At the foot of the straight and steep mountain, two martial artists in golden armor were sitting on the ground, apparently guarding a top-grade ancient ginseng.
As for the other members of the royal family, whether it was the royal princess or the young man in golden armor who looked a bit like Long Yu, they were not present yet and should be on their way.
"The best ancient ginseng contains extremely strong spiritual energy. Once it is picked, the spiritual energy will begin to dissipate, so it is best to take it when it is just picked."
Long Yu thought in his heart and guessed that the royal family wanted to wait for people to arrive and then pick the top-quality ancient ginseng and take it directly.
This gave Long Yu an excellent opportunity to make a move.
"Can you sense the location of the top-grade ancient ginseng?"
Long Yu lowered his head and asked sternly.
"Maybe."
The Qiansi Sect disciple nodded reluctantly: "But that place is too high. Even if I control my shadow now, I can't pick the top-grade ancient ginseng."
"So what do you want?"
Long Yu asked with narrowed eyes.
"Let me absorb the spiritual energy of the middle-grade ancient ginseng in my body. If I can reach the eighth level of martial arts, it should be enough to collect the best-grade ancient ginseng."
The Thousand Silk Sect disciple spoke in a low voice, with a shrewd gleam in his withered eyes.
"Yeah?"
Long Yu snorted coldly: "Since you are so useless, then go die!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Long Yu exerted force with the sword in his hand, and immediately cut a bloody mark on the skinny neck of the Qiansi Sect disciple!
This startled the Qiansi Sect disciple, who quickly said, "Wait! I can try first!"
"Don't play tricks. If there is any abnormality, I will kill you first."
Long Yu said indifferently, no longer exerting force in his hands, but the sword was still across the guy's neck.
The disciple of Qiansi Sect finally realized that Long Yu was definitely not an opponent who could be easily fooled. Next, he could only try to see if he could get the top-grade ancient ginseng.
"However, I must first remind you that the royal family members are extremely powerful. Even if you obtain a top-grade ancient ginseng, you will not have the opportunity to absorb the spiritual energy in it!"
The Qiansi Sect disciple reminded.
"You don't have to worry about this, why don't you get started?"
Long Yu said indifferently.
The man did not dare to be careless and quickly controlled his shadow, moving towards the steep mountain wall along the shadow of the ancient trees and jungle.
With the sword across his neck, he did not dare to act rashly. He carefully observed the scene in front of him and found that it was evening and under the setting sun, the steep mountain wall was completely in shadow.
This greatly facilitated the movement of his shadow!
Hidden in the shadow of the setting sun, he controlled the shadow to move forward quickly and soon climbed up the steep mountain wall fifty feet high.
"No, it's too far. I can't reach it."
The disciple of Qiansi Sect said in a deep voice that at this moment, his control over his shadow has weakened to a certain extent. If it goes any further, he will not be able to control his shadow!
The disciples of the Thousand Silk Sect can control shadows, but of course there is a distance limit. The farther the distance, the weaker the control and the slower the shadow's movements.
"Let's approach slowly. Don't play tricks unless you want to die."
Long Yu said in a cold voice, holding the Qiansi Sect disciple hostage, and slowly moved towards the bottom of the steep mountain wall.
As they moved slowly, the shadow on the mountain wall got closer and closer to the location of the top-grade ancient ginseng. However, due to the shadow of the mountain wall under the setting sun, the two golden-armored warriors who were guarding it did not notice the situation on the mountain wall at all.
Long Yu led the disciples of Qiansi Sect and bypassed the location of the two golden-armored martial artists. They finally approached the mountain wall and came to a bush under the steep mountain wall.
"That's enough."
The Qiansi Sect disciples were a little excited: "Pick it?"
"Pick it."
Long Yu nodded and said.
"You have to remove your artistic conception first, otherwise my shadow won't be able to exert such great power."
The Qiansi Sect disciple said again.
"You have to know that I can release this Heaven-Suppressing State of Mind at any time, so you'd better not take any chances."
Long Yu said this in a cold voice, and then put away his Heavenly Charm!
The Thousand Silk Sect disciple breathed a sigh of relief, and then the mysterious energy in his body began to circulate. Suddenly, the sound of some rubble falling came from the steep mountain wall!
"who!"
“Someone!”
The two martial artists in golden armor immediately discovered the abnormality on the steep mountain wall. They immediately raised their heads and looked towards the steep mountain wall!
They looked up and saw a black shadow holding a top-grade ancient ginseng in its hand. It was emitting extremely rich spiritual energy and was running away along the mountain wall towards the distance!
"The people of Qiansi Sect are looking for death!"
Upon seeing this, one of the warriors in golden armor snorted coldly, took a step, and quickly jumped onto the steep cliff, climbing up step by step along the cliff.
With a loud bang, golden mysterious energy blasted out, and a wave of vibrations blasted a big hole on the mountain wall, and rubble exploded and rolled down.
However, the people from the Qiansi Sect controlled the shadows so quickly that even a golden-armored martial artist who had reached the ninth level of martial arts could not catch up with them.
In just a moment, the shadow was running quickly on the steep cliff with the top-quality ancient ginseng, and disappeared in the dense bushes under the cliff in an instant.
"The spiritual energy of the top-grade ancient ginseng is so rich, and you want to snatch it away right under our noses? It's simply wishful thinking!"
One of the golden-armored warriors sneered and waved his hand: "Chase!"
"Whoever dares to touch our royal family's things will surely die!"
Another golden-armored martial artist said this calmly, without any movement being seen, the entire golden-armored figure had already appeared ten feet away, at a speed as fast as lightning!
