Treasures of the East

 Dang! Dang! Thud!

　　The sound of heavy footsteps echoed in the eerie, twisting cave, adding to the atmosphere of terror.

　　Fortunately, after months of time, Edmund had long been accustomed to these, and did not feel any psychological shadow.

　　Entering the bottom of the cave, the eyes opened up and a cave that was more than ten metres wide and thirty to forty metres high appeared.

　　Edmund had previously probed with his divine sense and knew the situation here, thus he was not surprised and headed straight for the coffin in the middle of the cave.

　　He could clearly feel that underneath this coffin was the place where the Yin Qi was the most dense in the entire cave. When his divine sense probed over, it was blocked, and when it reached a few metres below the sarcophagus, it could no longer advance an inch.

　　In the end, what is the existence, actually able to block the divine sense probing?

　　Edmund more curious.

　　Coffin lid overturned on the ground, thick coffin plate, all with stone on, extremely heavy appearance.

　　The heavy Yin Qi was spreading out from underneath the coffin to the surroundings.

　　"Eh? The Yin Qi is escaping from underneath the coffin? To be able to disperse such a heavy Yin Qi from a fixed location, making an originally flat cave become an excellent Yin land comparable to the Nine Yin Lands, could it be that ..."

　　Edmund's eyes lit up, remembering what was recorded in the Witch True Wonderful Canon - Miscellaneous Chapter, and he instantly became excited.

　　He couldn't wait to grab the sarcophagus and weighed it. It felt a bit heavy, and it wasn't necessarily doable to lift it up, but lifting it off the stone platform was much simpler and still doable.

　　One push.

　　Whoo...

　　The heavy sarcophagus carried the sound of the wind, and under the zombie's enormous strength, it flipped to the side.

　　Bam!

　　With a loud bang, it landed on the ground and puffed up gusts of dust.

　　Whew-

　　As soon as the sarcophagus was lifted off, a heavy mist-like presence immediately pounced on it.

　　Hiss--

　　Edmund was so relieved that his body only wanted to shiver uncontrollably.

　　Yin Qi!

　　This was pure Yin Qi!

　　Yin Qi could even reach the point where it was visible to the naked eye, just think about it, how dense must it be?

　　"Yin Spring? Could there even be a Yin Spring here?"

　　Edmund almost jumped up in excitement.

　　What was really bubbling with mist was just a watermelon-sized spring-like existence.

　　Edmund plopped down on the stone platform and tried to reach in, the zombie skin only felt soothing under the nourishment of the gloomy mist.

　　However, the bottom is empty, but can not touch the bottom.

　　Divine sense probe does not go in, hand touch does not go to the bottom, the spring is too small, people can not enter ...

　　Now Edmund could not do anything.

　　With Edmund's strength, to chisel open this spring, as long as some effort can still be done. However, he didn't dare to act recklessly.

　　In case he cut open the spring, and could not discover the secret but instead caused the Yin Spring to be destroyed, then it would be completely bad.

　　If you don't know what's going on, then you don't know! Anyway, with such a dense Yin Qi, he had definitely earned it.

　　I believe that even the legendary Nine Yin Land is just like this.

　　Edmund thought and was about to take his hand back.

　　Suddenly, "Splat!" With a click, something seemed to have touched Edmund's hand, and almost as a reflex, Edmund's fingers gripped the object in his hand.

　　When he retracted his arm, he only saw a small black bead the size of a finger belly lying calmly in his hand.

　　"Huh? What is this thing?"

　　After more than 800 years, Edmund was already used to the existence of divine sense. When he saw an unidentified object, his first thought was to use his divine sense to probe its internal structure.

　　However, Edmund was destined to be disappointed.

　　This thing looked like the same thing from the inside to the outside, rather like a hard pill now.

　　Edmund's heart fluttered.

　　"It is said that in a Yin Spring of excellent quality, after millions of years of accumulation, it will condense a crystallised form of Yin Qi called a Yin Condensation Pearl. Could it be that this thing is a Yin Condensation Pearl?"

　　"It can't be, right?"

　　Edmund was still somewhat unconvinced. After all, this tiny Yin Spring, how could it look like it was of excellent quality?

　　With the mentality of giving it a try, Edmund held the small black bead in his hands and ran the gong method of the "Witch True Wonderful Canon - Body Refining Chapter", trying to absorb the Yin Qi in the small bead.

　　Just as the gong method was running, the small black bead in his hand slowly dissolved, turning into a silky cool air that penetrated towards Edmund's palm.

　　"Huh?"

　　Edmund let out a light eep, and before he could react, he felt a "Boom!" With a loud bang, as if the river and lake had broken the dike, a huge stream of air surged wildly from the palm of his hand along his arm, converging towards the sea of qi in his abdominal cavity.

