Here's the English translation of Chapter 5726:
Chapter 5726: Extra - Qiao Mu and Xuan Huang Defying Heaven: Hoarding Habits
A series of crisp, chiming bells intertwined.
Nitian focused her gaze on the surroundings.
Before her stretched wide corridors, winding forward.
On the eaves of the corridors, every five steps hung strings of golden tubes, about nine inches long.
As a gentle breeze blew, the golden tubes struck each other, emitting clear, melodious sounds.
In the misty mountains not far away, a corner of a large house vaguely appeared.
"Let's wait a little longer before going over."
Judging by past experience, this place would definitely not be that simple; there was probably a bigger trap waiting for them.
However, the other people accompanying them on the expedition didn't think so.
They crowded together, each eager to go forward and try.
"It seems harmless, but I always feel there's a hidden danger."
Nitian nodded in agreement. Caution was correct.
There was no need to rush. If someone was in a hurry, let them go first!
"Look, quickly! What's that?" Someone exclaimed excitedly.
Most of the people in the other teams quickly walked forward a few steps, looking in the direction the disciple pointed, their eyes suddenly burning with an unusual light.
It was a dragon! No! Not a dragon! It was a shimmering, jade-like, graceful semi-liquid dragon, like a winding stream.
The entire dragon's body coiled on the corridor, extending to where the eye could not see.
As the breeze wafted in, everyone's nostrils caught a refreshing fragrance.
Nitian's eyes flickered.
"Nitian, Nitian."
"Mm, I know. I recognize this thing." Nitian's expression was quite calm.
Her companions, however, were very excited. "Oh, really? What is it? What good thing is it? Can we take it back?"
"Strange."
"What's strange? What is that thing? Is it something good! Oh my, everyone else has run over! Hurry up and tell us!" We also need to hurry, we can't let others get there first.
When it came to medicinal ingredients, Nitian was indeed omniscient.
This unusual phenomenon before them was indeed a type of medicinal ingredient that had long been extinct.
This was Qiong Tian Yu Long (Heavenly Jade Dragon), long lost to the world, but it could serve as a medicinal primer for many ancient medicinal pills.
It wasn't strange for Qiong Tian Yu Long to appear here.
This was originally an underwater tomb filled with rare treasures. No matter how rare or lost the medicinal ingredients that appeared, Nitian wouldn't find it strange.
What she found strange was, why was this Qiong Tian Yu Long so boldly stretched across this corridor?
It seemed as if it was waiting for them, painstakingly waving its hand and beckoning, "Come quickly, come, come and collect me."
"Pfft." Nitian felt a little ashamed of her own thought.
"Tian Tian, oh, hurry up. They're all eating big mouthfuls already!!" Her companion shook her vigorously, pointing anxiously at a disciple from another team, pulling Nitian back from her mental wanderings.
She saw that unfamiliar disciple holding a jelly-like semi-liquid with greedy eyes, quickly bringing it to his mouth.
"What's the rush? They won't finish it in a short while," Nitian retorted, giving her a sidelong glance.
By this time, the first batch of people who had eaten Qiong Tian Yu Long had already sat down cross-legged, intending to meditate and absorb it.
Her companion pointed at them and asked anxiously, "What are they doing?"
"It looks like they're about to advance a level!"
"What??"
"They're all going to advance? Just because they just ate this soft, squishy thing in big mouthfuls?"
"Yes. Because of Qiong Tian Yu Long."
Nitian said with a slight smile, "Its single-dose effect is equivalent to an advancement potion."
"Of course, if it's made into a pill or potion, the medicinal effect will be even more significant."
"You just saw, that guy swallowed a large piece. That's like drinking a large bottle of essence advancement potion. Of course, he's going to advance."
"However, doing so is quite dangerous," Nitian said, looking at the meditating disciple with a half-smile.
"This Qiong Tian Yu Long is indeed excellent, but it shouldn't be eaten in large quantities."
"If you eat too much, your body won't be able to withstand it and might explode from the inside!"
"Because your essence, energy, and spirit simply can't keep up with the rapid increase in internal power."
"Your current cultivation level also can't keep up with this furious rate of improvement."
"When the power becomes chaotic due to too rapid an increase, raging within your body, the result is bang!"
As her words fell, that unlucky disciple exploded before everyone's eyes...
