The Chaotic Immortal Wood Sect: Immortal Cultivation War - Chapter 9

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9. Discovering the Underground World While Raiding the Human-Faced Blue Crane’s Nest

“It was incubating the eggs with the spiritual energy from the feathers.”

“Then shouldn’t we take some feathers too? If we want to hatch them?”

“We should.”

“Let’s gather them up! Since there are five eggs, let’s leave two behind.”

“Two? Not three?”

“We’ll each hatch one, and sell one.”

“Ah, I see.”

“I’ll take two eggs, so you just take one. And let’s only take about two-thirds of the feathers.”

“Hmm, can’t we just take everything?”

“How do you plan to handle the fury of a mother who’s lost her young? We need to leave at least two behind, and there should be feathers remaining so we can somehow manage the situation.”

“Is that so? Well, I won’t lose anything by doing what Hyeon says. But over there.”

“I saw it.”

Kang Hyeon nodded toward the Crescent Moon Blade that In Deok was pointing at.

A magical instrument containing spiritual energy.

There lay a treasure too valuable for monks at the Early Qi Refinement stage.

Moreover, there were also several talismans and lowest-grade magical instruments scattered around the area.

“It seems to have collected things containing spiritual energy and made them part of its nest.”

“It was putting a lot of effort into hatching its young.”

“Indeed. Huh? What’s that?”

Meanwhile, Kang Hyeon discovered another unexpected item.

“What is it? Huh? A monster core?”

“It’s lowest grade, but it’s definitely a monster core.”

“Wow, we’ve struck it rich! Did it place this here because of the nest’s performance too?”

“Probably not? I think the Human-Faced Blue Crane brought this here for nourishment.”

“Really?”

“Well, I’m not certain. Let’s take it for now.”

“Yeah!”

Kang Hyeon and In Deok quickly gathered three eggs, the Crescent Moon Blade and other magical instruments, talismans, and the monster core from the Human-Faced Blue Crane’s nest.

After finishing their work, the two immediately leaped down from the stone pillar.

Two people free-falling from hundreds of zhang high in the air.

However, for monks who had already reached the Spiritual Energy Technique stage, falling from great heights was no concern at all.

They had sufficient skill to fly through the sky, even if briefly.

Kiruururururuk Kiruurururururu!

But had they underestimated the Human-Faced Blue Crane’s senses too much?

The sky-piercing cry of the Human-Faced Blue Crane echoed with sharp spiritual energy waves.

“Are we discovered?”

In Deok glanced up at the cloud-covered sky above and muttered.

“No. The roar didn’t extend in any specific direction. If it had noticed us, it would have roared toward us. Ah, let’s hide over there.”

Kang Hyeon answered to calm In Deok, then noticed a crack in one part of the cliff and led In Deok in that direction.

Thus, the two were able to descend into the cliff crevice.

“Here…”

“Don’t feel relieved. Monster beasts can live in places like this too.”

“R-right?!”

In Deok, who had been showing a relieved expression, tensed up again.

Kwarururung! Kwagwagwagwang!

“Huh? The nest’s pillar?”

At that moment, something strange happened to the pillar where the Human-Faced Blue Crane’s nest was located, in front of the cliff they had entered.

Giant trees and branches that formed the nest began falling along with broken stones from above.

“The nest was destroyed? By the Human-Faced Blue Crane?”

Kang Hyeon muttered with an expression of disbelief.

Hoping such a thing wouldn’t happen, he had left two eggs behind and generously left crane feathers as well.

But the nest was destroyed.

“Look, that thing. Isn’t that the trainee who was fighting the crane earlier?”

Among the falling debris, the corpse of a trainee with a shattered upper body fell down.

“The kids attacked the nest?”

“After discovering the missing eggs, the crane retreated, but the kids followed and attacked?”

“It seems so.”

“Huh? There’s another corpse over there.”

“Tsk, being greedy for no reason…”

Kang Hyeon confirmed that two children’s corpses had fallen and shook his head.

The Human-Faced Blue Crane would have noticed something was wrong with its nest and stopped fighting the children to retreat.

But those trainees who chased the crane all the way to its nest and fought there.

Naturally, on top of losing its eggs, its fury toward the children who had chased it to its nest would have exploded.

“They brought it upon themselves.”

Kang Hyeon said this while casting his gaze toward the cloud-covered sky.

What was the Human-Faced Blue Crane doing up there?

Had some of the remaining children succeeded in stealing the crane’s eggs?

Who destroyed the nest, and why?

Since the crane’s cry couldn’t be heard, had the Human-Faced Blue Crane gone after the children who escaped?

“Hyeon, there’s a cave continuing inward. Should we go in?”

“You really are thoughtless. Do you feel like doing that right now?”

