Tian Yuan War Chronicles: The Path of Artifacts to Ascension – Chapter 25

Ch 25: Palace in the Lake

“You bunch of troublemakers! I am a dignified Late Stage Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator of the Tian Yuan Sect! How dare you make a fool of me like this!” Martial Uncle Feng muttered while preparing a new magical artifact.

“Small spirit fish, grant me spirit eyes! Go!” Martial Uncle Feng took another small fish-shaped magical artifact, attached three Water Element talismans, and threw it into the water.

“Clam spirit!” As soon as the magical artifact fish entered the water, it discovered a large group of bivalves not far away, constantly opening and closing their huge river clam shells.

“Martial Uncle! Let me see!” A group of young men about the same age as Hua Kong crowded over when they heard there was a discovery.

“What are you pushing for? What are you pushing for? Oh no… Look, the clam spirit swallowed the small fish!” Just as a few young men were about to squeeze to the side of the Spirit Jade to see what was happening, they didn’t see anything.

This is troublesome. There are already clam spirits that can launch water balls by the lake. Wouldn’t there be even bigger guys in the deep water?

“Could the Lake Spirit really exist?” Martial Uncle Feng hesitated for a while and realized that there was something strange about this place.

“There really is a Lake Spirit?!” The young men behind him were excited. They encountered a big deal on their first mission out of the sect.

“Stop arguing! Let’s rest for a moment! I’ll report to Master!” Martial Uncle Feng made a decision, released a small boat, let the cultivators board the boat, drove the flying boat away from the lake, and found a flat forest to land in.

Lin Yu and Hua Kong also followed Lin Lan onto the boat, and the few of them meditated and cultivated in the room.

Two days later, Martial Uncle Feng gathered the cultivators and announced a message.

“I have already reported to Master! He wants us to explore the depths of this Lake Spirit first! Who is willing to go with me!” Martial Uncle Feng asked.

“I’ll go!”

“I’ll go!”

“I’ll go!”

These young men didn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth and expressed their willingness to go, but the female cultivators who came with them were much calmer.

“Stop shouting! Those with Water Spiritual Root have priority! Those in the Foundation Establishment Stage have priority!” Martial Uncle Feng shouted.

“Martial Uncle! I have a Water Spiritual Root!”

“Me too!”

“I am in the Foundation Establishment Stage.”

Several cultivators stood up, both men and women!

“Jin Tong! Han Kuang! Dong Zhaodi! Yan Qingyu! You few come down with me! Shu Xianjing, you stay behind and keep an eye on these young men! I will return in the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

If I don’t return within half an hour, do not act rashly. Shu Xianjing, you immediately use the Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission Talisman to notify your Ancestor! You just wait for Ancestor on the shore! Do not act rashly!” Martial Uncle Feng said seriously.

“We respectfully obey Martial Uncle’s decree!” The cultivators agreed.

Martial Uncle Feng drove the flying boat to a sparsely populated place by the lake. The cultivators left the flying boat and waited by the lake.

“Let’s go! Don’t stray too far from me!” Martial Uncle Feng took out a Water Aversion Pearl. The few of them prepared slightly, gathered around the Water Aversion Pearl, and stepped into the lake, one foot deep and the other shallow.

The cultivators stared at each other by the lake for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. There was no reaction in the lake, and there was a little commotion in the crowd.

“Don’t be nervous! It’s only been the time it takes for an incense stick to burn! Martial Uncle may have discovered something! It’s normal to stay a little longer!” Shu Xianjing shouted.

“Martial Uncle Feng hasn’t come up yet.”

“He should be coming up soon!”

Time crept closer to half an hour, and the whispers in the crowd grew louder!

“Senior Sister! Send the Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission Talisman!”

“It hasn’t been half an hour yet!”

“Senior Sister! Send the Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission Talisman!”

“It’s almost time! Martial Uncle might come up any minute now!”

“Senior Sister! It’s been half an hour! Send the Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission Talisman! Who wants to go down and take a look with me!” A tall, thin male cultivator shouted.

“Gao Shan! Don’t act rashly! Martial Uncle said not to act rashly!” Shu Xianjing shouted while taking out the Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission Talisman.

“Senior Sister! If something happens to Martial Uncle! Now is the best time to save him!” Gao Shan retorted.

“Martial Uncle is at the Late Stage Foundation Establishment! Jin Tong and Han Kuang are both at the Early Stage Foundation Establishment! Three Foundation Establishment cultivators went down and didn’t come back! Martial Uncle is still a Great Cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Stage! What’s the use of you, a Mid-Cultivation Qi Refining cultivator, going down!” Shu Xianjing disagreed.

Shu Xianjing shot out the Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission Talisman in her hand. After waiting another half an hour, the lake surface was still calm. The cultivators finally couldn’t sit still any longer.

“Senior Sister! Let me go down and take a look!” Gao Shan requested.

“Stop arguing! Wait a moment!” Shu Xianjing was also a little flustered.

“Senior Sister! The Sound Transmission Talisman! It must be Ancestor shooting it over!” A cultivator shouted, pointing into the distance. At this moment, a streak of light was flying towards them.

“Do not move!” The Sound Transmission Talisman spoke above the cultivators’ heads, then immediately turned and rushed into the lake!

