It could be seen that the Fire Dragon Taoist opened his mouth and spewed out a ball of fiery red spiritual energy. With a flash of fire, a dragon-headed crutch, about ten feet long, flew out. The dragon head at the top of the crutch was even more lifelike, letting out a beastly roar, and then spewed out a dozen huge fireballs the size of wheels.
It instantly repelled a Tier 5 Blood Bat.
That old man Shen was also very strange. He didn't seem to use any magic weapons, but just flicked his withered fingers a few times, and a layer of dark black spiritual energy appeared on his body. His shoulders shaking a few times, and a dozen black awn about an inch long shot out from his body.
These black awn rotated a few times in the air, then stretched and enlarged, turning into black light blades about ten feet long, surrounding the last Tier 5 Blood Bat.
In an instant, three Golden Core late-stage powerhouses confronted three high-level demon beasts, presenting a one-sided trend. Zhang Ling knew that these three Blood Bats wouldn't last a few rounds before being eliminated.
After all, those who can cultivate to the late stage of the Golden Core are not ordinary cultivators.
And he, along with the one-armed man and Madam Cao, were not idle either, and began to kill the large number of Blood Bats following behind the three high-level demon beasts.
With a flash, Zhang Ling arrived not far from the Fire Dragon Taoist. A blue flying sword floated beside him, and a yellow spiritual light hit it. The flying sword trembled a few times, and then released thirty to forty sword awn surrounding his body. The blue light flashed, and the sword light attacked with a sharp sound.
As his cultivation continued to increase, the attack power of these sword awn he released was also very powerful. Each sword awn could easily kill several Blood Bats.
Apart from a flying sword, he didn't use any other means. Low-level Blood Bats posed no threat to him, so naturally he wouldn't go all out.
It was good to reduce a little spiritual power consumption, after all, this was just the beginning of the treasure hunt, and the dangers ahead were unknown, so he had to be cautious.
The one-armed man, who was at the early stage of the Golden Core, also stood beside the old man Shen, waving a stone stick that flickered with black light in his hand. The dark stick shadows constantly emerged, causing gusts of wind to sound around him for a time. Any Blood Bat that approached was smashed into blood foam.
Madam Cao, the only female cultivator at the Golden Core stage, was also quite strange.
The black dress she wore seemed unusual. Golden light spirit pattern flickered on it, and these golden spirit pattern condensed into golden light seal between her fair hands.
The light shadows drifted out, and the surrounding area was immediately filled with golden light, covering a space of more than ten feet. The Blood Bats flying within it actually began to kill each other.
From time to time, Madam Cao's giggling laughter could be heard.
Everyone dealt with the Blood Bats with ease. Zhang Ling and the other two tacitly surrounded the outermost perimeter, preventing these low-level Blood Bats from harassing Yangshan Old Taoist and others.
In just half a cup of tea's time, they had solved these demon beasts. The three high-level Blood Bats were all killed by Yangshan Old Taoist and the other two, and Zhang Ling and the others also killed more than a thousand low-level Blood Bats.
The remaining small portion of Blood Bats scattered and fled, and the vicinity returned to calm in the blink of an eye.
After resolving the crisis, the expressions on everyone's faces were not very good, especially Yangshan Old Taoist, whose face was gloomy.
Just now, when passing through the Purple Blood Jade Passage, he lost eight or nine Foundation Establishment cultivators. Now, counting Chen Qing, the formation master, there were only five Foundation Establishment cultivators left. Two of them were also seriously injured.
However, the old Taoist was also not an ordinary person. He only glanced at the large number of Blood Bat corpses on the ground and regained his composure. After greeting everyone, he landed on the ground and walked directly along the stone path he had just seen towards the cluster of buildings.
Zhang Ling trailed behind, suddenly took out a storage bag, and with a flash of spiritual light, collected more than three hundred Blood Bat corpses. Then, he followed the others with a normal expression.
If he were the only one here, he would definitely collect all the Blood Bat corpses. But now that there were several Golden Core cultivators in front, he had to be low-key.
These low-level Blood Bat demon beast corpses were not of great value to Golden Core cultivators, but they could serve as food for the Corpse Bear. Although they were not enough to increase the Corpse Bear's strength by much, it was still possible to condense a dozen strands of Fiend Soul Silk by devouring these demon beast corpses.
Of course, the three high-level Blood Bats were collected by Yangshan Old Taoist and the other two.
The group approached the cluster of buildings along the bluestone road. As they approached, they felt that the chill in the air seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.
After approaching the white light curtain, they probed it with their spiritual sense, but it was bounced back. As expected, it was another formation restriction.
This white light was flashing with a light blue spiritual light, and a thick layer of frost was also floating on it. It seemed to be an ice-attribute formation restriction.
Although their spiritual sense could not penetrate it, they could still see some of the situation inside through the translucent light curtain using their spiritual eye technique.
The light cover covered an area of two to three hundred feet, and there were many buildings inside, resembling a small town. There was a stone hall in the center, which looked very conspicuous.
Arriving here, Chen Qing busied himself, taking out formation plates and formation flags to break the restriction.
And Zhang Ling and the other six Golden Core cultivators were naturally not idle either, and dispersed to explore the surroundings.
Here, deep underground, there were many cave entrances on the surrounding rock walls. They looked like they were formed naturally, some large and some small. The small cave entrances were too small for a single person to pass through, while the large cave entrances were as large as a dozen feet.
The target of their exploration was these large cave entrances.
At this moment, Zhang Ling was in a tunnel about ten feet in size. As he probed with his spiritual sense, he could still find some scattered Blood Bats inside.
After exploring for a distance, suddenly, he seemed to have discovered something and turned into a escaping light, passing through several forks in a row, and arrived at a low tunnel corner.
Lying on the ground in front of him was a skeleton. The skeleton had already turned into white bones, and had been here for quite some time. Through spiritual sense exploration, he could find residual weak spiritual power on the skeleton, proving that the owner of the skeleton was originally a cultivator.
But after searching, he didn't find a storage bag. Zhang Ling couldn't help but shake his head, it seemed that there was no gain.
However, he waved his hand, and a gust of wind turned the skeleton over. With a muffled sound, a palm-sized piece of jade fell out of the skeleton.
Zhang Ling waved his hand, and the jade was brought to his eyes. The jade was not large, and was ice-blue overall, but there were flame pattern on it.
"This is... Ice Fire Jade."
He recognized it instantly. This was a kind of spiritual ore, but the jade was covered with fine cracks, and there was no fluctuation of spiritual power. The spiritual power inside had disappeared.
Ice Fire Jade is a kind of jade ore similar to spirit stones, which can be directly absorbed by cultivators for cultivation.
However, the spiritual energy condensed in Ice Fire Jade is not a single spiritual energy, but gathers fire spiritual power and ice spiritual power. Directly absorbing it as a spirit stone is not as pure as the spiritual energy of a spirit stone.
However, Ice Fire Jade still has many uses. It can be used to refine some special ice and fire spirit pills, and it can also be used to refine magic weapons.
The most common use is to make jade boxes and other things to store pills and spiritual herbs. It is said that high-grade Ice Fire Jade can preserve the spiritual power of pills for tens of thousands of years without loss.
