Chapter 533: The Primordial Life Stone
“The Three Saint Pastors are Angi, Moro, and Pastor Miao,” Cha Nai Xue explained casually. “Angi is Jiang Qiue’s mentor, and Pastor Miao is mine.”
As she spoke, she suddenly froze and looked down at her right hand. A rose-blue cross appeared on the back of her right hand. The cross dissolved into spiritual light and then condensed into twisted characters floating in mid-air.
[Beware of Oberon]
The characters disintegrated and reformed.
[Return to General Court immediately]
[Moro Saint Pastor.]
It cut off abruptly, as if there was more to say, but the spiritual light characters trembled and exploded with a hum, disappearing completely.
“…”
The sender must have been Pastor Miao, but the message was so timely, it arrived only after the crisis had already been resolved, Summer Maple thought to himself.
Cha Nai Xue frowned, closed her eyes, and sensed for about ten seconds before opening them. Her purple eyes narrowed slightly: “I can’t contact Pastor Miao anymore.”
She looked at the woman in the green dress. “What’s the situation with Saint Pastor Angi?”
After a moment, Jiang Qiue also opened her eyes and shook her head, “The same, no connection.”
The two women looked at Olivia together.
“After Moro Saint Pastor sent me a message last night, there has been no further communication,” the tall woman with red skin grinned, seeming somewhat excited. “It seems the General Court is indeed in trouble!”
“…”
Just as I thought, the Black Moon Saintess is mentally ill, and it’s not an exaggeration! Summer Maple was impressed. It was no wonder Olivia was called the strongest Saintess, always eager for chaos. With her strength, her Saintess disease was likely the most severe.
Without further ado, Summer Maple walked to the center of the hall and activated the Eye of Deconstruction, looking into the ground. He could clearly see that about 100 meters below ground, there was a multi-colored gem with a faint purple mist flowing within it.
He activated the Holy Knight Space and burrowed into the ground. The moment he touched the gem, Summer Maple was surprised to find that it seemed to be a derivative of a Spirit Artifact.
“Copy.”
[Thought Cage Core]
[Anomaly – Copy failed -]
“It can’t be copied…” Summer Maple held this thing up in the daylight, only seeing purple mist flowing inside. Seeing no discernible pattern, he shook his head and tossed the gem into the Nascent Ten Space.
After dealing with this mysterious object, Summer Maple looked at Cha Nai Xue. “Where is your Spirit Material room?”
Cha Nai Xue froze, her expression slightly stiff. “You don’t mean…”
“That’s right, exactly what you’re thinking,” Summer Maple’s lips curled into a benevolent smile. “Three Saintesses, you are the highest authorities of this branch, aren’t you? Then, to repay my life-saving grace, you’ll give me all the spirit materials of the 20th Branch… No problem, right?”
“…”
“Every expenditure of spirit material needs to be reported to the General Court,” Cha Nai Xue felt she still had to dissuade him.
“Fool, don’t we have Oberon, the heretic, to take the blame?” Olivia sneered. “Besides, if the General Court is in trouble now, who will care about the whereabouts of a branch’s spirit materials?”
She then looked at Summer Maple. “I’ll take you to the core spirit material room, and even the top-secret spirit material room. But I want Oberon’s secretly hoarded Level 6 fire-attribute spirit material. Everything else is yours, how about it?”
Hearing this, Summer Maple glanced at Cha Nai Xue and Jiang Qiue, as if to say, “See how cooperative she is, unlike you two stingy ones.”
Olivia became the guide, leading Summer Maple to begin plundering the Holy See. The two Saintesses watched their retreating figures with a sense of helplessness.
About three minutes later, Summer Maple returned fully loaded. It had to be said that even for a branch, the spirit materials stored here were exceptionally abundant. Level 1 to 6 spirit materials were dazzling, piled up into a dozen peaks in Summer Maple’s Nascent Ten Space, which greatly satisfied him.
A Spirit Master needed a hundred kinds of Venerable Ascension Materials to become a Venerable. Before coming to the Holy See, Miss Mu’s Venerable Ascension Materials were already half collected. They still needed 20 Level 4 materials, 5 Level 5 materials, and 4 Level 6 materials.