“This seat is Gao Yunxian of the Tian Yuan Sect! I apologize for the disturbance! I implore you, Fellow Daoist, to show mercy! Do not harm my inferior disciples!” Old Ancestor Gao’s voice of law was like thunder, spreading across the lake.

“Ahahahahehe…” A few strange laughs suddenly came from the lake, and then it returned to silence.

“Ancestor!” The cultivators were shocked by Old Ancestor Gao’s methods and didn’t dare to act rashly.

Everyone knew that something big had happened. Although they were anxious, they didn’t act rashly. After waiting anxiously for nearly a day, a thunderous sound came from afar.

“Ancestor is here!” Hearing this sound, the cultivators all ended their meditation and stood up from the ground.

The thunderous sound flew directly towards the lake and stopped in the high sky not far from the shore. It was a black flying boat.

The black flying boat was put away, and the figure of a middle-aged man in a green shirt appeared in the high sky.

“Ancestor!”

“Ancestor!”

“Ancestor!”

The cultivators became excited and shouted at the middle-aged man in the air.

“Don’t be impatient!” Old Ancestor Gao turned around and said. The cultivators immediately quieted down.

“I didn’t know Fellow Daoist was here! My inferior disciples have caused much disturbance! I implore Fellow Daoist to meet and talk!” Old Ancestor Gao shouted at the lake.

After the voice fell, the lake remained calm and without any reaction.

Old Ancestor Gao was not discouraged and shouted twice more. The strange laughter from last time came from the lake.

“Ahahahahehe…”

“Whoosh~~” Then came a sound of rushing water. A waterless passage suddenly opened up in the lake.

The cultivators quickly ran to the front of the waterway. This long waterway led all the way to the center of the lake, and the vague outline of a palace hall was revealed at the end.

“Palace!” Someone saw the palace at the end of the waterway and was eager to try, wanting to go forward and find out.

“Don’t be impatient!” Old Ancestor Gao stopped the cultivators and walked alone from the passage to the palace in the distance.

The cultivators wandered around at the entrance for a while and then watched as a few people slowly floated over not far away. Who else could it be but Martial Uncle Feng and the others?

The cultivators rushed over and carried the few people to the lake shore. The few of them were covered in water and unconscious.

“Antidote pills!” The cultivators took out antidote pills and gave them to the few people. After about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the few people slowly woke up and found themselves surrounded by the cultivators.

“They’re awake! They’re awake!”

“Martial Uncle, what happened?” The cultivators asked all at once.

“Where is this?” The few people were puzzled.

“Martial Uncle! This is on the shore of the lake! Ancestor came and rescued you!” Someone said.

“Ancestor?… Master is here! Where is he?” Martial Uncle Feng was shocked and sat up.

“In the palace over there!” The cultivators made way and pointed to the passage in the lake.

“Ah!? You can’t go!” Martial Uncle Feng shouted.

“Why can’t we go? Old Ancestor has already gone!” The male cultivator named Gao Shan suddenly said anxiously.

“The female cultivator inside has unfathomable strength! She’s probably a Nascent Soul Old Ancestor!” Martial Uncle Feng sighed.

“Na… Nascent Soul Old Ancestor!” Gao Shan was so shocked that he fell to the ground.

“What should we do then?” The cultivators were all shocked.

“I have to notify Master!” Martial Uncle Feng quickly took out a Sound Transmission Talisman, said a few words of warning, and activated it.

“Understood!” A Sound Transmission Talisman flew back not long after.

“Thank goodness! Thank goodness! Master is fine!” Old Ancestor Gao sent back a message, and the cultivators also breathed a sigh of relief.

“How are you few?” Only then did Martial Uncle Feng remember the few people who had gone with him.

“We’re fine, Martial Uncle!” Although the few people were a little dizzy, they were clearly not harmed.

“Now it seems! This so-called Lake Spirit doesn’t have much malice. She’s just guarding this palace!” Martial Uncle Feng said to himself.

The cultivators waited for a while, and a figure suddenly appeared in the waterway. It was Old Ancestor Gao.

“Master! How was it?” When Old Ancestor Gao walked onto the lake shore, Martial Uncle Feng greeted him. The passage behind him disappeared in a burst of roaring waves.

“Zi Chang! This matter is difficult to handle!” Old Ancestor Gao sighed.

“What do you mean, Master?” Martial Uncle Feng was puzzled.

“Let’s talk about it when we get back! You first arrange for these young men to do some errands at the mine!” Old Ancestor Gao looked at the group of people looking at each other.

“Okay! Okay!” Martial Uncle Feng quickly agreed.

So the cultivators were once again carried by the flying boat to the nearby Spirit Stone Mine. Old Ancestor Gao was the garrison of this mine.

Lin Yu and Hua Kong followed Lin Lan for a few days, but they didn’t help with anything. They were taken to the Spirit Stone Mine. They had never known how Spirit Stones were produced before, so they found it novel.

Because the Tian Yuan Sect had been operating this mine for many years, there were no risks. Lin Yu and Hua Kong were arranged by Lin Lan to cultivate in peace in a small wooden hut where the nearby cultivators lived.

Because they returned to the Great Zhou of the One Yang Realm once before the New Year, their cultivation levels had not improved. Now they could make up for some of it.