The old man approached and asked the two guards:

– Where is Pham Nhan?

One of the two guards replied:

– Yes, he is inside the cellar.

The old man nodded, tossing his head to the younger man behind him:

– Pham Phap, go in there with me and see what’s going on. I’ll stay here and watch out for that old man Chau Thai!

Yes, father!

Pham Phap nodded and jumped into the hole…

Deep in the mine, Pham Nhan stood examining a half-dug stone cavity. At the end of the cavity was a metal statue of a naked girl, the size of a real person. The statue was meticulously crafted down to every detail with a nearly perfect body, but the face of the statue was flat as if the sculptor had intentionally not made a face. In her hand, the girl was holding a bright red rose like a real flower. With her other hand, she raised it up as if she was beckoning someone and also waiting for someone to take her hand…

The girl arched her back, her perfect body leaning against a dusty circle. Pham Nhan reached out to wipe the dust off and realized that this round surface was actually a mirror…

– Spiritual Gate!

Pham Nhan exclaimed happily, he was sure that this was a spiritual gate and it was almost intact… The spiritual gate definitely had a lock, but what made Pham Nhan happy was because he believed that a spiritual gate buried in the heart of a mountain was definitely at least a thousand years old, meaning there was a very high probability that the gate’s owners had died, this gate was ownerless and just like ownerless backpack rings, the lock code would be automatically canceled…

Thinking so, Pham Nhan immediately used his hand to transfer spiritual power to activate the gate…

Bang!

Putting his hand on it was fine, but as soon as he transferred his spiritual power to the mirror, a strange reaction force erupted, sending Pham Nhan crashing into the rock.

Pham Phap just arrived, hurriedly ran to help Pham Nhan up:

What’s wrong?

Pham Nhan was stood up by Pham Phap, his mouth spat out a mouthful of blood and he replied:

– Because of the gate!

– The gate?

Pham Phap looked at the mirror and asked doubtfully. Even a high-level Holy Treasure wouldn’t be able to automatically knock away a Great King like Pham Nhan.

Curious, Pham Phap tried putting his finger on the mirror, transmitting a very small amount of spiritual power and covering his whole body with spiritual power for defense…

Bang!

Just like that, the moment the spiritual power entered, Pham Phap’s finger was immediately knocked out, his arm was also thrown back, dislocated…

– Ouch… What the hell is this? – Pham Phap angrily scolded while Pham Nhan adjusted his wrist.

– Just bring this gate back and we’ll see!

– How can you wear it when you can’t touch it? – Pham Phap said.

Pham Nhan replied:

– Are you stupid? If you can’t use spiritual power, then use force to carry it out!

– YES…

Pham Phap nodded, the two men went to both sides of the gate, joined hands and used force to lift it up…

– Huh! It’s so heavy!

The two spirit kings unexpectedly couldn’t even lift the gate…

Outside, the group of three Chau family members including Chau Thai, Chau Son and Chau Giam, along with Duong, approached the mine and hid beside a cliff not far away.

Seeing that there were only 3 people in the mine, old man Chau Thai sneered:

– Ha! That Pham Thuong looked down on me so he didn’t bother to send anyone to guard the outer perimeter!

Son asked:

– So now we ambush it?

Old Thai replied:

– How can I attack by surprise? When it reaches the Spirit Emperor level, its range of sensing spiritual energy is quite wide. Unless its attack speed far exceeds its evasion speed, otherwise, as long as I launch a move, it will quickly recognize it and avoid it!

Duong has the Crazy Shadow Cannon, if a Spirit Emperor like Chau Thai uses it, Pham Thuong will have a hard time avoiding it, but the problem is that to operate this cannon, one needs the Crazy secret technique…

Old Chau Thai continued:

– They only have Pham Thuong and two Linh Tuong, take advantage of this opportunity to deal with them, take down Pham Thuong and then decide what to do!

– Go up!

Old Chau Thai signaled and pulled out a sword, leading the charge straight toward Pham Thuong.

Pham Thuong discovered Chau Thai and laughed loudly:

– Ha ha! You old fool, you want to risk your life with me?

Laughing, he raised his hand, and a rough layer of wood grew out of his arm. This layer of wood grew long and became a large whip that whipped towards Chau Thai.

Just as they were about to collide, Old Zhou Tai’s saber suddenly caught fire, and at the same time, Fan Shang’s whip was also covered in a layer of ice. The blade of the saber cut off a section of the whip, but was tightly wrapped by the remaining part of the whip. The ice on the whip immediately spread out and clung to the tip of the saber, causing the fire on the saber to gradually weaken…

– Ha ha! It seems your spiritual power is as weak as you! – Pham Thuong laughed triumphantly, taking advantage of the moment when Chau Thai’s weapon was being controlled to rush forward, his other hand creating another whip to hit Chau Thai’s head.

Chau Thai raised his hand to grab the whip. Although he tried his best to defend, his hand was still beaten until it bled. Pham Thuong’s two whips immediately grew long and tightly wrapped around Chau Thai’s arms.

With both hands restrained, Zhou Tai roared, raised his leg and kicked hard at Fan Shang’s chest. This guy immediately created a thick layer of wooden armor to block it, at the same time from his chest grew a bunch of wooden ropes that tightly wrapped around Zhou Tai’s legs. Zhou Tai circulated his fire spiritual power to his legs, intending to burn the ropes, but Fan Shang transferred a layer of ice to the ropes, completely suppressing Zhou Tai’s fire.

