Chapter 89: Choosing The Breaking The Formation Reward
In less than half an hour, Qin Feilong and others arrived beside the lotus pond.
To everyone’s surprise, Sun Qianshan and Sun Qianhe also followed Qin Feilong here. Although their decaying faces were not as smooth and radiant as when they first met, they were much better than the rotten state they were in when they met again.
Seeing Ming Zhaoshuang’s legs torn and bitten like that, the two were shocked, and Qin Feilong rushed over anxiously.
He immediately asked, “Junior Sister Zhaoshuang, she…”
Shen Liqian gestured for him to be quiet and not disturb Ming Zhaoshuang’s rest.
Shen Liqian spoke softly, “She’s fine, she’s asleep, don’t talk.”
If it were only Shen Liqian, Ming Zhaoshuang’s legs would probably be crippled. However, fortunately, the Wood Element Spiritual Flow still existed within her, which could allow Ming Zhaoshuang to regenerate her bones and flesh.
Shen Liqian instructed Qin Feilong, “Senior Brother Feilong, the formation core is the lotus root section beneath the ice lake. Dig it out, and the formation will be broken.”
Qin Feilong and the others cast their gazes towards the adjacent lake water. Seeing the several miles of ice seal, they were once again surprised.
Could this scene have been created by Ming Zhaoshuang?
Was her strength truly only at the Early Golden Core stage?
Qin Feilong and the others wanted to ask what had happened, but Shen Liqian closed her eyes and focused on channeling spiritual power to Ming Zhaoshuang, completely ignoring them.
They were helpless. Except for Ji Qi, whose back was injured, everyone else could only draw their swords and head towards the ice lake.
The Sun Qianshan sisters also did not hesitate, directly rushing towards the ice lake and plunging their long swords into the ice layer.
By the time Qin Feilong belatedly remembered that Ming Zhaoshuang had tricked him into thinking he could gain great fame, they had already been digging for most of the day and had excavated two-thirds of the entire ice lake.
At this very moment, Ming Zhaoshuang slowly woke up.
She yawned, looked at the people diligently digging, and said, “Keep up the good work, Senior Brothers and Sisters.”
Qin Feilong: “!”
He dug with all his might, digging with great effort, digging with immense, super-powered effort!
The other youngsters: “……”
Are you on steroids, man?
Ming Zhaoshuang lowered her eyes, feeling that more than half of the spiritual power within her had recovered. More importantly, she felt as if she had reached a bottleneck again.
The bottleneck of the Golden Core mid-stage.
She could hardly imagine that in just over a month, she would be breaking through.
When the lotus seed infants first bit her, she only felt piercing pain. But after the pain passed, she realized that these infants were helping her increase her cultivation, with an effect similar to those pills used to raise one’s realm.
However, pills used to raise one’s realm were always rare and in high demand. Let alone in the lower realm, even in the upper realm, they were hard to come by.
From this, it can be seen that “after surviving a great disaster, good fortune follows” is not an empty saying.
Realizing this, Ming Zhaoshuang immediately got up and circulated the spiritual power within her body.
She was going to conquer the heavens, the earth, and the air, secretly reaching the Golden Core mid-stage behind everyone’s back!
Unfortunately, Ming Zhaoshuang tried to break through for several hours but failed. Even when Ming Chenxing and the others had finished digging up the lotus roots from the lake water, Ming Zhaoshuang was still separated by a wall, unable to break through at all.
Yixu’s voice announcing the breaking of the formation sounded, and Ming Zhaoshuang had no choice but to put the matter of breaking through her realm aside for the time being.
“Congratulations everyone for successfully breaking the formation and becoming the first trial-taker in ten thousand years to break the Five Poisons Formation with the formation core. The reward is one Nine-Orifice Lotus Seed Heart or one Nine-Orifice Lotus Platform Petal for each person, awaiting your choice.”
The number one person in ten thousand years, truly not easy.
