Yuan Ming suddenly discovered an anomaly. These purple-black demonic vines not only grew lush leaves and purple-black flowers, but their length also changed greatly.
The demonic vines were originally seven or eight feet long at most, but the demonic vines in front of me were much longer, at least twenty feet long. Could it be related to the strange black energy absorbed?
Yuan Ming pondered for a moment and communicated with Black Toad through his spiritual thoughts.
Black Toad's belly shook and he woke up.
Sensing Yuan Ming's presence, Black Toad hurriedly turned his body over, a purple-black light emerged from his back, and the demonic vines that covered the whole hall quickly shrank and submerged into his back.
After a few breaths, all the demonic vines in the hall disappeared, and the black toad also jumped to Yuan Ming's side.
Yuan Ming mentally communicated with Hei Chan and asked him why he came here.
Black Toad's thoughts came buzzing, and he tried his best to describe his experience in the Snake King Valley during this period.
Hei Chan was not very intelligent and his narration was not very clear. Yuan Ming kept guessing and finally understood how Hei Chan came here.
After Yuan Ming left him in Snake King Valley that day, Black Toad immediately returned to Snake King Cave and continued to absorb the fierce black energy from the black stone pillars.
It was peaceful at first, but a few days later black stone pillars suddenly rose from the ground, and the ground below shook like an earthquake, and the straight hole appeared.
The black stone pillar then drilled into the hole, as if someone was controlling it.
Black Toad was lying on the stone pillar at that time. Seeing such drastic changes, he hurriedly wrapped his body around the stone pillar with demonic vines, so that he could not be thrown away.
The black stone pillar followed the bluestone passage underground and arrived at the gray underground palace.
The strange black energy here was even more intense. The black toad was overjoyed, so he simply stayed here and released the demonic vines to absorb it.
The purple-black demonic vine is very useful to those weird black energies. The more it absorbs, the more lush it grows.
As the symbiotic body of the demon vine, Black Toad felt very comfortable even though he did not get any benefits. He quickly fell asleep until he was awakened by Yuan Ming just now.
Yuan Ming thought about all this secretly, and felt incredible. At the same time, he looked at the black toad's back. The bulge had grown a lot at this moment, and it looked like it was wrapped by several purple-black leaves.
"Where is that black stone pillar now?" Yuan Ming asked.
Black Toad raised his head and looked into the deepest part of the underground palace.
There is a closed black stone door on the wall there. The black stone pillar is standing on the right side of the stone door. The patterns on it are glowing with black light, and the black energy gushing out is ten times stronger.
"You don't have to worry about me and continue to absorb the black energy." Yuan Ming ordered.
When the black toad heard this, he roared happily and released the demonic vines again to absorb the black energy here.
Yuan Ming came to the vicinity of the stone pillar and used his spiritual consciousness to explore again. Unfortunately, just like before, the stone pillar was bounced away by an invisible force as soon as he touched it.
He sighed, looked at the black stone door, and used his consciousness to explore inside.
However, the stone door, like the wall, also has some kind of restriction, which cannot be penetrated by spiritual consciousness.
Yuan Ming searched carefully around the stone gate again, but found no opening mechanism or anything like that.
The black stone pillars did not come here from Snake King Cave for no reason. There must be something interesting behind the stone gate.
Yuan Ming was silent for a moment, then suddenly pointed out.
A brilliant golden sword light shot out, it was the nine-ring golden sword obtained from Gu Tu's body, and it struck the stone door hard.
With a loud "clang" sound, the nine-ringed golden sword rebounded, leaving the black stone door unscathed.
Yuan Ming frowned, and then he grasped it with his right hand, brewing the Explosive Technique, and continuously injected mana into it.
He has now reached the twelfth level of Qi Refining. Not only has his magic power become much stronger, but his control of spells has also been greatly improved. He quickly expanded the fireball to the size of a millstone, and the burst of magic power fluctuations were far more powerful than when he fought against the bone diagram.
"Go!" Yuan Ming pushed with his hand, and the giant fireball hit the black stone door, and at the same time he stepped back.
The rolling red flames spread out and flooded the entire stone door. The huge explosion made the underground palace tremble, and the restrictions on the stone door rippled in disorder.
The red flames quickly dissipated, and a large black pit was blasted out on the ground in front of the stone door, but the black stone door remained intact.
A few feet away, Yuan Ming's expression completely darkened.
He pondered for a moment, then reached into his arms and took out a small black bag, which was exactly the body bag of the bone diagram, containing the body of Master Tian Serpent.
He waved his hand to summon the corpse of Master Tian Serpent, and was about to remove the black iron nails and use the soul crow to control the corpse.
Master Tian Snake's corpse suddenly opened its eyes, emitting a ferocious light of extreme excitement, and the black iron nails on its forehead buzzed and trembled, as if it was about to be pushed out by an invisible force.
The sound of "clang" came from the front, but it came from behind the black stone door. It seemed that someone was banging frantically inside.
Yuan Ming's expression changed drastically, and his heart beat violently with the knocking on the door. An indescribable fear surged into his heart, as if there was a huge beast standing in front of him.
He immediately activated the body bag, collected Master Tian Serpent again, and used his magic power to suppress his body.
Master Tian Snake's body gradually calmed down, and the knocking sounds behind the black stone door also disappeared.
Yuan Ming immediately moved away from the black stone door. Only then did his wildly beating heart calm down. His eyes flashed as he looked at the black stone door.
The body of Master Tian Snake seems to be the key to open this stone door, but what is behind the stone door that gives him such a terrifying feeling?
With his current strength, it seems that he is not qualified to open this door. If he rushes in, he is afraid that there will be some situation waiting for him that he cannot handle.
