The tunnel of the Lingshi Mine suddenly collapsed, causing all the monks mining there to be buried deep underground.
Because the incident happened suddenly, although there were people like Zhou Yang who made timely and correct responses to save their lives, there were also unlucky people who happened to be crushed to death by billions of silt and buried alive in the ground.
Even the survivors did not dare to stay underground any longer and escaped from the ground one after another to learn the details of the mine tunnel collapse.
However, as soon as these people escaped from the ground and had no time to take a look at the outside world, they were immediately killed on the spot by a bolt of thunder falling from the sky.
Jin Peng's body is hanging thousands of feet high in the sky, with his eyes fixed on the ground. As soon as a human monk appears, he will be immediately killed by its thunder.
After killing seven or eight monks who escaped from the underground in this way, no one finally showed up.
"Is there only such a small number of people? This can't match the number of entrances to the mines!"
It looked at the corpses on the ground that had been reduced to charcoal by thunder, and a thoughtful look flashed in its eyes.
With its wisdom, by comparing the entrance of the mine that was previously exposed to its eyes, it naturally knew that the number of people in the Lingshi Mine must be more than just the few people who died under its own hands just now.
However, there is a special force field in the spirit stone mine. Even with its cultivation level, it cannot sense where those people are hiding underground, and it cannot carry out targeted strikes.
Therefore, after thinking about it again and again, he finally murmured to himself with a look of regret in his eyes: "Forget it, even if there are still a few gophers hiding below, don't even think about continuing to dig for spiritual stones in a short time.
There is no need for you to waste your precious time for these ground rats!"
After saying that, it immediately waved its claws at the corpses on the ground, put away all the storage bags on the corpses and swallowed them in one gulp, then flapped its wings and returned directly to the Duanyun Mountains.
It was not until three or four days that the surviving monks emerged one after another and quietly emerged from the ground.
These people escaped to the ground, and when they saw the corpses of the monks who had been chopped into charred corpses by lightning, their faces showed a look of lingering fear, and then they quickly left the place without daring to stay for a moment.
Zhou Yang waited for seven days before escaping to the ground.
After he encountered a collapse, he actually wanted to escape to the ground immediately to understand the situation.
But when he thought about it carefully later, he felt that this was inappropriate.
So what if he escapes to the ground and understands the situation clearly?
Regardless of whether it was a human monk or a monster who attacked the mine tunnel, he must have malicious intentions towards people like them who were mining. He went up to understand the situation clearly, and a battle was inevitable.
In this case, it would be better to stay underground for a few days to let the matter cool down before talking about it.
At this time, he escaped from the underground. After seeing the charred corpses, he didn't know that he had escaped a fatal disaster!
"The road to spiritual practice is indeed dangerous every step of the way!"
He let out a long sigh with a look of rejoicing, ready to leave this place of right and wrong immediately even if he threw the flying sword.
However, at this moment, his expression suddenly changed, he looked sharply at somewhere behind him and shouted: "Who is spying on Zhou over there?"
Before he shouted, the flying sword he threw in the air had already turned and shot towards where he was looking.
Immediately, a red flying sword flew out of the ground and blocked Zhou Yang's flying sword.
Then there was a flash of yellow light, and two more figures appeared in Zhou Yang's sight.
"It's you!"
Zhou Yang looked at one of the two people, his pupils shrank, and he couldn't help shouting in surprise.
It turned out that one of the two people who was spying on him was the middle-aged man with a yellow face who discovered the Lingshi mine that day.
After he made a sound in surprise, his face darkened. Before the yellow-faced middle-aged man could speak, he looked at the two of them coldly and asked, "What do you two fellow Taoists mean? Why are you secretly spying on Zhou?"
Hearing his voice, the two people couldn't help but look at each other, and then the middle-aged man with a yellow face turned ferocious and shouted loudly: "Boy, since you have discovered it, we won't talk nonsense to you anymore.
, hand over the high-grade spiritual stone you dug from the spiritual stone mine, and we will let you live, otherwise don’t blame the two of us for being rude!"
"Oh, did you know that Zhou has a high-grade spiritual stone in his hand?"
Zhou Yang's face condensed, and he looked at the yellow-faced middle-aged man in surprise, with a look of disbelief flashing in his eyes.
The ferocious look on the yellow-faced middle-aged man's face was obviously not to deceive him, but to confirm that he was carrying a high-grade spirit stone through some method, which made him very curious.
You must know that his high-grade spiritual stone is in a storage bag, and it is also contained in a jade box.
In addition, the spiritual power of this kind of treasure is restrained and does not reveal the slightest breath. It stands to reason that even some golden elixir monks who have practiced special eye skills may not be able to see through it in person.
"Humph, Guo is asking you now, will you hand over the high-grade spiritual stone?"
The yellow-faced middle-aged man was obviously unwilling to tell Zhou Yang how he knew he had a high-grade spirit stone, so he gave him an ultimatum with a cold snort.
