C17 Infinite fear

The Heavenly Void Mansion had been abandoned countless of years ago, and it had also been turned into a zombie by the disciples of the ancient Heavenly Void Sect. If they wanted to reactivate it, they had to do so once more.

After Shangguan Yue obtained the Heaven's Void abode, he had actually already thought about it. If it weren't for the fact that the Phantom Ghosts in the Reincarnation Seal didn't condense into a corporeal form, Shangguan Yue really wouldn't have thought of dispersing his cultivation.

Yet, these rogue cultivators wanted to annihilate the Great Yong Guardian Group under Ma Dancheng's purchase. That could not be blamed on him.

Now that Dugu Bai and the others had recovered their magic power, they could fly into the sky and escape into the ground.

Other than the fact that Shangguan Yue of the Heaven's Void Palace had not been opened, the rest of the areas were all areas that Dugu Bai and the others needed to rebuild and take care of. The amount of work required was still quite large.

After sending Dugu Bai and the others off to work, Shangguan Yue stepped into the Sky Void Hall.

The cave dwelling stone was still in its original place. Shangguan Yue thought about it and set up a business array around it to protect it. Unless he lifted the business array, anyone who wanted to touch the ore would be attacked by the business array.

After that, Shangguan Yue took out the bracelet that he got from Madan. He used a secret soul refining technique and started to refine the bracelet of holding that was already ownerless.

The magic treasures for cultivators could only be used after being refined. On the other hand, the techniques for refining were all different. Shangguan Yue had obtained six inheritances, and the soul refining secret methods were much stronger than the techniques for refining.

A moment later, the bracelet was completed. Shangguan Yue probed it with his consciousness, and instantly, a space appeared in front of his senses.

Shangguan Yue's bracelet of holding was a top quality storage bracelet. The space inside was not small, it was around the size of a football field, and it was filled with spirit stones, at least tens of thousands of them.

Shangguan Yue's cultivation was enough with karma, and he didn't need the help of spirit stones. If he were to use spirit stones to set up the array, then it wouldn't be as convenient as setting up an army formation.

Shangguan Yue already had a use for these spirit stones, and that was to activate the formation here.

The Great Sect Protection Array relied on the support of 36 Spiritual Pulses. Currently, the 36 Spiritual Pulses were completely dried up and there was not even the slightest trace of spiritual energy in the entire cave. The tens of thousands of Spirit Stones used by Ma Dancheng was like a drop in a bucket.

However, it was still possible to use it to activate a formation.

The Heavenly Hollow Temple was the core of the entire cave. Whether it was the large Spirit Convergence Array formed by the thirty-six spirit veins underground or the protective formation formed by the eighteen Nine Peaks veins, they were all controlled by the Heavenly Hollow Temple.

The altar controlling the Heaven's Hollow Temple was the cave's ore. Through the stone, Shangguan Yue could feel any corner of the cave. Through the ore, Shangguan Yue could also change the composition of any corner of the cave.

Of course, that was only if he had enough spirit stones.

Madan Cheng had accumulated enough spirit stones, but it was still a drop in the bucket within the Heavenly Void Mansion.

Shangguan Yue poured all his spirit stones into the cave dwelling stone one by one, then controlled the cave stone and poured it into the entire underground space of the abode.

The spirit vein underground was completely dried up. It was impossible for a mere tens of thousands of spirit stones to activate the formation array inside the cave, but it could use these spirit stones as the base point to activate the center of the Sky Hollow Temple's main peak.

After all the spirit stones had been inserted into the ore, the formation beneath the Sky Void Summit began to take effect. Strands of spirit energy were released through the formation.

Dugu Bai and the others who were working immediately realized that something was amiss. One by one, they stopped what they were doing and looked in surprise at the Hollow Sky Temple.

Although the spiritual energy was still very weak, it was already much better than before. At least, they could no longer suppress the loss of their magic power.

"Who the hell is this Shangguan Yue?" Dugu Bai sighed and urged the others to continue cleaning up.

Shangguan Yue was relieved when he activated the array formation on the main peak.

If the main mountain's formation was activated, it would slowly affect the other eight peaks, and it would also slowly nourish the dried up spirit veins underground.

Of course, if he wanted to rely on spirit stones to recover his spirit vein, Shangguan Yue had to have millions of spirit stones. Shangguan Yue also never thought of using such a stupid method.

In the past, when the ancient Golden Immortals refined the Heavenly Void Mansion, they had left restrictions. As long as Shangguan Yue found a suitable Spiritual Pulse, he could use the restrictions in the cave to absorb Spiritual Pulses from the outside world to replenish himself.

Of course, the premise was that Shangguan Yue could find a suitable Spiritual Pulse.

In the base of the Ancient Heavenly Void Sect, the 36 spiritual veins were all top grade spiritual veins. In the cultivation world, any spiritual veins like these would have already been occupied by the large sects.

Shangguan Yue didn't complain that he didn't die fast enough when he wanted to hit the Spiritual Pulse of the other sect's encampment.

Thus, right now, he could only use spirit stones to recover some of the necessary items. As for the Spiritual Pulse, sooner or later it would be available.

After he put away the spirit stones, Shangguan Yue started to clean up the rest of the things in the bracelet.

As the patriarch of the Golden Horse Hall, he had the Golden Horse Hall to gather resources for him in the secular world. Furthermore, as a disciple of the Spiritual Beast Sect, he had obtained the inheritance of the sect.

Spirit stones were the most commonly used resources for cultivators.

Apart from the Spirit Stones, Shangguan Yue found that the bracelet also contained refined pills, medicinal pills, materials for refining pills, and some magical equipment that Ma Dancheng could not use.

