Chapter 114, Amazing Discovery and Great Harvest!

Translator: Raznick

 

It was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.

 

The Silver Thunder Python charged into the Venomous Thornfish group with little resistance.

 

It didn’t attack a specific Venomous Thornfish, but used its head to ram and its tail to strike, disrupting the entire school of fish.

 

At the same time, streaks of silvery-white lightning erupted from its mouth, landing on the Venomous Thornfish with its stronger cultivation.

 

This method eliminated the stronger Venomous Thornfish, after which ordinary Venomous Thornfish, whether through mystical art attacks or simply biting, were powerless against its tough dragon scales.

 

In less than a quarter of an hour, dozens of Venomous Thornfish were either dead or stunned, all losing the ability to fight again, belly-up.

 

Throughout this entire process, Zhou Chun did not fire a single shot, merely acting as a spectator.

 

A stunned spectator.

 

“Amazing, Whitey!

 

“It seems I need to reevaluate your strength!

 

“You really did it!”

 

When the dust settled, looking at the Silver Thunder Python, who returned and wagged its tail and licked its tongue to claim credit, Zhou Chun regained his senses and couldn’t help but reach out to stroke its round head, his face full of surprise.

 

The impressive battle today certainly refreshed his understanding of Whitey’s abilities.

 

He had to give that impressive battle a hearty round of applause!

 

Powerful physical defense, combined with the power amplified in water through Thunder Movement, was a lethal blow against groups of water demon beasts that weren’t known for their individual strength.

 

This reminded Zhou Chun of a certain science documentary he watched in a past life.

 

Even ferocious sharks and crocodiles could be devoured by large piranha swarms, but they were easily dealt with by electric eels and became the eels’s food.

 

The scene he witnessed today was undoubtedly extremely similar to that situation.

 

Perhaps it wasn’t that Whitey was too strong, nor that the Venomous Thornfish were too weak, but that one thing conquered another!

 

With this in mind, Zhou Chun had new ideas about how to utilize Whitey in future battles.

 

Of course, he’d have to find an opportunity to test that later.

 

He looked at the Venomous Thornfish, some dead, some unconscious, and picked a few of the dead fish that had been powerful in life to place into his storage bag, then continued letting Whitey carry him forward.

 

As he journeyed deeper into the underwater cave, Zhou Chun did not see another Venomous Thornfish.

 

When he journeyed deep into the underground cave for ten miles, the area suddenly opened up, and he found himself in a hollowed-out underground cave.

 

This underground cave was half exposed above the water, with a stone beach inside where one could land. Behind the stone beach, one could see a damp trail leading inland.

 

In one corner of the cave, Zhou Chun discovered several juvenile Venomous Thornfish, as well as fish eggs clinging to the stone walls.

 

It seemed this was a Venomous Thornfish breeding ground.

 

If he hadn’t been certain that Venomous Thornfish could be cultivated, Zhou Chun would have been quite happy to see these.

 

But now he could only shake his head, showing no intention of harvesting them.

 

He then scanned his gaze along the inland passage for a moment before heading ashore, filled with curiosity.

 

Upon reaching the shore, Zhou Chun first sniffed the air.

 

The air within the cave carried a rotten odor, likely formed by the accumulation of waste from the Venomous Thornfish group in the water.

 

The air in the inland passage, though not fresh, was at least breathable.

 

This indicated the passage was not a dead end but rather connected to the surface.

 

Having confirmed this, Zhou Chun allowed Whitey to forge ahead.

 

He followed the passage, and after walking roughly half a mile, another underground space appeared.

 

Hm?

 

Zhou Chun’s expression shifted, and he suddenly looked toward a corner of the underground space.

 

In that corner, a human skeleton leaned against the stone wall, half-seated on the ground. It was covered in cobwebs.

 

Seeing this, Zhou Chun’s eyes narrowed, and he immediately reached out and patted his storage bag, taking out Sun Augite to hold in his hand, and slowly walked towards the skeletal remains.

 

Once he was nearly a hundred paces from the skeleton, Zhou Chun stopped and made a gesture to summon a gust of wind, blowing away the cobwebs on the bones and scattering the skeletal fragments onto the ground.

