Next, Ning Fa and the others returned to the hidden cave on the snow mountain over a thousand miles away.
Using Ning Daozhen's peculiar teleportation method again, they returned to the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range.
As soon as everyone flew out of the deep pool, they heard sharp beast roars echoing around them, and even the ground began to tremble, shaking the earth.
With a mere sweep of their divine senses, they discovered that within a hundred-mile radius, tens of thousands of Savage Beasts of various forms, all ferocious and violent, were charging from the depths of the mountain range.
The boundless five-colored light barrier that had been present earlier had now vanished.
It was clear that the restriction had been completely destroyed, and the Savage Beasts from the depths of the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range were now surging out wildly.
At this moment, an exceptionally powerful divine sense swept over everyone.
Dozens of miles away, a burly cultivator clad in heavy armor, with even his face concealed by a mask, was riding a black giant tiger with wings and looking in their direction.
The spiritual pressure emanating from this person had reached the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage.
The black giant tiger beneath him also possessed a cultivation base close to the fourth tier.
"Don't worry, he's one of Zhuo Qing's subordinates."
Ning Daozhen said, and then took out a peculiar black token from his hand, giving it a gentle wave towards the other side.
The person nodded, then waved his right hand, leading a group of Savage Beasts and flying off in another direction.
Ning Daozhen turned back to the crowd and said, "Follow me, I've prepared an escape route."
With that, he took the lead and flew forward, with the others following.
Before long, they arrived at another hidden cave over a hundred miles away, where there was also a deep pool.
"Through this mid-grade Blood Spring Teleportation Array, we can teleport to the Fang Kun Mountain Range tens of thousands of miles away. By then, the Tianli people will likely be too busy dealing with the Savage Beasts in the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range to pursue us."
Ning Daozhen turned and said to everyone, then he stared intently at Ning Fa, the meaning in his eyes self-evident.
Ning Fa looked at him and said calmly, "What you said earlier was vague. I need to understand the whole story."
"Of course. Since you'll be involved in these matters in the future, I'll naturally explain it clearly to you," Ning Daozhen said without hesitation.
Ning Fa nodded, and then the two walked towards the depths of the cave.
Dan Hongzi thought for a moment and followed them.
Xiao Pengyuan and the others merely glanced at them before looking away, asking no further questions.
During this time, Sang Wen, who had always been cold and indifferent, showed a rare softness on his face, as the gains from this operation deep behind Tianli's lines were truly immense.
Not only had they destroyed the restriction in the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range, but they had also destroyed the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure Replica, the Nine Divisions World-Suppressing Pagoda.
This naturally held extremely important significance for Cangyuan, and it also significantly eased her previous reservations about Ning Fa, who had played a crucial role in it.
She then looked at Bai Yueqiu, who was still in a daze and motionless, a look of worry appearing in her eyes.
Ji Lianxing, on the other hand, appeared restless and clearly distracted.
Now that the operation behind enemy lines was over, according to the original plan of Shen Xinlan and the others, they would begin to make a move against Ning Fa.
Ning Fa already had a counter-plan for this, but in Ji Lianxing's opinion, it was far too risky.
It wasn't that she was worried about Ning Fa; the key was that she had a restriction placed on her by Ning Fa. If Ning Fa were to perish, her fate would also be dire.
At this moment, in the depths of the cave, Ning Fa had cast a sound-isolating barrier.
"What's the situation with this Primordial Soul Splitting Art?" Ning Fa asked, staring intently at Dan Hongzi.
Dan Hongzi stroked his beard with his right hand and said slowly, "Let me explain to fellow daoist Ning. Fellow daoist Ning, do you know..."
As Dan Hongzi slowly began to narrate, Ning Fa's expression changed, and shock appeared in his eyes.
After a long while, Dan Hongzi finished speaking. He looked at Ning Fa and said earnestly, "So, fellow daoist Ning, you should understand the terror of that existence. Helping us is also helping yourself."
At this moment, Ning Fa's expression was moved, and a storm surged within his heart.
What Dan Hongzi had spoken of was truly no small matter, and it was also closely related to him.
The first was the Primordial Soul Splitting Art.
Both Ning Daozhen and Dan Hongzi had cultivated this technique, and they had delved much deeper into it than Ning Fa.
Like Ning Fa, they had later discovered the strange nature of this technique.
However, through Dan Hongzi's words, Ning Fa learned that the situation behind it was far more troublesome than he had imagined.
It turned out that the Primordial Soul Splitting Art, which was circulating in the outside world, was actually left behind by an Ancient Immortal, and he was the most powerful among the more than ten known Ancient Immortals.
He was also the only Ancient Immortal who had broken through the restrictions of the Ancient Immortal Island and left it.
However, he seemed to have no regard for the Cangyuan in the vicinity, and went directly to Great Qin.
It was said that he had caused a bloody storm in Great Qin and Tianwu, and was later jointly killed by the top powers of the two immortal cultivation worlds.
But the terrifying aspect of this Ancient Immortal was that he was extremely difficult to kill, and the opportunity for his revival lay in the Primordial Soul Splitting Art that he had deliberately spread.
As long as cultivators practiced this technique, a special Soul Seed would involuntarily grow in their Divine Soul, potentially becoming the vessel for that Ancient Immortal's resurrection.
In recent years, the two who had cultivated this technique deeply had both sensed signs of that terrifying existence's revival.
The soul seeds in their sea of consciousness, which had been extinguished, showed signs of rekindling.
This naturally made them feel like they had a thorn in their side, and they had been searching for a way to break free from it all these years.