Nitian's companions immediately felt quite speechless, silently glancing at their Tian Tian, then each swallowed a mouthful of saliva and closed their mouths.
Their Nitian had just finished explaining, and immediately a living example appeared before them!
This was truly astonishing.
It was like watching a live demonstration, an explosion...
This vibrant example was actually something Nitian used to explain to them.
Following this, as if to prove how real Nitian's words were.
Many disciples nearby immediately exploded one after another with a series of "bangs."
From body to soul, they were utterly annihilated!
The sound of the explosions was so loud it was hard not to notice.
Some disciples who were too close, even if they didn't self-destruct, were innocently affected.
The continuous explosive force around them flung them out, sending them crashing to the ground. Those with minor injuries bled, while those with serious injuries had broken arms and legs.
When they looked up, their bewildered eyes held a hint of inexplicable panic.
The other aristocratic family disciples and rogue cultivators immediately opened their eyes in horror, strangely looking at each other, questioning with their eyes what had happened.
Nitian led her group, calmly standing outside the corridor, momentarily stopping her steps, watching them from a distance.
Since the two sides were not too far apart, Nitian and her companions clearly saw what had just happened and the tragic sight of those unfortunate people's bodies exploding.
Nitian lightly coughed, then suddenly said, "Above! Quick, dodge."
"Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh, whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh—" Tens of thousands of tiny sounds cut through the air, shooting towards the group of aristocratic family disciples whose faces had drastically changed.
Even though Nitian had called out in time, some people moved quickly and dodged, but more cultivators reacted too slowly.
The golden tubes, spaced five steps apart, exploded, shooting out countless golden fragments of varying sizes and shapes, injuring many people.
The terrifying thing was that the fragments seemed to be coated with some corrosive poison. Those who were hit writhed on the ground, holding their hands and feet, screaming and scurrying.
Golden fragments enveloped them from above, falling like a continuous drizzle, constantly concentrating their attacks on the densely populated areas.
The disciples' faces turned grim. They all circulated their cultivation to protect their bodies, retreating step by step under the barrage of golden fragments.
Until everyone retreated from the corridor, the golden fragments silently vanished into thin air.
The corridor returned to its former calm. Aside from a few white bones not yet corroded by the poison, scattered on the pathway, there was truly no sign that a horrifying massacre had just occurred.
Many aristocratic family disciples suffered heavy losses, and the number of rogue cultivators also sharply decreased by a third, from the original five or six hundred to just three hundred now.
This sudden turn of events terrified everyone, making them hesitant to act rashly again.
Qiong Tian Yu Long was good, but one had to be alive to enjoy it!
The crowd returned to the front of the corridor in a chaotic shuffle, their eyes fixed on the pure, flowing, exquisitely natural supreme spiritual medicine not far away.
The feeling of wanting to go but being unable to was utterly terrible.
These people looked at each other, stopping in their tracks.
Finally, all their gazes uniformly fell on Nitian, wanting to see what this girl would do next.
However, the strangest thing was that Nitian did nothing.
Her eyes were merely fixed on the Qiong Tian Yu Long in the distance. She stood still for a long time, looking somewhat dazed.
Suddenly, the hem of her skirt at her knee was tugged hard.
Another two tugs pulled Nitian's attention back from the distance.
Looking down, Nitian's eyes couldn't help but show surprise.
She saw that at some unknown point, Little Qiao had bounced to her side, pulling at her skirt with both hands, her small head held high, her eyes moist and sparkling.
"Little Bao?" Nitian scooped her into her arms, her expression barely concealing her astonishment. "How did you get out?"
Little Qiao clenched her small fists and bounced up and down in Nitian's arms, waving her hands.
The meaning was quite clear: she had just bounced like that and popped out of Nitian's personal space!
My goodness, there are spatial restrictions here; it's temporarily impossible to violate them.
Nitian thought, the companions still in her personal space must be quite speechless by this child after witnessing this.
Perhaps they were currently grumbling to themselves: Indeed, there are no ordinary people around Xuan Huang; they're all so abnormal...
At this moment, the little one puffed out her small belly and turned to point into the distance.
The direction her finger pointed looked exactly like it was pointing at that winding, undulating Qiong Tian Yu Long.
Immediately, a bad premonition arose in Nitian's heart.
Based on her understanding of this child, this little one was almost always someone who only showed up when she wanted something!
