She became a god

Chapter 165 Enlightened Beast

Over the course of seven days, the cultivators traveled eastward, gradually emerging from the forest, crossing the plains, and entering a valley.

This valley was formed by the alluvial deposits of a large river.

At the deepest part of the valley is a towering cliff waterfall that seems to reach at least 90,000 feet high.

However, for some powerful cultivators, it is not too difficult.

An impatient Nascent Soul cultivator was flying on his sword, but after only a thousand feet of ascent, hundreds of unidentified liquids shot towards him. The cultivator let out a muffled cry and had no choice but to turn back.

"Fellow Daoist Song Tao, how are you?"

The fellow cultivators all paid attention to Song Tao's situation, not because they were genuinely worried about him, but because they were curious about the power of the unknown liquid.

After Song Tao circulated his energy and took a fifth-grade pill, he replied after his spiritual power stabilized, "There should be a cave behind that waterfall. There should be some traps or formations set up in the cave or some venomous beasts left to guard it. Once they detect any living beings coming upwards, they will spray out poison. Once a cultivator gets into contact with the poison, their blood and qi will be insufficient, their spiritual power will be greatly reduced, and their movements will be slow."

"If there's such a poisonous array at a thousand feet, wouldn't it be even more dangerous going higher?"

Seeing this, some of the cultivators whose strength was inferior to Song Tao's began to consider retreating, while those whose cultivation was superior to his dared not act rashly, for fear of being killed or injured by even more dangerous traps.

For a moment, no one dared to look up again.

Two days later, gazing at the 90,000-foot waterfall, Yan Shan was somewhat tempted, but seeing Muran's serious expression, he gave up.

"Fellow Daoist Yan, have you seen Murong Yan?"

Yan Shan looked around and frowned, saying, "Why hasn't he arrived yet? Almost all the fellow Daoists have arrived; even if he dawdles, he should be here by now."

"What if he didn't intend to come here?"

Yanshan also realized something, "He deliberately led us to the east."

"His advice to come to the east was both well-intentioned and ill-intentioned. It is true that one can get out of the forest in the east, but it is very difficult to find spiritual treasures there."

"Does Fellow Daoist Mu mean that Lingbao is in that strange forest?"

Muran gave a wry smile, "Perhaps it's because the spirit treasure is about to be born. I just divined that the spirit treasure is in the northernmost part of the forest."

"This Murong Yan dared to make a fool of us, he's truly despicable!" Yan Shan first raged, then exclaimed in surprise, "Is Murong Yan's divination really that powerful? He actually knew everything before all of us and set up a trap."

Muran shook his head, "No, no. I just inquired with the other fellow Daoists, and they all saw that Murong Yan had a string of deer antlers hanging from his waist. If I'm not mistaken, that should be the Deer-Shu Calculating Scroll, a top-grade divination artifact of the Xuanji Venerable Senior Ling Tianchu."

On Mount Niuyang, there is a beast that looks like a horse with a white head, has markings like a tiger with a red tail, and its cry is like a ballad. Its name is Lushu.

The Lu Shu clan of Niuyang Mountain is a major clan in Liangzhou of the demon realm, but the clan is gentle and does not like killing. Most of its members live in seclusion and cultivate in seclusion.

The hair of the deer-Shu tribe is beneficial for female fertility, and their antlers are also suitable for divination.

Therefore, this ethnic group's foreign trade mainly consists of exporting hair and deer antlers during seasonal changes.

The Deer-Shu Calculating Rods of Venerable Ling Tianchu of Xuanji are made primarily from the antlers of nine fully-formed demons. They were meticulously carved and nurtured by Venerable Ling over a thousand years. This treasure has limitless uses in divination and greatly enhances the abilities of diviners.

Thinking of this, a hint of envy flashed in Mu Ran's eyes. "Venerable Ling is truly generous. If I had such a spiritual treasure, I could have calculated all the causes and effects before even entering the secret realm. What a pity..."

