Chapter 417: Ninety Thousand Merit Points! Divine Shadow! Cat-Petting! The Strange Dead!
Finally returning to Wei City, Li Yanchu felt both body and mind at ease. This trip into Duanlong Cave had earned him a total of ninety-seven thousand merit points, which was a truly generous harvest. The main reason was simple: he had completely purged the cave of every demon, ghost, and abomination, so the reward was immense.
Aside from that, he had obtained a golden pill with cloud-like patterns, though he had yet to determine its purpose. He vaguely sensed, however, that the “pill” was not a true elixir, but rather a magical artifact, one still faintly imbued with a trace of divine aura.
Breaking through Duanlong Cave hadn’t taken him long. That very night, while cultivating the Yellow Court Classic in his temple, his inner power began surging like a mighty river, growing ever purer and more radiant with yang energy.
That last divine-summoning seems to have strengthened my body, he thought with quiet delight.
It must have been related to that vast divine power which had descended when he held back the bronze Gate of Fengdu.
Still... remembering the words of the golden carp imprisoned in the cave left him slightly uneasy.
Three hundred years ago, Wei City had already been the center of a legend about an Elixir of Immortality. It was a legend that sparked a massive conflict, one fierce enough to leave behind a demon of second-realm peak power suppressed beneath the local waters.
That alone spoke volumes about how intense the struggle had been.
And now, with Wei City having twice revealed hidden paradises, and even harboring a third-realm Lady Bai sealed away, Li Yanchu’s curiosity toward this small city where he had lived all his life only deepened further.
When he returned and spoke with the innkeeper, she mentioned that many unfamiliar faces had recently arrived in town, such as monks, Daoists, wandering swordsmen, and unaffiliated cultivators, as if something major were about to happen.
Hearing this, Li Yanchu couldn’t help but feel a stir of vigilance. Adding in the unusual spiritual energy tides that had been occurring recently, it was highly likely they were connected to the emergence of another Blissful Land.
If only I had an artifact that could monitor the whole of Wei City, Li Yanchu thought to himself.