Monsters that are not born with strong bloodlines such as dragons, and are not direct descendants of fifth-level monsters, must go through the thunder tribulation when they advance to the fifth level, and use the power of the thunder tribulation to purify and sublimate their bloodline.
"Earth Dragon Earthworm" is a high-level monster that can become a fourth-level monster like the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle when it reaches adulthood. The bloodline level is quite high, but if you want to advance to the fifth level, you also need to survive the thunder tribulation.
Zhou Yang is no stranger to this kind of monster, because when he was in the foundation-building stage, he was eaten alive by an underage "Earth Dragon Earthworm" and almost died when the opponent's body was filled with corrosive acid.
In the stomach naan space.
It was fate that the culprits who caused him to be eaten alive by the "Earth Dragon Earthworm" were the parents of the golden-winged thunder eagle he was sitting on now.
And now, he has to ride the golden-winged thunder eagle to the place where the "Earth Dragon Earthworm" fell from the tribulation, and track down the remains left behind after its death.
Zhou Yang has not forgotten that when only a small part of an underage third-level high-grade monster "Earth Dragon Earthworm" was lost, he was given a Foundation Establishment Pill and 17,000 low-grade spiritual stones.
Later, he inquired about the function of the lost "Earth Dragon Earthworm", and he actually got some information, that is, it could be used to refine some top-quality healing elixirs that could help monks regenerate their severed limbs.
The "Earth Dragon Earthworm" itself has the magical power of rebirth after severed limbs. Otherwise, the "Earth Dragon Earthworm" that swallowed Zhou Yang alive would not have used the method of tail-cutting to escape and directly abandoned nearly a quarter of its body in order to escape.
He escaped with his body on the ground.
Knowing this, the remains of the "Earth Dragon Earthworm" that failed to escape the tribulation were too tempting for Zhou Yang.
You must know that when a monster reaches the fifth level, it must survive the thunder tribulation. It wants to use the vitality of thunder in the thunder to help its bloodline evolve and sublimate.
That "Earth Dragon Earthworm" fell when it was going through the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, and its corpse must have retained the vitality of the Heavenly Thunder. Such a fragment of corpse, when refining the spiritual elixir, is likely to be more effective than
The real fifth-level "Earth Dragon Earthworm" is even stronger.
With such a treasure, Zhou Yang naturally couldn't let it be wasted by a group of monsters.
The Golden-winged Thunder Eagle is extremely fast. It took Lu Xuewei two days to fly. With its full flight, it only took more than half a day to reach the scene.
Because it was less than three days since the "Earth Dragon Earthworm" passed through the sky thunder tribulation, when Zhou Yang rushed to the scene, he could still feel the residual power of the sky thunder at the scene, even though there was only a trace of that power.
The remnants still frightened him a little.
"Monster cultivation is indeed much more difficult than that of humans. It is only because of God's mercy that even one of the ten demon beasts can survive this terrifying thunder tribulation!"
Secretly sighing in his heart that practicing cultivation is not easy, Zhou Yang spread his spiritual consciousness with all his strength and carefully searched the surroundings for clues about the monsters attacking Lu Xuewei.
After searching like this for a while, Zhou Yang found a lot of useful clues.
However, he did not follow these clues immediately, but continued to expand the scope of his search.
Finally, after searching for nearly three quarters of an hour, Zhou Yang finally made a new discovery.
He stopped over a piece of ordinary-looking sand, then waved his sleeves, and a strong wind transformed by magic swept across the ground, blowing a large amount of yellow sand to the side, revealing a hole filled with yellow sand on the ground.
burrow.
"This is……"
Lu Xuewei, who was curious about Zhou Yang's behavior and came over to see it, looked at the hole, a suspicious look flashed in her beautiful eyes, and she looked at Zhou Yang with an expression of surprise and uncertainty.
"This is the entrance and exit left by the [Earth Dragon Earthworm] when it emerged from the ground."
Facing his apprentice's doubtful gaze, Zhou Yang nodded and told the origin of the cave.
Then a light flashed in his eyes, as if confirming his conjecture, and also talking to himself like giving popular science to his apprentice: "[Earth Dragon Earthworm] is only a fourth-level monster when it becomes an adult. If you want an [Earth Dragon Earthworm] to
Triggering the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation and transcending the tribulation to advance to the fifth-level monster, there must be a great opportunity to swallow some incredible heavenly materials and earthly treasures."
"Generally speaking, monsters have fixed lairs. Even if they devour any natural and earthly treasures outside, they will return to their lairs to digest them."
"And after the monster beast digests the heavenly materials and earthly treasures, its thunder tribulation will soon come. At this time, can it still travel far away from its lair to overcome the tribulation?"
When Lu Xuewei heard what he said, her beautiful eyes suddenly lit up, and she couldn't help but said excitedly: "So, Master, what you mean is that the place where this cave leads to is the lair of the [Earth Dragon Earthworm]?"
Zhou Yang nodded slightly and said: "80% of it may be its lair, and 20% of it may be the place where it devours the treasures of heaven and earth. No matter which one it is, it is worth exploring."
When Lu Xuewei heard what he said, she became even more excited. Whether it was the lair of a fourth-level high-grade monster or a birthplace of heavenly materials and earthly treasures that could advance a fourth-order high-grade monster to a fifth-order monster.
