Free Web NovelChapter 651: Chapter 250: Spirit of the Immortal Mountain (4)
"Young Master, it seems another demon beast has broken in!"
Liu Gui’s expression subtly changed, and he spoke in a somber tone.
Shen Chongxuan said nothing, his figure suddenly accelerating, rushing directly toward the place where the battle was occurring.
When he arrived at the battlefield, there were already over a dozen corpses of slain demon beasts lying around.
There were still six or seven ferocious demon beasts remaining, fiercely battling with Shen Family cultivators who were guarding the cave.
These six or seven demon beasts mostly had cultivation at the Qi Cultivation Eighth or Ninth Layer, relying on their thick hide for defense, desperately attempting to charge into the cave despite the onslaught from the Shen Family cultivators.
Seeing this, Shen Chongxuan’s hand flashed with light, directly drawing out a Cyan Bamboo Longsword.
This Cyan Bamboo Sword was once the sword Immortal Huang Lingshan paired with in her early years, made from the Heaven-Reaching Sword Bamboo at the top of Yin Sword Peak in the Cyan Ruo Sword House, containing a wisp of Cyan Bamboo Sword Intent.
Years ago, when Shen Chongming went to Danzhou, Huang Lingshan gifted it to him for self-defense.
With Shen Chonghong’s past experiences in mind, this time when Shen Chongxuan came to Huaisang, Shen Chongming made him bring this sword.
After drawing the Cyan Bamboo Sword, Shen Chongxuan flickered, rushing directly into the midst of the crazed demon beasts.
Streaks of blue sword aura flickered, and the demon beasts’ scale hides, which could resist the bombardment from the Shen Family Qi Cultivation Realm cultivators, were easily pierced by the Cyan Bamboo Sword, causing the demon beasts to be instantly decapitated.
After slaying these demon beasts, Shen Chongxuan sheathed his sword and looked at the others, saying:
"Is everyone alright?"
"Is anyone injured?"
The dozen or so Shen Family cultivators looked at each other, noticing a few had bloodstains on them, clearly suffering some superficial wounds.
"Young Master, these beasts are quite strange."
"Each one came charging wildly from the forest, disregarding everything, relentlessly trying to enter this cave, unstoppable, without knowing why."
One cultivator frowned and spoke.
Beside him, another cultivator agreed, saying: "That snake demon even had its body chopped in half by us, yet its remaining upper body kept wriggling toward the cave, truly eerie!" fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
Listening to the voices around him, Shen Chongxuan turned to look at the demon beast corpses on the ground, then the cave.
"Let’s go inside and have a look."
He was also curious why these demon beasts were so desperately determined to enter the cave.
The group followed him to the fork in the cave.
Liu Gui pointed to the left path and spoke respectfully: "Young Master, at the end of this road is where the pill furnace is located."
"The end of the middle path is where that strange little tree is located, as we spoke of."
"At the end of the right path, there’s nothing much, it should just be an empty stone chamber now."
Shen Chongxuan nodded, thought briefly, and said: "Let’s go check out the pill furnace first."
The group followed him to the left fork.
Within moments, they arrived at the gigantic pill furnace.
"Hmm!?"
Just as the group reached the pill furnace, the accompanying Shen Family cultivators noticed something amiss!
"What’s wrong?"
Noticing the puzzled looks on their faces, Shen Chongxuan asked curiously.
"Young Master, this pill furnace... seems to have shrunk!"
Shrunk?
Shen Chongxuan frowned slightly, approached, inspected carefully, and then turned around: "Are you sure it has shrunk?"
The group exchanged glances, then nodded in affirmation.
"Reporting to the Young Master, I’m sure this pill furnace has shrunk!"
"The last time, when Young Master Chonghong came in, this pill furnace’s height was definitely over one zhang."
"But now..."
Hearing this, Shen Chongxuan looked at the pill furnace before them, which was only a little over eight feet, his expression somewhat grave.
"Has anyone been here recently?"
The group looked at each other, then all shook their heads.
They were merely ordered to guard the entrance to the cave. With that eerie little tree inside, capable of killing without a trace, no one wanted to enter when there was nothing to do.
Seeing this, Shen Chongxuan’s suspicion deepened. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
A pill furnace that had been placed here for an unknown number of years could shrink on its own without being touched, which sounded very strange.
More importantly, he felt no spiritual power fluctuations from this pill furnace.
Walking slowly up to the massive pill furnace, Shen Chongxuan was about to reach out and touch it when the cultivators beside him were instantly startled, rushing forward together.
"Young Master, be careful."
"This pill furnace is too bizarre, better not to touch it."
Shen Chongxuan smiled faintly: "It’s alright, I just want to see the material of this pill furnace."
The pill furnace before him was entirely black, revealing no specific material it was made from.
"Since the Young Master wishes to see... let me go first!"
Seeing this, Liu Gui gritted his teeth and placed his palm directly on the surface of the pill furnace.
Seeing no incidents occur, the group finally relaxed their tense hearts.
Shen Chongxuan approached the pill furnace, reaching out to lightly touch its body.
Then he tapped it again.
The sound was dull, seeming metallic, but it was still impossible to confirm precisely.
Because the pill furnace could block divine sense, preventing anyone from seeing its internal material.
Just as Shen Chongxuan was about to retract his hand, he suddenly sensed a very subtle fluctuation emerging from within the pill furnace.
This fluctuation was so weak that if his palm hadn’t been on the pill furnace’s body, relying solely on divine sense or perception, he wouldn’t have noticed it at all.
"Hmm?"
Feeling this faint fluctuation, Shen Chongxuan was suddenly puzzled and furrowed his brow.
The other Shen Family cultivators beside him saw this and their hearts instantly leapt to their throats, all watching him nervously, fearing any mishap.
"It seems... it has shrunk again!"
After a long time of feeling it carefully, Shen Chongxuan hesitantly spoke.
