The corpse energy possessed a strong corrosive nature, and Yunhu's protective light barrier was instantly melted with countless holes.
"Senior, spare me!"
Yunhu hurriedly begged for mercy.
Zhang Ling remained expressionless and silent. The corpse bear's eyes flashed with a bloody light, and it opened its mouth to suck the corpse energy into its belly.
Yunhu, having narrowly escaped death, collapsed to the ground, his face covered in cold sweat.
"Humph, speak. If you lie again, you know the consequences."
"Ah, this junior wouldn't dare to hide anything. Actually, the source of this news came from another fellow Daoist in our group. The Three Yang Fire has a special effect: for Foundation Establishment cultivators who practice fire-attribute techniques, it can increase the chance of breaking through the Golden Core bottleneck by twenty percent. That's why we came to this place."
Next, Zhang Ling learned from Yunhu that the news of the Profound Yang Fire came from a young master of a Chen family.
The Chen family was just a small cultivation family with only three Foundation Establishment cultivators within the clan.
This kind of cultivation family was very weak. Their activities in the desolate region were limited to the outer areas. But they somehow obtained information about the Profound Yang Fire, so they organized a team to enter the desolate region, hoping to collect that wisp of Profound Yang Fire to help their family's young master break through.
Yunhu was one of the cultivators recruited by this team. According to him, the location of the Profound Yang Fire was guarded by a sixth-order Crimson Wind Bird. This was something they hadn't anticipated. As soon as they entered the location of the Profound Yang Fire, they were attacked by that Crimson Wind Bird, and most of their members were killed or injured.
Only he and the Chen family's young master escaped. But the desolate region was full of dangers. Even a Golden Core cultivator like Zhang Ling wouldn't dare to say he could come and go freely.
Foundation Establishment cultivators in this place could easily lose their lives.
A few hours ago, the two of them were unlucky and encountered an attack from more than a dozen Two-Headed Vultures. In the end, they had to separate and escape for their lives. That's why there was a scene of two Two-Headed Vultures besieging this person.
After listening to Yunhu's account, Zhang Ling stood there expressionlessly, deep in thought.
A sixth-order Crimson Wind Bird would be quite troublesome to deal with. However, if this person wasn't lying, then he also had some interest in that Profound Yang Fire.
After all, spirit fire wasn't common, and he wasn't in a hurry to return. Being able to collect a wisp of heaven and earth spirit fire would be a small opportunity.
Turning his head to look at the somewhat apprehensive Yunhu in front of him, Zhang Ling's mind moved. The corpse bear standing beside him suddenly raised its thick bear paw, and a ball of green light emerged, turning into several thin gray threads that flashed and burrowed into Yunhu's body.
These gray threads were fused with the vine threads on the corpse bear's body.
These strange vine threads had strong adaptability. After fusing with the corpse bear's body, they also underwent some subtle changes, and they also gained some cold and Yin-like abilities.
As long as this person dared to play any tricks, Zhang Ling could control these threads at any time to directly kill him.
After all, one should always be wary of others.
"Don't worry, as long as what you say is true, I naturally won't make things difficult for you after collecting the Profound Yang Fire."
Seeing the man's unsightly expression, Zhang Ling casually explained, hoping to reassure him a little.
Hearing Zhang Ling's explanation, Yunhu squeezed out a smile.
"Alright, this is a pill to restore your vitality. Take it to recover your consumption, so you can lead the way for me."
Zhang Ling casually tossed a milky white pill in front of Yunhu.
"Thank you, Senior." Yunhu's eyes lit up as he looked at the pill, and he quickly thanked him.
Then, he stayed in place to recover his previous consumption.
Zhang Ling walked to the corpses of the two Two-Headed Vultures that had been killed. After examining the two desolate beasts and seeing nothing unusual, he raised his hand, and two streams of yellow light wrapped around the desolate beast corpses and threw them towards the corpse bear.
Roar!
The corpse bear let out an excited roar, and a ball of white corpse fire rose from its body, instantly engulfing the two yellow corpses, with crackling sounds coming from within.
After a dozen breaths of time, the corpses of the Two-Headed Vultures had disappeared, leaving only two fist-sized blood-colored light spheres. The corpse bear opened its mouth wide, and the two blood-red light spheres were sucked into its mouth.
Zhang Ling's mind moved, and the corpse bear turned into a gust of Yin wind and was taken into his spirit beast bag.
Although the corpse bear had been refined into a Fiend Corpse clone, its current strength wasn't of much help to him. Absorbing the flesh and blood of living beings could quickly increase its strength.
Of course, the corpses of desolate beasts couldn't be given to spirit beasts and humans to eat. Desolate beasts contained turbid Qi from the desolate region within their bodies, which was troublesome to deal with.
But these corpse monsters like the corpse bear didn't need intelligence in the first place, and their bodies were covered with corpse poison, so absorbing it was naturally fine.
Yunhu, who was meditating and recovering nearby, naturally saw all of this and couldn't help but swallow his saliva. This powerful corpse monster was absorbing the essence and blood from the two desolate beasts.
This scene made Yunhu even more fearful of Zhang Ling. After all, most of those who refined such powerful corpse monsters were demonic or ghostly cultivators.
Such experts were often capricious.
Yunhu carefully glanced at Zhang Ling. He was worried that if this senior didn't keep his word, then his life would be in danger.
But at this moment, Zhang Ling was still standing there motionless. He naturally didn't know what Yunhu was thinking.
Zhang Ling narrowed his eyes, fully opening his divine sense, and carefully probed the situation within ten miles. After a while, he opened his eyes. There were no other desolate beasts within a ten-mile radius.
This place was still considered safe.
In the blink of an eye, two hours passed. Above a nameless hill hundreds of miles away, a stream of yellow light suddenly descended.
The light dispersed, revealing Zhang Ling and Yunhu.
"Senior Zhang, please look there. That is the nest of the sixth-order desolate beast, the Crimson Wind Bird. The Profound Yang Fire is inside."
Zhang Ling narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction Yunhu was pointing. A few miles away from the hill where they were, there was a solitary peak.
This mountain peak looked to be a thousand feet high. There was very little vegetation on it, and it was generally black, covered with black and cyan rocks.
It was a stone mountain.
Releasing his divine sense to probe towards the mountain peak, the upper half of the stone mountain had many crisscrossing, crooked gullies. Countless sharp black stones stood like knives and axes.
Among these sharp black stones, there were countless stone caves of various sizes. Within these stone caves, Zhang Ling's divine sense sensed traces of fire-attribute spiritual power.
Zhang Ling observed the surroundings for a while. Surrounding this solitary peak were several identical black stone peaks, only slightly smaller. This environment really looked like a place where Three Yangs converge. Then what this person said was likely true.
After Zhang Ling roughly investigated the surrounding environment, he turned to Yunhu and instructed, "You wait here for now. I'll go investigate."
After saying that, he summoned his escape light and flew into the air, flying towards the solitary peak.
