She read the ones available but most of them required third parties. "Sweety isn't there anything I can fo with what already have?"

"The best method, suitable for you is to concoct a soil softening pill, but it corrodes the toughness of the soil and it loses the value."

Zhi Rui nodded "that'll do."

She didn't mind losing the soil whatever was down there had much more value. Again the thought of it being what she fancied flashed by her mind taking a chukled out of her.

"Impossible, there' sonly extreme few of those, and they are already are rare enough. to exude that amount flight it'd need to be the size of a lake. It's not feasible."

Zhi Rui shook her head, but hope gave birth to a desire on her chest."I want it to be that!" Was the desire

She lamented, that kind of desire would give her the most reward, cultivation wise, because that's no more than wishful thinking, and for that to happen it'd be too hard.

Sighing Zhi Rui went to the hall to eat. There She looked at each of her subordinates and took The siblings and RAin out of sweety.

"From today onwards, you'll explore the area for treasures without me." Zh Ri said and gave them the map of where the treasures lay and how to get them. On her ay out she toped for a second. "Don't forget to meet the geniuses and collect my apology compensation.

When she walked away they were left behind with blank look on their faces.

Zhi Rui ran through the wind until the alchemy area. She did it fast and saw Random disciple sending messages through their tokens on the way.

While the other competitor put up that kind of security system. The alchemy area had no disciple around to announce her presence, in fact, Zhi Rui had to walk two hundred steps inland to finally find a disciple.

And he was concocting some basic healing pill on his cauldron. Zhi Rui leaned in to flesh her big sister's smile when a giggle came from her back.

She turned and Xa Dayun was staring at her with a smile.

"How can I help you?"

Zhi Rui delivered her the recipe for the softening pill without a word.

Xa Dayun batted an eyelid and nodded, "I can do it." She said and a thoughtful light shined on her eyes while looking back at Zhi Rui.

"I can do it right now." She said and snapped her fingers.

A cauldron appeared and floated midair, she did it right there and then to Zhi Rui's amazement.

In less than a minute, an almost ancient pill recipe became truth. and so casually at that. With the pill in hands, Zhi Rui gave another throughout look up and down Xa Dayu. But she still didn't find anything else besides what she already did before.

"You can keep the recipe and sell it as you want as payment." Zhi Rui thanked and left.

Xa Dayu looked on with an intelligent glint in her eyes. For a moment she felt her chest tremble with glee.

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On her way back A white figure stood in front of her, making Zhi Rui frown with disgust.

"So you do work with a little pressure after all, I give you a little "hand' then you get the job done. I gotta tell you I wouldn't have the balls to do that kind of move, in a billion years."

Xu Fenguyin stood proudly in front of her, "Now that we're in sync, what's the next plan?"

Cod and disgruntled eyes stared back at him, but Fenguying smirked. "Are you going to keep up on this game? should I send a toe this time?"

Zhi Rui laughed. "Why not her head?"

He frowned. Zhi Rui continued.

"Send e both her legs or two liters of blood." Her eyes were mocking him.

"Do you believe I won't do it? After I already sent an arm!? How dumb can you be!?" He yelled.

Zhi Rui shook her head.

"No, old man. It doesn't work like that. You see, I like that girl, she's such a cute, broken thing, that I can't help but love her. But still, I don't like her enough to give up on my plans."

Xu Fenguyin sighed inwardly the worst case for him came to be.

Zhi Rui laughed. "It doesn't matter if it's the love of my life or my parents. If something in my way I can only lament their deaths but surely won't die with them. So, go ahead, the only thing you'll get from me is punishment."

Without caring about him, Zhi Rui kept going her way.

Leaving an idiot trembling in rage.

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On the bottom of the base, a hundred and ten meters down.

Zhi Rui crushed the pill into a powder and threw a small amount above the soil. Waited five minutes. and shoveled away.

Every ten meters, she sprinkled the pill's dust and investigated the are in her astral form, on her twentieth meter she found a thick bone, of an ancient beast, it emanated that same blue light to Zhi Rui surprise she felt a remnant spirit inside.