　　Woo!

　　Edmund let out a low roar in his throat.

　　In just an instant's time, the entire abdominal cavity had been completely distended and filled.

　　The large cyclone in the sea of qi was stimulated and rotated at high speed, generating a huge suction force, the long dragon sucking in water in general, crazily absorbing the airflow that came in.

　　At this time, Edmund again tragically discovered that he seemed to have lost control of his body.

　　From the influx of airflow to the absorption of the great cyclone, it was all naturally carried out under the operation of the gong method, and it was simply unstoppable and irreversible in general.

　　Edmund could only be sure of one thing, and that was that the sea of qi was getting fuller and fuller and was about to explode at any moment.

　　He desperately wanted to let go and throw away the small black beads that were dissolving.

　　However, the powerful attraction generated by the qi cyclone was like a powerful magnet, firmly sucking the small black beads in.

　　Edmund's body, moreover, gradually began to fall into numbness under the impact of the powerful airflow, and even trying to move his arms became a dream.

　　"Pit ah! Pitiful!"

　　"How come a random small black bead tossed himself into this? It seems that we have to learn a lesson, and in the future, we can't try anything recklessly that we're not sure of."

　　Thinking in his heart, Edmund also refused to give up on his last attempt, endeavouring to guide the great qi cyclone to impact towards the chest cavity and sea of qi.

　　Once the Qi Sea channel between the chest cavity and the abdominal cavity was opened, not only would the problem of the distended Qi flow be solved, Edmund would even break through the bottleneck of the third level in one fell swoop, advancing to the fourth level of the Travelling Corpse.

　　However, Edmund angrily found out that his efforts, in front of the rapidly rotating cyclone, were just like an ant trying to shake a tree, the impact was extremely tiny.

　　"Fuck! It seems like every time I encounter this situation, I lose control of my body and hand my life over to the heavens. This feeling is really bad!"

　　Edmund sighed in his heart. Vaguely, he felt that something was wrong somewhere.

　　Could it be that every zombie would encounter this situation when advancing? Every zombie would lose control and not be able to interrupt its absorption on its own when it absorbed essence blood and Yin Qi that exceeded its body's tolerance range?

　　Or was it because he had made some mistake during his own cultivation?

　　Right!

　　Something must have gone wrong somewhere!

　　At this critical moment, Edmund suddenly comprehended something.

　　Of course, now was not the time to think about this, the biggest problem now was to get through this first.

　　Although the guidance of the cyclone was almost ineffective, Edmund still persisted in his efforts.

　　Time, bit by bit, passed. The moon gradually set from the treetops in the west.

　　Edmund had long lost his sense of time.

　　He didn't know whether it was because his unremitting efforts finally paid off, or whether it was due to the operation of the gong method, after the large qi cyclone was completely full and couldn't hold any more qi flow, it finally began to impact in the direction of the chest qi sea.

　　Once, twice, three times ...

　　Boom...

　　Under countless impacts, the diaphragm between the abdominal and thoracic cavities ruptured openly, and a flood-like flow of qi poured violently towards the thoracic cavity under the drive of the large qi cyclone.

　　A small cyclone formed instantly, spinning clockwise within the chest cavity.

　　The incoming airflow was quickly absorbed.

　　This small cyclone grew larger and larger, becoming more and more full.

　　Finally, it gradually reached saturation.

　　Peak state of level four!

　　Edmund couldn't move his body, but he felt the situation within his body clearly. Absorbing the Yin Qi within the small black bead, and advancing from a Level 3 Swimming Corpse to a Level 4 peak state in one go, this would have been a great joy.

　　However, the still raging qi flow within his body was something that made him unable to let go no matter what.

　　At the same time, right next to this small cyclone that had just formed, another faint airflow began to rotate clockwise, crazily absorbing the surrounding unowned airflow, growing stronger and stronger.

　　Buzz--

　　With a fluctuation, the two small cyclones within the chest qi sea suddenly began to rotate around each other, completing the final step of metamorphosis.

　　Similar to the state within the abdominal qi sea during the second level of the Swimming Corpse, these two newly formed small qi whirlpools also rotated clockwise on their own while rotating counterclockwise around each other, forming a Taiji-like pattern.

　　One large cyclone within the abdominal qi sea and two small cyclones within the thoracic qi sea - the sign of a level 5 Travelling Corpse.

　　At this time, Edmund realised that the small black bead in his hand had completely dissolved, and although there were still some unowned qi currents in his body, they could no longer cause any harm.

　　The crisis was lifted, and as a result, he also made a breakthrough, advancing two levels in a row.

　　Edmund was happy, but at the same time, his heart was palpitating, and the worry in the bottom of his heart couldn't be waved away.