“This grave… something’s off about it!”
Zhang Chen turned around abruptly.
He didn’t understand the ways of Yin and Yang,
but he was extremely sensitive to spiritual energy.
He had just used Xuan Tian Gong against that zombie.
The inner force in his dantian had undergone a subtle change.
There was a slight difference between the inner force he had consumed and the inner force he had left.
He hadn't had time to think about it during the fight with the zombie.
But now, he felt as though there was spiritual energy present in this place.
He thought about the zombie’s coffin, standing upright above the grave.
It was somewhat similar to a type of Feng Shui treasure穴.
This穴 was commonly known as “Dragonfly Tapping Water.”
Although the surroundings were slightly different,
they generally conformed.
Could it be…
This grave was actually a Feng Shui treasure穴?
Thinking of this,
Zhang Chen hurried to the edge of the grave.
At the same time, he activated Xuan Tian Gong.
Immediately, he sensed a trace of spiritual energy emanating from beneath the grave.
It was as faint as the spiritual energy from the Warring States帛书 earlier.
Only as thin as a hair.
But it was far more abundant than what was contained in the帛书.
“It’s really a Feng Shui treasure穴, it truly has spiritual energy!”
Zhang Chen was overjoyed.
He never expected
that tonight, besides the gold and silver treasures,
he would even find spiritual energy.
He didn't care if it was a grave or not.
He sat cross-legged on top of the grave mound.
Xuan Tian Gong began to circulate.
A thread of spiritual energy seeped through the grave mound, rising from the earth below and entering his body.
He sat in meditation.
The entire night.
Until the sky began to lighten.
The east was tinged with a faint glow of dawn.
Only then did Zhang Chen absorb all the spiritual energy in the grave.
He looked inward at his dantian.
He discovered that his inner force had coalesced into a single, compact mass.
It was at least twice as strong as before.
“It really works!”
He opened his eyes.
His eyes shone with a purple light.
Zhang Chen was overjoyed.
Unfortunately.
This “Dragonfly Tapping Water”穴.
Had limited spiritual energy.
After a night of meditation,
Zhang Chen had absorbed almost all of the spiritual energy from the earth below.
However.
Feng Shui treasure穴s.
Are sustainable.
Zhang Chen could feel it.
If he waited a few days, the spiritual energy in this穴 would gather again.
However, he didn’t know how many days it would take.
“I'll come back tomorrow to see, if it works, just relying on this place, my Xuan Tian Gong might be able to break through the first level!”
Zhang Chen thought to himself.
He saw the sun rising in the east.
The surrounding woods provided a cover.
This wasn't a suitable place for him to cultivate the Purple Extreme Demon Eye.
He picked up the bag of gold and silver jewelry.
He used his Ghost Shadow Mirage to find a higher location.
After he left.
After a long time.
Suddenly, next to the grave.
Beneath the grave mound, there was a sudden “dong dong” sound.
A moment later, the grave mound began to writhe.
Then, with a “whoosh,” a rotting hand emerged from beneath the grave mound.
In the blink of an eye.
The grave mound's earth was dug up.
A female corpse, crawling with maggots and almost completely rotted, crawled out.
“Damn it!”
The female corpse looked at the mess and spoke.
Her empty eye sockets were filled with hatred.
That bastard, he was actually a master of Yin and Yang magic.
Not only did he steal my treasures.
He burned my corpse.
He even absorbed all the dragon energy from the treasure穴.
This delay.
It’s almost dawn.
If I want to start cultivating again,
I have to be buried again.
But...
How long will that take?
She had achieved this level of cultivation, becoming this kind of corpse.
It took her a hundred years of cultivation.
Now, she had been burned.
Her corpse was reduced to ashes.
It meant that all her cultivation had been instantly reset.
But it was strange.
This person was clearly a skilled practitioner of Yin and Yang magic.
He was also naturally strong.
He could even circulate his inner force to absorb the dragon energy of the穴.
Why didn't he know that his soul was still alive?
Soul.
In fact, it’s what living people call a ghost.
This female corpse had cultivated to such a level.
She could separate her soul from her body.
She had planned to find someone to replace her and lure a woman to her, to eat her heart and liver and practice her cultivation.
But she met with disaster.
Her corpse was destroyed by him.
She had no choice but to separate her soul and hide in the body of the neighboring female corpse.
She stayed there until now, when he finally left.
But.
Cultivating anew would be extremely difficult.
Especially now that she was left with this rotting skeleton.
“No, I need to eat some hearts and livers to temporarily restore my cultivation, otherwise, in a few days, this body will rot away completely, and then everything will be over!”
She said so.
But in this place, how difficult it would be to get some hearts and livers.
Moreover...
Now, if she couldn't return to that grave.
As soon as the sun rose,
She would dissipate.
She couldn’t hesitate.
She used all her strength to pull the coffin from the grave.
She then used the same method.
She buried half of the coffin on top of her own grave mound.
Then, she quickly lay down inside.
As soon as she lay down.
The sun rose.
The rotten female corpse opened her mouth and nostrils.
She wanted to absorb the dragon energy.
But the next moment.
Her heart sank.
The dragon energy was almost completely depleted.
She sucked for a long time before she could manage to inhale a single breath.
“Damn it…”
The female corpse cursed.
…
The last trace of purple energy disappeared.
Zhang Chen stood up.
The faint purple light in his eyes flashed momentarily.
The power of the Purple Extreme Demon Eye had increased again.
“The harvest is truly bountiful!”
Even though Zhang Chen was a calm person.
At this moment, he couldn’t help but smile.
He picked up his bag and headed towards the market.
…
After eating breakfast at the market.
Zhang Chen walked back home.
The bag in his hand was rather conspicuous.
In these troubled times, it was very easy to attract danger.
Although Zhang Chen wasn't afraid.
He hated trouble.
So when he left.
He took a cloth bag used for storing noodles.
He filled it with sand.
He disguised it a little, and naturally, no one would pay any attention to him.
When he got home.
Old Li was not there.
The big rat was not in the house either.
Zhang Chen was puzzled.
Could it be that the big rat was out treasure hunting in broad daylight?
He wasn’t really worried about their safety.
Old Li, despite his age, was a seasoned veteran.
He was a real old fox in this village.
He probably had something to do.
Anyway, he let the big rat do as it pleased.
Cultivating was his top priority.
As for these gold and silver treasures?
Zhang Chen was scratching his head.
Hiding them at home.
There wasn't much space.
After all, this amount of treasure was quite a lot.
And...
It was also very unsafe in these times.
He couldn't carry it with him all the time when he went out.
“Can I put it in the transaction space?”
Zhang Chen suddenly thought of the built-in storage grid.
Normally.
Only items for trade could be stored there.
But if he needed it, he could take it out anytime.
If these gold and silver treasures were stored there as trade items.
Wasn't it essentially a personal warehouse?
Thinking of this.
He took out a gold bar.
With a thought, he placed the gold bar in the grid within the space.
With another thought, it returned to his hand.
“It works!”
Zhang Chen smiled.
He immediately put all the gold and silver treasures inside.
If he traded with people from other worlds in the future.
He could use this gold if needed.