Chapter 136: Harvest and Escape

"Gu Fan, hold it in for me! Show some spine, the real treasures are deeper inside!"

Gu Fan cursed himself a few times for being useless. This was just the beginning—how could he let these petty gains distract him?

He immediately quickened his pace and walked deeper inside.

The space within the cave gradually widened, and soon, a massive hollow appeared inside the mountain!

Spiritual energy continuously flowed out from the walls, and when Gu Fan saw this scene, his jaw dropped.

It wasn’t that he lacked composure, it was just that the sight was too shocking.

Even if these were merely spirit stones, he’d already be rich. Not to mention these were Yuan Crystal Stones used in the Upper Realm!

And the key point was that these weren’t low-grade tri-colored or five-colored ones, but primarily seven-colored with a fair number of nine-colored high-grade Yuan Crystal Stones.

"This many... If someone finds out I intercepted them, I might be hunted to death, right?"

He even felt that not even members of his own sect could resist the temptation!

After all, this wealth was enough to make anyone's heart stir, even the Holy Son wouldn't be an exception!

Gu Fan didn’t dare delay any longer. Every second he stayed here increased the danger.

Once the three parties above determined a victor and started descending into the cave, he would be trapped here.

While he could suppress traces of his concealed aura to avoid being noticed, it didn’t mean his physical body truly disappeared.

To put it simply, one might overlook a person with no presence, but if they stood face to face, even a blind person would sense their existence.

So Gu Fan had to move quickly—he had to collect these Yuan Crystal Stones and flee before the battle outside concluded.

This was the essence of striking it rich in silence!

With a wave of Gu Fan’s hand, rows of Storage Pouches appeared in midair.

If there was one thing he wasn’t lacking, it was Storage Pouches. After all, he had killed many people—these were spoils from the past.

He then activated his spiritual power and began slicing the Yuan Crystal Stones embedded in the wall, still wrapped in their stone shells. Though they hadn’t been fully opened, the surging spiritual energy within didn’t lie.

Before these Yuan Crystal Stones were sealed through special means, even a Spirit Sea Realm cultivator could sense the overwhelmingly rich spiritual energy.

As Gu Fan continued cutting and collecting, one Storage Pouch after another was quickly filled.

His hands worked in perfect sync—his right hand slashed with spiritual power, while his left hand manipulated the Storage Pouches. Once one was filled, he would hang it back at his waist.

In no time, his entire waist was lined with Storage Pouches!

"Just a bit more... Luckily, I brought enough Storage Pouches. I filled twenty-three of them. This is a real fortune!"

Gu Fan was brimming with excitement. He filled the last Storage Pouch and hung it at his waist.

Then he glanced back at the underground mountain cavity he had doubled in size and, without hesitation, rushed toward the exit.

But just as he extended his divine sense to scout ahead, he realized with shock that the battle outside had already stopped at some unknown point.

This caught him off guard!

Had they ended in a stalemate? Or had the Destiny World side been defeated?

Or perhaps the two factions had finally joined forces to crush the cultivators of the Void Sacred Realm?

No matter the case, if they were coming down now to explore, they would definitely run into him!

Gu Fan’s individual strength could crush them one-on-one, but in such a narrow underground space, if surrounded and focused upon—

Even with his magic immunity, he would certainly die on the spot!

With that thought, his expression turned grim. He immediately pushed his speed to the maximum. He had to break through before being discovered and blocked!

Only once he reached the outside could he avoid the disadvantage of being surrounded and easily shake them off.

"Forget it! Go all out!"

Gu Fan clenched his teeth and surged wildly toward the exit.

In an instant, all the spiritual energy in the cave was stirred by him, surging outward like a storm.

This stunned the cultivators outside. Then someone quickly pointed at the cave entrance in shock and shouted:

"Everyone, look! The spiritual power is surging out faster—there must be a treasure about to emerge!"

In an instant, everyone's gaze fixed on the cave entrance, all wearing expressions of anticipation and tension.

At this moment, Gu Fan was only five hundred meters away from exiting the cave!

Sweeping his divine sense across the area, he noticed that the cultivators outside were numerous and appeared to be from the Destiny World.

In that fleeting moment before his emergence, Gu Fan modified his robes slightly—just enough to indicate he was from the Brahma God Sect, but not distinguishable by which peak he belonged to.

Finally, just one second before leaving the cave, he donned a black veil to cover his face.

This time, it truly wasn’t cowardice. If these people descended and saw the leftover scraps he had already carved up—every piece being Seven-colored Yuan Crystal Stone—they would hunt him down even at the cost of their lives.

Once word spread, Gu Fan would become the greatest mobile treasure vault in the Destiny World. Even within Overlord Peak, he feared being ambushed in his sleep.

So the very next moment, as he burst out of the cave entrance, he saw dozens of people surrounding it. They had set up a formation and restriction in advance to capture any treasure—only for it to be shattered by his punch.

Gu Fan then saw all their expressions turn to astonishment, daze, disbelief—all kinds of looks.

It was honestly quite comical.

Of course, Gu Fan didn’t have time to laugh. He burst forth with spiritual power and accelerated again.

With a thunderous roar, he vanished into the distance.

Only then did someone slowly speak up:

"The underground treasure turned out to be a living being?"

"Yeah, and he looked just like a cultivator from our Destiny World!"

At this moment, the two leaders of the group instantly became furious!

"Idiots!! That was someone from the Destiny World! We fought so hard to defeat those Void Sacred Realm bastards, and just when we were about to seize the treasure, it got stolen!"

The female cultivators from Sacred Land Yaochi were also fuming.

"Outrageous! He stole from right under our noses without any respect for rules. From his robes, he appeared to be a disciple of the Brahma God Sect. We must go reason with their Holy Son!"

"Hmph! We must demand justice for this. Unfortunately, the man was wearing a veil, so we couldn’t recognize him."

"That’s not difficult. Most of the ones from Brahma God Sect this time are familiar faces. If we can’t recognize him, that means he’s a stranger. A bit of screening will tell us roughly who he is."

Everyone voiced their anger, eager to capture the thief immediately.

It was also because they had all assumed the spiritual surge came from a treasure being born, and had been on guard.

Not only were they preventing the treasure from escaping, they were also wary of each other making a move.

This gave Gu Fan the chance to escape all the way out.

Otherwise, if all the cultivators at mid to late stage of True Yang Realm had attacked together, they might have beaten him back underground.

At this moment, Gu Fan was rapidly widening the distance.

He swept his divine sense through the surroundings and, seeing no living beings nearby, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Damn, I nearly lost my life for some loot. It’s really tough being a mere Primordial Yang Realm cultivator."

But thinking of this, Gu Fan was also quite puzzled.

So far, the other three major forces hadn’t sent a single Primordial Yang Realm disciple into the rift.

Yet the Brahma God Sect had sent two—Jiang Tianxin and Gu Fan.

If it was aimed at Gu Fan, then why was Jiang Tianxin from Holy Son Peak also here?

If it wasn’t targeted, then why was Gu Fan—someone only at early to mid-stage of Primordial Yang Realm—summoned along? It was truly odd.

"But strength is the hard truth. I can still seize resources after entering!"

As Gu Fan flew ahead while thinking, he suddenly realized he had unknowingly stepped into a land full of birdsong and blooming flowers!

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