The most commonly used magic treasure by the Spirit Beast Sect disciples was the Spirit Beast Tower. It could attack, defend, refine, and control the life and death of the demon clan. The Spirit Beast Sect's cultivation technique focused on how to enslave the demon clan they called spirit beasts.

Ma Dancheng had the Spirit Beast Tower, so he rarely used other magical equipment. At that time, he would benefit Shangguan Yue, but there were no special magical equipment. Shangguan Yue couldn't use them and only looked at them once before ignoring them.

What really interested him was the row of bookshelves in the bracelet.

The bookshelves were made of iron and wood, and could last for thousands of years. On the bookshelves, rows and rows of books were placed, a total of thousands.

Shangguan Yue casually flipped through it, and discovered that most of the records were about mortal martial skills.

"I heard that there is a secret storage in the Golden Horse Hall where countless martial arts manuals are collected. It is the storage that the Golden Horse Hall uses to nurture talent. Could it be that it was collected by Ma Dancheng?"

As a cultivator, Shangguan Yue had no way of imagining that someone would collect secret martial arts manuals that no longer needed to be used by these cultivators.

The only explanation was that the Golden Horse Hall had suddenly been destroyed. Ma Dancheng, the patriarch of the Golden Horse Hall, had taken away the secret treasury of the Golden Horse Hall in case the Great Yong Empire was taken advantage of.

Shangguan Yue was rather interested in these martial arts secret manuals.

His current cultivation was mainly focused on body tempering. During his cultivation of the Karmic Inferno Shaman Body, he had various battle skills and secret techniques of the Shaman Tribe. After Shangguan Yue had mastered the Karmic Fire Shaman Body, his training skills were essential.

However, the battle skills of the ancient Shamans were actually so easy to learn. Although Shangguan Yue was a martial arts scholar before, his knowledge was the key. His foundation in martial arts was not thick, and comprehending Shaman battle skills had always been difficult.

Now that he saw these martial arts manuals, Shangguan Yue's eyes lit up.

A martial arts secret technique might not have nothing to pick at. Perhaps it could allow him to find a shortcut to the Witch clan's battle skill.

Other than that, Shangguan Yue had read about the existence of the ancient martial path mentioned by the Emperor.

If these martial arts were to be imparted to the public, with the population potential of the Great Yong Empire, they might be able to cultivate Immortal cultivators who could walk the path of martial arts. Even if few people had such good fortune, imparting these martial arts to the public would definitely improve the fighting strength of the Great Yong's army.

Putting aside the martial arts technique manuals, Shangguan Yue started to pay attention to the few books on cultivators.

Although the Spirit Beast Sect wasn't considered powerful in the cultivation world, they were still second-rate experts. The items that this elder, Madan Cheng, gathered were incomparable to the information gathered by the Great Yong Sect.

Although Shangguan Yue wasn't as ignorant as he used to be in the Immortal Cultivation World, he still didn't know much.

But now, the books that Madan Cheng had collected had opened up a window for him to gain a deeper understanding of them.

After casually flipping through a book that was hidden by Madan Cheng, Shangguan Yue's horizons gradually widened.

Half a day later, Shangguan Yue closed the book and sighed.

"So, the world is actually this big. The Great Yong is just a small border country."

The cultivation world was very big and there were many sects. According to the records that Ma Dancheng left behind, Shangguan Yue understood that in this world, the strongest was the Five Great Sects, which he already knew a little bit about.

As the saying goes, when a mountain stands on its head, the five sects are the ones fighting.

A proud and proud mountain spoke of the Spirit Origin Mountain. The Spirit Origin Mountain had existed since the ancient times, and each generation only had a single successor who had roamed the cultivation world. However, none of them were not peak characters. Fighting between the five sects referred to the Five Elements Sect, the Wan Demon Union, the Floating Temple, the Demon Refining Valley, and the evil sects.

Under the five sects, the Vitality Sect was publicly acknowledged to be the strongest.

The name of the sect was called the Righteous Qi Academy. The Righteous Qi Sect cultivated righteous energy and cultivated the Hundred Classes Theory, so it could be said that all the students in the world were potential disciples of the Righteous Qi Sect.

The disciples of the Righteous Qi Sect must enter the world to cultivate. They must either teach their students or be merchants. The mortal world was where the disciples of the Righteous Qi Sect trained.

Perhaps the ministers of any country were the disciples of the True Qi Sect, or perhaps the professors of the academy were disciples of the True Qi Sect.

There were no mana fluctuations coming from the disciples of the Zephyr Guild, so unless they showed it on their own, it would be hard to tell them apart.

Because it was widely spread, disciples of the True Qi Sect were everywhere. Furthermore, the True Qi Sect didn't participate in any battles in the cultivation world unless the True Qi Sect was threatened.

Hidden disciples in the mortal world, unless one killed all the scholars under the heavens, the Righteous Qi Sect would not be cut off. This was the most terrifying thing.

Perhaps, the Great Yong Empire had many righteous disciples, but no one knew about them.

"What a good Righteous Qi Sect. If I can't use this Sect, I'm afraid it will eventually match up." At this moment, Shangguan Yue was shocked.

He had always cultivated since young, so he was well aware of how terrifying a cultivator's character would be if they were to undergo their own transformation. One person didn't count for much, but if there were tens of thousands of these people, then it would be terrifying.

The most frightening thing was that those from the True Qi Sect rarely revealed their identities publicly. Apart from those who stayed in the True Qi Palace, the rest were all in the dark.

This was definitely a super sect that was not inferior to the Five Great Sects.

This was because their inheritances were hidden among the commoners.

For the first time, Shangguan Yue felt boundless dread towards the true qi sect.