After flying out of the underground world, Liu Ming stood in front of two blue stone pillars, turned his hands and took out the jade slip left by the young man named Li, and put it on his forehead.
He didn't take this matter to heart at the time, but now the young man surnamed Li and the Demon Xuan Sect disciple have both died, and the time he spent refining the Mountain and River Pearl greatly exceeded his expectations, so instead of going back to the Taiqing Sect to return, he
, it would be better to go and investigate on your own first.
Since the young man surnamed Li originally thought that three fake alchemy monks could enter this place, the risk of coming there should not be too great. Now that he has the Pearl of Mountains and Rivers in hand, as long as he is more careful, it shouldn't be a problem.
After thinking this, Liu Ming packed up his things without hesitation, recalled Fei'er Xie'er, and with the help of Xie'er's escape technique, left the underground ruins and broke through the air in the direction recorded on the jade slip.
go.
Tens of thousands of miles away from the ice and snow polar regions, there is a huge dense forest.
If you look down from the air, the entire dense forest appears a dense dark green, but if you enter the dense forest, you will see a different scene.
Among the mottled spots, blood-colored vines hugged the thick tree trunks. The trunks were also covered with golden insects the size of fingernails. Fruits the size of fists hung like lanterns all over the branches.
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These fruits also faintly exude a soft spiritual light, illuminating the entire dense forest.
A ray of purple light flew past the dense forest. On top of a purple flying sword in the light, Liu Ming, dressed in a green robe, was looking around with a vigilant expression.
Since he left the ruins, he followed the location marked on the jade slips of the young man named Li and combined with the records on the sect's map, all the way to this place.
According to his estimation, he could reach his destination directly by crossing this dense forest.
As for the situation in the dense forest, he had already used his spiritual consciousness to investigate from a distance. Those spiritual insects were just the most common low-level spiritual insects. The lantern-like fruits could be used to make low-level feed for spiritual pets.
For Fei'er and Xie'er in the crystal stage, it has almost no effect.
However, the vastness of this dense forest far exceeded Liu Ming's expectations. He had been flying with his sword for more than two hours and still could not see the end of the dense forest.
At this moment, the void ahead fluctuated, and the entire space suddenly trembled, and a somewhat unusual spiritual energy floated past.
Seeing this, Liu Ming pinched the magic weapon in his hand, and the Kunlun Sword on the sole of his foot made a clear sound and trembled in the void and stopped in place.
He released his spiritual consciousness and swept forward, and suddenly discovered that somewhere more than a hundred miles away, a large piece of land had collapsed, and a large amount of spiritual energy was constantly spurting out.
After Liu Ming pondered for a while, he put away the Kunlun Sword and stepped on a black cloud to slowly fly towards the center of the spiritual energy fluctuation.
For him, the distance of several miles came almost instantly, and then he discovered that in a heart that had obviously just collapsed not long ago, there was actually a towering tree with a diameter of dozens of feet.
There is a huge tree hole at the root of the giant tree, and some signs of forbidden restrictions that have been vandalized are vaguely visible around it. It seems that someone has already climbed in first.
This is most likely where the ruins that the monk surnamed Li told him are located, but it seems that someone has already taken a step ahead, and the nearby ground has been broken open from the inside out, and it has escaped.
The golden bugs on the ground were lining up to crawl into the tree hole, as if there was something inside that was attracting them.
Liu Ming's face darkened, but since he was already here, he was naturally unwilling to leave empty-handed. After thinking for a while, he immediately landed at the bottom of the giant tree.
After confirming that there was nothing unusual around him, he swayed into the tree hole.
As a result, as soon as Fang entered the tree cave, he found that there was a cave inside, which was actually a hall embedded in a giant tree.
The hall is very open, with tables, chairs and cabinets carved from trees. Behind the hall, there is a spiraling passage up and a spiraling down passage.
Liu Ming narrowed his eyes slightly and subconsciously released his spiritual consciousness to detect it. However, after his spiritual consciousness stretched out more than ten feet along the upper and lower passages, it was immediately blocked by some kind of restriction.
He had no choice but to walk up the passage first.
After some investigation, it turned out that along this spiraling passage, there were more than ten chambers that were also embedded inside the giant tree.
Every door to the inner room has been destroyed long ago, but there is a small partition and prohibition circle at the door. No wonder spiritual consciousness cannot penetrate inside.
After Liu Ming thought about it for a while, he returned to the door of the first inner room and stepped in.
This is a room about the size of an acre, with a small dark room separated inside. Large and small insect eggs and feed are scattered messily on the floor. At a glance, you can tell that this was once a secret room for raising spiritual insects.
If we look at the pattern, these have at least raised dozens of species of spiritual insects, but now they are in a mess. The dark room has been looted, and there are discarded insect bags and animal rings everywhere. From outside the cave,
The little golden insects that crawled in were gathering in a dense group, eating the remaining dead eggs and feed of the spiritual insects with relish.