Especially the last 4 Level 6 spirit materials (True Martial Death Spirit, Primal Wood, Primordial Life Stone, Sky-Mending Stone Embryo) were extremely difficult to find. To collect them all in a few months, unless one was a top-tier force, it was practically impossible for an individual.
However, this plunder not only completed the collection of Level 4 and 5 spirit materials but also obtained two Level 6 spirit materials, True Martial Death Spirit and Primal Wood, pushing the collection progress directly to 99%. Only the last two Level 6 spirit materials were missing – the Primordial Life Stone and the Sky-Mending Stone Embryo.
As for Summer Maple, he was also missing the Primordial Life Stone. All other spirit materials were present in this Holy See branch, collected all at once. Each Spirit Master had different spiritual affinities, so the required spirit materials to become a Venerable would naturally differ. However, the Primordial Life Stone, Sky-Mending Stone Embryo, and Tai Chi Fruit were essential materials for becoming a Venerable, regardless of spiritual affinity, and were extremely rare.
When Summer Maple previously plundered the A-class Spirit Artifact, the Yin-Yang Mirror, there were 4 Tai Chi Fruits stored within it, so he didn’t need to collect them. Summer Maple actually had one Sky-Mending Stone Embryo in his possession, also obtained during the plunder of the Yin-Yang Mirror, which he had kept unused specifically for becoming a Venerable.
So, strictly speaking, to help Miss Mu ascend to Venerable status –
!
Only the Primordial Life Stone was missing! Of course, it would be foolish for a Spirit Master to think that collecting spirit materials was all that was needed to become a Venerable. Spirit materials were only the first step. Most True Martial Spirit Masters, even with the supply of spirit materials, could not Condense Fruit Position to become Venerable, possibly failing three or four times throughout their lives and dying with regret.
However, the difficulty of becoming a Venerable was nonexistent for Summer Maple. He had a cheat! He only needed to find a way to gather the spirit materials. It was for this reason that Summer Maple was very satisfied with this plundering of the Holy See. The only regret was the absence of A-class spirit paper. Olivia said that rare treasures like A-class spirit paper were kept in the Sacred Archive of the General Court, and a branch would never have them. With no other option, Summer Maple had to give up.
When they returned to the Great Hall, the unconscious Justice Holy Son had just woken up. As for the other nine people, under Jiang Qiue’s examination, it was found that their souls had suffered varying degrees of damage. In particular, Yan Si and Jin Jili, their consciousness and memories had been directly lost for this one day due to the forceful extraction by the Thought Cage Core.
“Lady…” The Justice Holy Son looked at the elegant, tall woman in the blood-red dress, realizing there were two of them. He paused and said solemnly, “And you, sir, I, Jia Wen, will remember your life-saving grace today. If there is anything you need my help with in the future—”
“Buzzzzzzz—!!”
Before he could finish, the entire space suddenly shook, earth-shattering. Everyone’s expression tensed, and they all turned to look outside. The sky, which was clear and cloudless, was suddenly covered by dark clouds, with purple lightning and silver snakes flashing within the clouds, unrestrained thunder and lightning.
Summer Maple, controlling Miss Mu’s body, left only an afterimage and instantly arrived high in the sky outside. The rest followed closely. In the distance, the sky looked like shattered glass, with cracks spreading. Summer Maple realized that this was the location of the space gate connecting to the Bei Qiu Abyss.
“Crack—!”
The crack exploded completely, forming an abyssal black, counter-rotating vortex. A handsome man with shoulder-length golden hair slowly stepped out from within.
Ye Li Kong? Summer Maple was somewhat surprised. “Didn’t you say that returning to the Real World must go through teleportation points?”
Everyone was also puzzled. Could this guy break through the spatial barrier and forcibly come out of the Bei Qiu Abyss? The Justice Holy Son mused, “Ye Li Kong was born with an A-class Spirit Artifact. Although he rarely uses it, and there are very few records of his A-class Spirit Artifact’s abilities outside, it is said to be related to spatial attributes and very useful in actual combat.”