“Aren’t we safe anyway? The kids took the crane’s anger instead of us.”

“That’s true.”

“But what are you worried about? We just need to explore like we always do.”

“Before that, let’s first examine the items we brought. Especially this one.”

Kang Hyeon took out the crescent moon blade he had stored in his storage pouch and held it out to In Deok.

“Huh? Why?”

“I want you to have it.”

“Aren’t you going to use it, Hyeon?”

“Look at your build. It suits you better than me.”

“Since when do we judge magical instruments by build?”

“There’s even a tag, no, an instruction manual attached here. Read it.”

“Let me see. Wind Cloud Golden Halberd?”

“It’s a spear imbued with the energy of wind, clouds, and metal. It’s perfect for you, In Deok.”

“I get the metal energy, but what about the rest?”

“You’re really dense sometimes.”

“When wind and clouds gather, lightning naturally occurs. So it’s perfect for you with your lightning and metal attributes.”

“Ah, is that how it works?”

“You don’t seem to have much talent for spell arts anyway, so you’ll need to focus on Body Refinement Art and Weapon Arts from now on. So a spear-type magical instrument isn’t bad.”

“It does look cool.”

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh! Whoosh whoosh whoosh! Swish swish!

In Deok spun the Wind Cloud Golden Halberd around and then swung it widely.

Golden lines were drawn along the trajectory of the Wind Cloud Golden Halberd.

The metal-attribute energy contained in the Wind Cloud Golden Halberd had manifested.

It was the sight of the magical instrument’s metal attribute awakening through In Deok, who possessed the unique spiritual root combining metal and lightning attributes.

“Well done. Now try infusing lightning attribute as well. Then the wind and clouds might awaken too.”

While wind and clouds call forth lightning, Kang Hyeon was telling him to do the reverse – push lightning energy in to awaken the power of wind and clouds contained in the magical instrument.

Though it went against natural principles, In Deok simply nodded happily at Kang Hyeon’s words.

“Oh, okay. I’ll try it.”

“Good. Now, let’s split these things in half.”

Kang Hyeon divided the talismans and low-grade magical instruments appropriately and held them out to In Deok.

“Isn’t this enough for me?”

“You need the right tool for the right job. Don’t get into trouble later because you lack what you need – store them well.”

“Oh, okay. I got it. Thanks.”

Since Kang Hyeon told him to do it, In Deok didn’t argue and accepted what was given.

“As for the monster cores, I’ll use these. They’d be good to feed to Trent.”

Kang Hyeon pushed the monster cores into his storage pouch.

If he fed them to Trent, his spiritual energy would increase, and Trent would also be able to absorb some of the monster power contained in the cores.

In Deok said nothing about Kang Hyeon taking the monster cores.

His expression showed he was satisfied enough with obtaining the Wind Cloud Golden Halberd, which appeared to be intermediate grade or higher.

“Good. That’s enough for now, let’s go down.”

“Into there?”

“Let’s go see, right? I’m curious what might be there.”

“That’s true.”

“It’s inside the hundred-li barrier anyway, so what big trouble could there be? Let’s go.”

“Oh, okay.”

In Deok smiled brightly and began descending into the cave first.

“I thought it was just a crack in the wall, but I didn’t know there was a passage extending downward like this.”

“Right? Just looking at it, this doesn’t seem related to the cliff splitting.”

“Right. There are traces of something passing through.”

“Looking at those smoothly scraped marks up there, it must be something big enough to fill this entire cave, right?”

“Either nearly three zhang tall…”

“Huh? Or what else… no way?”

“Right. Or something long that’s three zhang thick…”

“That’s impossible. How could something that big exist?”

“Among the monsters of the Cultivation World, there are many much larger than that. Haven’t you seen the Divine Beast Records?”

“Those are just stories. About divine beasts being as big as continents and such.”

“They said descendants carrying the blood of those ancient divine beasts are scattered throughout the Daecheon World. Among them are really monsters and demonic beasts as big as divine beasts.”

“But…”

“Haven’t you heard that the spirit beast ridden by the sect master of Sacred Blood Sect, one of the Twelve Sects, is the size of a decent island?”

“But this is a place with only low-grade spirit beasts.”

“How can you believe that? We’ve already seen the Human-Faced Blue Crane. I think that Human-Faced Blue Crane was at least Late Qi Refinement Stage or Great Perfection level, and that Human-Faced Blue Crane couldn’t even enter here because it’s too cramped.”

“Is, is that so? Then something as thick and long as this cave might really exist?”

“Not ‘might’ – it seems like it. Look over there.”

Kang Hyeon pointed to one part of the cave.

In Deok flew over there and pulled something out.

