Cultivation: But Not a Game

Chapter 456 - 317: New Grotto Heaven Fragment, Skyblue Bull Python (3)

He thought there probably wasn’t any.

The reason was simple, if there was, this Grotto Heaven Fragment couldn’t trap it.

Since this Grotto Heaven Fragment could return to the main world, it indicated it wasn’t far from it. Given a True Immortal Level BOSS’s physique and life force, it could forcibly cross the space back to the main world.

If such a BOSS existed, it would have left long ago.

Of course, that’s under normal circumstances. If the BOSS chose to hide in this Grotto Heaven Fragment without leaving....

Within less than two minutes of their entry, everyone was inside, each race gathering to discuss whether to team up or split up.

Su Yu looked up towards the distance and saw other civilized players had already set off, forming small groups of two or three. He pinched his chin and thought:

"With my strength, out of the hundreds of people here, hardly any can match me. Following them would neither give me freedom nor could I avoid bringing trouble to them. It’s better to go alone."

With a thought, he executed the Jiezhi Concealment Skill to cover his aura, then used the Golden Silkworm Escaping Skill to leave behind a fake body, while his true form, having cast the Invisibility Technique, quietly left the team to the ground, transforming into a Celestial Ghost and vanishing underground.

He was gone for quite a while before being noticed. Li Wenbin shook his head and said:

"This kid must not be ordinary; since he’s not coming with us, just forget it, let’s go together."

Less than a pillar of incense later, Su Yu emerged from the mountains several hundred kilometers away, transforming into a stream of light, shooting into the depths of the Grotto Heaven.

Along the way, he occasionally saw the monsters living in this Grotto Heaven, with spiritual mist covering mountain valleys, powerful fierce beasts occupying within. Occasionally, celestial medicine spiritual lights piercing the black mist could be seen, but he did not glance at them, focusing entirely on rushing to the depths.

What a joke, this Grotto Heaven Fragment has been lost for hundreds of thousands of years and is appearing for the first time. It might even contain Tier Six celestial medicines or even Spirit Roots.

These celestial medicines and Spirit Roots are ownerless and anyone can take them. At this time, who would care for ordinary celestial medicines, obviously, you’d want to go inside first and find the most valuable treasure.

After sprinting who-knows-how-many-thousand miles, Su Yu stopped his light before a giant peak four to five hundred kilometers high.

This mountain peak reached four to five hundred kilometers, spiritual mist curling, with strange flowers and herbs everywhere he recognized, all Tier Three Spiritual Medicines, mixed with several Tier Four Celestial Medicines.

But his gaze just swept over these to the foot of the mountain where there lay a more than ten-kilometer-wide pitch-black cold pool clinging to the mountain wall, with a giant hole five to six kilometers in diameter in the waterline above.

The cave was extremely dark, with faint yellow mist swirling at the entrance, a mix of spiritual qi and monster qi.

Every now and then a surge of spiritual qi was sucked into the cave, only to be spat out again after a while.

Obviously, a great beast resided within.

The surface of the cold pool was calm, cold mist enveloping, but looking from high above through the pool, a purplish-red reflection could be seen at its depths, wisps of purple firelight piercing the water, gently rising from the pool.

"Purple fire from a cold pool, this phenomenon is extraordinary, there must be something good down there."

Su Yu pondered for a moment, then flew to a nearby place, swiftly taking down a level 185 Ox Demon, and brought its over two hundred-meter-long body to the cold pool and threw it down.

"Bang!"

The over two hundred-meter-long Ox Demon crashed into the cold pool, sending water splashing high.

Before the Ox Demon could sink, mist burst from the hole in the cave wall, and a huge creature rushed out, biting the Ox Demon and retreating back into the cave.

In a brief glimpse, it was a giant python with a massive bull-like head covered in blue scales.

Celestial Blue Python (Mythical): Level 294, Wild Beast.

Attributes: Qi and Blood 670 million, Mana 1.2 million, Attack 14.8 million, Speed 20,000km/h, Magic: Omitted....

Su Yu stretched out his hand to open the Sea Suppressing Realm Gate, brought out Vast Sea, and whispered a few words in her ear.

"No problem."

Vast Sea smiled slightly, raised her hand to press the air, and the water of the cold pool was lifted by an invisible force into the air.

This change immediately startled the Celestial Blue Python within, letting out an ox-like roar as it charged out, opened its mouth wide, and inhaled fiercely towards Vast Sea, emitting a terrifying suction.

But this fury only lasted a few seconds before it suddenly paused, looking up to see an expanding Red Dragon in the sky.

The Celestial Blue Python trembled all over, attempting to retreat, but at that moment, Vast Sea pointed a finger, and the cold pool waters quickly formed into several water chains that fell and wrapped around the Celestial Blue Python.

"Moo!"

The thirty-kilometer-long Celestial Blue Python shook violently, snapping the water chains and diving into the cave, but in just those few seconds, the Red Dragon had already completed its transformation. A massive dragon claw pressed down, compressing the air with invisible force, slowing the Celestial Blue Python’s speed.

"Boom!"

The massive dragon claw pinned down the Celestial Blue Python’s body before it could fully retreat, easily piercing the python’s tough scales and grasping its body.

"Come out."

Not on the same level in size and strength, the Celestial Blue Python was forcibly dragged out of the cave.

The indignant Celestial Blue Python turned to bite the Red Dragon, only to be pinned by the other claw, and a stream of blue flames burst from the dragon’s mouth, burning it fiercely.

At this time, the Taishang Red Dragon’s magic damage reached 40 million, and a wave of dragon breath falling down set the Celestial Blue Python ablaze, struggling wildly, rocks breaking like tofu under its fury, and trees turning to powder.

But the strength gap was too great; no matter how it struggled, the dragon claws remained unmoving.

The dragon breath continued for seventeen seconds straight, and the Celestial Blue Python visibly deteriorated from lively to listless, to finally being roasted alive.

After dealing with the Celestial Blue Python, Su Yu immediately returned to his true form. But before transforming back, he casually opened the Sea Suppressing Realm Gate to drag the corpse inside to enhance the meals of a few immortal pets.

A young Overworld Sea Dragon Turtle, a young Azure Luan, a young Kunpeng.

With a wave of his hand, the pool water parted, and he dove into the pool’s depths.

"Oh? It turned out to be this?"

There was no imagined spiritual medicine at the bottom of the pool, but a Purple Fire Glass Fine Gold mine.

This is a Tier Five spiritual ore, material for forging Tier Ten Treasures, worth 1 celestial coin per ton.

"Dig!"

His form blurred, transforming into a dozens-of-zhang Battle True Form, using his Great Wilderness Ancestral Dragon Claw, eight arms covered in thick dragon scales, scooping at the ground, easily piercing the hard Purple Fire Glass Fine Gold. Each scoop brought up a house-sized chunk, including the ore and the rock.

He didn’t take a close look, using all eight arms continuously, removing a hundred-meter layer from the entire pool bottom in no time.

"I’ve struck it rich!"

Although a ton for one celestial coin might seem cheap, spiritual ore is very dense, and this stuff’s density is far higher than steel, a hundred tons being just over a meter-wide cube.

In one go, he dug out about seven to eight hundred meters deep, probably extracting over a million tons of Purple Fire Glass Fine Gold and rock.

Even with just one percent ore content, it’d be worth tens of thousands of celestial coins, and the actual ore content is certainly more than that.

"Nice, nice. As expected, exploration is the most profitable."

If it were any other Grotto Heaven Fragment, this kind of spiritual ore would have been mined out long ago.