Not long after, they landed at the foot of a weathered stone mountain in the Gobi Desert, eventually arriving in front of a stone wall covered in ravines and striations.
Immediately afterward, Ding Ruozhao produced a red, square token. The token appeared somewhat old, but the patterns on it were still clearly visible.
Zhang Ling recognized at a glance that the token seemed to be a restriction token for the cave.
The woman pinched a magic seal and injected spiritual power into the token, instantly causing it to light up with a cyan-black light. As the light on it expanded and contracted, it transformed into hundreds of dense spiritual lights that floated up and disappeared into the stone wall.
The stone wall responded by lighting up with a cyan-black light as well, and then a crack appeared in it.
"Let's go, the teleportation array is inside."
Ding Ruozhao directly flashed into the mountain crevice, and Zhang Ling naturally followed closely without hesitation.
The passage inside was very dark and split into several forks. Ding Ruozhao was very familiar with the place and led him down, passing through seven or eight winding passages before reaching a space about fifty or sixty feet in size.
Zhang Ling released his divine sense and quickly scanned the entire space.
The ground was paved with cyan jade stones, and the surrounding walls were engraved with many spiritual patterns, some of which were glowing, seemingly array patterns.
He could also see five or six doorways on the left and right walls, indicating that this was clearly a cave dwelling of an ancient cultivator.
Zhang Ling's divine sense also spotted several acres of spiritual fields behind one of the doorways, and he could smell a few lingering wisps of medicinal fragrance in the air.
Upon closer inspection, he discovered some fresh traces of digging and some root parts of spiritual herbs in those spiritual fields, indicating that the spiritual herbs that originally grew there had been picked not long ago.
Ding Ruozhao walked straight towards a circular stone door on the left. The stone door was wide open. She looked inside with her divine sense and found that it was very empty. In the center of the ground was a square platform, on which a three- or four-foot-sized teleportation array was built with black crystal stones.
The style of the teleportation array on the ground was clearly an ancient teleportation array, and it was not large, belonging to a small teleportation array. In Zhang Ling's view, the transmission distance could only be two or three thousand miles at best.
While he was guessing, he heard Ding Ruozhao's voice.
"This is an ancient cultivator's cave dwelling that the Ding family's ancestor accidentally discovered on this island. This teleportation array is only a one-way teleportation array. The transmission distance is only three thousand miles. The transmission location is an isolated island. This is the teleportation talisman, take it, we will now…"
Ding Ruozhao glanced at the teleportation array and took out two black, inch-sized talisman papers from her bosom, handing one of them to Zhang Ling.
Zhang Ling's eyes lit up involuntarily.
Teleportation talismans are extremely special spiritual talismans that have no grade distinction. The method of refining them is very mysterious and has always been in the hands of some super sects and forces that control ancient teleportation arrays.
It is difficult for outsiders to refine them. When using a teleportation array, one must attach a teleportation talisman to protect oneself, so as not to be crushed to death by the power of space.
Of course, Zhang Ling has a Great Teleportation Token in his hand, which can also achieve the same effect and is more advanced. It is not a problem to use ultra-long-distance teleportation arrays.
Zhang Ling looked at Ding Ruozhao with a strange expression, wondering how this woman got two teleportation talismans.
Just as he was about to take the teleportation talisman, he suddenly saw a green-robed old man appear next to the doorway they had entered, with a flash of light.
The old man glanced sharply at the situation in the cave and let out a soft hmm. "Oh, a teleportation array."
Zhang Ling glanced at this person and instantly sensed a sense of danger from the old man, which made his heart sink.
Ding Ruozhao also discovered this suddenly appearing old man. Unlike Zhang Ling, the woman's face turned pale.
"Hehe, you two are here for this teleportation array." The green-robed old man glanced at the teleportation array and asked with a smile. His voice was not loud, and it sounded somewhat gentle, but Zhang Ling naturally did not think that this person was an easy-going cultivator.
The spiritual pressure sensed from this old man made him realize that this person also seemed to be a Nascent Soul-level old monster. Facing a cultivator who was a major realm higher than him, Zhang Ling immediately became vigilant.
The old man glanced at the two of them and then looked at Ding Ruozhao and suddenly asked.
"You are that female cultivator from the Ding family, right? You are the one who spread the news that someone from the Qing Lei Sect was about to form a Nascent Soul."
The green robe appeared unhurried, looking like an ordinary cultivator communicating.
"Well, you girl have quite some courage. It seems that this sect's Feng kid is quite fond of you. How about joining the Whirlwind Gate? As for this little friend, he doesn't look old, but his cultivation has reached the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, so he seems to have a great future. How about joining this sect together?"
The green-robed old man stared at Zhang Ling and Ding Ruozhao with narrowed eyes, looking amiable.
Ding Ruozhao frowned slightly, forcing a smile on her face, and bowed slightly to the old man respectfully, saying,
"So you are a senior from the Whirlwind Gate. This junior is indeed a member of the Ding family. Rebelling against the Qing Lei Sect was also a last resort. As for joining the senior's sect, I am afraid it will cause trouble for the senior."
"Hehe, this old man is never afraid of trouble. Boy, what about you?" The green-robed old man just chuckled when he heard Ding Ruozhao's words, and turned his gaze to Zhang Ling.
Zhang Ling felt a cold sweat on his back when he was stared at by his gaze, but he still pretended to be calm and bowed, saying.
"This junior is just a rogue cultivator, used to being free and undisciplined, I am afraid that I will not be able to enter the eyes of the senior."
But before he could finish his words, he felt the aura on the green-robed old man suddenly increase several times, which made his heart thud and he secretly called out that something was wrong.
"It's not good for you two to refuse, then this old man will personally invite you two."
As soon as the words fell, the green-robed old man flicked his hand, and two green lights instantly burst out from his hand, drawing half a circle in the air, and struck towards the two of them.
The two immediately changed their faces, this old monster directly started to attack while talking.
Zhang Ling only felt a flash of green light in front of him, and a dangerous aura came straight towards his face. He immediately mobilized the spiritual power of his whole body and instantly formed a layer of solidified defensive light罩 outside his body.
At the same time, a cloud of yellow sand instantly swept out from his sleeve and turned into a sand wall in front of him.
Then there was a muffled bang, and the green light plunged into the outermost sand wall.
The green light flashed, and it directly broke a big hole in the sand wall, and without any obstruction, it directly stabbed on the spiritual power shield on Zhang Ling's body.
Zhang Ling immediately felt as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer, and his figure flew backward unsteadily, and he slammed heavily on the stone wall a few feet away.
The shield on his body also flickered, scaring him to quickly urge the mana of his whole body to strengthen the shield.
Fortunately, he had just put on two fourth-order defensive talismans in his hand, and at this moment, they were just activated by him, and another layer of blue light and a layer of white light were formed to strengthen his protection.