It will definitely give them a big harvest.
And with Zhou Yang's generosity and love for her as his apprentice, as long as he gains something, her benefits will definitely be indispensable.
But after she was excited for a while, she calmed down and remembered the reason why she came here, and couldn't help but ask: "But what to do with the escaped monsters? Should we just let them go like this?"
"This matter is simple. Just let the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle follow the traces on the ground. With its strength, it is more than enough to deal with those monsters!"
Zhou Yang said and gave the order to the Golden Winged Thunder Eagle.
His golden-winged thunder eagle has been fed the "Ling Qi Pill" since he was a child, and his intelligence is much higher than that of many fourth-level monsters.
In addition, he followed Jiang Fengxian's advice and has always focused on enlightening and educating this spiritual pet, so that this spiritual beast can now easily understand human speech and execute orders correctly.
Upon hearing his instructions, the Golden-winged Thunder Eagle immediately nodded towards him in a humane manner, then flapped its wings with an eagle cry and chased after the traces of a certain monster on the ground.
"Okay, let's go down too."
Zhou Yang looked at the golden-winged thunder eagle leaving, withdrew his gaze and greeted his apprentice in a low voice.
After saying that, he immediately made a magic spell and used the Earth Escape Technique to escape underground along the entrance of the hole.
After a while, the figures of Zhou Yang and Master Lu Xuewei appeared in an underground passage hundreds of feet deep underground.
The sand only filled up a small section of the underground passage and exit. After Zhou Yang and the others passed through the blocked areas through the earth escape technique, they appeared in this wide underground passage.
"What a rich spiritual energy! Could it be that this underground passage leads to a fifth-level underground spiritual vein?"
Lu Xuewei looked at Zhou Yang with a pair of shining beautiful eyes, looking very excited.
This kind of exploration of the lair of high-level monsters shouldn't be too exciting for a monk like her who usually concentrates on practicing hard at home.
So much so that she, who had always been reticent to talk due to the influence of the exercises, now seemed like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, full of strong desire for knowledge because of her curiosity.
"It's too early to draw a conclusion now. Although the spiritual energy here is rich, it is at most equivalent to the third-level spiritual veins. Let's take a closer look."
Zhou Yang shook his head slightly and did not jump to any conclusion. Then he moved his steps and quickly walked deeper along the passage.
Seeing this, Lu Xuewei naturally quickly used her lightening spell to keep up.
In this way, the two of them continued to go deeper, and the concentration of spiritual energy in the passage became higher and higher. Finally, when Zhou Yang and the others came to the end of the passage, the concentration of spiritual energy here had exceeded that of Lingxi Peak, a fifth-level low-grade spiritual mountain!
But Zhou Yang knew that there was no spiritual vein here.
"The Lingshi Mine is the Lingshi Mine!"
He murmured excitedly, his eyes full of surprise.
He had the experience of discovering a spirit stone mine, which was the spirit stone mine on Rhinoceros Continent that had been hollowed out by monsters. He had excavated several high-grade spirit stones in that spirit stone mine.
Now he discovered the spirit stone mine again in the depths of the underground.
He spread out his spiritual consciousness, and with his powerful spiritual consciousness, it could only spread less than a hundred feet here!
This made him feel even more happy.
Judging from the fact that the bigger the spirit stone mine is, the stronger the power to suppress spiritual consciousness is. The spirit stone mine in front of him now is definitely no smaller than the spirit stone mine discovered on Rhinoceros Continent. It may even be a reserve.
A medium-sized spiritual stone mine with tens of millions of low-grade spiritual stones!
"It turns out to be a spirit stone mine! Our Zhou family will also have our own spirit stone mine!"
Lu Xuewei stared at the dark cave walls with her beautiful eyes wide open, her eyes full of shock and surprise.
The hollowed-out spirit stone mine on Rhinoceros Continent has always been a sore point in the hearts of Zhou Yang and many Zhou family monks.
If the spirit stone mine had not been dug out, the Zhou family's legacy as a millennium-old family would have been truly solidified.
Lu Xuewei is now also a senior member of the Zhou family. Of course she understands how much a spirit stone mine means to the Zhou family.
Of course, she did not forget the purpose of her and Zhou Yang's visit. After the shock, she couldn't help but look at Zhou Yang and asked: "Master, why did [Earth Dragon Earthworm] place its lair in the Lingshi Mine? Could it be that it
Could it be that the opportunity to advance to the fifth level of monster beast was found in this spirit stone mine?"
"I don't know about this, but there is a saying that in those spiritual stone mines with large reserves, some extremely rare companion spiritual creatures sometimes appear. Maybe the [Earth Dragon Earthworm] discovered this in them.
Planting companion spiritual creatures and swallowing and digesting them, this caused the thunder tribulation!"
Zhou Yang shook his head and expressed his guess with some uncertainty.
Of course, he no longer cares much about this matter, because compared to the spiritual creatures associated with the spiritual stone mine that may have been swallowed up by the "Earth Dragon Earthworm", it is more important to first understand the reserves and depth of the spiritual stone mine.
The reserves of the Lingshi mine determine its ultimate value, but the depth of the Lingshi mine determines the difficulty of mining it.