A few days later, seven or eight cultivators, including Jin Ye Xian Zi, gathered on the shore of Bi Han Tan.

  "Jin Xianzi, fellow Taoist friends, the old Taoist wants to try his luck elsewhere and bid farewell to all of you." The speaker was a 50-60 year old Taoist priest from the Yuqing Gate.

  "We two will also go elsewhere, and a few fellow Taoists will meet again later!" The old monk of the Jingming Sect also expressed his intention to leave, with a young monk standing beside him who looked like he was only seventeen or eighteen years old.

  "Are all of you fellow Taoists planning to act alone? You should know that in this Descending Dragon Valley, if a cultivator with insufficient strength acts alone and encounters a high-ranking cultivator or a demonic beast, it will be extremely difficult for them to escape with their lives!" Golden Leaf Fairy cautioned aloud as she saw everyone's intention to act separately.

  The Taoist and Buddhist monks had not yet spoken, but a young cultivator from the Tai Xu Gate, who was at the 12th level, spoke up first: "What Jin said is correct, it's indeed extremely dangerous to act alone. However, since we dared to come here, who doesn't know the risks and benefits of this place? Huddling together may be safer, but the opportunity to find heavenly materials and earthly treasures would be greatly reduced. If we can't exchange for foundation-establishing pills, in a few decades, we'll still just be a pile of yellow earth. Why not take a chance and make a move, perhaps we'll stumble upon great luck, who knows?"

  "This young donor is absolutely right, I also mean the same." The old monk nodded in agreement with the other's point of view.

  Jin Ye Xian Zi saw that everyone had the intention to fly solo, so she didn't force it anymore. With a faint smile, she said: "Since everyone is going to try their luck separately, then Jin will not make things difficult for others. May we all meet again outside the valley!"

  The crowd of cultivators bid each other farewell and left in different directions, leaving only Golden Leaf Fairy, a Taixu Sect cultivator who chose to stay with her, and a young girl from the Yuan Yue Sect by the lake.

  "Zhao Shidi hasn't left the pool yet, it seems he's going to continue searching. We've been searching this pool for many days now, and apart from over a dozen low-grade ice spirit stones, we haven't seen any mid-grade spirit stones at all. Let's not waste our time here anymore, let's go to the nearby Cai Xia Mountain and try our luck, come on!" Jin Ye Xianzi said to the other two people. The three of them threw out their flying artifacts, hugging the ground, and slowly flew towards the distance. The cold pool returned to its usual tranquility.

  At this time, Zhao Di was crouching in a certain hidden stone cave at the bottom of the lake, holding a fist-sized stone block covered with white frost. This stone block looked no different from the white stones scattered across the lake bed, but if one carefully distinguished it with their spiritual sense, they could feel the surging pure ice attribute spirit energy beneath the frost, and only then would they know that this was a low-grade Ice Spirit Stone.

  This was the fourth low-grade Ice Spirit Stone Zhao Di had found in three days. Since there were no more discoveries of powerful demon beasts in the pool, and it was relatively safer than outside, after finding three low-grade Ice Spirit Stones, Zhao Di decided to find a secluded place at the bottom of the pool, take out his small cauldron, and cultivate these low-grade spirit stones into mid-grade spirit stones. As a result of intentionally searching for a hidden location, he inadvertently discovered this small stone cave.

  The entrance was only over two feet wide, but inside it was nearly a zhang wide. After Zhao Di entered the stone cave and walked for a while, he felt a faint wave of spiritual energy again, and after careful search, he found this fourth piece of low-grade ice spirit stone.

  Zhao Di was very interested in the deep and bottomless stone cave in front of him. The location here is very hidden, just use some rubble to block the small entrance, even if it's right in front of you, I'm afraid it would be difficult to discover.

  In this way, he can cultivate the spiritual stone with a small cauldron at ease without being discovered by other cultivators.

  Zhao Di continued to move slowly forward in the stone cave, and after walking for more than a hundred feet, he still couldn't see the bottom. Zhao Di couldn't help but feel a little shocked.

  He took out the transparent ice shield of that medium-grade spiritual artifact and held it in front of him, while shining a moonstone far ahead. This way, if there were any ferocious demonic beasts inside the cave, he could try to gain more time to escape.

  After walking nearly a hundred feet, the stone cave suddenly opened up, and in front of Zhao Di appeared a two or three hundred foot high underwater mountain cave that seemed to stretch on forever. At the same time, a familiar demonic beast smell entered his nostrils.