When Zhou Yang heard this, he immediately smiled sarcastically and said: "Since you know that it is a high-grade spiritual stone, don't you think your question is ridiculous?"
"you……"
The complexion of the yellow-faced middle-aged man changed, as if he didn't expect Zhou Yang's answer to be so arrogant, and he was so angry that he couldn't finish his words.
At this time, another monk beside him who had never spoken a word, an old man with a goatee who had previously released a red flying sword to block Zhou Yang's flying sword, suddenly looked at him with a look of dissatisfaction and said:
"You see, I told you before that since you have decided to do this kind of thing, you shouldn't hesitate and take chances!"
"Stop talking nonsense, kill this kid quickly, so we can continue to guard the next person!"
Before his voice fell, the old man with the goatee made a seal with his hands, and directly threw a third-level mid-level spell "Fire Dragon Technique" towards Zhou Yang.
Being able to release a third-level mid-level spell in just a few breaths of time clearly shows how powerful the old man with the goatee is.
In fact, the old man with the goatee's cultivation is indeed as high as the ninth level of Foundation Establishment, and he is not a person like Zhou Minghan who has just arrived at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment, but a powerful character who has stayed in this realm for more than twenty years.
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It was precisely because of the support of the old man with the goatee that the yellow-faced middle-aged man dared to threaten Zhou Yang, a monk at the seventh level of foundation building, with his cultivation level of the sixth level.
Now that he saw the old man with the goatee taking action, the middle-aged man with a yellow face also had a hard look on his face, and then he raised a big yellow ax weapon and struck Zhou Yang.
It's a pity that these two people obviously don't know how powerful the person they are facing is.
When Zhou Yang saw the two men making the first move, Zhou Yang suddenly lost any scruples in his heart. With a flick of his sleeve, he used the old patriarch Zhou Minghan to protect himself with a defensive magic weapon shield made from the material of the "Golden Devouring Beast".
Then he patted the spirit beast bag on his waist and released the gryphon.
"Third-level high-grade monster!"
As soon as the griffin beast appeared, the powerful aura of the third-level high-grade demonic beast severely shocked the two people who were fighting on the opposite side. The yellow-faced middle-aged man's expression changed so much that he couldn't help but scream in surprise.
The old man with the goatee's eyes flashed with surprise, and he shouted again and again: "If the idea hurts your hand, retreat first!"
After saying that, he made a seal with his hands, and with a flash of yellow light on his body, he was about to use the "Earth Escape Technique" to escape.
The strength of a person who can subdue a third-level high-grade monster as a spiritual pet with a seventh-level foundation-building cultivation level must not be judged by his superficial cultivation level.
The old man with the goatee knew this deeply, so when he saw that things had changed, he decisively gave up the idea of killing people and seizing the treasure, and decided to go first.
It's just that although he acted decisively, he still underestimated the enemy's methods.
Now that Zhou Yang has taken action, how can he let people escape?
His eyes widened, and the invisible needle of consciousness instantly pierced into the sea of consciousness of the old man with the goatee. Then the "earth escape technique" that he was about to activate dissipated in an instant because he lost the control of his master's consciousness.
At the same time, when the old man with the goatee yelled "Ah", held his head and screamed, the gryphon had already obeyed its master's order and directly spit out a wind blade and cut off the old man with the goatee's neck.
In the blink of an eye, a ninth-level monk whose cultivation was only one step away from the Zifu, died silently at the hands of Master Zhou Yang.
This scene immediately shocked the middle-aged man with a yellow face.
"You, you, you... are you really a foundation-building monk?"
He pointed at Zhou Yang with a horrified look on his face and asked the question in his heart with a trembling voice.
Before meeting Zhou Yang, he and the old man with the goatee had already teamed up to kill several foundation-building monks who were also mining in the spirit stone mine. He knew very well the strength of the old man with the goatee.
However, he never thought that the extremely powerful old man with a goatee would be killed by Zhou Yang so easily, without even having time to escape!
While this frightened him, he also couldn't help but wonder if he was being deceived. The handsome young man in front of him was not a Foundation Establishment monk, but a Purple Mansion monk in disguise.
"If Zhou is a cultivator of the Purple Mansion, how can Patriarch Cao not see it? Stop talking nonsense and tell me the reason why you know that Zhou has a high-grade spiritual stone. Zhou will only abolish your cultivation and spare your life.
Otherwise, don’t blame Zhou for being ruthless under the sword!”
Zhou Yang looked at the yellow-faced middle-aged man with cold eyes and said, not showing any pride at all for killing a ninth-level Foundation Builder in an instant.
No one knows his own strength better than himself. During the foundation building period, he is now almost invincible in one-on-one situations!
Now as long as he does not face the siege of four or five late-stage foundation-building monks at the same time, he can almost walk sideways in this realm.
When the yellow-faced middle-aged man heard Zhou Yang's words, his expression changed, and then he looked at him angrily and said angrily: "What a man who only abolishes cultivation! Then you might as well kill me!"
After saying that, his face turned grim, and he suddenly reached out and slapped the storage bag on his waist.