The general environment inside the ice cave entered Zhang Ling's mind.
The space inside was large, but the terrain was somewhat complex. The upper and lower spaces were only about ten feet high. Every few steps, there were ice pillars connecting the top and bottom. From time to time, ice-winged insects could be seen flying around.
Inside, it was like a huge block of ice with deep holes drilled into it, and the passages were interconnected.
His divine sense could now cover the surrounding fifteen or sixteen miles without any problems, but in order not to alert the enemy, Zhang Ling could only carefully explore inside, section by section, with his divine sense.
Before long, Zhang Ling's divine sense stirred, and he discovered a very special place inside. It was a circular ice cave, in which a two-zhang-tall ice-blue tree was growing.
Strangely, the tree had many branches, like vines, that crawled all over the ice cave. Under the branches grew palm-sized leaves, and below them hung thumb-sized black fruits.
These fruits were clustered together like grapes, and some of them even drooped to the ground.
Seeing such a strange little tree, Zhang Ling was stunned, and he involuntarily flipped through the spiritual plant books he had read.
"Hiss, this seems to be an ice mulberry tree, yes, it is an ice mulberry."
Zhang Ling was overjoyed. He didn't expect to discover such a special spiritual tree before finding the ice silkworm. The ice mulberry tree is a Rank 3 spiritual plant, and it is a very precious variety among Rank 3 spiritual plants.
The ice mulberry fruit is a kind of spiritual fruit that can be eaten directly, and it can also be used to refine several ice-attribute elixirs. Moreover, it seems that there is a special elixir that is refined using a large amount of ice mulberry as the main ingredient.
The information about the ice mulberry flashed through his mind.
Zhang Ling took a deep breath and calmed his mind. He carefully examined the ice mulberry tree with his divine sense.
Through his observation, this ice mulberry tree was at least two or three thousand years old, and the ice mulberries condensed on it were even more precious.
Suddenly, he discovered a low ice cave behind the ice mulberry tree, with traces of blue spiritual light flickering inside.
His divine sense moved slightly and explored there. Instantly, Zhang Ling was overjoyed.
His divine sense passed through the low ice cave entrance, and the space inside was not small. At the same time, he immediately sensed that the temperature inside was extremely low, and a layer of ice mist was floating.
What came into view was a patch of cyan-blue. The ground was covered with cyan-blue grass, densely packed with at least hundreds of plants, dyeing the ground cyan-blue.
The stems and leaves of these grasses were light cyan, and some white fluff grew near the roots. They also had some slender leaves.
"Ice Mist Grass," a Rank 2 spiritual herb, only grows in extremely cold places. It only grows one foot taller every hundred years and is also a quite precious ice-attribute spiritual herb.
Seeing that this ice cave was covered with these Ice Mist Grass, Zhang Ling couldn't help but be slightly moved. If all of these Ice Mist Grass were taken away, they could be exchanged for at least seventy or eighty thousand spirit stones.
These were naturally not what surprised Zhang Ling. A sweep of his divine sense could see that there were white silk threads like spider silk in these Ice Mist Grass. These silk threads looked white, but they lit up with a faint blue spiritual light when they swayed slightly.
These silk threads all came from a giant white silk cocoon about ten feet tall in the Ice Mist Grass. An extremely cold force came from the silk cocoon.
Suddenly, the white silk cocoon moved slightly and was stretched to more than twice its size. A white worm emerged from inside.
This was a several-foot-long white worm, chubby and snow-white all over. A pair of black-blue small tentacles under its abdomen kept shaking like hands and feet. However, its head was ice-blue, and a pair of mouthparts opened and closed, spitting out a circle of white gas.
Gurgling strange noises came from the worm's mouth.
Zhang Ling saw that the ball of white gas that the worm spat out turned into a thin layer of ice shavings and fell to the ground as soon as it came out. It obviously contained an extremely cold force.
The worm also shook its body and crawled to the ground, wrapping around a few Ice Mist Grass and gnawing on them. The appearance of this worm instantly overlapped with the ice silkworm in his mind.
At the same time, he also discovered that the spiritual power of this small ice silkworm was already no weaker than that of a general Rank 5 demon beast. It was actually a high-level ice silkworm.
Zhang Ling was secretly delighted. This was exactly his target ice, but high-level ice silkworms are not easy to catch.
He needed to plan how to capture it.
Before long, Zhang Ling had an idea. He carefully retreated with the corpse bear and came to an ice crevice not far away.
He patted his storage bag, and a white jade box appeared in his palm.
With a snap, he gently opened the jade box. Inside lay a spiritual flower, a rhizome that was black-green with three palm-sized snow-white flowers growing on it. As soon as it was opened, a rich ice spiritual energy floated out. This was a Rank 3 ice-attribute spiritual flower, a Three-Leaf Frost Flower.
This was a special spiritual flower cultivated with the mysterious pearl. Its age had reached eight hundred years. It was originally collected by Zhang Ling in his storage bag to exchange for treasures with other high-level cultivators.
Now, it was just right to use to lure the ice silkworm. The ice silkworm, this kind of ice-attribute spiritual insect, would definitely be very interested in this spiritual flower.
Then, he completed a pit on the ground and put a few ice spirit stones on it. Only then did he transplant this Three-Leaf Frost Flower into it. A spiritual force hit the ground, and the pit on the ground merged with the ice soil next to it. There was no sign of anything unusual.
As for why he didn't use Heavenly Demon Incense to lure the ice silkworm, it was also for the sake of caution. After all, the fragrance emitted by Heavenly Demon Incense was special, and it would be bad if the ice silkworm noticed anything unusual. At the same time, Heavenly Demon Incense would also attract other demon beasts, so it was not suitable to use it here.
Then, Zhang Ling took out a few array flags and set them up next to him.
……
At this moment, outside in the snow mountain, in front of another ice wall, three high-level cultivators, one man and two women, also stopped and looked around. These three were Wang Yan and the others who had come here not long ago.
Squeak, squeak, a strange cry was heard, and a snow-white ferret darted out of the ice crevice. The ferret flashed to Wang Yan's feet, raised its head, and quickly gestured, as if it had made some discovery.
"Senior Brother, have you discovered ice mulberry?" Junior Sister Chen, with an oval face, turned her head and asked.
"Hmph, not only did I discover ice mulberry leaves, but I also discovered traces of other cultivators," Wang Yan replied with a gloomy face.
"What, other cultivators."
Junior Sister Chen frowned upon hearing this, and even Senior Sister Zhao, the woman in green who had always had a cold face, glanced at Wang Yan.
"Hmph, don't worry. No matter if there are other cultivators or not, the three of us together can deal with even late-stage Golden Core cultivators without any problem, let alone some unknown people."
"Let's go. We should go and see if the ice mulberry is still there. If it is taken away by someone, I'm afraid we can only kill and seize the treasure."
Wang Yan sneered and led the two women into an ice crevice with the ferret.
