After a while, the four of them stood in front of a dark cave.
This should be a mine, and there are a lot of black stones scattered on the ground. This is peat, Xu Chen recognized it.
The mine seems to have been abandoned for a long time, and thorns and weeds have grown near the entrance.
Xu Chen said to the old Taoist master and apprentice: "You guys wait outside the cave. It's best to hide. We will go in and get rid of the soul beast and come out."
"Okay, okay." The old Taoist priest was so excited that he took his apprentice and hurriedly hid behind some big rocks near the entrance of the cave.
"Let's go!"
Xu Chen walked into the cave first, and his spiritual consciousness penetrated into it like a torch, and he could clearly see the situation in the cave. At that time, at a depth of about a hundred feet, there was a powerful wave of soul beast aura.
It seemed that he felt the probing of two divine consciousnesses, and the aura of the soul beast suddenly became more intense.
"Fellow Daoist Lan, be careful, there is black mist appearing!"
After the two of them walked more than ten feet inward, a thin layer of black mist began to appear in the alleyway. It was exactly the same as the black mist in Heifeng Ridge, except that it was very thin and in darkness. If it hadn't been for the two of them,
The consciousness is so powerful that it is almost impossible to feel it.
The appearance of black mist shows that this soul beast has indeed been entrenched here for some time.
After the death of all soul beasts, they will quickly disintegrate into black energy.
An injured soul beast, even if only one soul bead is left behind, can be restored with the help of black energy over time.
Once the soul beast leaves the range of the black mist, it will continue to release black energy. Therefore, the longer the soul beast stays in one place, the more black energy will accumulate.
Therefore, based on the range and concentration of the black air in the cave, it can be roughly judged that this spirit beast has been here for a long time and has not moved for a long time.
The two of them continued to go deeper in tandem. The surrounding black fog became thicker and thicker, and the fluctuating aura of the soul beast became more and more obvious. At the same time, the image of the soul beast began to feed back to the soul. After Xu Chen saw it clearly, his whole body
They were all stunned, and their hearts couldn't help but start beating wildly.
Because he saw an extremely terrifying picture.
The corpses of more than a dozen people and beasts were piled up, fused and grown together, forming a huge bat shape hanging upside down in the cave. Black air was constantly emitted from these corpses like breathing, and then absorbed into it.
, just between entering and exiting, a large amount of it dispersed in the cave, forming a black mist that filled the alleyway in front of us.
Lan You also saw this situation, her face instantly turned pale, she exclaimed and grabbed Xu Chen's arm tightly with both hands.
"Don't be afraid, fellow Daoist Lan, it's just disgusting. You stay here and I'll go and take a look alone!" Xu Chen came back to his senses and forcibly suppressed his emotions and comforted him.
"No, I'll go with you!" Lan You shook her head in horror and determination.
"Okay then, you follow me!" Xu Chen raised his hand and waved the flying sword and continued to move forward.
"Squeak~~"
Suddenly, a soul-stirring sound sounded, and from the rolling black mist, dense shadows of fist-sized bats suddenly flew out.
"Fellow Daoist Lan, be careful and protect your soul!"
Xu Chen reminded him that his consciousness suddenly turned into a tide and rolled into the depths along the narrow alley. A large number of bat shadows were directly crushed into pieces under the impact of his consciousness, and almost none of them escaped the net.
Divine consciousness impact is a magic skill that can only be practiced by monks at the True Yuan realm or above, but the requirements for the soul are very high, and it can be regarded as a tough confrontation and competition between souls.
Generally speaking, there are very few competitions between monks of the same level. Unless it is a life-and-death vendetta, if you are not careful, your soul will suffer heavy damage, especially if the other party has a soul attack magic weapon, it is even more dangerous.
Incomparable.
Monks in the stage of refining and transforming qi almost always use vitality spells and rarely use soul spells.
Back in the capital, Master Yulong used his spiritual energy to forcefully suppress the three of them, but Xu Chen used the blue light from the jade beads to counterattack and almost knocked him out of his wits.
Therefore, the soul spell attack is a double-edged sword, which can hurt both the enemy and yourself, and you can kill yourself if you are not careful.
However, there are no sequelae for Xu Chen, because he has a blue light vase to protect the sea of consciousness. Even the spiritual realm monks are unlikely to be able to shake his soul, let alone these soul beasts that only have the strength of first-order monsters.
What's more, these bat phantoms, which are only the size of fists, are even weaker and can almost only cause damage to mortal souls. Even if they break into the bodies of ordinary monks, they cannot cause much danger.
Xu Chen had clearly felt the bats when he killed them through the impact of his spiritual consciousness, and they were weaker than the ones he had just killed in the city.
It seemed that a large number of small bats were dead. The corpses of the big bats hanging in the cave vibrated violently. A large amount of black air rolled out, melting the connected corpses. Everywhere they opened their eyes and opened their mouths, emitting
A brutal roar.