Yuan Ming turned around and walked to the side of Hei Chan. He ignored the black stone door and sat down cross-legged to recover the mana that was almost lost due to the use of the Explosive Technique.
As soon as his mana was slightly restored, he was afraid that Master Tian Snake's body would cause any unusual movements, so he immediately left with Black Toad.
It wasn't until he stepped onto the ground of Snake King Cave that Yuan Ming felt completely at ease. Without the strength above the foundation-building stage, Yuan Ming would never come here to explore again.
He cast a spell to cover the entrance to the underground cave, then turned around and left Snake King Valley, returning to Biluo Cave.
Three days later, Yuan Ming rushed back to the sect.
The Bailuqiu Guild is not far away, and the atmosphere in Biluo Cave is much more lively than before. Even the disciples who have not signed up to participate are looking forward to the grand event of the Guiluo. Guess which Biluo Cave disciples participating in the Guiluo this time are expected to achieve
Excellent results.
Yuan Ming naturally ignored these trivial matters and stayed at his residence when he returned to the sect without leaving the house.
Another three days passed quickly.
On this day, Yuan Ming was practicing in the house, and there was a "bang bang" knock on the door, which seemed a bit urgent.
He stood up and opened the door, and found that the person outside was a servant cleaning the area.
"Shangxian, news has just arrived that the sect has summoned all disciples to gather at Qingluo Square." The servant said respectfully.
Yuan Ming was startled and asked: "Calling all the disciples together? Can you tell me what it is about?"
"I never said that." The servant shook his head.
"Okay, I understand, I'll go right away." Yuan Ming said after a moment of silence.
The servant bowed, said goodbye, and left to knock on the door of another disciple nearby.
Yuan Ming tidied his clothes, walked out of the room, and walked down the mountain.
The Qingluo Square that the servant mentioned is the large bluestone square at the foot of the mountain. When major events happen in Biluo Cave on weekdays, and disciples need to be gathered, they will choose there.
When Yuan Ming arrived at Qingluo Square, many people had already arrived. The disciples from each hall automatically gathered together. When he came to the disciples of Huolian Hall, Fangge and Amuhe were already here.
"Junior brother Yuan Ming, I haven't seen you for a while. Hey, what's your cultivation level?" Fang Ge greeted with a smile, a look of surprise suddenly appeared on his face.
"I have been in retreat some time ago, and I have finally made some achievements." Yuan Ming said vaguely.
"When you were refining the sword before, your cultivation level was only at the ninth level of Qi refining. How long has it taken you to reach the tenth level of Qi refining? It seems that Junior Brother Yuan Ming has another chance." Fang Ge praised.
"There is no chance. I just happened to get a bottle of elixir for strengthening the foundation and cultivating the body some time ago, so I was lucky enough to advance." Yuan Ming said humbly.
"Oh, so that's it." Fang Ge nodded, with a trace of doubt still in his eyes. The speed of Yuan Ming's cultivation was really unbelievable.
Yuan Ming naturally saw Fang Ge's doubts, but the speed of his cultivation was too fast. No matter how he tried to find reasons, it would always appear to be a cover-up. He simply did not explain it. Senior Brother Fang Ge was not someone who wanted to get to the bottom of things.
After all, although Biluodong is a sect, in fact, except for the inner disciples, the senior leaders and even elders in the sect basically don't care much about the situation of ordinary registered disciples.
Amuka was holding a rune book in his hand and looking through it carefully, without participating in the conversation between the two.
More and more people came to the square, and soon, except for some people who were performing sect tasks, all Biluodong disciples gathered in Qingluo Square, with a total of seven or eight hundred people.
The foundation-building elders from each church also came and stood in front of the crowd.
This was the first time that Yuan Ming saw the foundation-building monks gathering in Biluo Cave as a beginner. The number of them actually reached seventy or eighty.
Far away from Qingluo Square, a silver cat crouched on a big tree, with its head resting on its forelimbs. It looked at the people in the square with interest and watched the excitement.
There was a sudden commotion in the crowd, and everyone looked forward.
Two figures walked over, a middle-aged man with copper rings in his ears and an old man with yellow skin and a strong black beard. They boarded the temporary wooden platform set up in front of the crowd.
"Why are only the Big Cave Master and the Second Cave Master here, but not the Third Cave Master and the Great Elder?" the crowd started talking.
Yuan Ming also looked at the two alchemy stage monks with some curiosity. Unfortunately, he was too far away from the wooden platform and could not sense the breath of the two cave masters.
"Elders and disciples of Biluodong, you are summoned here this time because it is related to the Bailuqiu Alliance. The significance of this ten-year alliance to the five major sects in the entire southern and northern regions must be clear to you. I
I won’t go into details anymore.” The big cave master spoke, his voice shook the whole place, and everyone fell silent.
"Two days later will be the day of the alliance meeting. Since Bailuqiu is quite far away from the sect, tomorrow the disciples participating in the meeting will be led by the second cave master, Elder Mosa of the Lugui Hall, and Elder Chu Xiong of the Execution Hall." The big cave master paused.
After a pause, he continued.
Everyone in the audience expected that this gathering was related to the Bailuqiu Alliance and were not surprised.
Yuan Ming had already made sufficient preparations and carried all the key things with him. There would be no problem even if he set off now.
"Before departure, there are two things that I need to make clear to everyone. The first is to announce the rewards prepared by the alliance sect for this meeting." The big cave master said and glanced at the black-bearded old man beside him.
Everyone in the audience was buzzing with discussion, and the disciples who signed up to participate were even more eager, and Yuan Ming was no exception.