 

Then, illuminated by the light of the Sun Augite, a storage bag coated in ash came into Zhou Chun’s view.

 

His eyes immediately brightened, and he raised his hand to draw the storage bag to him.

 

Because so much time had passed, the Divine Sense mark of the original owner had long since dissipated, and even the storage bag itself had deteriorated and was no longer suitable for continued use.

 

Fortunately, it could still be opened.

 

Zhou Chun opened the storage bag, and upon probing with his Divine Sense, he was slightly surprised.

 

The internal storage capacity of this storage bag was unexpectedly vast, even larger than the storage bag he currently used, which he had obtained from an Envoy of the Dragonized Sect.

 

This basically indicated that the original owner’s cultivation was certainly at the Foundation Establishment Stage, or even higher.

 

Upon discovering this, Zhou Chun didn’t linger and quickly poured the contents out.

 

A heap of items fell to the ground, reaching a height of nearly six feet.

 

Many of them were jade boxes used to preserve spirit objects, and there were also some records.

 

Of course, artifacts and spirit coins were not absent either.

 

However, when Zhou Chun opened the jade box with anticipation, he quickly felt disappointed.

 

Perhaps because too much time had passed, the various herbs inside the jade box had withered and lost all their potency, becoming useless.

 

Of the nearly thirty jade boxes, only two contained usable items.

 

One of those items was a five-sided token about the size of a palm; its appearance was familiar to Zhou Chun, as he had seen it previously at an underground auction—it was a C-grade Heaven Spirit Order and one that could be used.

 

The other item resembled a silver-white metal foil like dragon scales, inscribed with intricate and profound runes.

 

The use of the Heaven Spirit Order required no further explanation; Zhou Chun already knew its purpose.

 

He had also seen records of the silver-white metal foil.

 

This item served as a special medium for cultivators to record valuable secret arts or cultivation methods, capable of preserving information for millennia without damage.

 

However, it required mastery of specific methods to read the information, and Zhou Chun had not seen any related records within the jade box.

 

Consequently, he carefully stored the two items and turned his attention to the others.

 

The other items were largely comprised of spirit coins, numbering over five thousand!

 

However, these spirit coins were not the spirit coins currently in use by the Moon Cabal of the Jing Kingdom; instead, they were imprinted with a Flood Dragon pattern.

 

Had the Dragonized Sect not resurfaced before the Jing Kingdom, Zhou Chun might not have recognized them.

 

However, as the illustrious history of the Dragonized Sect had been disseminated, this spirit coin, formerly issued by the Dragonized Sect, was gradually becoming familiar to present-day cultivators.

 

Following the destruction of the Dragonized Sect, the Moon Cabal briefly issued a large quantity of spirit coins to replace and recall these spirit coins, intending to thoroughly eradicate traces of the Dragonized Sect.

 

Now, these spirit coins were extremely difficult to find in the Jing Kingdom and were no longer circulated in the market.

 

The Dragonized Sect, meanwhile, appeared to be using a different type of spirit coin.

 

This meant the several thousand spirit coins that Zhou Chun had obtained couldn’t be used normally.

 

After all, if he used these spirit coins, he wouldn’t just have trouble with the market accepting them, but he would also inevitably be investigated by Green Lotus Monastery, drawing unwanted attention.

 

This result also caused Zhou Chun to furrow his brow, and he was quite displeased.

 

But thinking that all these things were essentially free for the taking, he quickly relaxed his expression and continued to count the remaining items.

 

Among the remaining items, there were two artifacts, both second-grade artifacts.

 

However, aside from a crimson claw artifact that looked intact, the other artifact shaped like a turtle shell was covered in cracks, with its aura almost entirely depleted, practically rendered useless.

 

He wondered what kind of fierce battle the deceased had endured in life to have damaged this artifact that should have possessed extraordinary defense capabilities in such a way!

 

Moreover, while searching the pile of items on the ground, Zhou Chun hadn’t even seen a single talisman, just a few vials.

 

The few vials that remained contained pills that had already turned into dregs.

 

Finally, Zhou Chun turned his attention to the remaining record books.

 

These record books were made of either animal hide orspecially durable, water- and fire-resistant paper, and they all appeared quite extraordinary.

