In the fire element cave.
Chen Yun spread his spiritual consciousness widely across the sky.
Continuously searching around, wanting to verify the ideas in his mind.
The spiritual awareness surged outwards in all directions.
It quickly enveloped the entire Laru Island and the Spring of the Five Elements.
Chen Yun saw everything around him.
For example, Long Nu Sanjiu, Gao Chen, and Ding Xu were leading their teams.
Leading Zhang Lin, Wu Qing, and others to explore the earth and celestial roots on a mountain.
Such as the Yuan Chu, who had previous acquaintances with himself, led his disciples directly to the direction of Ice Fire Road.
The tracks of Niu Dali, Dao Yuan, and others also fell into his eyes.
These immortals seemed to be very sensitive, and upon detecting their own spiritual awareness, they immediately performed magic to screen it.
Moreover, whether it's Laru Island or the Spring of the Five Elements, there are many places that appear dim and cannot be normally probed by spiritual awareness, as if they are being interfered with.
Chen Yun was not surprised by this.
He guessed that those places may be growing special earth and celestial roots, or giving birth to magic treasures.
And those earth and celestial roots or magic treasures, under the influence of the cave heavens' power, released "obscure" spiritual qi, confusing the exploration of his spiritual awareness, so that he could not observe the situation directly with his spiritual awareness.
What surprised him slightly was that he had not initially seen Yuan Chu and his disciples, yet to his surprise, they had also entered.
Chen Yun was curious, weren't Yuan Chu and his disciples from the large stone gate at the bottom of the Meihua Lake?
If that were the case, it would represent that the Meihua Lake cave heavens have another entrance, or even an exit.
Years have passed, and Yuan Chu's cultivation has improved significantly. He has now barely reached the level of sect master.
Chen Yun did not pay much attention to these people.
Instead, he kept searching for the immortals who might be looking at him.
Niu Dali, Dao Yuan, and the others were quite far away; they should not be aware of this green lamp.
The black-clad, left-way Zi Dao Yan Feng, the Niatsu Buddhist monk Jing Chen master, and the Phoenix Queen Nü Lü had all been busy with their travels and did not appear to be paying attention to this side.
The remaining immortals, such as the white-bearded foreigner who was the Law God, the enchanting and revealing succubus, the banyan tree spirit, and the young man dressed in white like snow, who looked like a woman, were all busy with their own affairs.
Chen Yun felt somewhat confused.
Could it be that these immortals have not noticed the green lamp, and truly have no thoughts?
Chen Yun prepared to withdraw his spiritual awareness and then carefully ponder over it.
Suddenly!
Chen Yun suddenly remembered something and pondered silently: "How come I didn't find any traces of that bare-chested brute?"
He remembered that the brute had a cultivation level roughly equivalent to the middle stage of the Immortal Realm.
From a purely literary perspective, he was much weaker than himself.
However, that brute was filled with bulging muscles, and there was no spiritual qi leaking from him at all. It was highly likely that he was a powerful entity who had transformed into a spirit through physical refinement.
"He may be as strong in physical cultivation as he is, but at the current level of the middle stage of the Immortal Realm, he shouldn't be able to surpass my method of refining my form."
Chen Yun had enough confidence that, even if it were just simple physical combat, he could defeat the other party and kill them without even raising his cultivation. Much less when he spoke of using the power of his golden dantian.
Now there are two important problems.
First, whether that brute is secretly observing himself, or perhaps observing the green lamp.
Second, if that brute is indeed observing secretly, he may very well know how to obtain this green lamp. However, due to his own strength, or perhaps for other reasons, he dares not come out directly.
Dared by his own strength, solving the problem would be easier. Just catching up to him and forcing the question, he might know the method of taking the green lamp.
Chen Yun shook his head. Although he was very eager for the green lamp, he was not a man who killed wantonly.
If that brute had no malice, Chen Yun might not do anything to him.
And even watch as the other party took away this green lamp.
It can't be helped; he is a reasonable person.
Even if the treasure is very good, one still needs to follow the line that one upholds in their heart.
In other words, if Chen Yun saw good treasures here today and killed people to take the treasure, would others also do the same to him in return?
Then wouldn't the world be thrown into chaos?
Perhaps some people might find it pedantic, but Chen Yun is like that; a man with his own beliefs.
It is the possibility of the second.
For example, if the brute had some reason to deliberately stay away and not come out, it is clear that he has designs on himself.
So, Chen Yun didn't need to be polite to that brute anymore, and could rely on his hard power to suppress, even forcing out the method of obtaining the green lamp.
Forcing out the method to obtain the green lamp would be difficult.
Because once the brute has designs on himself and reveals the method to obtain the green lamp, he loses his own value, and it is very likely that he will be killed.
However, if he doesn't say it, there might be a chance to temporarily save his life, and even to look for an opportunity to escape.
"It might be quite difficult to directly force out the result..."
Chen Yun slowly opened his eyes, and his gaze became incredibly profound.
He pondered silently: "But if he really has designs on me, I might be able to use a strategy to lure him into voluntarily revealing how to obtain this green lamp."
But how could he make the brute appear and reveal the method to obtain this green lamp?
Chen Yun blinked his eyes, and an idea immediately occurred to him.
He pretended to know nothing and murmured to himself: "It seems that it's really difficult to obtain this green lamp. It will consume a lot of my spiritual qi before I can do it, fortunately, there is no one else here, even if I exhaust my spiritual qi later, it should not pose any danger."
As he spoke, he raised the seven treasure magical tree once again, releasing the colorful mist and the white light green lotus, sweeping towards the green lamp.
Hu chī.
It was almost the same as before.
The green lamp released scorching flames, instantly engulfing the colorful mist and the white light green lotus.
