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Chapter 227 Breakthrough!

Li Xiaoyao had bought many medicinal prescriptions and ready-made pill medicines, spending over three million Spirit Stones, leaving him with only two million.

Looking at the piles and piles of pill medicines in his storage space, Li Xiaoyao felt a wave of satisfaction.

These pill medicines were enough for his daily cultivation.

Li Xiaoyao sat in the shop, taking out a mystical fire detector.

The mystical fire detector was a round mirror with two buttons underneath, one red and one blue.

The red button was the power switch, and the blue button was to start the search.

Li Xiaoyao first pressed the red button, and the mirror surface instantly turned into a high-definition LED screen, displaying a map of Ling City.

Li Xiaoyao then pressed the blue button, and instantly a dot appeared on the map, representing Li Xiaoyao's location.

Immediately after, the screen began to refresh like a radar, covering a range of a hundred kilometers. If there was a mystical fire source within this range, it could be detected.

Li Xiaoyao didn't take it seriously, because he knew from the System that each mystical fire source was the essence of heaven and earth, and it was unlikely that one would exist even on the entire planet.

"Beep beep beep!!!"

Suddenly, the mystical fire detector emitted a piercing alarm sound.

Li Xiaoyao's expression froze as he stared at the screen making the alarm noise, muttering to himself, "Could it be broken? I spent ten thousand Spirit Stones on this thing!"

At that moment, the System's voice rang out next to Li Xiaoyao's ear: "Congratulations to the host, within a hundred kilometers, there is a mystical fire source detected." Discover more stories at empire

Li Xiaoyao, with a keen sense, noticed a flame icon appear at the bottom of the screen.

Li Xiaoyao eyed the flame icon and said, "Is this the mystical fire source?"

The System replied, "The mystical fire detector has detected a mystical fire source seventy kilometers below the host."

Li Xiaoyao swallowed, glancing down at the ground subconsciously.

Seventy kilometers beneath his feet, that was a depth of seventy thousand meters.

Li Xiaoyao collected his thoughts and asked, "Can it detect what kind of mystical fire source it is?"

The System said, "It can be detected within a fifty-kilometer distance."

Damn, fifty kilometers.

Does it expect me to burrow twenty kilometers into the ground?

Isn't that a suicidal act?

What if the mystical fire source suddenly goes berserk while I'm halfway through, wouldn't the area for a hundred kilometers around be devoid of life? By then, before even seeing what the mystical fire looks like, I'd be burned to ashes.

Li Xiaoyao stared at the ground beneath his feet, when suddenly an idea flashed through his mind.

"Could it be that the giant serpent is guarding that mystical fire source?"

Li Xiaoyao was shocked by his own bold thought but felt increasingly that it was a strong possibility.

Yet upon further thought, Li Xiaoyao felt something was off.

If the giant serpent came into existence because of the mystical fire, then how could one explain the ancient coffin?

The giant serpent could've been just a small snake that strayed onto the wrong path, subsequently nurtured by the Spirit Stone Vein to grow into its current form.

But that coffin was definitely placed underground by someone.

After all, who would put a coffin underground, and moreover, with a woman lying inside?

Li Xiaoyao couldn't figure it out no matter how much he thought about it, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

After all, with his current cultivation level, whether it was the giant serpent or the mystical fire source underground, neither was something he could afford to provoke.

The sky outside the shop gradually brightened, with slivers of sunlight piercing through the gaps in the doors and windows.

Li Xiaoyao stretched his body and walked over to the door, gently pushing it open.

The golden sunlight, tinged with afterglow, covered Li Xiaoyao's body, making him feel completely relaxed.

Having nothing better to do, Li Xiaoyao tidied up the shop a bit, and then took out the invitation, pondering for a few seconds before writing down one name after another.

The shop was about to open, and naturally, Li Xiaoyao wanted to invite some people to support the opening. This would also let others know that the owner of this shop was no ordinary person.

After finishing the invitations, it was already half-past nine in the morning.

A call from an unknown number came in, and Li Xiaoyao picked it up for a glance, confirming he had no recollection of it.

"Who is this?"

A deep and steady voice came through the phone.

"Is this Cultivator Li Xiaoyao?"

Cultivator?

The term sent a chill through Li Xiaoyao's heart as he asked, "It is I, may I know who is speaking?"

"Heh heh, greetings to you, Cultivator Li, I am Yang Tianren."

"Yang Tianren?" Li Xiaoyao pondered for a moment but couldn't recall anyone by that name.

Yang Tianren reminded him, "Cultivator Li might not know me, but you should remember, not long ago, at the Troubled Times Beauty, you taught a young man named Zheng Fengfeng a lesson."

"Zheng Fengfeng?" Li Xiaoyao narrowed his eyes, he indeed remembered Zheng Fengfeng, that wealthy young man from Jindu who had a martial artist of average cultivation level by his side. Had it not been for Mr. Huo using Troubled Times Beauty as compensation, Li Xiaoyao would have already crippled him.

If this Yang Tianren was calling himself a fellow cultivator, it meant he must be a cultivator too. And now, with this call, what exactly was he implying?

Yang Tianren said with a smile, "You needn't be tense, my dear fellow. I am merely extending an invitation for you to join us this evening."

An invitation to meet?

Li Xiaoyao didn't know what this man was plotting, but as someone not one to shirk from trouble, he replied, "The location."

Yang Tianren said, "1933 West Jindu Road."

"Good, I will certainly come."

After hanging up the phone, Li Xiaoyao stared at his mobile phone, stroking his chin thoughtfully before walking over to close the shop's front door again.

Before tonight, he did not plan to leave the house at all, he wanted to descend to the Spirit Stone Vein and go into secluded cultivation.

Meanwhile, after hanging up the phone, Zheng Fengfeng, who was next to Yang Tianren, asked, "Grandfather Yang, how did it go? Did he agree?"

Yang Tianren nodded with a smile.

Zheng Fengfeng inquired, "Grandfather Yang, what if he doesn't comply with our demands tonight?"

"Not comply?" The smile on Yang Tianren's face paused, a flash of murderous intent in his eyes as he said, "If he cannot be used by the Zheng Family, then kill him!"

...

Down in the Spirit Stone Vein, Li Xiaoyao sat cross-legged with closed eyes, amidst the vein.

As the Eight-Nine Mystical Art circulated within his Dantian, filaments of Spiritual Energy converged and desperately surged into his body.

Opening his mouth slightly, a milky white substance was expelled through his mouth and nose.

Time unknown, Li Xiaoyao suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze bewildered and lost.

"I'm about to break through!"

"Just a bit more!"

One after another, Pill Medicines floated out of the Storage Space and suspended before him.

Li Xiaoyao opened his mouth, and the pills orderly flew in.

As the pills reached his throat, they immediately transformed into thick streams of Spiritual Energy, spreading and enveloping his limbs and bones.

The Eight-Nine Mystical Art that Li Xiaoyao was cultivating, circulated rapidly, absorbing and refining these dense streams of Spiritual Energy.

With the energy continuously refined and absorbed, a massive ball of energy accumulated, reaching a critical mass at one moment, then exploding with a bang!

"Boom!"

The explosion happened within Li Xiaoyao's body, and as the sound resonated, a thrilling and refreshing sensation spread from head to toe, enveloping his entire being.

Li Xiaoyao opened his eyes, expelling a puff of black turbid air from his mouth.

A flash of joy crossed his eyes, "I've broken through!"

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