Vampire Cultivation Notes

Chapter 141 Star Grass

Its tail is like a fish's, and its eyes are like an eagle's.

The owl noticed the ripples in the water and looked around.

As it raised its head, a chain twitched in the deep sea, and the surging air currents pushed the seawater, almost lifting Li Jieqing off his feet.

"Who captured this powerful demon and brought it here?"

Li Jieqing couldn't identify the origin of the chains on Hai Xiao's body, but that didn't stop him from recognizing how the chains were used.

The owl's movements caused the deep sea to surge.

Li Jieqing mingled with the floating water, drifting downstream once more.

Four hundred feet further on, the water-dividing flag creaked and made a rather subtle sound.

But they managed to reach their destination, preventing Li Jieqing from forcibly breaking in using the Blood Heart Disintegration Technique.

"Anything that isn't produced by Wanbaoge is no good; it's a counterfeit or substandard magical artifact."

Twenty thousand seven hundred feet below the sea, beneath the lair of the sea owl.

Li Jieqing felt as if he had arrived at an underwater mountain range. Chains hung from the peaks and were submerged in the silt below. On one of the peaks, the great sea owl demon was bound by chains.

This place doesn't look like a natural area at all.

Li Jieqing followed a chain down the road, but there was no one tied up at the top of the chain.

In the darkness, Li Jieqing couldn't see the chain clearly; he could only feel its heavy, metallic texture. He tugged at it, but finding it wouldn't budge, he had no choice but to regretfully abandon his plan to take it.

Let's explore this place a bit more.

The terrain became increasingly clear.

This place is not an underwater mountain range at all; it is clearly a huge altar-like place with towering stone pillars all around, as thick and massive as mountains, and the top of which could be crouched by a great sea owl demon.

At the center of the altar is a spiritual vein, hidden in a grotto that is inconspicuous compared to the surrounding pillars.

Or rather, this grotto itself is a spiritual vein, trapped here.

All of this matches what Fairy Shecai said. She did not lie when she made the vow of her Dao heart, but she concealed a lot of things.

Remaining vigilant, Li Jieqing approached the grotto.

Once inside.

The darkness before his eyes was completely dispelled, and streaks of azure light emanated from the cave itself, illuminating the path ahead.

Even the currents of the deep sea are blocked.

"Star Grass!"

Li Jieqing didn't see any mastermind waiting in this gloomy place; there were only a ground full of azure spiritual herbs growing, reflecting the surrounding blue light.

This thing isn't the main ingredient of the Foundation Establishment Pill, the Star Grass, or something like that.

And indeed there is such a place here, at a glance there are hundreds of plants, all growing from the cracks in the grotto floor, of varying sizes and ages.

Li Jieqing searched everywhere and then smiled.

Even the oldest Heavenly Star Grass only has medicinal properties of over 600 years and cannot be used to refine Foundation Establishment Pills.

The Fairy of Luxurious Colors made a vow with a pure heart, and it turned out she really did have good intentions.

"The age doesn't matter... I'm just worried she might have left me with a problem."

Li Jieqing had never fully trusted Fairy Shecai, but he wasn't disappointed. He simply stepped forward, dug open a crevice in the grotto, and carefully collected a few Heavenly Star Grasses, preparing to transplant them later.

At the same time, he remained vigilant about the interior of the cave, and a powerful technique called Blood Heart Disintegration was brewing within him.

In this grotto, there was only one stone platform that did not emit light. It was all stone, but it was different from the star veins that the Fairy of Luxurious Colors had mentioned. It was dimly lit and hidden in the center of the star grass on the ground.

When Li Jieqing noticed, he finally realized what the third trap Fairy Shecai had left for him was.

There are two recessed areas on the stone platform.

Look at the size of the decorations; one of them corresponds exactly to the domino that was obtained from Luqiu.

Ever since Li Jieqing stepped into the grotto, a faint spiritual light has been emanating from the recessed area, summoning something back.

At this moment, Li Jieqing used his magic to probe into the space of the jade bracelet, and saw that the dominoes he had deliberately hidden inside were shaking even without being driven, as if they would fly up at any moment.

Nearby, Huang Chong'er noticed the situation, and curiously stretched out its tail, pressed down the dominoes, and pushed them inwards until they were next to the Ruyi Green Lotus.

The shaking of the dominoes finally subsided.

"So it's actually a key that can activate automatically...?"

Li Jieqing seemed to be deep in thought upon seeing this scene.

One can imagine that if he had carried the dominoes with him or kept them in his storage bag, he would probably have been drawn to the stone platform.

Unfortunately, Fairy Shecai made her vow of Dao Heart so easily, all to lure me to this place.

Unexpectedly, the storage artifact she had lost was also in her possession.

Li Jieqing originally wanted to leave and stay far away from the stone platform outside, but seeing that the dominoes in the jade bracelet space had completely settled down next to the Ruyi Green Lotus, after a slight hesitation, he simply summoned the Qingshui Sword and slashed at the stone platform.

What is candy to him is poison to me.

Regardless of what secrets this deep sea holds, since Fairy Shecai desires it, Li Jieqing instinctively wants to try and destroy it.

Anyway, he's been searching for so long, but he hasn't figured it out at all.

—Clang!

After the sword strike, the stone platform, which looked dilapidated from years of neglect, was completely unharmed. The Qing Shui Sword swayed back and was caught by Li Jieqing.

"So hard." Li Jieqing's eyes widened.

There was nothing that could be done about it.

Li Jieqing sheathed his sword and then stared at the grotto carefully for a while.

The ground cracked, and star grass grew from it.

In other words, this place has been abandoned for at least six hundred years and has never been visited by anyone.

The walls of the grotto are mottled, and it is unclear what texts or pictures were originally recorded there. Judging from the few remaining traces, the style of the paintings is quite rough.

But now they have all disappeared.

"There's a demonic aura..."

The demonic aura of the sea owl demon, which they had just experienced, was emanating from the entrance of the cave, startling Li Jieqing, who was trying to decipher the paintings on the wall, awake.

The sea owl outside had been in the deep sea for a long time and vaguely sensed that something was wrong below. It silently followed the current.

The sound of chains being dragged echoed outside the grotto.

Li Jieqing had no intention of staying any longer. Upon sensing the approaching demonic aura, he quickly concealed himself and prepared to leave the cave and escape.

Then, just as he was about to step out of the cave, Li Jieqing stopped.

He noticed something.

If that sea owl could come down and get close to this cave, how could these Star Grasses in the cave have survived for hundreds of years?

Destroying the stone platform was out of the question, but Li Jieqing was confident he could manage to open up the grotto, let alone the mighty demon himself.

Almost the instant Li Jieqing hesitated,

The earth dragon has turned over!

The ground beneath his feet shook violently, almost causing Li Jieqing to lose his balance. He quickly stomped his foot to steady himself, forming a hand seal in front of him. No matter what happened, he had to use the Blood Heart Disintegration Technique to save his life first.

Outside the grotto, the ground rumbled and sank.

What Li Jieqing had initially thought was an altar had indeed revealed its fangs.

A powerful suction force emanated from the sinking ground.

This suction doesn't draw in seawater or soil; it specifically draws in the vital energy of life.

The owl, which had been quietly approaching, was sucked in by the underground suction force. Its mournful cries and the rattling of chains mingled together, and its blood, demonic energy, and life force all flowed away uncontrollably downwards.

The chains that originally bound it became the reins that saved its life, preventing it from being completely swallowed up by the underground.