Chapter 222 Grand Canyon

Ever since a vein of innate spirit stones was discovered in the Great Star Sea, every force in the entire Nebula State has been jealous. A vein of innate spirit stones can produce at least hundreds of thousands of innate spirit stones, and this is still the smallest vein. It is not difficult to mine millions of innate spirit stones from a larger vein. As for those large veins in the legend, they only appear in the Zushenzhou.

It is said that the large-scale innate spirit stone veins in Zu Shenzhou all contain tens of millions of innate spirit stones, which is simply terrifying.

For this grand event at Tianji Pavilion, Liu Qingqing had already spent a lot of the innate spirit stones that Qiantian Liehuo Sect had accumulated for countless years. Now, sensing the faint aura of innate spiritual energy emanating from this underwater canyon, she was immediately certain that this was the location of the innate spirit stone mine in the Great Star Sea.

In this era, the aura of innate spiritual energy can only be found near the innate spirit stone veins.

After understanding this, Liu Qingqing didn't dare to move anymore. She carefully concealed all her aura, for fear of being discovered by the monsters in the Great Star Sea.

Since this is where the mineral vein is located, the security must be extremely tight.

Sure enough, the Qinglin Yunkong Whale roared in pain while swimming towards the bottom of the Grand Canyon. In just a short moment, Liu Qingqing sensed that this magnificent canyon was covered by countless large formations. The formations were stacked layer upon layer without any gaps or loopholes at all.

What was strange was that such a dense array of formations covered the entire canyon, but these formations did not stop the injured Qinglin Yunkong Whale. This giant beast swam straight into the depths of the canyon without alarming any of the formations.

Obviously, the formation here does not block or guard against these sea monsters, nor does it have any reaction to these monsters.

Liu Qingqing's mind turned, and she flashed and landed directly on the giant beast. She hid behind the huge dorsal fin of the beast, concealing all the fluctuations of her breath, and surprisingly passed through the various large formations hidden in the dark very smoothly.

Zhang Qian, who was in the belly of the giant whale, thought for a moment and couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Could it be that this Azure Scaled Sky Whale has been tamed by someone? So the formation here doesn't stop it?"

Just when Zhang Qian was somewhat puzzled, this three-hundred-foot-long giant beast had already arrived at the bottom of the dark canyon.

Zhang Qian estimated that this underwater canyon was actually a thousand feet deep. There was no telling how many large formations were shrouding the canyon, and it was simply impossible to count them. However, this giant beast passed through them all smoothly without alarming anyone.

Roar!
At this moment, the giant beast suddenly opened its mouth and roared. The roar contained a strange wave. This hidden wave swept out in an instant and spread far away!

Rumble!
As soon as the roar ended, a flash of light suddenly appeared in the darkness in front of the giant beast, and a huge portal appeared in the boundless darkness. This portal seemed to be a hole opened in a large formation and seemed a little unreal.

As the portal appeared, a lot of light shone out from behind the portal.

Seeing this huge portal, the giant beast showed a hint of excitement and grievance in its eyes. It flicked its tail and swam directly into the portal.

When the giant beast passed through the portal, Zhang Qian carefully sent out a trace of spiritual awareness, and his face changed instantly.

Behind the portal was a much larger space. It was still the bottom of the Grand Canyon, but it was brightly lit, as if it were daytime.

There are countless caves carved on the mountain walls on both sides of the Grand Canyon, and there are also extremely tall palaces standing there.

Waves of majestic demonic aura leaked out from these palaces, and it was unknown how much there was.

"Here..." Zhang Qian frowned, knowing that this should be near the innate spirit stone mine. The palaces scattered here were obviously built by many forces in the Great Star Sea to guard this place.

Sensing the demonic energy faintly leaking out from these palaces, Zhang Qian calculated for a while and said in surprise: "Just looking at these demonic energies, there are actually no less than hundreds of thousands of great demons concentrated in this canyon!"

This is a terrifying number. The key is that most of these monsters with demonic aura are at the Jindan level or above. Zhang Qian can even sense the pressure of the aura of many Yuanshen monsters!
"What is that place?"

Zhang Qian carefully probed forward with his spiritual sense. He saw that in front of these scattered palaces and caves, in the deepest part of the Grand Canyon, there was a transparent formation. The walls of this formation covered an area of ​​100 miles in radius. Through the unbreakable walls, Zhang Qian could see countless figures mining something in the formation. Obviously, behind this formation was the innate spirit stone vein.

What was weird was that these figures who were mining the innate spiritual stones in the mines were actually human cultivators, not demons. These cultivators had numb expressions and dull eyes, and they were wearing all kinds of clothes. Zhang Qian looked for a while and saw that these cultivators were actually disciples of the Xingyun State sects. The clothes they wore were very easy to identify, and Zhang Qian even saw quite a few disciples of Mangcang Mountain among them!

And outside this transparent formation, there are countless great monsters patrolling back and forth. These great monsters are divided into teams of ten, and the leaders are all great monsters who have reached the Dharmakāya realm!

"What a tight defense! There's absolutely no loopholes in this arrangement!"

After watching for a while, although Zhang Qian was very envious of the mineral vein behind the formation, he thought to himself that even if he played all his cards, he would be dead if he was exposed.

Hundreds of thousands of big monsters gathered here, and many of the big monsters with their souls were suppressed here. Even if an ancient sect had played all its cards, they would be annihilated if they came here.

At this moment, the injured Qinglin Yunkong Whale swam towards one of the palaces, swinging its tail.

What's strange is that the big monsters patrolling nearby seemed to know this giant beast. Seeing the scars all over the beast's body, the big monsters looked at it curiously but did not step forward to stop it.

Seeing that the giant beast was about to approach the palace, Zhang Qian could clearly sense the aura and pressure of a great demon spirit emanating from the palace. Taking advantage of the giant beast's roar, he hurriedly flew his Immortal Palace out of the beast's mouth, gently fell to the ground, and turned into a speck of dust, motionless.

The giant beast didn't notice anything at all. It was because the immortal palace had turned into the size of dust. How could this giant beast with not much intelligence notice it?

boom!
When the giant beast swam near the palace, the palace gate burst open and an extremely harsh sound came out from the palace.

"Who did it?"

The sound was like someone rubbing fingernails on a piece of iron, giving people goose bumps all over their body.

Roar, roar, roar...!
The injured giant beast showed a look of grievance in its eyes, and kept roaring. Then a huge pressure swept out, covering the giant beast, as if it was exploring something.

"Sure enough, this giant beast was raised and tamed by someone. I wonder who tamed this giant beast?"

Seeing this, Zhang Qian was thoughtful, and soon he thought that there might be countless giant sea beasts roaming around the Great Starry Sea. After these giant beasts were tamed, they took on the responsibility of patrolling the Great Starry Sea. It was not a coincidence that Li Qingcheng and Liu Qingqing encountered these giant beasts before.

(End of this chapter)