"Are we really going to let Murong Yan, a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator at the Great Perfection stage, obtain a Earth-grade spiritual treasure?"

"How easy is it to obtain a level-earth spiritual treasure? Although he lured us away, how could his cultivation level possibly defeat the guardian spirit beast?"

Every magical treasure is guarded by a fierce beast whose intelligence is just beginning to awaken.

For those ferocious beasts, if they can guard the spiritual treasures and objects around them, their strength will greatly increase, and they may even become demons.

The biggest difference between demons and beasts is whether they can possess an innate Dao body.

The innate Dao body is the most suitable physical form for living beings to cultivate.

"Let's go to the forest now and seize the spiritual treasure!"

Mu Ran shook his head, "I think it's best to inform the other fellow Daoists first."

Yanshan was very dissatisfied, "With so many people, how can we profit?"

Mu Ran cursed him as an idiot in his heart, but said aloud, "That spiritual treasure is said to be at least a mid-grade Earth-level treasure, and its guardian spirit beast is at least at the Nascent Soul stage, or even possibly the Void Refinement stage. With just a few of us, even if we manage to get the treasure, most of us will perish."

Besides, aren't all the fellow cultivators here shrewd enough to notice if we leave? It's better to invite them along; it'll save face for them.”

Yanshan wasn't entirely ignorant of human relationships; it was just that with the spiritual treasure before him, he was blinded by greed and lost his usual composure. Once he understood the implications, he immediately smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Mu is absolutely right!"

Here, Muran earnestly invited all fellow Daoists to go together to the location of the Spirit Treasure.

Murong Yan glanced at the enormous creature at the cave entrance from afar and couldn't help but gasp.

The beast had a body similar to a tiger but nine heads, all with human faces.

"The Creation Beast, endowed with the essence of metal; with a tiger's body, a human face, and nine heads, it embodies this fierce form; gazing upon Kunlun Mountain, it intimidates all spirits."

According to ancient historical records, the Enlightened Beast was generally a gatekeeper of the celestial realm.

Murong Yan was puzzled, "How could a divine beast like the Kaiming Beast appear in a small place like the Langya Secret Realm?"

But soon... he realized that the Enlightened Beast in front of him only had the cultivation of the Nascent Soul stage, which did not meet the strength that a gatekeeper of the Immortal Realm should have.

If it were truly an enlightened beast from the celestial realm, how could it not detect its presence hidden thousands of miles away?

Murong Yan took out the Deer-Shu Calculating Scroll, calculated for a day, and chose an auspicious day to act. He tightened his invisibility cloak, concealed his aura, and slowly advanced in the blind spot of the Enlightened Beast.

The Enlightened Beast seemed to sense something and took a step toward where Murong Yan was.

This step filled Murong Yan with fear. Just as the Enlightened Beast was about to approach, a monk suddenly arrived.

The Enlightened Beast turned and rammed into the depths of the cave, sending the monk crashing into the cave.

After bumping into a monk, the Enlightened Beast seemed quite pleased and stopped heading towards Murong Yan, instead lying down to rest.

Murong Yan was overjoyed and cautiously continued to walk forward slowly.

Just as he was about to bypass the Enlightened Beast, several powerful beings appeared at the cave entrance and attacked the Enlightened Beast, which was resting with its eyes closed.

The Enlightened Beast, which was in a deep sleep, suddenly flew into a rage, opened its eyes, and shot out several bolts of lightning.

The Enlightened Beast fought against several Void Refinement and Nascent Soul experts, but gradually found itself outmatched.

However, Murong Yan felt no joy. Firstly, he was about to pass this test, and those people would only try to take the spiritual treasure from him. Secondly, his spiritual power was weak, and if it weren't for the invisibility cloak bestowed upon him by his master, he would have been killed by the aftershocks of the fight long ago.

Now, limited by the aftershocks of spiritual energy, he is powerless to move forward. How can he be happy?

After finally finding an auspicious day through divination, am I really going to end up doing all the work for someone else?