The two golden-armored martial artists are now quite unhappy. The royal princess asked them to go ahead and look at the top-grade ancient ginseng, but they didn't expect that it had been taken away by someone.
Even if they take it back, the ancient ginseng's spiritual energy will have been lost a lot, and they will definitely be punished.
Under such circumstances, there was no way the two of them would let go of the person who had picked the top-grade ancient ginseng, even if the other person was the daughter of the Qiansi Sect's leader.
However, soon, their faces turned pale.
Because just when they were halfway through their pursuit, the spiritual energy emitted by the top-grade ancient ginseng suddenly disappeared!
It wasn't that it gradually became weaker and fainter, but suddenly, the rich spiritual energy completely disappeared, and they couldn't feel even a trace of it.
"Did someone eat him?"
The two couldn't help but think that even if it was eaten by someone, the rich spiritual energy would not disappear so quickly!
Two golden-armored figures moved quickly among the bushes, heading towards the place where the spiritual energy of the top-grade ancient ginseng disappeared.
Not long after, a skinny corpse of a Qiansi Sect disciple appeared in front of them, while the top-grade ancient ginseng had long disappeared.
"what is going on?"
The two looked at each other, their expressions becoming extremely solemn.
The disciple of Qiansi Sect who tried to snatch the top-grade ancient ginseng died here, but the top-grade ancient ginseng disappeared. This scene made the two of them seem to fall into the abyss.
"Look around quickly!"
The two were unwilling to throw away the top-grade ancient ginseng, so they immediately took action separately.
However, after they could no longer sense the aura of the top-grade ancient ginseng, how could they possibly get it back
After the two left, a figure flashed quickly in a bush not far from the body of the Qiansi Sect disciple and disappeared into the bushes in an instant.
This figure was none other than Long Yu.
Just when he got the top-grade ancient ginseng, the disciple of Qiansi Sect took the opportunity to display his martial arts, trying to subdue Long Yu with his shadow, but he was directly suppressed by his Zhentian Divine Aura, and his heart was shattered by a single punch.
Immediately afterwards, Long Yu used the Nine Nether Dragon Seal to completely cover up the spiritual energy of the top-grade ancient ginseng.
At that time, the two golden-armored warriors were not far away. If Long Yu ran away, they would notice his movements, so he hid in the nearby bushes.
The two golden-armored warriors had not thought of this and went straight to other places to search.
Long Yu seized the opportunity and naturally took the chance to slip away.
Not long after, the two golden-armored warriors returned to their original places from different directions with gloomy faces.
"Did you find anything?"
One of them asked.
"No."
Another person shook his head: "The only possibility that could make the spiritual energy of the top-grade ancient ginseng disappear in an instant is that someone put it into a space treasure."
"Space treasure."
The man's face turned ugly: "A person who possesses a space treasure is considered a big shot even in the Imperial City, but he actually appears here..."
The two had no choice but to wait there. Not long after, the royal princess and the young man in golden armor arrived together.
Hearing what the two said, the young man in golden armor's expression changed: "Space treasure?"
When it comes to the level of space treasures, it is definitely not a simple matter!
However, those who possessed spatial treasures were either rich or noble in the imperial city. A mere top-grade ancient ginseng would not be enough for them to risk offending the royal family in order to snatch it.
"Seal off all exits. All disciples of Zhentian Sect, Hanbing Sect, and Qiansi Sect must be strictly checked when leaving. Any suspicious ones will be arrested immediately."
The young man in golden armor gave the order directly with a gloomy face!
The top-grade ancient ginseng belonged to the royal family, but now it has been snatched away by someone. Whoever it is must pay the price!
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the other side.
After Long Yu obtained the top-grade ancient ginseng, he immediately found a secluded place and prepared to absorb the spiritual energy from the top-grade ancient ginseng. Otherwise, the longer the time interval, the more spiritual energy of the top-grade ancient ginseng would be lost.
However, he did not intend to absorb it completely, but instead planned to temporarily store most of the spiritual energy in the Nine Nether Dragon Seal.
"If I absorb all the spiritual energy from the top-grade ancient ginseng, I can make a breakthrough to the eighth level of martial arts, but such a rapid improvement in realm will easily arouse suspicion, so it's better to be safe!"
After making up his mind, Long Yu began to absorb the top-grade ancient ginseng.
The spiritual energy contained in the top-grade ancient ginseng is as vast as the ocean. Compared with the high-grade ancient ginseng he absorbed not long ago, it is more than ten times richer.
Of course, if one wants to advance from the seventh level of martial arts to the eighth level of martial arts, the amount of spiritual energy of heaven and earth that needs to be absorbed is more than ten times more.
If it wasn't for chance, Long Yu would still be a long way from reaching the eighth level of martial arts.
"Top-grade ancient ginseng, absorb it!"
Long Yu bit the top-grade ancient ginseng into pieces and began to absorb the spiritual energy in it. At the same time, he used the Nine Nether Dragon Seal to store most of the spiritual energy.
Waves of rich spiritual energy were sucked into Long Yu's body. After absorbing about 10% of the spiritual energy, the profound energy in his meridians surged, increasing his body's basic strength to 72,000 kilograms, which was the limit of the seventh level of martial arts.
"enough!"
Long Yu stopped absorbing, opened his eyes and stood up!
At this moment, his strength is much stronger than before, and the Nine Nether Dragon Seal also stores 90% of the spiritual energy of the top-grade ancient ginseng.
Once he leaves the ancient ginseng forest, he will be able to start absorbing and try to break through the eighth level of martial arts and usher in the transformation of the Nine Nether Dragon Seal!
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