  "Could this be the lair of that dragon-like monster?" Zhao Di thought to himself. This idea made his footsteps even quicker, and his worries in his heart also eased a bit.

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  As expected, after a moment, Zhao Di saw a complete snake skin that was seven or eight zhang long and entirely emerald green. It seemed that the Bi Han Jiao had shed its skin here and evolved into a Jiao.

  Zhao Di unceremoniously rolled up the snake skin and put it into his storage bag. This intact demon beast skin, apart from being used to make talismans, could also be refined into protective clothing such as cloaks and boots.

  He then tried his best to put his mind at ease, strolling around and carefully searching the dragon's lair for any other good things.

  "Huh!" Zhao Di exclaimed in a low voice, he felt that there was a faint wave of spiritual power fluctuations coming from somewhere in the cave!

  Zhao Di hastily walked over and found five fist-sized beast eggs in a corner of the stone wall at the entrance of the cave.

  "This is a Jiaolong beast egg!" Zhao Di was overjoyed, as the beast eggs of yao beasts were not easy to obtain, let alone those of a Jiaolong.

  Zhao Di carefully examined the several beast eggs, one was white, and the remaining four were emerald green, oval in shape, emitting a barely perceptible spiritual energy fluctuation. He excitedly took out a spiritual beast pouch and put all five snake eggs into it.

  He also felt that in front of this stone wall, some refined spiritual energy was faintly transmitted, which seemed not to be of the ice attribute.

  Along the direction of his spiritual sense, Zhao Di carefully searched. As a result, when he used his fabric sword to dig open a huge stone wall in the cave, a strong gust of wind attribute spirit energy rushed towards him.

  Behind the stone wall, a small wind spirit ore vein was unexpectedly exposed.

  Zhao easily discovered several white wind-attribute low-grade spirit stones. He casually used his work cloth sword to dig out these spirit stones and put them into his storage bag.

  This is because the Wind Spirit Stone is not common, and it's not often exchanged in large quantities. If it were to be exchanged for ordinary low-grade Five Elements Spirit Stones, Zhao Di wouldn't even bother digging them up.

  In the following days, Zhao Di stayed here, using a small cauldron to cultivate the Ice Spirit Stones, raising them from low-grade spirit stones to mid-grade spirit stones.

  The rest of the time was spent on the two equipment refining classics from Bai Qiao Men's master and Jin Ye Xian Zi. The way of equipment refining, apart from personally practicing and exploring, also requires learning from others' experiences.

  In the depths of the pond, Zhao Di stayed for seven or eight days.

  These days, the monks in the Dragon Descending Valley have different fates.

  On a steep cliff of Fengyu Mountain, a beautiful girl from the Moon Embracing Sect swung out a pale golden crescent blade and cut in two a mid-tier demon beast before her. Then, with a joyful smile, she pulled up by the roots a nearby stalk of spiritual grass with five-colored, six-colored leaves resembling bird feathers.

  In a cave somewhere in the extremely hot lava valley, a middle-aged cultivator of Tai Xu Men used a fiery red seven-foot broadsword to kill a cultivator of Bai Ling Men who could summon two strange green vampire bats. The two bats also self-destructed immediately after, and green blood splattered all over the ground. The middle-aged cultivator then picked up an ordinary-looking goose egg stone from the ground, but upon closer inspection, it had golden flame-like patterns inside. His eyes revealed an uncontrollable joyful expression.

  On a picturesque hillside, two fellow disciples of the Baiqiao Gate stood facing each other, six or seven zhang apart, manipulating their respective magical instruments in a life-and-death struggle. Nearby, a single stalk of emerald-green, translucent, and extraordinary spirit mushroom emitted tiny green glows.

  A handsome young Taoist priest, holding a piece of medium-grade wood spiritual stone, sat cross-legged to recover his spiritual power. Next to him lay two monk-dressed corpses, an old and a young one, but the storage bags at their waists had vanished into thin air.

  ……

  Not a few monks with extremely good luck found all kinds of heavenly treasures and earthly jewels in some remote and dangerous places, while more monks had no harvest at all.

  The monks who found the treasure were overjoyed, but some of those who didn't find it seemed nonchalant. They thought that finding the treasure was one thing, and bringing it out of the Dragon Descending Valley alive was another matter altogether.

  The one who finds the treasure is not the winner, but the one who laughs last is always the strongest cultivator.

  As the time for the Dragon's Descent Valley mission is approaching its midpoint, the self-proclaimed powerful cultivators in the valley are getting restless, and a bloody and treacherous game of treasure hunting and killing is slowly reaching its climax.

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