Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 116 - 56: Earth Immortal Clone, Incomplete Innate Water Spirit

A man and a dragon wandered underground for a full five days, gradually discovering over a dozen underground spiritual vaults.

A third of them were claimed, inside sealed with the Eight Desolates Prison Lock, nurturing a large number of Earth Vein Spirit Fish.

The remaining vaults were too small to nurture many fish, with as few as a dozen fish, and at most just over a hundred, presumably overlooked by Celestial Cangtian.

What big shots disregard is a great treasure to them, and all were devoured by the man and the dragon.

With some experience under his belt, Su Yu had forcibly snatched more than a hundred Earth Vein Spirit Fish of varying grades from the jaws of the dragon.

Total attributes increased by 660 physique and strength; with talent bonuses, it was 1320 physique and strength, adding up with the previous 138 points, totaling an increase of 1458 physique and strength points.

This thrilled him immensely, and with a single-minded focus, he wandered here and there, wishing to gather a few hundred more to max out his stats, even if he couldn’t eat them all now, they could be saved for later.

Mainly because this thing has an exaggerated boost cap, unlike other Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures which have specific caps, for example, eating three Millennium Vermillion Fruits nullifies their effect.

This thing can cumulatively increase up to 1000 physique and strength points at a time, but that’s not the cap, it’s the annual cap.

It means with talent bonuses, after adding 2000 physique and strength points this year, he could continue enhancing and increase up to 2000 more next year, consistently year after year.

No wonder Celestial Cangtian specifically used the Eight Desolates Prison Lock to nurture these spirit fish, to nurture them well, he wanted to raise them too.

"This place needs to be noted down, I can come once a year to gather some."

Celestial Cangtian gets the major share, and picking the leftovers between the gaps of what’s taken is sufficient.

Thinking this way, after refining a few Earth Vein Spirit Fish, Su Yu stored Ao Run and continued to dive deeper underground.

Fortunately, this was not underwater, and the water pressure wasn’t high.

If it were underwater, he estimated his current position would be tens of thousands of meters deep underground, and neither the Black Water Profound Pearl nor the Magical Robe could allow him to remain at such depth.

Yet, even though it wasn’t underwater, the pressure was still very high this deep down, especially with the soil and rocks here transformed into something more solid than spirit mines due to an unknown influence, increasing the mana consumption of the Celestial Ghost as it traveled. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

After a good rest, the Celestial Ghost continued to dive deeper.

Diving down over a thousand meters in one go, upon entering a certain area, Su Yu found the Earth Escape Skill abruptly became more difficult, while the spiritual qi contained in the crystalline soil and rocks increased dramatically.

Su Yu raised an eyebrow in astonishment:

"Have I entered the core area?"

The Celestial Ghost continued downwards, and the crystalline soil and rocks became increasingly hard to penetrate, while the earth was saturated with spiritual qi, so dense that at a certain depth he could faintly detect waves that swept across the Celestial Ghost traveling through the earth.

"Could this be the benefit Ao Run mentioned?"

Pity there wasn’t anywhere in the Earth Escape Skill to release her; otherwise, he’d certainly ask.

After diving for nearly half an hour, with his mana halfway consumed and considering whether to return to a spiritual vault to replenish mana, he detected the edge of a spiritual vault at the edge of his perception.

Delighted, he quickly approached it.

He soon arrived at the edge of the spiritual vault and drilled inside, instantly feeling a rush of spiritual tide engulfing him like a bucket of ice water, drenching him thoroughly.

Yet he didn’t mind being shocked by how abundant the spiritual qi in this vault was, but looked into the vault with a face full of astonishment, gasping.

This was an immensely large spiritual vault, likely more than ten kilometers in diameter, with the edges of transparent jade stone emitting a soft glow, illuminating the entire vault, revealing a giant spiritual pond at the bottom.

The pond was filled with spiritual liquid formed from the liquefaction of pure spiritual qi, with spiritual mist swirling at the bottom, torrents of spiritual qi spewing forth, flooding into this vast vault.

In this clear spiritual liquid, schools of Earth Vein Spirit Fish swam back and forth, overwhelmingly numerous.

The previously rare Five-Tailed Earth Vein Spirit Fish were everywhere here, and there were nearly a hundred of the Rainbow Immortal Fish, which he had only previously seen three of in total. There were even quite a few Eight-Tailed and Nine-Tailed Earth Vein Immortal Fish.

But what struck Su Yu the most was at the very center of the spiritual pond, a near ten-meter-wide crystalline Jade Pillar arising from the ground.

On that Jade Pillar was a smooth section, densely etched with an array of patterns. Eight luminous chains formed by runes arose from the array points in eight directions on the pillar, tightly binding a silhouette in the center of the array at the top of the pillar.

Too far away, Su Yu couldn’t clearly see what was being restrained; in the haze, it vaguely seemed like a humanoid figure.

Observing for a moment, his gaze shifted upward to see the pattern-clad chains converging to a central point—affixed to a large fortress platform that dwarfed the Eight Desolates Prison Lock he’d previously seen.

On that immense lock sat a white-robed Taoist, threads of spiritual power rising and gathering to the Taoist.

Su Yu’s gaze fell upon the white-robed Taoist, and its attributes appeared:

Celestial Cangtian’s Avatar (Unparalleled): Earth Immortal, Level 240, Human Race, Celestial Cangtian’s second Primordial Spirit.

"Hiss!"

"It’s the big boss."

He instinctively drew back, retreating into the jade wall.

Seated upon the stone lock, Celestial Cangtian’s second Primordial Spirit suddenly looked up, face puzzled.

Luckily, being deep within the earth over a hundred kilometers, with the stone wall turned jade and further compressed, its strength was extremely exaggerated; even the divine sense of an Earth Immortal couldn’t penetrate, hence failing to detect the Celestial Ghost hidden behind the jade wall.