– Why is that? – Chau Thai said in surprise. Although he was old and weak, he didn’t think that their strength would be so different that they couldn’t fight back.

Pham Thuong smiled triumphantly:

– Why? Ha ha… Of course the difference between you and me isn’t so great that it would make you lose so humiliatingly, but I have this!

Pham Thuong created a vine to replace his wings and ripped open his shirt, revealing a necklace with a pendant shaped like an ice-blue stone.

– Holy Treasure? – Chau Thai said in surprise.

– That’s right! It’s a low-grade Holy Treasure that enhances the Ice attribute! I’ll exchange all of my family’s assets that I’ve accumulated over the past few hundred years for this just to destroy your Chau family!

Chau Thai asked:

– All your fortune? That means your entire fortune is only enough to exchange for this one thing?

Pham Thuong was confused:

– Of course not? Is your family fortune bigger? This is a special type of Holy Treasure! Do you think it’s easy to exchange?

Chau Thai asked again:

– Really? There’s really only one dish?

Pham Thuong replied:

– You despise this dish? Ah! I see! You’re jealous! Ha ha… Die!

At this moment, Zhou Tai’s arm that was not holding the knife erupted with two types of spiritual energy: lightning and fire, but still could not escape from Fan Shang’s control. Fan Shang thought that Zhou Tai was struggling in vain, so he ignored him, summoned a knife, and used a vine to stab the knife into Zhou Tai’s chest.

But before the knife could reach its target, the vines clinging to Zhou Tai’s hand suddenly broke into many pieces. His arm was released. Zhou Tai had been hiding the Thunder Fire Sacred Lotus in his hand since he had grabbed the whip. The flower that was spinning violently was brought into the knife string of Fan Shang, causing the string to be caught by the suction of the Thunder Fire Sacred Lotus. Zhou Tai immediately snatched the knife and stabbed Fan Shang in the chest, but the latter managed to pull back the whip and jump back to avoid it by a hair’s breadth.

– Is that… Holy Treasure? – Pham Thuong asked in surprise.

Oh!

Pham Thuong coldly snorted:

– Humph! Even with the same Holy Treasure, you still can’t be stronger than me!

Chau Thai laughed:

– Ha ha! Why do you think I want to confirm that you can only exchange for one Holy Treasure?

Pham Thuong seemed to understand and was immediately frightened and said:

– Do you have two?

Chau Thai laughed even louder:

– Haha! There is only one! But this is not a low-grade one like yours! It is a mid-grade Holy Treasure!

Pham Thuong found it hard to believe, but the power just now easily broke his spiritual power, indeed if Chau Thai used a low-grade Holy Treasure it wouldn’t be able to do it so easily…

– Where did you get that? – Pham Thuong asked.

Seeing Pham Thuong’s absent-minded expression, Chau Thai proudly teased:

– This? It’s just a tenth of my fortune in exchange…

– Lie! Did you find it from the ruins in the mine?

– It’s not a mine, it’s a tomb! Let me take you down there and try your luck!

Zhou Tai didn’t say much more, holding a knife in one hand and a flower in the other, he charged forward and attacked repeatedly. But Fan Shang still had a stronger advantage in spiritual power. Although his attacks were continuously absorbed by the Thunder Fire Sacred Lotus, he was still strong enough to block Zhou Tai’s attacks. The two first-level Spirit Emperors continuously slashed back and forth at lightning speed, the continuous sound of collision, fire, ice, electricity, and wood flying everywhere made outsiders dizzy.

– Ha ha! You will lose for sure!

Chau Thai triumphantly said, if the battle continues like this, when the spiritual power decreases, the defense will also decrease. Thanks to the Thunder Fire Holy Lotus, he is not afraid of Pham Thuong’s attacks, but on the contrary, Pham Thuong will become vulnerable to Chau Thai’s attacks.

Pham Thuong does not deny this:

– That’s right! If this continues, I will lose, but I only lost because you have a mid-level Holy Treasure, don’t be so complacent!

Chau Thai replied:

– So what was your reason for being so smug before? It’s just because you’re younger than me!

– Humph! Too many words! I just said ‘if this continues I will lose’, not that I will lose!

Chau Thai asked:

– What does that mean?

Pham Thuong avoided the knife and laughed contemptuously:

– Let me tell you, the High Priest of the Dead Palace, Hai Ha, gave me a blueprint many years ago and told me to search for something in the blueprint in this Seven Mountains region. That blueprint is exactly the same as what you dug up in the mine!

– The High Priest seems very interested in this relic. He said if anything is discovered, please notify us immediately. He will…

Pham Thuong emphasized each word like a threat:

– Come … personally … see!

At present, the two Spirit Generals of Pham Thuong’s faction, after avoiding the battle between the two Spirit Emperors, immediately encountered Chau Giam and Chau Son and were quickly defeated by them.

Duong was still hiding, waiting for a chance to steal. Hearing Pham Thuong mention Hai Ha, he was startled and used Google to search for people heading to the mine…

Sure enough, Hai Ha was moving closer… Duong immediately turned around and was about to run away immediately…

But the list of people coming is still there… Diem My originally thought she had listened to Duong’s advice to follow Hoa Lien, Chau Doc to Saigon, but now the Immortal Transformation is flying very close…

And…

Long Han…

Long Chuc Diem…

Duong’s intention to run away completely vanished…