People who can survive in this Tiansha gold mine for a long time must either have a very strong body and be able to resist the erosion of evil spirits, or they can use evil spirits to practice.
No matter what kind of person he is, his strength is definitely not weak.
Wang Daoyuan's metallic spiritual power already has some evil energy, so if he absorbs some more, it won't be a big problem.
Evil energy is derived from metallic aura and yin energy. His fire-attribute aura also contains pure yang energy, so he is not afraid of evil energy.
Even if it absorbs more evil spirits, it can still be consumed.
After entering the mine, not far ahead, there are two forks in the road.
There was no difference in the concentration of evil spirits between these two forks. It didn't matter which way he took it. He chose to take the left fork.
After walking less than a mile, three more forked roads appeared, and he continued to choose the far left.
Then there were more and more forks, and they appeared more and more irregularly. A fork would suddenly appear somewhere.
The deeper it goes, the stronger the evil spirit becomes.
Wang Daoyuan went tens of miles into the mine and lost count of how many side roads he took.
The evil spirit here is too strong and has some impact on the souls of the Zifu monks.
The evil spirit can also interfere with the detection of spiritual consciousness. Wang Daoyuan's spiritual consciousness can detect things nearly fifty miles away.
Here, we can only detect two to three hundred feet away.
For the Zifu monks, this distance is not much different from being face to face.
In addition, the mine is extremely tortuous, and the stone wall's shielding effect on spiritual consciousness is stronger than the evil spirit.
If a monk was ambushing him in a fork in the road and wanted to sneak attack him, he wouldn't have much time to react.
Wang Daoyuan held the bone sword in his hand, ready to summon the basalt shield at any time to deal with possible sneak attacks.
Suddenly, his spiritual consciousness detected a trace of spiritual power fluctuations more than two hundred feet ahead.
He immediately used the Sword Shadow Divine Light Technique, and ten sword shadows protected his body, and asked: "Who is there? If he doesn't come out, I will take action."
The trace of spiritual power fluctuations immediately converged, and Wang Daoyuan controlled a sword shadow to attack the place where the spiritual power fluctuations appeared.
The shadow of the sword arrived in an instant, and the person hiding did not dare to hide any longer.
He held out a long sword, smashed through the shadow of the sword, and said with a smile: "Taoist friend's keen sense of consciousness can still detect traces of me in a place like this."
This man was wearing a black cloak, and his body had almost no energy and blood fluctuations. His spiritual power fluctuations were extremely weak, and it was impossible to tell what his cultivation level was.
The hand holding the sword is also skinny, and the skin is still gray-black.
Wang Daoyuan once again condensed a sword shadow and asked: "What do you want, fellow Taoist? Should we divide life and death, or should we get out of the way?"
The man in black replied: "Of course, let's get out of the way. The old man has been eroded by this evil spirit to the point where he is neither a human nor a ghost. His spiritual power has long been exhausted, and he can only rely on the remaining true energy to support him. How can he be the opponent of fellow Taoist?"
This person's spiritual power is exhausted, and he will definitely not be able to survive for long if he only relies on his true energy.
In his eyes, he is just a food that prolongs his life, and he will never let him go.
It is inevitable to take action. This guy's body has reached this level. Once his soul is injured, he will probably die immediately. It is impossible to refine a clone.
However, he spent a lot of time in this mine, so he could be tricked into understanding the situation inside the mine.
Wang Daoyuan asked: "Since Taoist friend can't stay any longer, you haven't thought about going out?"
The man in black shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I committed a crime and was imprisoned here.
If you want to get out, you have to spend five times more Tiansha gold to atone for your sins.
There is a fourth-level formation guarding the outside of the cave entrance. Many Taoist friends who tried to force their way out were killed by the formation.
And this Tiansha gold vein has been mined for nearly ten thousand years, how much more ore can be mined?
I have been here for more than 20 years and have only dug more than ten kilograms.
Having been corroded by evil spirits for twenty years, life and death are only a matter of seconds.
I don’t know if my friend has any spiritual objects in his body, but I am willing to use all the Tiansha gold I have in my body to exchange for some spiritual objects with my fellow Taoist.”
Wang Daoyuan shook his head and said: "When I came in, the elixirs and other spiritual objects I brought with me were all searched by the guards.
Now all that's left is this bone sword and two empty storage bags, and everything else is gone."
The man in black was a little confused and asked: "Didn't fellow Taoist commit a crime and was sent here? How could he bring spiritual objects like pills with him?"
