Chapter 280
Chapter 280
After Xiao Jinting and the others walked in the desert for two months, they finally got out of it.
As soon as they came out, the endless desert disappeared without a trace.
Xiao Jinting saw a venerable city, where some buildings were majestic and intimidating while the others were dilapidated.
“Where should we start?” Xiao Jinting muttered.
Chen Xu said nervously, “I don’t know either.” He felt dismayed as his grandfather didn’t give him much information about the inner city.
Xiao Xiaodong held Chen Xu’s hand and said, “Don’t worry. Take it easy.”
Chen Xu looked at him and smiled faintly, feeling calmer.
After they got inside the inner city, Xiao Jinting got frustrated. There were many buildings in the inner city, and most of them had been searched. They had to break the restriction spell to enter some places, which had been raided by others.
Since there were many people in the inner city, Xiao Jinting used his strong soul force to steal some information.
“There are twelve passages leading into the inner city. Although there are alterations, the principle remains the same. The passage of fire is the hardest.”
Xiao Jinting rubbed his nose. He chose the passage of fire because he thought that very few people would choose it so that they could avoid informers sent by someone. After he eavesdropped the conversation between cultivators of other sects, he knew that few people chose passage of fire because it was the most dangerous among the twelve passages.
It dawned Xiao Jinting why some cultivators looked at them with pity and mockery when he chose the passage of fire.
“Normally, your grandfather should have found out about this.” Xiao Jinting said wonderingly.
Chen Xu pondered for a moment and said, “Perhaps… Grandfather doesn’t want me to enter the inner city, nor does he believe that I can make it. He might think that I will flinch away in the initial rounds.”
Chen Xu knew very well that Xiao Jinting had secrets. He could arrive in the inner city because he followed Xiao Jinting and the others along the way. If he had followed the people that his grandfather arranged for him, he would have died long ago. He didn’t think his grandfather was inconsiderate about him, but the secret realm was so dangerous that his grandfather didn’t think he could enter the inner city.
Xiao Jinting agreed that was true.
“Did your grandfather disapprove of you coming here?” asked Xiao Xiaodong.
Chen Xu nodded and said, “Yes. I insisted, and he agreed.”
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After they entered the inner city, they spent two months searching around, but they gained little.
There were many deserted houses in the inner city, and they chose one of them, cleaning up and resting inside.
“The inner city is too big,” Xiao Jinting said with distress. There were many houses in the inner city, so it was troublesome to searching each of them. After they struggled to break in some of the houses, they couldn’t find anything valuable there.
Xiao Xiaodong thought about it and said, “Father, I have an idea.”
Xiao Jinting looked at Xiao Xiaodong and asked, “What is it?”
“Let the Golden Bees out,” Xiao Xiaodong said.
Xiao Jinting thought that the Golden Bees were good at finding herbs. Besides, they would become his eyes after he let them out. It was a good idea.
Luck played an important role after they entered the inner city. Xiao Jinting heard that three cultivators from the same sect found a Dragon Transformation Pill in one of the Pill Pavilions. The pill was refined with the blood of a dragon. Anyone who took the pill would have the blood of the dragon, and the chance of advancing to Nascent Soul would be better.
As a result, the pill triggered a bloody fight between the three friends. One died, one got injured, and one won the pill. The injured one held grudges and spread the news out. In the end, all three of them died and the pill disappeared.
It was said that the two genius cultivators of Heavenly God Sect and a few devil geniuses broke into the ninth-floor tower of the inner city and fought hard. No one knew why they fought, but one could imagine they must fight for something valuable.
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After Xiao Jinting released his golden bees for a dozen days, he lost more than ten of them, which distressed him.
However, he was delighted to have some good news that there was some Spirit Cleansing Grass in a small yard. However, the grass was only sprouting because it was only ten years old.
According to Chen Xu, it took fifty years for the Spirit Cleansing Grass to be ripe, and grass under the age was useless. Besides, the Spirit Cleansing Grass would wither within two days after it was picked, so transplanting was not possible.
However, Xiao Jinting intended to gamble on it since he had the jade space with him.
Spirit Cleansing Grass was very rare. Now that they had found several seedlings, Xiao Jinting didn’t want to give up the opportunity.
The herbal garden where the Spirit Cleansing Grass was located was inconspicuous. Xiao Jinting walked around the garden and moved the seedlings into the jade space.
After the seedlings were transplanted in the jade space, they survived.
In addition, the recipe of Spirit Cleansing Pill showed up in the jade space.
Only then did Xiao Jinting know that raw Spirit Cleansing Grass could wash off a spiritual root, and Spirit Cleansing Pills could turn a multi-root person into a One Root.
Xiao Jinting felt ecstatic. He had thought it would be nice to become Two Root in the beginning, and now he was more than happy to be One Root.
Xiao Jinting didn’t tell Chen Xu that he had got the Spirit Cleansing Grass, as he was not sure if the transplanted grass would have the same effect. He didn’t want to disappoint Chen Xu.
It was said that the inner city was filled with treasures. After he arrived, Xiao Jinting found that the rumors were not true. There might be valuable treasures in the inner city, but there were not many left after generations of cultivators looted the city. There might be some treasures, but Xiao Jinting didn’t have the luck.
To his surprise, the Spirit Cleansing Grass in the jade space was growing well. Xiao Jinting thought he could make pills after it grew more.
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