Chapter 3468: Xuantian Remnant Treasure Crouching Dragon Axe (Gone Today)

A steep peak stood tall, with a huge cave halfway up its side.

A red, shimmering flying boat approached from a distance. Soon, it stopped above the peak, carrying Wang Yong'an and seven others, all looking serious.

"The Celestial Soul God Crystal vein is right here," Wang Chuanming said, pointing to the cave.

After obtaining the Purple Jade Primordial Soul Fruit, they teleported away. Not long after, they spotted two Eighth-tier demonic beasts fighting in the distance and immediately fled to avoid being caught in the conflict.

Wang Yidao and Wang Yibing had consumed the Ephemeral Origin Fruit and advanced to the late Integration Stage. They planned to return and mine the Celestial Soul God Crystals.

Previously, as mid-Integration Stage cultivators, Wang Yidao and Wang Yibing couldn't sustain the use of high-grade Heaven-reaching Spirit Treasures for mining Celestial Soul God Crystals for very long. Having advanced to the late Integration Stage, they could now wield these treasures with much greater ease.

"Yong'an, first set up the warning and teleportation arrays," Wang Yibing instructed. "We'll mine the Celestial Soul God Crystals slowly, taking as much as we can get. With enough of them, the family can refine a batch of Seventh-tier puppet beasts and create a puppet army. Imagine the formidable power the Wang family would wield with a Seventh-tier puppet beast army if another major war breaks out in the future."

Wang Yong'an acknowledged and took out array flags and plates to set up the formation.

A towering peak, ten thousand zhang high, had a colossal cave at its base. In an open area near the peak, the sky was a hazy gray, filled with thunder and lightning. Silver bolts occasionally streaked across the firmament, resembling a sea of thunder.

A massive golden lion was enveloped by a vast blue water curtain. The golden lion activated its Dharma Idol, unleashing thick bolts of lightning to strike the blue water curtain.

Wang Ruyan played her music with intense concentration, the sound of her zither becoming increasingly rapid.

Inside the blue water curtain, colossal waves surged, and five massive blue giants attacked the golden lion.

As time passed, the golden lion's reactions grew progressively slower.

After about a quarter of an hour, the golden lion appeared dazed, its gaze vacant. Two blue giants swung their fists, striking the golden lion.

The golden lion was sent flying backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily against the blue water curtain with a dull thud. Blood flowed profusely. Before it could rise, a shimmering blue halo swept over its body. The golden lion let out a mournful roar and then ceased to breathe.

Wang Changsheng manifested a green jade bottle and collected the golden lion's spirit.

Wang Changsheng stepped forward, sliced open the golden thunder lion's abdomen with a knife, and extracted a golden demon core and a golden orb.

He shook the golden orb, but there was no anomaly in the sky above.

"An Eighth-tier Lightning Absorption Pearl!" Wang Changsheng exclaimed with delight. He released Wang Lin and had him cast spells to attack the golden orb, confirming it was indeed an Eighth-tier Lightning Absorption Pearl.

Since entering the cultivation ground, they had slain over ten Eighth-tier demonic beasts, three of which were lightning-attributed. The previous two had not yielded Lightning Absorption Pearls. It was unexpected that this golden thunder lion possessed one, which explained its ability to survive in this location.

He flew into the cave. Shortly after, he emerged into a cavern roughly ten acres in size. In the lower-right corner of the stone chamber stood a fruit tree several zhang tall, bearing over twenty silver-white fruits that emitted a unique fragrance. These were Thunder-raising Fruits, similar in effect to the Seven Flame Golden Peach, capable of assisting Integration Stage cultivators in their breakthrough to the Mahayana Stage. In the lower-left corner of the stone chamber was a pool hundreds of zhang wide. A large hole had opened above the pool, allowing sunlight to stream in. Floating on the water were three entirely silver lotus plants, with golden patterns on their petals. These were Gold-patterned Thunder Lotuses; each grew a new petal every ten thousand years and could enhance the magical power of cultivators practicing lightning-attributed techniques. The three Gold-patterned Thunder Lotuses had ages ranging from at least fifty thousand to eighty thousand years.