And after they learned that the Tianli people were preparing to refine that clan-protecting treasure using a large amount of Innate Five Elements Qi.
A thought struck them, and they recalled a handwritten note left by a former First Elder of the Blood Heaven Sect.
This related to another major event.
And Ning Fa was no stranger to this matter, which was the existence of the Abyssal Heavenly Pool, a special secret realm caused by the True Spirit's relics that time.
At that time, it wasn't just the Pavilion Master of the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion and that Tianli Spirit Transformation cultivator who entered the Abyssal Heavenly Pool, but that First Elder of the Blood Heaven Sect also did.
Although this person was not a Spirit Transformation cultivator, his strength had reached the peak of Great Cultivator, and he had cultivated extremely powerful Blood Path Divine Abilities.
Facing the bizarre and mysterious Abyssal Heavenly Pool, he did not dare to enter personally, but instead sent one of his Blood Path avatars into it.
However, after only half a day, the First Elder waiting at the mountain gate of the Blood Heaven Sect felt the demise of his avatar.
Not only that, but a strange power also invaded his main body, and he was completely unable to resist it.
As he was on the verge of death, he recorded some crucial information through the mental connection with his avatar.
And this information was largely the same as that left by the former Pavilion Master of the Spiritual Pivot Pavilion.
For example, it also stated that the place was called the Abyssal Heavenly Pool, and it also predicted that it would reopen tens of thousands of years later, and the time was very close.
Hearing this, Ning Fa was actually a little puzzled.
He didn't understand why these cultivators who entered the Abyssal Heavenly Pool had such speculations, and they all seemed very certain.
Besides that, there was another important piece of information: before the First Elder of the Blood Heaven Sect died, he discovered a special place in the Abyssal Heavenly Pool.
And in that place, there existed a very special Spiritual Material.
This Spiritual Material was a fifth-tier - Soul Nurturing Divine Spring.
Hearing this name, Ning Fa was even more shocked.
Because this was a precious Divine Soul item that only existed in legends, and it had incredible miraculous effects on a cultivator's Divine Soul.
Legend had it that just consuming a drop could cure all ailments of a cultivator's Divine Soul and elevate it.
The effect was even comparable to the tempering received by the Divine Soul during a Thunder Tribulation, allowing the cultivator's Divine Soul to enter the next realm level in advance.
It could be said that even among many fifth-tier Spiritual Materials, the Soul Nurturing Divine Spring was among the most precious.
And in that special place in the Abyssal Heavenly Pool, there was this Soul Nurturing Divine Spring, and in no small quantity.
So now Ning Daozhen, Dan Hongzi, Xiao Han, and others were all targeting this Soul Nurturing Divine Spring.
Especially Ning Daozhen and Dan Hongzi, they were more anxious because they hoped to use this Soul Nurturing Divine Spring to counter that terrifying existence.
They didn't want to simply consume it, but to use this fifth-tier Soul Nurturing Divine Spring as the main ingredient, according to a secret technique passed down by the Blood Heaven Sect, to cultivate something called Primordial Soul True Spirit.
This Primordial Soul True Spirit could be seen as a special Divine Soul Divine Ability, like a cultivator's protective aura, which had incredible protective effects on a cultivator's Divine Soul.
It had miraculous uses in resisting Divine Soul Attacks or Inner Demon tribulations.
Moreover, not only that, but the Primordial Soul True Spirit could also greatly enhance a cultivator's Divine Soul strength, which was a more maximized utilization of the Soul Nurturing Divine Spring.
Therefore, Ning Daozhen and Dan Hongzi believed that as long as they could cultivate this Primordial Soul True Spirit, it would be enough to resist the influence of that terrifying existence.
However, it was not so easy to enter that special place in the Abyssal Heavenly Pool and obtain the Soul Nurturing Divine Spring, because that place had very strange restrictions.
And to break these restrictions, one must possess Innate Five Elements Divine Abilities.
This was also why Ning Daozhen and the other two were so meticulously trying to obtain the Innate Five Elements Qi that the Tianli people used to refine this Nine Divisions World-Suppressing Pagoda.
They wanted to refine a special magic treasure through them, which could unleash Innate Five Elements Divine Abilities.
And as the time for the Abyssal Heavenly Pool to open according to the prophecy drew closer, they could then use this treasure to go to that special place and try to obtain the Soul Nurturing Divine Spring.
At this moment, Ning Daozhen stared intently at Ning Fa: "You happen to possess Innate Divine Thunder as well, so you can also go to that place.
We can join forces again, and I can even share the secret technique for cultivating the Primordial Soul True Spirit with you."
Upon hearing this, Ning Fa's expression became thoughtful.
He was already tempted.
In fact, although he had cultivated the Primordial Soul Splitting Art, he had not delved too deeply into it, but he had clearly been affected by that terrifying existence.
For example, he had inexplicably entered the Moon Tribulation Burning Emotions stage ahead of time.
Ning Fa had only been a little suspicious before, but now that he heard Ning Daozhen and Dan Hongzi say this, the possibility that it was caused by that terrifying existence greatly increased.
Therefore, he also very much wanted to obtain this Soul Nurturing Divine Spring, and he didn't even need to cultivate the Primordial Soul True Spirit according to that secret technique of the Blood Heaven Sect.
Because this Soul Nurturing Divine Spring was also a first-class auxiliary Spiritual Material for cultivating the Moon God Heart.
He could even directly cultivate to the second stage of the Moon God Heart - the Moon Soul Crystal Core with it.