After performing this action, Chen Yun deliberately collected the spiritual qi within him deeper into his body, making it look like he had really consumed a lot of spiritual qi.
In fact, he did not activate the power of the Seven Treasures Miraculous Tree to such an extent.
He did consume some spiritual qi, but not too much.
At least, with the Superb Recovery Power from the "Pan Gu True Body Sutra," which he had refined his form to the third level, he could make up for the consumed spiritual qi in an instant.
Chen Yun did this because he wanted to let the brute, who was very likely eavesdropping in the shadows, know that he had consumed a great deal of spiritual qi. If there were any designs, they could attack after he ran out of spiritual qi.
This technique is called "Drawing a Snake Out of a Cave."
Chen Yun was not in a hurry, and he continuously activated the Seven Treasures Miraculous Tree several more times.
After about a pot of tea's worth of time, he deliberately showed signs of being out of breath.
Chen Yun pretended to mutter again: "Huff, activating the Seven Treasures Miraculous Tree consumed a lot of spiritual qi. Even though I've reached the later stages of Immortal Realm, I've already consumed half of my spiritual qi. Should I take a rest before continuing? Alright, let's go all out and break the seal of the green lamp first to prevent anyone from coming over. Better not dally too long."
In his self-talk, he once again activated the Seven Treasures Miraculous Tree, looking “tired” on his face.
The colorful mist and white light green lotus once again filled the cave, forming a river-like stream that directly rushed towards the green lamp.
Unexpectedly, the flames of the green lamp once again consumed the energy.
Chen Yun remained steadfast, still "wasting" his spiritual qi.
Finally, after another pot of tea's worth of time, his entire face looked pale and weak.
At this point, Chen Yun did not activate the Seven Treasures Miraculous Tree anymore, but instead sat down on the ground, displaying no air of Daoist mastery.
Chen Yun cursed in a fit of annoyance, "What kind of rickety green lamp this is! I've exhausted my spiritual qi and still can't break the seal? Alas, I didn't manage to get the green lamp, and I'll have to spend half a day recovering my Qi. This truly is a loss."
Mm, in fact, if he were to exhaust his strength, he wouldn't need half a day to recover.
Normally, Chen Yun could recover in half an hour after expending all his energy.
He deliberately cursed like this, completely for the sake of others.
Furthermore, Chen Yun did not actually exhaust his energy.
Just now, he activated the Seven Treasures Miraculous Tree, which looked quite significant in motion. However, the actual consumption of spiritual qi was very minimal.
It could be said that it was a big noise with small rain.
Even if natural recovery cannot keep up with consecutive use of the Seven Treasures Miraculous Tree, Chen Yun's body still had eight tenths of spiritual qi.
It would be more than sufficient to deal with an Immortal Realm middle-stage immortal.
After cursing, he sat cross-legged, feigning that he was meditating and recovering his Qi.
In general, during the period of recovery through cultivation, one is at one of the weakest states.
He believed that if someone was lurking in the shadows, they would certainly not miss this opportunity.
At this moment, Chen Yun felt some tension in his heart.
If the brute didn't attack again, it would mean that Chen Yun had judged incorrectly earlier.
In other words, the green lamp, Chen Yun really cannot obtain.
To his surprise, the fact that he was pretending to enter a state of meditation, the other party actually kept their composure and did not make a move.
"Was I really mistaken?"
Chen Yun appeared very confused.
Just as Chen Yun was at a loss in his heart.
Suddenly!
The space around seemed to ripple.
Chen Yun's heart was filled with joy when he was originally a bit helpless.
He knew what was about to happen next.
To his surprise, the brute hidden in the shadows had suddenly attacked him!
What puzzled him a bit was that despite the brute's cultivation being much weaker than his, how could he conceal his form and escape Chen Yun's detection?
Could it be that the other party had some special treasure that could hide their form and essence?
Chen Yun's eyes flickered slightly, feeling that today's gains might not be limited to this one green lamp, but perhaps there could be other things as well.
These thoughts flashed by in a moment.
In the next moment, a powerful force transmitted from the back of his chest.
Chen Yun's mortal body was so robust that he certainly would not be injured by this.
However, if he didn't act injured, he wouldn't be able to get any information out of the brute.
Therefore, he pretended to let out a scream, forcing himself to use spiritual qi to squeeze out a mouthful of blood as he crashed his body towards the stone wall with all his might. At the same time, he spat it out.
Fresh blood filled half of the air, bright red.
Thud.
A loud noise resounded throughout.
Following that, Chen Yun was heavily hit into the stone wall, shattering the entire Huoyuan Cave.
To make his performance more convincing, he urgently emitted a faint, bright red Dan light from all over his body, steadied his figure, and then shot up into the sky from the ruins.
Chen Yun, with his hair in disarray and raging with anger, roared downwards, "Who? Which despicable scoundrel dared to strike from the shadows like this?"
As soon as the words fell, a powerful white light burst forth from the ruins.
Suddenly, a figure appeared before him.
It was the same brute who Chen Yun had not discovered using his spiritual senses before!
The brute had a face that looked "just and upright," but now he was smiling with an sinister and cunning leer, "Heh heh, Daoist, didn't you expect to be ambushed by me?"
Ha!
It was indeed you!
Chen Yun looked disheveled on the surface, but his heart was actually overjoyed.
In fact, Chen Yun had not been injured at all.
He had been speculating that the brute might have some designs on him and was hiding in the shadows.
As a result, with just a bit of performance, the brute really couldn't contain himself and came out to ambush!
Chen Yun secretly chuckled to himself, knowing that he was now on the right track to obtaining the method for obtaining that green lamp.
Hmm, perhaps there will be more unexpected rewards!
