Chapter 358: Chapter 356: Passing the Cave Abode (Part 1) "Alright, Li, Li Xiangping..." "Master Han Yue has quite a deep connection with our Li Family ancestors. This time, with the cave opening, she might show mercy to the descendants of the Li Family," the silver-haired young man said blandly, striding towards the cave shrouded in mist. Afterward, two expressionless people from his family also stepped out to accompany the silver-haired youth into the stone gate. "Qingyi, would you like to join us?" Wang Wenbai’s voice suddenly reached You Qingyi’s ear; he hadn’t given up yet. Wang Wenbai had practiced the Sound Transmission Technique. It allowed his voice to reach the other party’s ears through the natural wind without being detected by others, much like the Secret Transmission of a high-level Martial Artist. However, You Qingyi remained standing coldly in place, unwilling to even respond. Wang Wenbai glanced at Lou Yi, a trace of jealousy flashing in his eyes. Then, he patted his chest and said to Yan Zechen beside him, "Don’t worry, Senior Brother Yan, I will ensure Sister-in-law’s safety." After speaking, Wang Wenbai then headed towards a stone gate with Li Xinyue, Yan Zechen’s lover, and an ordinary-looking unknown male cultivator, the three going together. Once they entered, the stone gate vanished into the white mist, making it hard for anyone to find again. "Let’s go too," Lou Yi said to You Qingyi and Bi Yaoyao. "Fairy You, be cautious." "Fairy You, if things go awry, please ensure your own safety!" Her back constantly echoed with the concerned voices of the True Inheritance and Inner Sect Disciples. There were relatively few female cultivators in the Cultivation Realm. Beautiful and highly talented female cultivators were an even scarcer resource, their popularity far exceeding ordinary people’s imagination. Someone even shouted loudly, "Fairy You, if you’re willing to form a Dao couple with me, I would abandon half of my cultivation to accompany you inside, so what?" Upon hearing this, You Qingyi stumbled, almost falling into Lou Yi’s arms behind her. "Shameless!" An ordinarily looking female cultivator beside them cursed angrily. "Hey, I think you’re just jealous of Fairy You," the astonishing male cultivator shamelessly said, "If you were as beautiful as Fairy You, someone would do the same for you." "Scram!" ... Lou Yi and the other two no longer paid attention to the commotion behind them, wading through the thick white mist and casually choosing a stone gate to enter one after the other. As they entered the cave, they all felt slightly dizzy. ’This door has a bit of a teleportation effect,’ the three of them thought simultaneously. In front of them was a narrow space about twenty square meters, but the height was about ten zhang. The surrounding walls were gray-white stone, covered with densely packed thorny vines, the green leaves quite lush, layering upon each other. The ground was piled with a lot of dry gray leaves. The entrance they came through had disappeared, and a new stone door appeared in front of them, but this time, there was a distinct keyhole on the door. "We should find the key here to open the door and move on to the next place, hehe," Bi Yaoyao analyzed. The situation was clear; the key was either hidden among the fallen leaves at their feet or in the vines on the stone walls. Bi Yaoyao walked to the stone door’s keyhole position, carefully examining it before saying, "The hole is smooth and markless, the key should be made of gold or iron." "Can we burn away all these vines?" Lou Yi suggested. "No, violently destroying the relics of a master is disrespectful and a big taboo in the Cultivation Realm. There’s no saying what methods might have been left behind to trouble us," Bi Yaoyao shook her head. As for You Qingyi, she took out a blue talisman, tossed it into the air, and chanted. With spiritual power surging, the talisman transformed into a semi-transparent water mirror, in which an ancient bronze key appeared, hidden within the layers of vines. "It’s there," You Qingyi pointed to a location six zhang above. Lou Yi’s eyes flashed with a purple light, and he saw a hint of bronze through the tiny gaps in the vine clusters. "Let me handle it," Bi Yaoyao said excitedly. A slender red rope appeared in her hand. With the input of spiritual power, it shot towards the void ahead with a ’whoosh’, aiming to dive into the vines to grab the key. Unexpectedly, just as the red rope touched the vines, they seemed startled and started swiftly moving along the stone wall with a ’whoosh whoosh whoosh’, The vines quickly changed their positions, and the key that had just been located was once again lost. You Qingyi had to use the Water Mirror Technique again to find the key’s location. But everyone discovered that as long as they first touched the vines, they would move around, constantly changing the key’s