Wang Changsheng carefully picked all the Thunder-raising Fruits and placed them into a jade box, not forgetting the three Gold-patterned Thunder Lotuses.

Wang Ruyan and Wang Lin flew in. Wang Lin's brows furrowed as he looked at the pool, and without a word, he leaped into it.

"Is there something good in the pool?" Wang Ruyan asked, puzzled.

Soon after, the water surface erupted, and Wang Lin flew out of the pool.

"Master, there's a water-attributed treasure in the pool, but I can't retrieve it," Wang Lin said, describing the item he had found.

Possessing the Black Tortoise bloodline, he was particularly sensitive to water spiritual energy. The treasure's overly strong water spiritual energy fluctuations were what caught his attention.

Curious, Wang Changsheng flew into the pool.

Not long after, Wang Changsheng emerged from the pool, looking excited. In his hand, he held a small blue axe that pulsed with light. Its blade had a fingernail-sized chip, and its handle was carved with a blue flood dragon pattern, emitting astonishing water spiritual energy fluctuations.

"A Profound Sky Fragmented Treasure!" Wang Changsheng enunciated each word, his expression brimming with excitement.

He never imagined he would acquire a Profound Sky Fragmented Treasure here. It was known that Profound Azure Child, with just one such treasure, was able to suppress the Essence Flame and Yaksha tribes' Mahayana cultivators, preventing them from acting recklessly.

With this Profound Sky Fragmented Treasure, coupled with the cultivation methods of the Spiritual Domain, which clan on the Profound Spirit Continent could possibly surpass the Wang family?

"A Profound Sky Treasure! We can go back and retrieve that Qianjin Blazing Crystal vein now, and the Ten Thousand Spirit Dao Fruit!" Wang Ruyan was overjoyed. She had not expected that slaying an Eighth-tier golden thunder lion would yield not only an Eighth-tier Lightning Absorption Pearl but also a Profound Sky Fragmented Treasure.

Wang Ruyan looked at the opening above the pool, her face full of doubt. "Could it have come from here?" she wondered.

She had a bold theory: a powerful cultivator's battle might have flung this Profound Sky Fragmented Treasure away, causing it to land here.

"Most likely," Wang Changsheng said, his expression excited. "I found some fragments of stone at the bottom of the pool, which might have fallen from here. Once I've refined this treasure, we'll go back and secure the Qianjin Blazing Crystal vein."

They had only managed to extract a small amount of Qianjin Blazing Crystals after almost half a month of mining. If Soul Transformation and Void Refining cultivators were to do the mining, the efficiency would be even lower. A large Qianjin Blazing Crystal vein would be enough for the Wang family to mine for hundreds of thousands of years.

Besides the Qianjin Blazing Crystal vein, there was also the Ten Thousand Spirit Dao Fruit. With this fruit, Wang Changsheng would find it much easier to comprehend the Spiritual Domain.

Wang Changsheng sat cross-legged, tossed the small blue axe into the air, and expelled a burst of essence qi to envelop and refine it.

An hour later, with a massive roar, the cavern split into two, and a colossal, shimmering blue axe blade shot out, hurtling straight towards the ground.

With a thundering roar, a chasm a thousand zhang deep and ten thousand li long appeared on the ground.

"So this is a Profound Sky Fragmented Treasure!" Wang Changsheng murmured to himself, holding the small blue axe. On it, he could discern three small characters: "Fulong Axe."

It was unknown what materials this Profound Sky Fragmented Treasure was forged from, but it was incredibly heavy; Wang Lin couldn't even lift it.

There was only a one-character difference between a "Profound Sky Fragmented Treasure" and a "Profound Sky Treasure," but their power varied greatly. The latter required special techniques to refine, which was why Wang Changsheng was certain this item was a Profound Sky Fragmented Treasure.

Wang Changsheng released Wang Liao and had him transplant the Thunder-raising Fruit tree.

"Let's go. We're heading back to claim that Qianjin Blazing Crystal vein."