 

As Zhou Chun looked through them one by one, his eyes grew brighter, and he finally felt like he’d struck gold.

 

Because these record books were all immensely valuable items.

 

Most of them documented the creation of talismans, the refinement of artifacts, alchemy, and array skill, encompassing all four professions.

 

There were also three books detailing cultivation methods, recording three cultivation methods that could only be cultivated after Foundation Establishment, all seemingly of greater quality.

 

The records also contained descriptions of two secret arts, powerful secret arts that could only be cultivated after achieving Foundation Establishment.

 

After categorizing and cleaning the records, Zhou Chun also found the cultivation notes of the deceased.

 

Through reading these cultivation notes, Zhou Chun finally learned the person’s identity and understood why he would be found here.

 

It turned out that the deceased was a missionary envoy from the Dragonized Sect eight hundred years ago, who had already reached the late Foundation Establishment stage in cultivation before his death.

 

When the main hall of the Dragonized Sect was about to be breached, the leadership dug up all the herbs from the sect’s herb garden and packaged them and also took out the original and copies of the various records in the sect’s library, entrusting them to carefully selected missionary envoys to carry.

 

They were instructed to find opportunities to escape the encirclement after the main hall fell and regroup in a safe location to continue the sect’s legacy.

 

When the main hall of the Dragonized Sect fell, cultivators above the Violet Palace Stage were all targeted and eliminated, so no one could escape.

 

Instead, of the numerous missionary envoys, being too many, few managed to slip through.

 

The deceased was one of those who escaped.

 

However, despite escaping the main hall of the Dragonized Sect, he soon encountered two cultivating clan Foundation Establishment cultivators due to the serious injuries he sustained.

 

The news of the fall of the Dragonized Sect main hall had already spread, and those two cultivating clan Foundation Establishment cultivators regarded him as prey and surrounded him.

 

Ultimately, although he managed to kill one and severely injure another, he was already mortally wounded and had no chance of escaping the pursuit.

 

Thus, he could only hide in a nearby underground cavern, seal the entrance, and eventually die within the underground hall.

 

Before his death, the deceased wrote about his experiences in his cultivation notes, hoping that a lucky cultivator who found his legacy would return those records to the Dragonized Sect, if the Dragonized Sect still existed at that time.

 

But that hope was clearly a mere wish!

 

However, considering the mission the other carried, such expectations were normal.

 

“So it turns out to be a cultivator of the Dragonized Sect eight hundred years ago. No wonder there were so many spirit coins issued by the Dragonized Sect!”

 

Zhou Chun closed the cultivation manual he had been reading, his face showing a look of sudden realization as he exclaimed.

 

In fact, he had already had some related speculation when those spirit coins were first issued, but now his speculation had been confirmed.

 

And through the records on the cultivation manual, Zhou Chun also had some related speculation about the secret art recorded on the metal foil.

 

If he hadn’t guessed wrong, the thing should record the most important legacy secret art of the Dragonized Sect, the Dragonized Sutra.

 

As for how many layers of the cultivation methods are within the Dragonized Sutra, that would only be known when it was opened.

 

Unfortunately, the method to open it wasn’t recorded in the cultivation manual by the skeleton’s owner, clearly unwilling to reveal such a foundational secret art to outsiders.

 

But Zhou Chun was not too disappointed about this.

 

After all, the Dragonized Sect was still thriving in the world. As long as the metal foil was in his possession, he would eventually be able to open it through the Dragonized Sect’s teaching envoy or guardian.

 

Therefore, he quickly revived his spirits and put everything on the ground that could be used into his storage bag, including the spirit coin.

 

These spirit coins might not be useful now, but they might be in the future; anyway, they didn’t take up much space.

 

After packing up everything, Zhou Chun looked at the skeleton on the ground and bowed respectfully before digging a pit and burying it.

 

No matter what, he had received the other’s legacy, so it was right to lay him to rest.

 

With everything thus settled and confirming that nothing was missed, Zhou Chun glanced at the channel through which the skeleton’s owner had come from the ground, shook his head, and gave up the idea of going out from the ground.

 

Since no one had come up here from above in so many years, he didn’t find the need to disturb it.