“It’s a scale. Seems like a snake.”

In Deok held out a black scale to Kang Hyeon with a disgusted expression.

“Most things with scales are elongated. But there doesn’t seem to be much to worry about.”

“Huh? Why?”

“This is extremely old. All the energy that was contained in the scale has leaked out.”

“Oh, I couldn’t feel much energy either.”

“It originally seemed to contain strong fire energy, but if the energy has leaked out this much, it means it’s incredibly old.”

“Then that’s fortunate.”

“Let’s keep going for now. I’m curious how far it extends.”

“Oh, okay. Let’s go.”

Hearing that the scale was old and had lost its energy, In Deok cast aside his fear and began walking forward again.

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“I never knew there was such an underground space in the Mystic Realm.”

“Yeah. But Kang Hyeon.”

“What? Do you have something to say?”

“We’ve been going down the cave almost continuously in the northern direction this whole time, right?”

“That’s right. So you’re just now noticing something strange?”

“Kang Hyeon, did you already know?”

“The hundred-li barrier, it’s past time for it to appear, right?”

“Right. I was going to talk about that too. Even roughly estimating, it seems like we’ve already gone beyond a hundred li from the Tower.”

“It appears the barrier set up by the sect doesn’t reach this deep underground.”

“Then is it the same for high up in the sky?”

“Why? Because of the Human-Faced Blue Crane?”

“Yeah.”

“That could be the case.”

Kang Hyeon nodded as if agreeing.

And when they arrived at where the cave ended, they looked at the scene spread before their eyes with disbelieving gazes several times over.

There was a massive space stretching out there.

Large enough to be called another Mystic Realm.

“Let’s use Qi Concealment Talismans.”

“Do you think it’ll be dangerous?”

“Yes. There are clusters of colorful energies gathered everywhere. Much more than above ground.”

“Then…”

“No, there are quite a lot of energies that would be difficult for us to handle. So it’s not entirely a good thing.”

Kang Hyeon said this as he took out a Qi Concealment Talisman from his storage pouch, activated it, and tucked it into his chest.

Then In Deok also followed Kang Hyeon and used a Qi Concealment Talisman.

The Qi Concealment Talisman was a type of Stealth Talisman that hid one’s energy.

However, while it concealed their energy, they could only use minimal spiritual energy, and if they used stronger spiritual energy, the Qi Concealment Talisman would be destroyed and lose its effect.

“We’ll have to rely on our bodies.”

In Deok muttered as he put the activated Qi Concealment Talisman into his chest.

Since they couldn’t properly use spiritual energy, they had to rely on at most ordinary internal energy techniques to move.

“Let’s start with gathering first. There are Spiritual Herbs scattered everywhere.”

“Really?”

“Starting from over there.”

This time Kang Hyeon began moving first.

To Kang Hyeon’s eyes with enhanced eye power, the condensed energies everywhere were clearly visible in vivid colors.

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“What is the meaning of this? Where on earth did you find such precious things?”

Kang Hyeon and In Deok safely finished their gathering in the underground space and returned to the Tower.

And when they submitted what they had brought to the Tower, chaos erupted.

Because they had brought back an abundance of precious Spiritual Herbs that none of the trainees had been able to bring back until now.

At this, Hyeon Gak was pressing Kang Hyeon and In Deok, who had returned to the manor, with questions.

“Didn’t chaos break out this time because of the Human-Faced Blue Crane?”

At this, Kang Hyeon asked about the Human-Faced Blue Crane incident.

“That’s right, disciples of the Sacred Blood Sect touched the Human-Faced Blue Crane’s nest and caused trouble. All seven children died.”

“What happened to the Human-Faced Blue Crane?”

“The children ended up breaking the Human-Faced Blue Crane’s eggs, so it met its end.”

“Its end?”

“The Human-Faced Blue Crane that killed the children eventually came to the Tower and caused a rampage. So how could it remain unharmed? Its neck was cut by the Broken Sword Sect’s blade.”

“That’s unfortunate.”

“But why are you asking about the Human-Faced Blue Crane?”

“This…”

Kang Hyeon took out one Human-Faced Blue Crane egg and showed it to Hyeon Gak.

“Hmm? How do you have this?”

“In Deok and I discovered the Human-Faced Blue Crane first. We happened to be transported near the nest and were in trouble when the Sacred Blood Sect children appeared.”

“So you gained the fisherman’s profit?”

“That’s what happened.”

“Hahaha. You were lucky. Yes, luck is truly important in the Cultivation World. After all, how can anyone defeat someone born with heavenly fortune?”

At Kang Hyeon’s words, Hyeon Gak was extremely pleased and laughed heartily.

At this, Kang Hyeon began carefully telling the story of what happened then again.

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