'This must've been here for a time long before the underworld world was sealed... how is it possible?'

Zhi Rui frowned, but her expectation rose, the item she thought there might have that kind of propriety to it. Zhi Rui spend some time, digging around the bone at first she was gentle and careful but feeling it had the same sturdiness from when it was buried she didn't hold back any longer, in the end, she was left with some sort of three-headed bird.

after pocketing it Zhi Rui kept digging, she even found, black spirit oil. People sais it's the gathering of beast remnants that formed the liquid form

Zhi Rui dug deeper and found more treasures with more frequency.

When she reached one kilometer. she stopped and entered in her astral form. But her mind went blank, her astral form was solid, she didn't feel the need to direct herself she just did, her vision was murky, her senses were heightened by an incalculable amount, she could see and hear everything in the whole five areas where they were all in, She saw everything, Even Bianca watching everything from beyond the stormy clouds.

Right there, her consciousness fused with every other natural conscience, trees, lesser insects, everything, she saw through everything, the soil around her became a crystal clear sea where she could see everything inside, She felt her body healing completely. When she calmed down and focused on herself. she looked down.

A sea of white was there.

The treasure she thought improbable; was there. sea of it, if what they got on the surface was rare and valuable, then this was a kirin horn. The treasure with a nickname of blessing in blood. A drop of it can make wars happen between allied empire, friends will kill their partner husbands would sacrifice their wives. bottle of it would make the most saint into a murderous demon. And that was then. NOw with its scarcity, should it's presence become known the MAin branch of the light sect might not even be able to hold onto it.

This was Spiritual essence.

In ancient times, one would nurture the body on the surface, and the sound on the underworld, but a treasure, could boost your soul to the Venerable level without backlash or danger, as long as you were at that point, other uses is the healing of souls and healing of the body, and consciousness. it was an elixir of life, an ethereal existence. A diluted half drop could make and individual strength its own soul tan an amount that'd make him invulnerable to mental and spiritual attacks.

And there was a lake a tthe size of a sea beneath Zhi Rui. on her body she couldn't feel anything. but in her astral body, she saw it.

After the shock, she barely managed to calm herself and sent her inner energy through the now thin sheet of soil.

Through the small formation, Zhi Rui understood that the thick, and hard soil wasn't letting the aura of it out. But should Zhi Rui poke fingernail-size hole. it'd seep out and hell would break loose.

Zhi Rui had no soul, but its properties worked just as good on the conscience, she could feel her mind strengthening, according to the Saloman standards she could already fight while controlling her body remotely.

Suddenly Xia Dayu's mins came to her thoughts and she panicked. The woman was too mysterious, maybe she knew of it? Maybe she wanted to use Zhi Rui to dig it up?

But Zhi Rui frowned right after, the way it natural sealed there it'd be impossible for anyone to see it. even a venerable of clairvoyance could do it. So Zhi Rui suppressed the thought but her insecurities were still there.

She calmed down and sat down in a meditative state. If that was discovered there by someone else, she'd die, if she took it out, she'd die. so how can she use it?

Thinking of Bianca and her methods, Ren Zu's short life span, possible betrayals, losses, dangers, and how she had to kill two-level six monsters and overcome her cultivation hurdles to become venerable. Zhi Rui was overwhelmed.

Even if she did manage to get stronger than everybody, they won't allow her to reach a level higher then their own. people will throw away any shame and reputation to put her down.

enemies will make an alliance against her. friends will turn on her. slowly as Zhi Rui thought about it. stress became excitement and she clenched her teeth with thunderous heartbeat blood flowed out of her gums.

"A life of joy and pleasures is ahead of me! each drop of blood on the way will be shed will joy and glee!" She swore to herself.

A light shone on her mind. and she started laughing. The plan formed on her read as she laughed louder and louder, her voice thundered so loudly that her people on the surface heard her voice.

At last Zhi Rui sat down and contained herself. With this plan of hers, it didn't matter how things occurred, in the end, she would come out on top.