Shark Plains, deep underground.
Fang Chen had already been underground for a very long time. During this time, he had been familiarizing himself with the environment.
There were many dead cultivators here, their corpses lying all over the place.
At this time, the Banxianshu had taken root in a pile of corpses and was constantly absorbing the death Qi within them.
Finally, after searching for a while, Fang Chen found a way out.
More accurately, it was a tunnel.
This place was pitch-black. He was completely relying on Fang Chen's Flame Concept to see everything clearly.
There was a pitch-black tunnel on a certain cliff. Fang Chen pondered for a moment before preparing to enter it.
However, just as Fang Chen was about to enter the tunnel, the ground suddenly began to tremble once more. In the next moment, Fang Chen discovered that a wild aura was coming out of the tunnel.
"What's going on?"
Fang Chen's expression changed slightly as he stared at the tunnel.
Dong!
Rumbling sounds came from the tunnel, and Fang Chen felt his body sway.
Hu!
The wild aura instantly filled the entire underground. Fang Chen felt a kind of pressure.
"Just what is it?" Fang Chen's expression completely changed. He circulated his swords around his body and vigilantly looked at the tunnel.
Dong!
The rumbling sounds grew louder and louder.
When the rumbling sounds echoed throughout the entire underground, a figure instantly came out of the tunnel.
"This is …"
When he saw that figure, Fang Chen's face was filled with shock.
"The head of the general family."
Fang Chen also hadn't expected the head of the general family to come out of the tunnel. Furthermore, from the wild aura around him, it seemed his strength had increased by quite a bit.
"Hahaha!"
A sinister smile appeared on the head of the general family. He only glanced at Fang Chen, but that was enough to make Fang Chen's heart tremble.
"Something's wrong!"
Fang Chen was in a daze. He realized that there was something wrong with the General Clan Head in front of him. Previously, Fang Chen had also fought with the General Clan Head.
Although the head of the General Family had managed to condense two surges of zhenqi, he was nowhere near as powerful as the person before him.
Just the aura emanating from the head of the General Family before him was enough to make Fang Chen feel stifled. When he glanced at Fang Chen, Fang Chen felt dazed.
Even the black-clothed old man from the Black Devil Palace did not have this kind of pressure.
"Could he have been possessed?"
Fang Chen's heart sank as a thought flashed across his mind.
At that instant, the Patriarch of the General Clan halted his steps. His eyes were filled with a sinister look as he looked at Fang Chen and grinned, "I didn't expect there to be a living person here."
After hearing the words of the general clan head, Fang Chen was instantly certain that the person in front of him was no longer the general clan head. He had likely been possessed.
"Could it be that the remnant consciousness of the Heaven Raising Gate's expert has possessed the General Clan Head?"
When he thought of that, Fang Chen's heart was filled with helplessness. He had just escaped the clutches of the General Clan Head, and now he had encountered such a freak.
"Who are you?" asked Fang Chen in a deep voice.
"I, the Sword King, have finally been resurrected." The person before him seemed to be venting.
The Sword King was the enemy of the Heaven Raising Gate's Saintess.
Back then, he had plotted to kill the Saintess. However, he had not expected that the Heaven Raising Gate's old site would be destroyed not long after.
The Sword King had also fallen in that chaotic battle.
However, because the Sword King had possessed a treasure back then, at a crucial moment, his incomplete soul had been hidden within that treasure.
Every time a martialist appeared above the Shark Plains, he would use his own power to cause the Shark Plains to tremble. Countless martialists would sink into the ground.
Those martialists that survived would be possessed by him.
However, after so many years, he had never succeeded.
This time, he had encountered so many martialists with great difficulty. Naturally, the Sword King would not let go of such a good opportunity. Sure enough, he succeeded.
Although countless martialists had all died, there was a 9th Condensing Reality Realm martialist who had condensed two strands of True Qi that survived.
And this martialist was the General Clan Head.
Later, the General Clan Head was naturally possessed by the Sword King.
Although the General Clan Head's strength was tyrannical, he could not resist the young elites of the Heaven Raising Gate's branch.
After being possessed, the General Clan Head's soul had completely disappeared and was replaced by the Sword King's soul.
However, the Sword King had just been possessed and had not completely recovered. His strength had only reached the 9th Condensing Reality Realm.
"Sword King!"
When Fang Chen heard the two words Sword King, his face revealed a shocked expression. Wasn't the Sword King the enemy of the Saintess?
Seeing the astonishment on Fang Chen's face, the Sword King said: "Looking at your expression, you seem to have heard of my name."
Before Fang Chen could say anything, a rusty battle blade appeared in his interspatial ring with a whoosh. Then, Fang Chen grasped it in his hand.
Seeing the rusty battle blade, the Sword King's face changed and he cried out involuntarily: "How is this possible? How can you have a battle blade condensed from her Dharma Idol?"
After saying that, the Sword King thought of something.
"You've seen her?" The Sword King asked coldly.
