"Forget it."
Wang Xiu curled his lips: "What does it have to do with me? I didn't crack the seal!"
"With this crack here, the Yellow Spring water can flow endlessly. This isn't flowing Yellow Spring—it's spirit stones and gold. Only a fool would have a problem with money!"
Saying this, Wang Xiu muttered as he stored the bottles and turned to walk out of the cave, closing the stone door.
The massive cave returned to silence.
Rumble~
Moments later, the stone door opened again.
The young man leaped into the muddy Yellow Spring pool and took out four large bluestones from his storage bag.
Purple Cloud Blade—brilliant thunder radiance burst forth.
Mysterious array patterns were engraved on the four bluestones, appearing as lifelike Four Directional Divine Beasts.
"With my blood essence, I offer as sacrifice!"
"Four Directional Divine Beasts, eternally stabilize heaven and earth!"
The young man tightly gripped the Purple Cloud Blade's edge. Drops of essence blood containing his origin mana fell onto the four bluestones.
Instantly, the four large bluestones began to tremble. Faint sounds of dragon roars, phoenix cries, and tiger howls emanated from within.
The young man's face turned somewhat pale. He pressed his palms together and shouted sternly.
"Seal!"
In an instant, the four bluestones and the stone platform seemed to have magnetic attraction, directly adhering to the four sides of the Heaven-Earth Stone Platform. Cyan, white, red, and black energies flowed into the stone platform.
Having received new energy replenishment, the stone platform's light greatly intensified.
The cracks on its surface slowly healed, and the Yellow Spring water that had been seeping out completely stopped.
With the empowerment of the Four Divine Beasts' power, this seal was temporarily repaired.
There wouldn't be problems again for a short time.
Phew~
Wang Xiu wiped his sweat, his figure somewhat unsteady: "Spending money just for show—this deal lost me everything, even my grandmother's inheritance."
"However."
"I've memorized the coordinates of this Netherworld passage."
"When my strength increases a bit more, I will definitely pass through this passage to the Netherworld and scoop up all the Yellow Spring!"
"Even the King of Hell couldn't stop me—I said it!"
Saying this, he climbed up from the Yellow Spring pool and took out several jade bottles from his storage bag. He painfully uncorked them and poured the Yellow Spring water back into the pool.
Only when the turbid Yellow Spring submerged all five stones did Wang Xiu carefully put the jade bottles back in his storage bag.
Boom~
Just as Wang Xiu finished everything, a grand thunder sound suddenly rang out in the void, followed by brilliant golden light appearing.
The golden light shattered.
It transformed into densely falling raindrops that merged into Wang Xiu's body—the same virtue rain as when he killed the tiger demon and liberated the souls.
However, the virtue descending this time was dozens, even hundreds of times greater in quantity than before. If it was just drizzle earlier, now it was at least light to moderate rain.
Boom Boom
Under the infusion of this vast virtue rain, Wang Xiu's cultivation directly jumped two levels, from Foundation Establishment Fifth Heaven to Foundation Establishment Seventh Heaven.
The reward in terms of cultivation was the most insignificant part.
After merging with this vast virtue rain, Wang Xiu felt his spiritual platform become incomparably clear, and the heavenly laws became much clearer in his eyes.
At this moment, he felt incredibly wise. Even without the system's help, his cultivation of techniques would be twice as effective!
Hiss~!
He hadn't expected that repairing the Netherworld seal would have such benefits!
But thinking about it, it makes sense.
Heavenly Dao values order above all.
The human world has human world order; the Netherworld has hell order—each following its own path.
If the Netherworld passage were to open, it would surely seriously disrupt the human world's order, which is definitely not what the Heavenly Dao wishes to see.
Wang Xiu reinforced the Netherworld passage seal, nipping the danger in the bud. This merit is unknown to the world, but the Heavenly Dao knows and will naturally bestow rewards.
"Heavenly Dao, you're awesome!"
"Heavenly Dao, you're mighty, domineering, and handsome!"
"Thank you, Heavenly Dao, for the virtue rain!"
Wang Xiu grinned widely, then couldn't help muttering to himself: "Repairing the Netherworld seal earns rewards?"
"Then if I were to smash the Four Images Array Stones, would it reduce my virtue?"
"Or would it breed demonic energy?"
"If later I capture an extremely wicked great demon and make him smash the Four Images Array Stones, and then I repair them?"
"The demonic energy would breed on him, while the virtue adds to me."
"Heh heh heh heh~"
"Doesn't that mean I can infinitely exploit the bug and keep farming virtue rain?"
"Heh heh heh heh~"
Crash!
A purple thunderbolt struck straight down three meters in front of Wang Xiu, making his scalp tingle.
Alright then!
The Heavenly Dao cannot be deceived. As a law-abiding citizen of the Daoist sect, such death-seeking exploits are not to be trifled with.
After bowing to the sky several more times to thank the Heavenly Dao for the virtue rain, Wang Xiu tidied up and walked out of the stone cavern.
In the pitch-black tunnel, the young man's rambling voice echoed.
"So conflicted."
"I only collected over eight hundred tons of Yellow Spring water—I'm really worried it won't be enough!"
"Hmm~"
"I almost forgot—I can come back to get more when I run out. This cave isn't going anywhere."
"Anyway, what the Heavenly Dao cares about should just be the Netherworld seal. Things like Yellow Spring water and Soul-Nourishing Lotuses definitely don't matter to it."
"Or maybe."
"When the Soul-Nourishing Lotuses on Spirit Turtle Peak are transplanted and growing well, I'll come back and take all the Yellow Spring water here and use ordinary mud to cover the seal—that would work too!"
"No, wait—that's not right!"
"After the seal is reinforced and all the Yellow Spring water is taken away, this becomes just an ordinary stone cave. Who would know there's a Netherworld passage under that mud?"
"Then, without any treasures in the cave, no one would covet it."
"The seal would actually be safer."
"Maybe."
"The Heavenly Dao will even think I did well and bestow virtue points again!"
"Heh heh heh heh heh~"
As if figuring something out, the young man's footsteps in the tunnel gradually became lighter.
Walking out of the stone cavern, the communication jade talisman at Wang Xiu's waist instantly began vibrating crazily—all transmission requests from Ji Zidian, densely packed, totaling over seventy.
"The concealment array on the cave's surface must be able to block transmission signals."
"That's why I couldn't receive the messages."
Wang Xiu smiled.
Through the communication jade talisman, he sent his location to Ji Zidian.
Whoosh~!
Moments later, a brilliant purple light shot from within the mountain and landed before Wang Xiu—who else could it be but Ji Zidian?
"Brother Wang Xiu... brother!"
Looking at the young man before her, Ji Zidian's eyes instantly reddened, tears welling up.
At this moment, Wang Xiu looked truly disheveled—his pants covered in yellow mud, mud splattered on his upper body, making the originally ethereal daoist robe look quite messy.
But that was secondary.
Ji Zidian could keenly sense that Wang Xiu's face was very pale—clearly, his vital energy had been damaged.
His palm was wrapped in gauze, faintly revealing a long bloody mark.
Although his daoist robe was intact without tears, when dampened, one could clearly see blood stains distributed all over Wang Xiu's body—these should all be recently inflicted wounds.
Clearly!
Brother, in order to escape from the tiger demon and those vengeful ghosts, must have experienced a fierce battle, sustaining severe damage to his vital energy. He might even be at the end of his strength.
Yet, to keep me from worrying or feeling guilty, he still put on an intact daoist robe, wanting to hide his injuries.
Brother!
He endured all this suffering for my sake!er~
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