White Mountain, who had been sitting for a long time, suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes were bright and piercing, shining with a fierce light. "There is still one hour left, let us prepare to welcome the master of the gate!" Everyone stood up abruptly, and White Mountain shouted: "Everyone hold your weapons, each take your position!"

  Seven Golden Elixir Masters, scattered in the stone chamber, stepped on the seven stars, corresponding to the position of the heavenly and earthly spiritual axis. Each person held a golden light shining instrument in their hands.

  In the unknown depths of the cave, Russell also opened his eyes at the same time. His face was filled with an indescribable excitement as he said in a low voice: "Disciple, do you know? I have already felt that the treasure has awakened. Look, all the spiritual veins under the ground are doing what?"

  Lu Peng stared at him in shock, unable to understand what he was saying.

  But he could see it, the stone wall's surroundings, all lit up, even if he couldn't see it, he could feel it, the entire Lingshan Mountain seemed to have countless dormant spiritual energies, as if awakened, like the Yangtze River, constantly flowing, all converging in one direction.

  Ji Youfei suddenly jumped up and shouted: "Not good!"

  "What's wrong?"

  Ji Youfei said, "I heard a faint thunder in my divine sense, this is an omen that a great calamity is approaching. These people from Jingtan Sect, they have absorbed all the spiritual energy from the earth, what do they want to do?"

  He saw Mo Zi Chen didn't understand, so he quickly and hastily said: "At this time, the spiritual energy in Ling Jing Mountain is more than ten times stronger than before! If Jing Tan Sect had such power from an early age, why did they hide here all the time? These spiritual veins are probably the ones that were once refined by the magic gate's secret method. Everything they do is to awaken them together at this moment!"

  Seven people stood in the stone chamber, each holding a ritual object, such as golden bells, jade locks, and ring pendants. The objects emitted dazzling yellow light, and their aura seemed to be connected to the outside. At this moment, if someone had great spiritual power and could see through all the scenes inside Lingjing Mountain, they would see that throughout the mountain's interior, there were dense pathways like spider webs, as well as spiritual energy rapidly flowing within the stone walls. There were seven particularly thick spiritual veins that ran along the ground, rolling in continuously. They all converged at the center of the mountain's belly, behind the stone wall of this stone chamber.

  The bright and smooth stone wall now had cracks all over it, and around the stone wall, golden chains were faintly visible, shaking constantly and making a creaking sound. It seemed that within the stone wall, there was an invisible force trying to break through these chains. And the chains kept clanking, tightly binding the stone wall, not letting it come out.

  Seven people simultaneously raised their artifacts, each artifact seeming to correspond to a spiritual vein in the mountain, and endless spiritual energy was drawn over, seven rays of light shot towards the stone wall, like seven giant hands, grasping outward.

  The two of them contended with each other in mid-air, but in the end it was still the person from Jingtan Sect who gained the upper hand. The stone wall came crashing down, and at this moment, everyone couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

  Behind the stone wall, a world of unparalleled brilliance and brightness appeared, with a million rays of light and thousands of auspicious airs. A person walked out slowly. He wore a dark blue Taoist robe, had a slender figure, and had three long whiskers on his chin, looking like an immortal with a refined and elegant demeanor. However, his entire body was shrouded in a thin layer of mist, making him look ethereal and otherworldly.

  Seven people knelt down simultaneously: "Pay respects to the leader coming out of the pass!"

  The one who walked out from behind the stone wall was none other than Ling Jizǐ, the previous leader of the Jingtan Sect, whom everyone thought had perished in the last calamity.

  During that thunder tribulation, many people witnessed with their own eyes the physical body of Ling Jizi being shattered to pieces by a heavenly thunderbolt. Everyone thought he had been completely destroyed, but unexpectedly his primordial spirit managed to escape and after several decades, he was reborn in a spiritual state!

  At this time, Lingji Zi looked no different from ordinary people. He lightly waved his hand, and everyone stood up, with an extremely excited expression on their faces.

  Lingji Zi pressed his hand down, and the people fell silent again. He said slowly: "I failed in my attempt to ascend to immortality last year and thought I would surely perish. Fortunately, I was able to close myself off from the world for several decades and finally broke through to the Great Way. As long as I can obtain the Heavenly Tears of the Earth's Depths, I will be able to complete my spiritual embryo and attain the divine power of flight and escape. Gentlemen, will you accompany me on this journey?"

  Everyone shouted loudly: "Obey the order of the leader!"

  Lingji Zi walked slowly and deliberately, and when he arrived in front of the crowd, the mist on his body had already dispersed, his body condensed into a solid form, and no one could see that he was a spiritual body.

  Bai Shanzi said in a low voice, "We used the power of the great formation to awaken the Seven Spirit Veins and absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cultivate our spiritual bodies. Our plan was already successful, do we really need to go get the Candle Heaven's Tears again?"

  Lingji Zi said in a low voice, "This Lingjue Mountain was once the site of the Demon Sect's great cultivation. The Sixth Heaven Demon King, Zhu Tian, achieved enlightenment here, and all the spiritual veins underground were refined by him through magic rituals. I used the spiritual energy from underground to cultivate my spiritual body, but it has been infused with demonic energy. If I don't use Zhu Tian's tears to wash away my original energy, the two will conflict with each other, causing my meridians to go awry and leading to death."

  He slowly said: "Our plan back then still had too many oversights, and we almost made a big mistake. Fortunately, there was a predestined fate in the underworld, and those few children who accidentally stumbled upon it actually had another opportunity to open the Candle Sky Secret Realm, allowing the Candle Sky Tears to have a chance to appear in the world. When I was refining my spiritual body, I already sensed the mark of the divine soul that Candle Sky left behind in the underworld, and the Candle Sky Tears were transformed from his original essence. As long as I refine it into my body and make it the foundation of my life, even if it's the Primordial Infant Old Monster of the Kunwu Great Sect or those few Demon Kings from the harsh lands, what do I have to fear?"

  He raised his arms and burst out laughing, his laughter echoing between the mountains of Lingjing, lingering for a long time.

  Originally vigilant and cautious, Luosuyou suddenly revealed a look of fear. Lü Peng didn't understand what was going on and asked: "Master, what's wrong?"

  Russell gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, "It seems that some formidable figure has appeared. This person's power is far beyond mine. Is he also here to grab the treasure?"

  Xuan Yue's Purple Toad is an ancient spiritual object, and the Purple King Toad is even more so, gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in one body. It has a natural sense of danger, and Luo Su's cultivation of the Xuan Ji Dan also has some skill in sensing danger. With his current cultivation equivalent to that of a Golden Elixir cultivator, it would be wise for him to hurry and escape. But he didn't move, thinking back and forth, and his desire still took over, gritting his teeth as he said: "The spiritual object is about to appear, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, if I leave now, I will regret it for the rest of my life!"

  Lu Peng said with some fear: "Master, as long as the green mountain is there, we don't have to worry about having no firewood!"