position. "This is testing our control over spiritual power," Bi Yaoyao complained. "But the gap is so small here that it’s difficult for our spiritual power to be so finely tuned. It also tests our spiritual sense. Probably only someone at the peak of Qi Cultivation can manage it." "I don’t need to be at the peak of Qi Cultivation; I can do it," Lou Yi said with a smile. "Boasting," Bi Yaoyao wrinkled her beautiful nose. "I believe you are strong, but can you do this kind of delicate work?" "Wanna bet?" "No bet," Bi Yaoyao’s eyes flashed with a hint of cunning. Seeing this, Lou Yi shook his head, unwilling to bother further with this cowardly woman. A wisp of light purple true strength exuded from his fingertip, finer than a needle and thread, invisible unless looked at closely. The true strength flew to the position You Qingyi had just marked, then directly drilled into a gap. Like a nimble little snake, it twisted and turned inside, finally reaching the antique bronze key and hooking it gently through the keyhole. ’Swoosh!’ The key, as if on a fishing line, was lightly tugged by Lou Yi, slipping past numerous vines, and flew into Lou Yi’s hand. After he inserted the key into the door, the stone door slowly rose, revealing the second space inside. Lou Yi and his companions did not know that many cultivators who entered here used fire techniques to burn the vines. But the consequence was that the vines, far from being burnt away, seemed to go berserk like a crazed beast, surging desperately at the intruders. Many cultivators were wrapped and bound back and forth, and some with lower cultivation were even directly suffocated to death! The three of them crossed the second stone door and discovered a dry pond here. Many lotuses were planted in the pond, but the leaves were all withered and yellow, and the broken petals curled and blackened. There was also a stone door behind the pond, but this time there was no keyhole on the stone door. "How should we open this?" Lou Yi was dumbfounded. He restrained the impulse to use true strength and forcibly break the stone door. The martial artist’s spiritual sense told him that if he did so, it would lead to very terrible consequences. You Qingyi also had no idea and looked to Bi Yaoyao along with Lou Yi. Bi Yaoyao walked to the edge of the pond, circling a few times, and suddenly slapped her forehead excitedly: "I know! This is the Thirty-Six Green Lotus Life-locking Array. My dad mentioned it to me before, it’s one of the most famous arrays in the cultivation realm. Count them; don’t these lotuses number exactly thirty-six? They form the Heavenly Gang Formation, absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy and ultimately locking it to the eye of the array, keeping it alive and unbeaten, often used to save those near death." "One of these lotuses should be the array’s heart; if we find it, we might find a way to open the third stone door." "Since it’s the array’s heart, it should have more vitality than the other lotuses," You Qingyi added. Upon hearing this, Lou Yi once again circulated true strength through his eyes. The narrow space before him turned into a lifeless gray, while Bi Yaoyao and You Qingyi were filled with vibrant yellow and red. Among this large patch of lotuses, thirty-two of them were the same deathly gray as the stone walls. But one of them had a faint white hue on its stems, indicating its life force had not completely vanished. Since practicing the Demon Summoning Scripture, Lou Yi’s Qi-Blood had grown increasingly strong, and the true strength had become a more powerful light purple. His eye acupoint had likewise made progress, allowing him to barely distinguish between plant types. "This one should be the array heart," Lou Yi pointed at one of the seemingly withered lotuses on the left front, "It hasn’t completely died." "Qingyi, how about reviving it to see?" Bi Yaoyao looked at You Qingyi. You Qingyi walked silently to the front of the lotus, quickly producing a white porcelain bottle in her hand. She opened the wooden stopper, pouring a streak of thick green liquid onto the lotus. Simultaneously, she slowly brought her hands close to the lotus, her hands glowing with a green light. "This is the Green Wood Spring Technique." Observing Lou Yi’s curious eyes, Bi Yaoyao explained to him. It’s one of the most classic Wood Element techniques in the cultivation realm, often used for healing. A moment later, when You Qingyi looked somewhat pale, she finally stopped completely. And this lotus underwent a wondrous change. Half of the leaves turned from withered yellow to yellow-green, the curled black petals lifted slightly, showing a hint of redness. You Qingyi has a Yin Wood Dual Spirit Root and has continually studied identifying and cultivating spiritual medicine within the sect. By employing her skills now, there was an implicit trend of reviving this lotus! ...