Chapter 122: Converging Spiritual Energy

Seeing the mountain ape beast trapped in the formation, a hint of cunning flashed in Mo Juren's eyes.

Although this formation was not as bright as the one Hu Pinggu had just set up, the three flags formed a small triangular area that just happened to envelop the mountain ape beast.

However, that layer of light was like sticky glue, completely enveloping the mountain ape beast, making it unable to move even though it had the strength to do so. This was actually more effective than the huge talisman cage just now.

It was the Three Talents Dragon Trapping Formation that Mo Juren had set up at the beginning that came into play at the right time!

After seeing that the mountain ape beast did not move, Mo Juren took out the white rope magic weapon, activated it with magic power, and drilled into the formation like a snake.

The ropes bound the mountain ape's hands behind its back, and its legs were bent backwards, with all four limbs tied behind its back, like a dumpling.

From then on, this clever and brute force cave-guarding beast could no longer cause any trouble.

Hu Pinggu and Xiong Dali came over and thanked him.
"I never thought that this beast would evolve into a monster skill, and the rare 'Thunder and Fire' skill. It's really unexpected."

"The talisman cage we prepared for so long was torn to pieces by this beast in one blow."

"Luckily, Fellow Daoist Zhang is here. Otherwise, with just my husband and I, we might not be able to do anything about it today."

Mo Juren said with great enthusiasm,

"It's just a trivial matter, not worth mentioning. Now that the spirit beast has been captured, how are you two going to take it away?"

"That's easy. We've already prepared for it. Dali, go ahead."

Xiong Dali then took out a larger spirit beast bag, and with his magic power, he rolled up the entire mountain ape beast, and then returned the white rope magic weapon to Mo Juren.

Then the three of them looked towards the cave together, and jumped to the other side of the river in unison.

Hu Pinggu collected the mountain ape beast and was in a good mood. She said to Mo Juren,

"It all depends on Fellow Daoist Zhang. How are you going to break this formation?"

Mo Juren smiled without saying anything. He turned over his palm and saw that he had already taken out a token with the word "Ling" written on it.

Hu Pinggu exclaimed,

"Wu Jiuzhi's cave token! How did you get it... Did you kill Wu Jiuzhi?"

Mo Juren said calmly,

"So that man's name is Wu Jiuzhi. He attacked me first and I killed him with my sword. I can only say that he brought this upon himself."

"Why? You two, do you want to avenge Wu Jiuzhi?"

In fact, Mo Juren was very calm in his heart, and he said this just to test it.

If the relationship between them was really that good, the couple would not have been so eager to come and plot against Wu Jiuzhi's cave so soon after his death.

As expected, Hu Pinggu replied,
"Fellow Daoist, you are overthinking. We have only cooperated with Wu Jiu a few times, and we don't have a deep friendship."

"I just didn't expect that Fellow Daoist Zhang is so powerful. Wu Jiuzhi has reached the eighth level of Qi Refining!"

Mo Juren pretended to be profound, did not comment, and then said,

"How is it? Then the two Taoist friends should believe that I can easily break this formation, right?"

Hu Pinggu rolled her eyes.
"Then what we said before..."

Mo Juren laughed and said,
"I, Zhang Tie, will not go back on my words. As I said before, anything that does not belong to the cave will be divided into three parts."

Then they came to the formation, and Mo Juren pasted the token on it. As expected, a round hole immediately appeared on the light shield, and the three of them entered one after another. The cave should have been a well-kept scene, but now it has been destroyed beyond recognition by the mountain ape beast.

One can only vaguely see some green plants and a small pavilion. It should have been a garden for viewing the scenery.

Not only that, traces of being hit by huge force were also found on the second layer of formation protection at the entrance of the cave. It was obvious that the strange ape had also tried to break through the door of the cave and wanted to enter.

This guy even started stealing from his employer. I really don't know how Wu Jiuzhi was able to control it and make it a guarding spirit beast. Is there something in the cave that it just has to get?

With these questions in mind, Mo Juren took out the token again and pasted it on the second layer of the formation as usual. He then easily opened an entrance on the light curtain in front of the cave door.

Seeing this hole that can only accommodate one person, Mo Juren stepped aside and said,
"To be fair, please go ahead and identify the valuables inside."

In fact, it was just his first time entering a cultivator's cave, so he was unsure.

But Hu Pinggu did not suspect anything and went in first, followed by Xiong Dali. After Mo Juren saw that the two were safe, he was the last one to go in.

There was a square space about three meters long and wide, with simple furnishings inside.

A stone bed, empty on top; a stone table and two stone chairs, with tea bowls and other daily utensils on them.

There is also a crooked stone platform standing in the middle of the cave, which is quite abrupt.

There were several activated sound transmission notes floating above the coffee table. Someone must have left a message for Wu Jiuzhi.

In addition, there is a wooden shelf against the wall on the left side of the cave, on which some sundries are placed.

There is a small green area next to the right wall, where Wu Jiuzhi actually planted some medicinal herbs.

There is a hole above the green space that allows light to come in, and there is also a water vein that comes from nowhere, passing through the green space and flowing into the river outside.

With sunlight, water and soil, the herbs on it seemed to be growing well.

As soon as Hu Pinggu came in, she set her eyes on the things on the wooden shelf. After picking and choosing, she didn't find anything valuable, and her little mouth couldn't help but pout.

Mo Juren had actually anticipated this situation.

Because on the night when Wu Jiuzhi was killed, we knew from the storage bag found on him that he was also a poor cultivator and did not have anything valuable on him, so there would probably be no gain in this cave.

The most valuable things should be the cave itself and the matching formation.

Mo Juren ignored Hu Pinggu and the other two and looked around. He discovered that the hub of the formation was actually located on the stone bed.

He sat on it hurriedly and began to practice his skills without hesitation to feel the spiritual energy of the place.

Finally, I was delighted to discover that the formation in this cave really had the effect of gathering spirits!

This spirit gathering formation increases the concentration of spiritual energy in the cave to about four times, which is enough to support future cultivation.

Mo Juren was overjoyed!
On the other side, Hu Pinggu and the other person finally finished counting the valuables in the cave.

They placed the things on the stone table and divided them into three piles. They were all gold, silver, elixirs, magic talismans, etc.
There are only a few spirit stones, and not even a copy of the martial arts manual.

Hu Pinggu said disappointedly,

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, everything has been sorted out. I didn't expect that Wu Jiuzhi was just a fool with a good appearance. There weren't even a few spirit stones in his cave."

"Fortunately, I didn't spend too much effort to break the formation before, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to make up for the loss of the magic weapon. I'm really pissed off."

(End of this chapter)