Suddenly, a wild aura spread out from the Sword King's body. Fang Chen felt a sense of oppression.
Fang Chen stared at the Sword King and did not say anything. He did not know what to say.
"Kid, you can go die now."
Originally, the Sword King wanted to let Fang Chen live a little longer. But when he saw the rusty battle blade, he wanted to kill Fang Chen immediately.
Swoosh
The Sword King's body instantly disappeared, leaving behind a series of afterimages. Fang Chen's expression was grave as he raised his battle blade.
At this time, the Sword King appeared in front of Fang Chen. Without waiting for Fang Chen to attack, he launched a fierce attack at Fang Chen.
Whoosh!
When the rusty battle blade sensed the Sword King's aura, it began to tremble uncontrollably. Then a wild Ice Qi spread out.
Crash!
The entire Shark Plains instantly turned into an ice cavern.
After the Ice Qi appeared, a ray of light shot out of the rusty battle blade and slashed at the Sword King.
BANG!
The Sword King was trapped by the Ice Qi. When the rusty battle blade slashed at him, he tried to block it. But with a bang, his arm was cut off by the rusty battle blade.
"Damnit!"
The Sword King's expression became incomparably sinister.
"Damned battle blade!"
The Sword King roared furiously. An extremely wild aura surged out of his body, and he directly broke free of the Ice Qi's bindings.
Fang Chen had thought that the Sword King would be attacked after breaking free. But what surprised him was that the Sword King's figure flashed and he directly fled.
"This …"
The battle just now had been led by the rusty battle blade. Fang Chen hadn't even used his spiritual qi to force the Sword King to flee.
"This rusty battle blade."
Fang Chen carefully examined the rusty battle blade. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that it wasn't an ordinary battle blade.
"Just what kind of secret is it hiding?" Fang Chen wondered.
After thinking for a moment, Fang Chen didn't think too much about it.
He then put away the rusty battle blade and looked at the pitch-black passage.
"I really didn't expect that after so many years, the Sword King's remnant will still hasn't dissipated." Fang Chen thought to himself.
Back then, the Sword King must have paid a huge price to let his remnant will remain.
Now that he had successfully taken over a body, he must find a hidden place to recover his strength. Once he fully recovered, there would be a bloody storm in the Southern Mountain Land.
However, this wasn't something that Fang Chen could decide now.
What he needed to do now was to escape.
"Since the Sword King could escape from here, there must be a way out." Fang Chen thought to himself. He then entered the pitch-black passage.
Fang Chen had asked Ancestor Bronze if he could take over a body and be reborn. The latter's answer was that he couldn't take over a body and could only rebuild his body.
Fang Chen didn't know the exact reason. But he knew that Ancestor Bronze's situation was different from the Sword King's.
To rebuild a body, even a Spiritual Whirlpool Realm expert couldn't do it. It would take some time for Ancestor Bronze to be resurrected.
After entering the pitch-black passage, Fang Chen realized that the passage was very wide. He quickly moved forward.
After a while, Fang Chen came to the end of the passage. At the end of the passage, Fang Chen saw light.
"I'm out."
Fang Chen was overjoyed. He quickly moved forward, wanting to leave this place.
However, just as Fang Chen was about to leave the passage, he suddenly saw an iron door at the end of the passage. The iron door was rusty and looked very old.
"Why is there an iron door here?" Fang Chen asked.
Out of curiosity, Fang Chen walked up to the metal door and gently pushed it open.
In the next moment, Fang Chen was dumbfounded.
Behind the iron door was a sealed space. It was very big and there were a lot of Spiritual Stones in this space.
Yes, there were Spiritual Stones.
"So many Spiritual Stones."
Fang Chen's heart was in turmoil. How could there be so many Spirit Stones here?
Fang Chen pushed open the iron door and entered this space. Looking at the mountain of Spiritual Stones, his eyes widened.
"Hahaha, I actually encountered such a good thing." Fang Chen laughed wildly.
The Sword King's Remnant Will must have been hiding here and absorbing the Spiritual Qi in the Spiritual Stones to maintain its Remnant Will.
Fang Chen began to count the Spiritual Stones. The first ones were the Low Grade Spiritual Stones, then the Middle Grade Spiritual Stones, and finally the High Grade Spiritual Stones.
It took Fang Chen a full quarter of an hour to finish cleaning up. There were only Spirit Stones here and nothing else.
"Could this be the Heaven Raising Gate's Spiritual Stone Treasury?" Fang Chen thought to himself. His eyes were filled with shock.
According to Fang Chen's inventory, there were ten billion Low-grade Spiritual Stones, six billion Middle-grade Spiritual Stones, and one billion High-grade Spiritual Stones.
"It really is a lot." Fang Chen couldn't help sighing.
After working so hard for so many years, he had only managed to get a few tens of millions of High Grade Spiritual Stones. But in the old site of the Heaven Raising Gate, he had casually obtained so many Spiritual Stones.