"Ah... my injuries are healed!"
"The bottleneck that has trapped me for years has actually loosened!"
"My cultivation has broken through!"
In the grand hall, many cultivators who had just drunk the Ten Thousand Year Stone Marrow Milk discovered the miraculous changes in their bodies and were all overjoyed.
This made Xiao Fei, who hadn't managed to get a single drop of Stone Marrow Milk, harbor resentment towards Zhang Luo.
While some were still recovering from their surprise, many cultivators had quietly left to seek opportunities elsewhere.
Even the large bathtub was smashed to pieces in a scramble among several cultivators.
Xiao Fei had just picked up a small stool from the corner when it was casually snatched away by a Nascent Soul expert.
However, Xiao Fei was not discouraged and continued to search for valuable items around.
At the same time, in a corner of the hall, a solitary flower pot suddenly vanished into thin air.
Then, the flower pot appeared in Xiao Fei's spatial dimension.
Xiao Fei's spatial dimension for collecting items differed slightly from storage bags and other magical artifacts.
Storage bags required contact with an item to store it.
His spatial dimension, however, only needed to envelop the item with divine sense, and with a thought, it could be stored.
No contact was needed, and items could be collected from a great distance.
This time, he was merely testing whether collecting the flower pot in front of so many Nascent Soul experts would allow them to track him through his divine sense.
Clearly, he had overestimated the strength of these Nascent Soul experts.
Zhang Luo had just discovered something within a flower pot and was about to reach for it when the flower pot suddenly disappeared before his eyes.
"Huh!"
Zhang Luo could only look around, without suspecting the meek and obedient Xiao Fei standing beside him.
Seeing this, Xiao Fei felt more confident. If he found any more rare treasures later, he would act decisively.
Following Zhang Luo, Xiao Fei continued to explore deeper. Along the way, they saw many rooms, but they were blocked by formations and could not be opened for the time being.
After they passed through this area of palaces, there was a circular plaza ahead.
Around the perimeter of the plaza were planted tall spirit trees, laden with ripe, red fruits that looked very appealing.
The plaza was about a hundred zhang in diameter, and the ground was paved with crystal-clear jade stones, inscribed with dense runes.
These runes were interconnected, leading directly to the base of an altar in the very center of the plaza.
Three items were placed on the altar.
A short sword, a crystal orb, and a jade slip.
The numerous cultivators who arrived here, even ancient monsters who had lived for a thousand years, had hearts of stone, yet at this moment, their blood surged, and their emotions were unstable.
"Could this short sword be the legendary Spirit Treasure?"
A cultivator's eyes gleamed as he exclaimed in awe.
As is well known, cultivators above the Golden Core stage could use magical treasures in combat. However, there was another type of extremely powerful treasure called a Spirit Treasure, whose might far surpassed that of magical treasures.
The entire Eastern Continent had only two Spirit Treasures, both in the hands of powerful cultivators at the Soul Transformation stage.
To think that one would appear here. A single Spirit Treasure could change the entire landscape of the cultivation world.
At this moment, a flicker of greed flashed in everyone's eyes as they gazed at the short sword.
"Hmph! What's a Spirit Treasure? If you knew what was inside that crystal ball, it would probably scare you to death."
Zhang Luo scoffed inwardly but did not speak out.
Looking around, he realized he wasn't the only one who recognized the item in the crystal ball. Several others were staring at it, their eyes already alight with fire.
Inside the crystal ball was a wisp of immortal spiritual energy, not something from the cultivation world but found only in the immortal realm. Its quality was far beyond that of spiritual energy.
As for the contents of the jade slip, they could not be known for now, but it was definitely not simple.
Several cultivators could no longer restrain themselves and quietly moved towards the plaza.
Xiao Fei remained obediently behind Zhang Luo. Seeing that Zhang Luo did not move, he dared not move either.
They were still quite a distance from the altar in the center of the plaza, and he couldn't collect those treasures into his spatial dimension yet. He could only wait for the opportune moment.
Just then, several cultivators approached the circle of spirit trees at the perimeter of the plaza. Immediately, many formation runes beneath the trees were activated.
A light flashed, and a spirit fruit on a tree suddenly exploded, scattering red juice.
"Ahhh..."
A series of screams erupted. Several Golden Core cultivators who had been walking in front were hit.
As for the Nascent Soul experts, they reacted quickly and had already fled the moment the formation runes lit up.
These spirit fruits, despite their alluring red appearance, were inedible and even contained potent poison.
The red juice that splattered onto people immediately corroded a large patch of flesh.
Before these affected Golden Core cultivators could retreat, several more red spirit fruits on the trees exploded, showering them with more juice.
Then, everyone witnessed a horrifying scene.
These Golden Core cultivators were corroded into liquid before everyone's eyes, leaving nothing behind.
Even the liquid that was once their bodies seeped into the ground, becoming fertilizer for the spirit trees.
This turn of events made many cultivators hesitate, secretly sighing in relief that they hadn't rashly stepped forward.
However, seeing the treasures in the plaza, no one was willing to give up, and they began to attack from afar with their magical treasures.
But before the magical treasures could even approach the spirit trees, they were blocked by a formation outside the trees, rendering them completely ineffective.
At this point, the formation masters, who had been ignored by everyone, were remembered again.
The sea demon race was not skilled in formations, and this was the only high-level formation master who had entered the small world.
The formation master walked half a circle around the plaza, observed it several times, and stroked his beard, having already discerned its secrets.
"This formation is indeed extraordinary, the likes of which I have never seen in my life."
The formation master secretly decided that this time, he had to show off his knowledge to the fullest.
"This formation subtly conforms to the great dao of heaven and earth, a seamless whole, like a ring without end, like perfect seamlessness, truly unfathomable..."
"Can you get to the point? Can you speak human words?"
At this moment, a cultivator, unable to bear it any longer, jumped out and shouted angrily.
Seeing the three treasures in the center of the plaza, everyone was already impatient, and their tempers naturally became more irritable. How could they tolerate so much nonsense?
"The formations here are all interconnected, with no gaps to exploit. Attacking any single point requires facing the power of the entire formation."
"Does that mean this formation cannot be broken?"
"It cannot be broken. One can only obediently walk through from beneath the spirit trees."
The formation master shook his head and stopped speaking. His luck was bad today, encountering a group of unreasonable barbarians. He no longer wished to speak.
Seeing this, the Nascent Soul experts ignored the formation master and began to discuss among themselves through telepathic messages.
"You! You... you few, go in and brave the formation."
A Nascent Soul expert pointed at several Golden Core cultivators and shouted. This was an attempt to use lives to test the waters.
These Golden Core cultivators included both humans and demons, all of whom had rushed in before the entrance was sealed. They could be used as expendables, and no one felt any heartache in doing so.