Chapter 960: Chapter 344: Heavenly Spirit Fruit, Go All Out!_3 Perhaps his own father really had the ability to cultivate the Heavenly Spirit Fruit. After finishing his task, Lu Qingshan took out a palm-sized, endearing golden hamster from his sleeve, gently massaged it, and signaled it to continue. This golden hamster was none other than the Earth Spirit Mouse that Lu Changsheng had given to his daughter, Lu Qingzhu, in his early years. Now coming to the Purple Shadow Secret Realm, Lu Qingshan naturally brought this Earth Spirit Mouse with him. After all, Second Order Spiritual Beasts couldn’t enter the Secret Realm, but there was no problem with First Order ones. And his journey so far had been exceedingly fruitful, in part because he simply went wherever there was a disturbance. On the other hand, it was due to this Earth Spirit Mouse’s sensitivity to Heavenly and Earthly Treasures. Indeed, treasure-seeking mice like the Earth Spirit Mouse were like a fish in water within the Secret Realm. … “According to records, there is a hidden cave here with a ‘Golden Bodhi Date Tree’.” At this moment, four individuals clad in Beast Taming Xu Family garments arrived near a cliff face. The Four Great Immortal Sects and several Nascent Soul Family Forces would usually enter the Purple Shadow Secret Realm every time it opened and always came away with gains. Hence, for the common Loose Cultivators and Clan Cultivators, the mysterious and dangerous Purple Shadow Secret Realm was quite familiar. They not only had rough maps but also knew about the locations that produced Spiritual Medicine. Every disciple from the Immortal Sects and Clan Cultivators who entered the Secret Realm would try to visit these places in hopes of finding something valuable. The four people searched around the cliff. However, after searching for a long time, they didn’t find the hidden cave mentioned in the records. Then, one of the female cultivators patted her Spiritual Pet Bag and released a silver ferret. Families like the Beast Taming Xu Family, which specialized in beast taming, would naturally breed a number of Demon Beasts adept at treasure hunting. This silver ferret was one such Demon Beast. The female cultivator took out a few Feeding Spirit Pills from her Storage Bag, fed the silver ferret, stroked its small head, and then sent it off to search. Before long, the ferret started “giggling,” pointing its front paw toward the cliff ahead. “Huh!?” The four people gazed at the cliff before them, exchanged glances, and seemed puzzled. One of them shot a Flame Bullet Technique directly at the cliff. The cliff didn’t explode with a bang upon facing the Flame Bullet, but merely rippled, dissolving the Flame Bullet. “Formation!” “It turns out someone reached here first and set up an illusory formation!” “No wonder we’ve been searching for so long and haven’t found it!” “Whoever set up the formation must have seen the Golden Bodhi Date Tree and planned to wait until the Secret Realm closed to leave.” Upon witnessing this, the four of them immediately understood the situation. Looking at the cliff in front of them, they all took out their Magic Artifacts, released their Spiritual Beasts, and prepared to break the formation. After all, disciples entering the Secret Realm from the Great Immortal Sects and the children of great families would try their best to find Heavenly and Earthly Treasures. Setting up a formation like this and hiding in a cave would most likely belong to a Loose Cultivator or a junior member of a smaller family. Facing such Loose Cultivators or junior family members, they were naturally fearless. “Seems it has been discovered after all.” Inside the cave, Lu Quanzhen let out a soft sigh. He had heard the commotion outside just now and knew someone had found the place. But his elder brother, Lu Ping’an, was still refining the Golden Bodhi Date, so he stayed silent, hoping to mislead them with the formation. But after the recent Flame Bullet Technique and seeing the attitude of the people outside, he knew a confrontation was imminent. “Beast Taming Xu Family…” Lu Quanzhen, looking through the formation, recognized the clothes of the four people outside, knowing their identities and that they were formidable. “Person inside, I’m going to count to three, come out now!” At that moment, a voice from outside rang out. Hearing this voice, Lu Quanzhen’s eyes flashed coldly. He glanced at Lu Ping’an deep in the cave and spoke in a calm tone, “Big brother, someone’s coming. I’ll go and send them away.” At this point, Lu Ping’an had almost completed the Refinement of the more than twenty Golden Bodhi Dates and was at a critical juncture. His heart was ‘thumping’ vigorously, his blood rushing forth torrentially, organs chiming incessantly, creating an invisible pressure. His entire being resembled a long-brewing volcano on the verge of eruption, a burst dam, an endless brilliant treasure light flowing across his body’s surface, seemingly forming some sort of mysterious pattern that emitted an overwhelming aura. After finishing his statement, Lu Quanzhen released a Second Rank Puppet from his Storage Bag and hid it on the side. Then he placed a Talisman Treasure in his sleeve and held two Second Rank Talismans in his hands as he stepped out of the cave. After all, the formation was set up with a simple Array Device. At best, it could withstand a few assaults from Peak of Qi Refinement cultivators and certainly couldn’t hold against the onslaught of the four people present. If the four of them decided to bombard the cave wildly, it would indeed affect Lu Ping’an. “Wait a moment, fellow daoists!” Lu Quanzhen put on a somewhat panicked and rushed demeanor and shouted loudly towards the four people. He then continued, “I merely wished to hide here; I don’t know in what way I’ve offended the fellow daoists.” “Heh, you know very well what offense you’ve committed.” “Hand over your Storage Bag now and leave this place, and we’ll spare your life.” The four people and their four beasts were all staring at Lu Quanzhen, exuding a crushing presence. One of them, a middle-aged man in his thirties, stood on a red bird high above and spoke with a commanding tone. “This…” Hearing these words, Lu Quanzhen’s face showed a troubled expression and said, “If the fellow daoists want this cave, I will leave right now.” “Don’t play dumb, hand over the Storage Bag or die!” Another cultivator, surrounded by a Green Large Snake, spoke coldly and domineeringly. In their words, the Green Large Snake coldly locked its gaze on Lu Quanzhen, flicking its tongue as if ready to devour him. The four people and their four Spiritual Beasts—except for one of the female cultivators whose Spiritual Beast was a seemingly harmless silver ferret—all possessed formidable Spiritual Beasts.