Eternal Life: My Talents Can Refresh

Chapter 396 - 197: Nine Derivation Spirit Mountain, Joyful Acquisition of Treasure

With a flicker in his gaze, Chu Ning put the mat back on the ground.

At the same time, he sat on it and carefully began to operate the Flame Divine Wood Technique.

What slightly surprised Chu Ning was that even though the spiritual qi here was sparse,

it seemed to become more concentrated under cultivation.

"This mat can actually help gather spiritual qi during cultivation!"

Chu Ning looked at it in great surprise.

Although the gathering isn’t very noticeable, roughly only increasing by one-tenth.

But imagine if one’s cultivation speed can be ten percent faster without relying on spirit medicines or other external aids.

Accumulated over time, it would be quite astonishing.

Since he had such a treasure, Chu Ning naturally did not hesitate to put it away.

Then, Chu Ning walked around this stone chamber and took a turn around the entire cave mansion.

Finding nothing else, Chu Ning then came to the outermost area of the cave mansion.

Separated by the restriction, Chu Ning couldn’t clearly see the outside at all, making him hesitate slightly.

"If according to the speculation, this Grand Elder’s cave mansion should be on the eighth layer of this Elder Mountain.

Apart from the two Sect Leaders on the ninth layer, his position is the highest.

But last time I came here, I was attacked by several puppets just after touching the restriction on the seventh layer.

If I rashly go out..."

Chu Ning was not too worried about the puppets he encountered last time.

With his much increased strength now, he could somewhat judge that although those puppets were not weak,

they likely hadn’t reached the Golden Core Stage.

After all, back then I only relied on the armor I was wearing, and those puppets did not hurt me at all.

However, Chu Ning wasn’t sure if there were other, stronger puppets.

He now even suspected that the puppetry skill he previously obtained from Song Li also originated from this Thunder Fire Sect.

After all, Song Li had this puppetry skill on him, and his son Song Cheng’s storage bag contained a token of the Thunder Fire Sect.

How could there be such a coincidence?

"Let’s just go out and see. At worst, if there really is a Golden Core Cultivator, I can retreat back into this cave mansion."

After hesitating for a moment, Chu Ning still opened the restriction with the jade token in hand and exited the cave mansion.

Once out of the cave mansion, he was met with yet another scene.

Everything here was intact, and above, there was a layer obscured by some kind of restriction.

Looking down, there was also a restriction between the eighth layer and the seventh layer, yet it did not affect the view.

Visible to the eye was a slanted, wide stone passage.

At the end of the stone passage was a grand hall, exactly the path Chu Ning took the first time he entered Elder Mountain.

However, that time, he only went to the sixth layer before he stopped going up.

At this point, Chu Ning looked across the wide stone passage to the other side, which was another cave mansion.

A similar restriction shimmered outside the cave mansion.

Holding two jade tokens, Chu Ning first walked towards the cave mansion across and tried to directly open its restriction with the token in hand.

But he was not successful.

Chu Ning then walked upward, coming in front of the ninth layer’s restriction.

After hesitating for a moment, he ultimately didn’t dare to try to open the restriction with the jade token.

After all, the restriction here was perfectly intact, and he was really worried that touching the restriction above might have its dangers.

Moreover, he had gained so much during this entry, with both a significant cultivation increase and several treasures.

"Ying!"

Ling Xiaobai stood in front of Chu Ning at this moment, letting out a soft cry.

"I still can’t get through the restriction here.

However, the restriction below, I can pass through!"

Chu Ning remembered how Ling Xiaobai couldn’t pass through the restriction on the seventh layer last time, but now claimed to be able to pass through the restriction between the seventh and eighth layers.

Obviously, this was related to Ling Xiaobai’s promotion to a Third Level Demon Beast.

But at this moment, Chu Ning shook the jade token in his hand with a chuckle and said:

"Little fellow, you’d better save your divine techniques, I have the restriction jade token."

According to Chu Ning’s speculation, the restriction jade token shouldn’t allow passage to an upper layer, but it could allow passage to a lower layer.

Of course, even if it was a lower layer, it might not open the restrictions of different cave mansions.

As for whether it could, it could only be determined by trying.

Thinking this way, Chu Ning held the two jade tokens and went downward.

Then, after attempting for a while, it was indeed as expected; the jade token obtained from Song Li could not pass through this layer’s protective restriction.

However, using the jade token obtained from the Grand Elder allowed easy passage.

Descending to the seventh layer, Chu Ning’s gaze scanned the cave mansions on both sides, slightly filled with curiosity.

"There are no signs of those wolf-shaped puppets from last time here, could it be that these puppets are in some cave mansion.

Triggering a restriction would make them appear from within the cave mansion?"

Thinking this, Chu Ning held the jade token and began to walk towards the right cave mansion.

After trying to inject magical power into the two jade tokens respectively without success, Chu Ning walked towards the left cave mansion.

Having determined that the Grand Elder’s restriction jade token couldn’t open others’ cave mansions, Chu Ning didn’t try anymore.

Instead, he directly used the jade token obtained from Song Cheng, injecting magical power into it.

In the next moment, this cave mansion’s protective restriction was directly opened.

Immediately, the scene inside came into Chu Ning’s view.

The first thing he saw was the four wolf-shaped puppet beasts at the entrance of the cave mansion.

At this moment, the four puppet beasts looked at Chu Ning; perhaps because Chu Ning was holding the jade token and did not directly trigger the restriction,

the puppets did not attack Chu Ning.

Seeing this, Chu Ning finally felt a bit reassured.

His gaze flickered, and after casting a spell with the jade token,

"Sit!"

Chu Ning lightly commanded, surprisingly using the puppet control skill he learned before to give an order to those four wolf-shaped puppet beasts.

To his delight, the four puppets obediently sat down at Chu Ning’s command.