Chapter 229: Opening of the Spirit Cave (2)
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“Junior Sister Ai happened to want to go to the spirit cave to find a rare ingredient, so she agreed to travel with us.”
“I see.” Lin Shen nodded.
After chatting for a while, the two of them closed their eyes to rest and conserve their energy for the upcoming trip to the spirit cave.
As it turned out, Xie Jingsheng wasn’t exaggerating. The Dragon Tooth Flying Ship was indeed extremely fast. It was almost as fast as the legendary flying sword. In less than two hours, a bare mountain appeared in their vision.
There were disciples riding cranes patrolling above the mountain peak. When they saw the flying ship, they immediately welcomed it.
“May 1 have your name, please?”
Xie Jingsheng flew out of the flying ship and handed over his identity token.
“We are disciples of the Nine Yang Academy.”
The guard was only an outer sect disciple. When he heard that the visitors were from the Nine Yang Academy and saw that the identity token was from an upper-house disciple, he didn’t dare to be negligent. He immediately checked the token before letting the flying ship pass.
After landing on the mountainside, everyone got off the flying ship. Xie Jingsheng put away the flying ship and led everyone inside.
Before long, a passageway with pearls embedded in the wall appeared in front of him.
After passing through a long passageway, they arrived at a much wider place. It was a brightly lit catacomb.
As soon as he entered the catacomb, Lin Shen could clearly feel that the concentration of spiritual essence here was much higher than outside. It had almost reached the level of a Cave Abode at the Teaching Room level.
The source of the spiritual essence was a cave in the middle of the catacomb.
The mouth of the cave was about 20 to 30 meters long. It was abnormally deep inside, and there were faint howls that were like a violent wind. It looked quite creepy.
The cave was surrounded by a layer of white jade that looked like the wall of a well.
At this moment, there were more than ten people standing beside that barrier. All of them were dressed in the same attire, exuding a vigorous aura.
Lin Shen vaguely felt that these people’s clothes were a little familiar. Just as he was feeling puzzled, he heard the conversation of the other upper-house disciples.
“Hey, that’s the uniform of inner sect disciples!”
“These people are inner sect disciples? They want to enter the spirit cave too?”
Upon hearing the voice, Mu Chuanhua turned around and said with a smile, “That’s right. There are a total of 30 spots in the spirit cave. Apart from the 15 people from our academy, there are also 15 inner sect disciples.”
Only then did the disciples of the lower house feel relieved. They couldn’t help but cast curious gazes at the inner sect disciples.
As Heaven-rank disciples, it was almost a sure bet that they would graduate from the academy and become inner-sect disciples.
In terms of status, they weren’t much different from this group of inner-sect disciples.
Even so, they weren’t official disciples after all. They were still a little reserved when facing inner sect disciples.
These inner sect disciples all had powerful auras and were at least at the fifth or sixth level of the Bright Aperture Stage.
In the Nine Yang Academy, they would be treated as upper-house disciples and were much stronger than them.
Lin Shen looked at the group of inner sect disciples and wasn’t very surprised.
Outer sect disciples weren’t qualified to enter the spirit cave, while true disciples were all cultivator masters. The spirit cave wasn’t of much use to them, so they naturally wouldn’t come.
Therefore, only inner sect disciples would enter the spirit cave.
Before taking the Golden Marrow Pills, Lin Shen might have wondered why the spirit cave wasn’t very useful to cultivator masters.
However, after experiencing the power of a cultivator master’s stage, he understood.
The spirit cave could greatly increase the efficiency of cultivators because the spiritual essence was very active and could be absorbed by cultivators.
Unlike ordinary Cave Abodes, cultivators below the level of a cultivator master could only passively accept the infiltration of spiritual essence, so the efficiency was naturally slow.
However, cultivator masters had already created their spiritual senses. Even if they were in the Cave Abode, they could take the initiative to absorb the surrounding spiritual essence.
With the same concentration of spiritual essence, a spirit cave was no different from a Cave Abode to them.
In fact, the Cave Abode was better than the spirit cave.
After all, there were no hostile creatures in the Cave Abode. They could focus on cultivating.
At this moment, the group of inner sect disciples beside the battlement also noticed the arrival of Lin Shen and the others.
The leader, a tall and handsome man, turned his head and looked over. His gaze landed on Xie Jingsheng, and his expression immediately turned cold.
When Xie Jingsheng approached, he greeted him with a fake smile.
“Long time no see, Junior Brother Xie. How have you been?”
Xie Jingsheng smiled and said, “Thank you, Senior Brother Peng, everything is fine.”
“Why are you leading the team this time? Where’s Junior Brother Shen Zening?”
“Senior Brother Shen entered seclusion not long ago and is preparing to forge a spirit meridian.”
As soon as he said this, the inner sect disciples were stunned. When they came back to their senses, they immediately looked envious or jealous.
Only Senior Brother Peng quickly regained his composure after the astonishment. He snorted and said indifferently,
“Junior Brother Shen is indeed the chief disciple of the upper house. This time, he can at least form a third-grade spirit meridian.”
“Thank you for your kind words, Senior Brother!” Xie Jingsheng smiled.
Even the slowest person could tell that the two of them didn’t seem to be on good terms.
The disciples of the lower house couldn’t help but look at each other, not knowing what to do.
Lin Shen was also a little curious. He approached Mu Chuanhua and asked in a low voice, “Senior Brother Mu, who’s that?”
Seeing that it was Lin Shen, Mu Chuanhua hurriedly said in a low voice, “That’s Senior Brother Peng Junqin. He’s from the Peng family, one of the ten preeminent families.”
Lin Shen’s eyes flashed as if he had understood something.
He vaguely remembered that the Peng family and the Yan family seemed to be on good terms. It even used to be dependent on the Yan family.
It was said that Peng Xinyuan, who had made things difficult for Lin Shen during the guided battle, followed Yan Jingren’s lead..