Wang Daoyuan replied: "I accepted the mission at the Mission Hall of Blood Demon City and came here to dig for the Heavenly Evil Gold.
I saw that the mission reward was a pound of Tiansha gold and a thousand spiritual stones, which was quite generous, so I came over."
The man in black looked sarcastic and said: "That mission has been pending in Blood Demon City for thousands of years. It was indeed an excellent mission before.
At that time, with the strength of the Zifu monks like us, it really didn't take much effort to dig out five hundred kilograms of Tiansha gold.
But over the past few thousand years, this Tiansha gold mine has been exhausted.
Only when you go to the deepest place can you have a chance to find some ore and refine it into evil gold for a few days.
It may take hundreds of years to complete the task.
But the evil spirit there is so strong that very few people can withstand it, and very few can last for ten years.
Now, this place is called Tiansha Gold Mine, but it is actually a prison, specially designed to imprison criminal monks like me.
As for the fact that the mission has not been withdrawn, it may be that the guardian of the Tiansha gold mine wants to deceive uninformed fellow Taoists like you.
Before entering the mine, scrape some oil and water on the grounds of checking items.
If they are lucky and meet a monk who can actually dig up five hundred kilograms of Tiansha gold, they will also make a lot of money.
Fellow Taoist has just come in, he still has a lot of spiritual power in his body, and he is also a monk with five spiritual roots.
I wonder if you can give me some metallic spiritual power, and I am willing to exchange it with Tiansha Gold."
Wang Daoyuan nodded and said: "I wonder how much Tiansha gold you are willing to spend, and how much spiritual power you want to exchange for it?"
When the man in black heard that he meant to exchange, he quickly took off the storage bag on his waist and said excitedly: "All my Tiansha gold is here, a total of more than seventeen kilograms, I hope fellow Taoists will accept it."
As for the spiritual power, it only needs to be comparable to the total spiritual power of ten middle-grade spiritual stones."
The total spiritual power of ten middle-grade spiritual stones is about 20% of the total spiritual power of an average Zifu monk.
Seventeen kilograms of Tiansha gold, even if it is the middle grade of third level, is worth more than 100,000 spirit stones at least.
This place is near the fourth-order spiritual veins. There are third-order high-grade or even fourth-order low-grade Tiansha gold, which is even more valuable.
Wang Daoyuan nodded and said: "Just follow my Taoist friend."
The man in black threw a storage bag over. The demon cultivator was not a man of faith, especially a demon cultivator who was on the verge of death.
There must be a scam in this storage bag, and Wang Daoyuan had already been prepared for it.
When the storage bag was still more than fifty feet away from him, he immediately used Yunyan Escape to cross the void, and escaped nearly three miles away.
The moment after he escaped, the storage bag burst open, and a stream of black smoke poured out of it.
This black smoke contains extremely strong evil spirits, and it seems to be mixed with corpse poison.
Then, hundreds of poisonous needles more than an inch long were shot out from the black smoke, and more than a dozen of them flew towards Wang Daoyuan.
Ten sword shadows around Wang Daoyuan flew out to block the poisonous needle.
In the end, it took three sword shadows to shoot down all the flying needles.
He was frightened for a moment. If he hadn't been prepared, this move would have killed him.
Seeing that the attack missed, the man in black turned around and walked away.
Wang Daoyuan filled up the sword shadow and used the sword shadow to chase the old boy, while he followed behind the sword shadow.
The man in black took out another coffin, opened it, and inside was a third-level high-grade refined corpse.
Judging from the attire on the corpse, he must be a casual cultivator in the Blood Demon City.
This refined corpse has muscles all over its body and its skin is silver. It should be the legendary silver-armored corpse.
The silver-armored corpse has extremely strong defense, and it is difficult for monks of the same level to break through its defense.
Using the corpses of demon cultivators from the blood demon lineage to refine them into silver-armored corpses, the defense will only be stronger.
Coupled with the strong evil aura in this place, the strength of this corpse refiner is probably comparable to that of the peak cultivator of the Zi Mansion.
Ten sword shadows hit the silver-armored corpse, making a sound like metal collision, but the silver-armored corpse was unhurt.
The man in black let out a strange laugh: "This time, fellow Taoist, it's hard to escape with wings, so it's better to give up resistance.
I haven’t tasted fresh blood for several years. If I drink it happily, I might be able to release your soul to reincarnate."