Lan You's face was so pale that there was no color in it.
Xu Chen also felt the anus tightening and the hairs all over his body stood up.
"What the hell is this?"
Xu Chen was not afraid at this time, but felt disgusted, especially disgusting.
The bats composed of these corpses were black and terrifying, and there seemed to be a large amount of black corpse oil dripping down during the struggle, and then turned into billowing black gas, and soon the black mist in the entire cave became more dense.
Xu Chen walked forward while holding back his nausea. Lan You tightly grabbed the lapel of his clothes and followed closely. Soon, the two of them came to the giant bat made of corpses.
Looking at this terrifying and ferocious ghost, Xu Chen's scalp went numb.
But even so, the spirit beast had no intention of attacking or running away, so it was easily found by the two of them.
"Fellow Daoist Lan, this thing should be in a very special state. It seems to be trying to fuse the corpses of these people and animals to form its own body and get rid of the state of pure netherworld black energy."
Xu Chen drew conclusions based on his own observations.
"Xu, Fellow Daoist Xu, this thing is so disgusting, kill us quickly and get out!" Although Lan You was already at the middle stage of the True Yuan Realm, her whole body was trembling slightly.
Xu Chen nodded slightly, but did not take action immediately. Instead, he suppressed his nausea and released his consciousness to wrap the big bat composed of the whole corpse, and penetrated inside, trying to see how this ghost thing was put together.
, and how to merge with the soul beast.
What the spirit of the netherworld is, no one in the immortal world of the Song Dynasty knows.
No one even knew what a soul beast was before.
Perhaps the exterminated Taiyuan Sect knew about it, but unfortunately the Taiyuan Sect has disappeared for three thousand years. Apart from some remaining magic weapons and jade slip fragments of martial arts, there is almost no record of Black Wind and the Soul Beast.
If he hadn't been involved in the confinement formation by Xuanshui Nether Lotus in Linghu Canyon last time, he would never have known that the Taiyuan Sect had raised a Xuanshui Nether Lotus in the depths of Linghu Canyon. This strange and domineering
of monster.
He has always wanted to find out what Xuanshui Youlian is.
It wasn't until today that he met this bat soul beast that was growing with the flesh and blood of a human beast corpse, that he suddenly had a realization. Maybe the Xuanshui Youlian was originally formed in this way, but the type was different.
But no matter what these things look like in the end, they all have a common original name, and that is the soul beast, or the underworld beast.
After the underworld beast escapes from the range of the netherworld's energy, it will begin to use another method to recast its body, and then it can survive normally in the mortal world like a monster beast.
However, the method used by these underworld beasts to cast their bodies is very bloody and cruel, using a large number of human or animal corpses.
And as Xu Chen's tyrannical consciousness, which was comparable to that of the early Danyuan realm, continued to penetrate into the body of this bat made of corpses, he felt more and more surprised and frightened.
Because he discovered that the human and beast corpses that made up the bat's body were not dead, they were still alive, but they did not have any separate souls, because their souls had also been fused together by the soul beasts.
Therefore, this corpse bat hanging upside down in the cave is actually an extremely complex fusion monster. It is neither a separate soul beast, nor a human and a beast, but after fusion, it has the dual characteristics of a soul beast and a monster beast.
.
That is, this thing has flesh and blood, and is no longer a body made of pure netherworldly black energy.
In order to verify his idea, Xu Chen raised his hand and swiped lightly, and the flying sword cut off half of the corpse from the bat.
"Squeak~~"
Along with a splash of black water, the corpse fell from the bat. The huge bat also struggled and screamed violently. At the same time, billowing black gas came out of the wound, and a large amount of black gas was like corpse oil.
Liquid begins to accumulate at the wound, and soon the wound begins to solidify.
However, after being stimulated by Xu Chen's sword, the huge bat's entire body began to vibrate and squirm during the violent struggle.
A large number of unfused pieces of flesh began to fall off the body,
Arms, thighs, fingers, heads, crackling and falling down like rain covered in black water.
The bat's body is also rapidly condensing into shape, with wings, hooks, head, and fangs all becoming clear at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Fellow Daoist Xu, do it quickly!" Lan You's face was pale and bloodless, and she was trembling with fear.
"Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Lan, it has no chance of escaping. I have to observe it carefully. This may be our best chance to find out what happened to the soul beast after it escaped from the Black Wind range..."
While Xu Chen comforted him, his spiritual consciousness penetrated into the bat's body even more violently.
In his powerful consciousness, he can clearly see that the muscles, bones, flesh and blood of humans and animals are merging at a terrifying speed, turning into a complex and clear bat body, and forming strange but complete bones, blood vessels, skin and flesh.
and other organizations.
At the same time, he could also feel that a soul with the breath of life was growing stronger.