Ming Zhaoshuang looked at the floating Nine-Orifice Lotus Seed Heart and Nine-Orifice Lotus Platform Petal before her, and could not help but give a bitter smile.
She did not believe that no one had discovered that this lotus platform was the formation core before; it was just that no one dared to break through the formation amidst the Five Poisons and ghost infants like they did.
From this, it can be seen that the Talisman Saint’s Secret Realm did not lack good things; rather, all the good things were hidden and not discovered.
The Nine-Orifice Lotus Seed Heart is a treasure for breaking through realms, capable of allowing any cultivator below the Deity Transformation stage to break through one realm with no side effects, making it an object of fierce competition.
As for the Nine-Orifice Lotus Platform Petal, although it has no benefit to cultivation, it is a sacred medicine for all alchemists, capable of healing almost any degree of injury. In addition, it can be considered a defensive magical artifact, capable of blocking a fatal blow from a Mahayana Stage Cultivator, making it another item that cultivators eagerly pursue.
Shen Liqian and the others did not hesitate and chose the Nine-Orifice Lotus Seed Heart.
After all, although the Nine-Orifice Lotus Platform Petal was a treasure, for these youngsters, cultivation and realm were undoubtedly the most important things.
Ming Zhaoshuang hesitated for a while and reached out her hand towards the Nine-Orifice Lotus Platform Petal.
Everyone also expressed their understanding. After all, Ming Zhaoshuang’s legs were so badly injured; if they were not healed in time, she might not be able to continue the next trial.
However, Ming Zhaoshuang did not think that way. Her legs were being looked after by the System. Although they were extremely painful now, they were not fatal and would heal sooner or later.
She was only thinking of Xiao Bai, whose Lightning Tribulation injuries could not even be healed by the System, and chose it for him.
Just then, Sun Qianhe, who had been silent all along, spoke up, “Wait! You choose the Lotus Seed Heart.”
As one of the people who remained until the end, Sun Qianhe could also choose between the Nine-Orifice Lotus Seed Heart and the Nine-Orifice Lotus Platform Petal. She chose the Nine-Orifice Lotus Platform Petal without hesitation and handed it to Ming Zhaoshuang.
She looked at Ming Zhaoshuang, pursed her lips, and said, “You gave me a Spirit Fruit, and I will return a petal of the lotus to you. My Sun Family’s children are not ungrateful. You are more worthy of breaking through than I am, and more worthy of breaking through the subsequent formations, so please accept it!”
Her action surprised everyone present, and they even doubted if she knew the effects of these two treasures.
Could she truly bear to give it away so easily?
Seeing that Ming Zhaoshuang did not respond, Sun Qianhe continued, “I know I made mistakes before. After the Talisman Saint’s Secret Realm ends, I will apologize to the Ao Tian Sect on behalf of the Sun Family.”
If the Sun Family could produce someone as upright and uncorrupted as Sun Qianshan, then Sun Qianhe could not be far behind.
She had simply misjudged people before and picked the wrong one.
Sun Qianshan remained silent and did not stop Sun Qianhe’s actions. People always had to take responsibility for their mistakes.
Sun Qianhe had taken advantage of someone’s predicament before, and now she knew her mistake and corrected it. As her elder sister, she felt heartbroken and relieved. Sun Qianhe’s previous actions of breaking ties with Zhao Congbai and others for her sake made her feel an unprecedented warmth.
She supported Sun Qianhe’s actions at this moment.
Ming Zhaoshuang smiled, accepted the Nine-Orifice Lotus Platform Petal given by Sun Qianhe with a decisive manner, and chose the Nine-Orifice Lotus Seed Heart for breaking through realms.
Sun Qianshan also chose the Nine-Orifice Lotus Seed Heart for breaking through at the same time.
Thus, the choices were completed.
The Alchemy Saint Yixu’s voice sounded again, “Everyone can surely feel the difficulty and danger of the secret realm. Therefore, after breaking through the second trial, you have another choice.”
“To stay and continue the trials, or to be directly teleported outside the secret realm and end this journey.”