After Liu Ming thought about it for a while, he collected the insect eggs in the ground with one hand and moved to other inner rooms, searching each one tirelessly.
After a meal, Liu Ming looked at the pile of corpses of spiritual insects and spiritual beasts in front of him in the cave hall, with a slow and wry smile.
This early adopter searched too thoroughly. Apart from some corpses of spiritual insects and beasts that had not been favored, there were some dead eggs. Other than that, there was almost nothing too valuable left.
Even the two inner rooms at the top of the giant tree, where the bedroom and practice room were suspected to be, were also empty, not even a single spiritual grass could be seen.
Liu Ming, who found nothing, had no choice but to collect the corpses of spirit insects, spirit beasts, and dead eggs of various insect beasts scattered around the house. He hoped that these corpses and dead eggs would also be of value, and the remains would be handed over to the authorities in the future.
The sect can recharge it, or sell it as a weapon refining material for some spiritual stones, so that they won't enter this place empty-handed.
After he put everything in front of him into the Sumeru Ring, he walked towards the spiraling passage.
As expected, there are five inner rooms below, but the situation is roughly the same as the inner rooms above.
However, just when Liu Ming walked into the last secret room and was about to collect the dead eggs scattered on the ground, Xie'er's voice suddenly came from the soul-nurturing bag on his waist.
"Master, wait a minute... The atmosphere here is not right. As soon as I entered here, I couldn't help but tremble. It seems that there is a natural enemy that can restrain me."
Xie'er's words were filled with deep fear.
"Natural enemy?" Liu Ming's expression changed slightly when he heard this.
"Master, I also feel a breath of unity here. Although it is a little weak, it still makes me feel very uncomfortable." Fei'er said in the other soul-raising bag with the same fear.
"oh?"
He had already experienced Xie'er's magical power of treasure hunting, and now even Fei'er said so. This made Liu Ming feel a little strange, and he hurriedly scanned the house carefully again.
In this spirit beast room, there was a large area of pale golden beast eggs scattered messily on the floor. As far as he knew, these were the eggs of a monster beast called the Three-Crown Golden Rooster Beast, and their aura was almost completely absent. It was obvious that
It also looks like a dead egg.
Speaking of which, the Three-Crown Golden Rooster is a relatively common fire-attributed spirit beast. Although it is quite rare in the Zhongtian Continent, it is not a rare thing. Generally, this egg will be sold in the spirit beast trading market. There are more than a dozen eggs for sale.
You can buy one Wanling Stone.
After this beast is carefully cultivated, it may reach the strength of the liquid condensation stage when it reaches adulthood, and its character is extremely ferocious. It is usually acquired by a family or sect to accumulate practical experience for the disciples in the liquid condensation stage. It is impossible to advance it already.
Xie'er and Fei'er in the crystal stage bring no fear.
Liu Ming used his consciousness to carefully scan the insect eggs one by one, but found nothing strange, and did not find any eggs with strong auras.
So he patted the soul-nurturing bag on his waist, and two rolls of mist, one black and one green, floated out. After a while, the silhouettes of Xie'er and Fei'er appeared.
"Since you two can sense its existence, bring it out." Liu Ming directly ordered.
"As you command, Master." Fei'er and Xie'er replied in unison.
In the following time, the two spiritual pets began to lean down and carefully inspect the eggs all over the room one by one.
After a while, Fei'er suddenly held a beast egg that shone with a faint golden light in his hand, and ran towards Liu Ming shaking it.
"Master, I found it, this is it!"
Seeing this, Xie'er hurriedly threw away the dead egg in his hand, and with a wave of black energy, he appeared near Fei'er. After looking at the golden egg in his hand, he took a step back with deep fear.
"That's right, master, it's exactly this beast's egg."
Liu Ming moved his fingers, picked up the egg from Fei'er's hand, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully.
This egg is slightly smaller than an egg, and its entire body is pale golden in color. There are some faint white markings on the egg, but the aura it emits is vague and non-existent, similar to the one obtained from the Sea Clan back then.
The Egg of the Holy Beast is somewhat similar.
Apart from being slightly larger than the ordinary three-crested golden rooster egg, there is no other difference between this egg and the difference in size of the egg. This is a very common situation, and it is impossible to judge what kind of mutation it is.
Liu Ming used his spiritual consciousness to scan the egg again, and found that it was completely chaotic, with nothing unusual at all.
But since Fei'er and Xie'er both felt strange about it, he naturally didn't dare to ignore it too much.
In the following time, he tried various methods, such as pouring mana into it, or using special talismans to identify the level of spiritual beasts, but no clear results were obtained.
After a cup of tea, Liu Ming shook his head helplessly.
"Master, we don't know what's going on, but this beast egg is indeed..." Seeing this, Fei'er scratched his head and said with confusion on his face.