You Cultivate, I Farm

Chapter 326: Gourmet Intuition

The trio traversed the deep dark waters in the most conservative manner, arriving at the edge of the desolate island.

The desolate island was rugged with strange rocks, and there was no sign of any spirit plants or beasts. However, Lu Xuan and his companions dared not slack off.

The outermost waters were inhabited by numerous Ice Illusion Toads. The desolate island was close to the palace, so logically, traversing through would be even more difficult.

Sure enough, Lu Xuan saw from afar that a cultivator wanted to fly over the strange rocks. As soon as he started, he seemed to be pulled down by a tremendous force, falling with a thud along with his flying sword.

"There's a prohibition on flying; we can only traverse from the ground."

While keeping an eye on the activity deep within the desolate island, the three quickly joined other Foundation Establishment cultivators.

After several unsuccessful attempts using various methods, everyone gave up on flying over.

"These strange rocks are everywhere. Who knows what secrets lie within."

A beautiful woman gazed at the peculiar rock formations with concern.

A sinister cultivator in black robes released a multi-legged insect from a dark cloth bag.

The insect swiftly crawled on the ground.

In an instant, after advancing about ten zhang, there was a rumbling sound, and the rocks on both sides instantly formed into a pair of stone palms, smashing the insect, which was at the level of a first-grade demon beast, into a pulp.

Then, the stone palms automatically disintegrated, returning to their original rugged state.

The surface of the rocks wriggled, and the remnants of the insect's flesh and blood quickly dissolved.

Subsequently, other cultivators released seven or eight first-grade demon beasts from different directions towards the palace, but the results were no different from the multi-legged insect.

Just as they charged in, they were easily dealt with by the numerous strange rocks on the ground in various ways.

"These strange rocks seem to form a peculiar formation. If anything else intrudes into the formation's territory, it will be cleared by these rocks, which undergo many changes."

A Foundation Establishment cultivator skilled in formations speculated.

"Regardless of the formation, if it dares to obstruct me from obtaining opportunities, I'll smash it to pieces directly."

The burly middle-aged cultivator they had seen outside suddenly grew taller, his muscles expanding, veins bulging, transforming into a giant.

With a ferocious aura, he charged straight into the strange rocks.

"While the stone formations may seem strange, judging by their previous attacks, there shouldn't be any problem for Foundation Establishment cultivators to pass through."

"Moreover, with nearly twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators present, no matter how powerful the stone formation is, it can't trap so many people."

"Everyone, do your best."

A mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator's feet emitted a faint yellow light, seemingly merging with the ground, swiftly sliding towards the opposite side.

Lu Xuan and the others exchanged glances and rushed into the rocky terrain together.

"Hmm?"

As soon as he entered the maze of rocks, Lu Xuan sensed something was amiss.

The two companions who had just rushed in with him, Shi Zhong and another person, had disappeared without a trace. When he extended his spiritual awareness to investigate the surroundings, he found that within a few zhang, it was as if the stone was sinking into the ocean.

"Nothing seemed out of the ordinary from the outside, but I didn't expect such arrangements inside."

"Well, I might as well release some of my energy."

Thinking to himself, he let his spiritual power surge madly, and a delicate jade seal leaped out of his Gluttonous Insect Pouch.

The Seal of the Peak Yue surged in the wind, instantly transforming into a mountain peak made of jade, smashing down on the suddenly transformed stone palm.

"Since you like to smash things, let me return the favor."

The huge stone palm, with a length and width of more than a zhang, was completely crushed by the mountain peak made of jade, shattered into countless fragments.

The mountain peak transformed back into the delicate jade seal, falling back into Lu Xuan's hand.

With a rustling sound, the thick dust merged into the ground.

Before Lu Xuan could react, a strong wind suddenly sounded in his ears, and a huge stone man swung its gray-black fist fiercely, smashing towards Lu Xuan's head.

Lu Xuan's palm turned crystalline in color as he met the stone fist head-on with his own fist.

He practiced both the Lustrous Bone Forging technique and the Ethereal Dragon Transformation, and with the consumption of a large amount of Golden Marrow Jade Liquid, his physical strength was no weaker than many third-grade magic artifacts.

Although there was a difference in size by more than ten times, the defeated party was the giant stone man. From its fist to its shoulder, the stone continuously cracked and shattered, falling down like rain.

As the giant stone man's body was about to dissipate, the Seal of the Peak Yue in front of Lu Xuan instantly enlarged into a mountain peak made of jade, directly smashing it into countless fragments.

Lu Xuan then flashed to the left rear, smashing a forming stone demon beast.

However, the tenacity of the strange rocks exceeded his expectations. Although one stone man or stone beast after another was swiftly dealt with by Lu Xuan, and although they were already broken into pieces, the strange rocks seemed unaffected and quickly transformed into new stone men or stone beasts.

"No, this will only waste spiritual power."

Lu Xuan stopped his movements, thinking to himself.

"The stone formations continuously change into stone men or stone beasts to block my progress and possess strange and powerful healing abilities. It's ineffective to stay here and deal with them."

"We either find the formation's core or a spiritual node and break the formation directly, or we find a way to traverse quickly."

"At the same time, trapping more than twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators... an ordinary fourth-grade formation definitely can't achieve this, and if it's a fifth-grade formation, it wouldn't have this much power; there must be some flaw somewhere."

A crack suddenly appeared in Lu Xuan's palm, opening up to reveal a gray-white pupil.

Above him, ten zhang away, a gray-white pupil suddenly appeared in the void.

Affected by the restriction, the moment the pupil appeared, it plummeted, almost causing its eyeball to fall out.

After all, the Void Nightmare Eye was a fifth-grade treasure, and it quickly adapted to the influence of the restriction. The gray-white pupil continuously scanned the surroundings.

Within the tiny pupil in Lu Xuan's palm, appeared the scene as seen by the main body of the Void Nightmare Eye.

On the entire desolate island, the stones were like a torrent, automatically rushing towards the Foundation Establishment cultivators who had entered the island's territory.

There were few signs of other people in the desolate areas.

"So they've all rushed to the cultivators."

After observing for a while, Lu Xuan chose a direction with relatively fewer strange rocks and sped forward.

His spiritual awareness was ineffective in the maze of strange rocks, so he used the Earth Attraction technique, a basic technique of the Master level, to sense the changes in the underground rock structure, thus reacting in the first place and avoiding direct collisions with the strange rocks.

Over a quarter of an hour later,

Lu Xuan suddenly felt his body lighten.

"I've finally walked out of that stone formation."

Lu Xuan looked into the distance and happened to see several streaks of light swiftly flying towards the mysterious palace.

Judging from their figures, they should be the cultivators with the strongest cultivation among the Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Just as Lu Xuan was about to follow up to take a look, suddenly, a gray vine emerged from his sleeve, raising its tip high and nodding in another direction.

"Are you saying there's a high-grade spirit plant over there?"

Lu Xuan asked curiously.

The ghostly vine nodded, secreting grayish mucus unconsciously.

"Alright, I'll trust your gourmet intuition."

Lu Xuan said.

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