It seemed every time she appeared, she had a goal!
Ahem, for example, the unicorn, and then the Precious Beast, the Lan Shi Yu, and so on!
Nitian blinked. Why did she feel a chill down her spine?
This troublesome child wouldn't possibly want to...
The little one saw that she had no reaction, so she grabbed a lock of Nitian's black hair that hung down her chest and pulled it, urging her to look into the distance again.
"Shishu saw it..."
Little Qiao extended her small fist and wiggled her small body.
Nitian, with a helpless expression, put her down and followed her towards the corridor. "Child, how much do you want to take?"
Everyone stared at her and Little Qiao, dumbfounded.
They thought, Is Your Excellency Nitian alright?
Just now, she clearly witnessed how awkwardly the aristocratic family disciples fled from the corridor.
Those broken, corrosive golden fragments were not so easy to deal with.
Her asking the child so casually how much Qiong Tian Yu Long she wanted, wasn't this too much like a joke?
A female cultivator stood by with a particularly cold expression.
Covered in dirt on her head and body, she merely sneered when she heard this, not saying much.
She just stared coldly at Nitian, looking at her as if she were an ignorant madwoman who didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth.
Nitian turned to her companions behind her, forcing out a smile. "Ahem, get ready!"
Everyone looked astonished. "Ready for what?"
"Get ready for a group fight!" Nitian raised a hand to rub her aching forehead.
Actually, the temptation of Qiong Tian Yu Long wasn't too great for her.
She already had the materials for making top-grade potions. Getting a little more Qiong Tian Yu Long would just be icing on the cake.
So, she hadn't immediately rushed to snatch the Qiong Tian Yu Long like those easily impressed aristocratic family disciples. Instead, she had been quietly standing and observing.
But now, since her little niece wanted it, she could only give a helpless smile.
Little Qiao ran to the front of the corridor and bounced.
She turned and rushed back to Nitian, tugging at her sleeve again, making several gestures.
One moment she raised her hand, her face flushed red, the next she mimicked pulling the jade dragon, her small face turning even redder, vigorously demonstrating some process to Nitian...
Nitian rubbed her forehead, nodding with a wry smile. "Don't worry. If you can't collect this Qiong Tian Yu Long, Shishu will help you collect it, until you have fully collected it. Not a drop of the jade paste will be wasted."
The little one, hearing this, nodded contentedly, a brilliant smile spreading across her face.
The two figures, one large and one small, then boldly walked onto the long corridor.
Under the gaze of everyone's eyes, which were about to pop out.
The two safely walked to the jade dragon, which lay prostrate on the ground, winding forward almost endlessly.
Little Qiao extended two fingers and threw out a square jade tablet, on which strange runes were drawn with cinnabar.
The moment the jade tablet was thrown, it immediately emitted a crimson red light, enveloping the entire long corridor.
Everyone's gazes immediately focused on the suspended, fluctuating jade tablet, unaware that this was a spatial storage talisman.
Their expressions shifted from suspicion to deep astonishment.
The little one quickly ran to the Qiong Tian Yu Long, which was sprawled on the ground in the shape of a dragon head, and placed a hand on it.
In an instant, the golden tubes, spaced five steps apart and poised to launch, exploded again.
Tens of thousands of golden fragments shot towards the audacious child's head at lightning speed, attacking in a dense barrage.
The child didn't even raise her head. Her small hand, pressed against the jade dragon's skull, didn't move an inch. Her small face held a calm, indifferent expression.
Tens of thousands of golden fragments swished down, seemingly about to pierce the incredibly daring child into a porcupine.
The jade tablet hovering above the child's head suddenly emitted a defensive red light, swiftly deflecting the golden fragments around the child.
But the fragments shot away in all directions.
Several aristocratic family disciples who were standing at the front of the corridor watching the show, wanting to see how the child would court death, were instantly pierced by the golden fragments.
The potent poison coating the fragments completely corroded them in a matter of minutes.
The remaining people immediately retreated in fear, backing away and peering out from a distance, the expressions on their faces slowly becoming very intriguing.
The reason was none other than this: they saw the Qiong Tian Yu Long's body gradually thinning, even becoming increasingly transparent.
What did this mean?
It meant that the Qiong Tian Yu Long was continuously being transferred by the audacious child into her personal spatial container.