a powerful monk will drift in the interface void like rootless duckweed, and only when its spatial power is about to be exhausted will it gradually move closer to the origin land and reintegrate with the heaven and earth where it was born. And its return to the Origin Land may not be successful at one time, this Xuantian Secret Treasure According to the calculations of the Eight Major Sects, it will take at least three contacts to the Origin Land before it can completely return.
For the Xuantian Secret Collection, because he had an appointment with the other seven factions in Xuanhe Prefecture in advance, and in the face of the pressure of the seven factions, it was impossible for Xuandong Mountain to enter the treasure hunt in advance in private, so he also notified the other seven factions of this matter.
After the seven factions learned the news, they also immediately sent a small number of capable disciples to rush over first, stationed around this nameless barren mountain to observe the situation, and then prepared their manpower to enter. Although they can only enter a small area on the periphery now, they also have some understanding of this cave vault the last time they opened it.
This cave space is divided into inner and outer mansions, and the last time the eight major factions were opened in a hurry, they did not succeed in entering the inner mansion, even the outer mansion only had time to detect less than one-fifth of the area, but they also knew the general layout of the outer mansion.
There are four major areas in the outer mansion, one of which is the medicine garden where the Xuantian Venerable cultivates elixir and strange fruits, the second is the place where the Xuantian Venerable cultivates spirit beasts, the third is the place where the disciples and servants of the Xuantian Venerable live, with the largest area, and the fourth is the central spiritual eye that the Eight Great Sects explored last time to maintain the spatial aura circulation here. And now that the secret part of the cave was open, all they could search was a small part of the area where the spirit beasts were raised.
Since it is a monk's cave, there are naturally many forbidden formations in it, there are protective formations to protect the cave mansion from being destroyed, there are phantom formations to confuse and trap the enemy, and there are also attack formations used to kill the enemy, and the era of Xuantian Venerable cultivation has been more than 30,000 years ago, and maybe there are still some ancient strange formations that have long been lost in the outside world.
Not to mention anything else, the whole of this cave mansion secret is shrouded in a strange formation that no one knows about the eight major factions, although this formation has a single function, and it is not a killing formation, but it makes the eight major factions helpless. It can actually restrict the cultivation of those who enter the cave to explore the secret, and as soon as it exceeds its limit, it will cause the space of this cave to oscillate, and it will immediately trigger the prohibition and seal the entrance of the cave again, so that it can get out of contact with the origin land and continue to float in the void of the interface.
Moreover, the scope of the restricted cultivation is also very strange, the outer mansion can only enter with the monks of the early Yuan Infancy, and higher than this realm will naturally cause the entrance to close, while the monks of the foundation building period below this realm will be blocked by this prohibition at the moment they touch this prohibition, and they will not be allowed to enter at all.
And the inner mansion is even more strange, even the monks of the early Yuan Infant period will be blocked out, but I don't know if the monks of the Yudan stage can enter without restrictions. The last time there was a Shenhuo Gate there was an elder in the early stage of the Yuan Infant who tried to break into the inner mansion, but unexpectedly triggered an attack ban connected to this prohibition, and was almost killed on the spot by the Xuantian Thunder Fire released by it, if it weren't for this person who saw the opportunity quickly and gave up the natal magic weapon to escape, he would definitely fall here, Rao is so, he was also contaminated with a little bit of Xuantian Thunder Fire in a hurry and was seriously injured, plus the natal magic weapon was destroyed and suffered a major injury to his vitality, and he has not fully recovered.
There are lessons from the previous car, and the vault is only partially opened, after a little discussion by the eight major factions, the first wave of search teams sent after this preparation did not have Yuanying monks, and each faction only sent three disciples of the Yudan period to go, after all, what can be explored now is only a small part of the area where the spirit beasts are raised, and after such a long time, most of the spirit beasts must have already run out of life, and it doesn't have much effect to go to too many people.
Originally, those small sects that discovered that this place was abnormal, the eight major sects just jointly allocated some spiritual stones and spiritual materials and other cultivation resources and sent them away, these small sects are not easy to say, to blame them for not cultivating enough, they can't enter without the realm of Jiedan, and it is a windfall to have cultivation resources in hand, so they don't dare to be too greedy, so they quit this place, and restrain the disciples of the sect not to disturb the eight major sects to explore this place.
After that, while sending people to block the news to prevent the cultivation forces in the nearby states from learning about this, the eight major factions sent different numbers of disciples to explore in batches according to the progress of the opening of the vault, and they were all accumulating their own strength, concentrating on the elite disciples of the Dan period to give special care and training, hoping that these people could contribute to the exploration of the inner mansion after the vault was fully opened.