Before long, Zhang Ling had collected hundreds of Rank 1 and Rank 2 spiritual herbs.
Although these spiritual herbs were of low rank, they were all over a hundred years old, so their total value was not small. The most valuable among them was a Rank 3 Azure Fire Spirit Ginseng, which was over a thousand years old. This single spirit ginseng alone was worth a magic treasure.
He didn't delay for too long, only staying in this sea of flowers for the time it takes to burn an incense stick before leaving. Although there were still some low-rank spiritual herbs inside, Zhang Ling had not forgotten that he had entered this mountain to find the teleportation array leading to the third level.
The Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm was also quite strange, with its starting time varying each time.
Cultivators could stay inside for at least a month. There were even records of the longest starting time being as long as half a year.
Since there was plenty of time, he was not too anxious.
After passing through the sea of flowers, Zhang Ling headed towards the summit. Along the way, he saw traces of buildings. There were stone pillars, stone platforms, and other structures scattered in the mountains and forests.
This made him happy. Since there were ancient cultivator ruins in this mountain, the chances of finding the teleportation array were much greater.
He didn't encounter any other desolate beasts along the way, which was a bit of a surprise.
After a while, as he was approaching the summit, Zhang Ling's divine sense sensed movement ahead.
The roars of beasts came, and the ground trembled. Then, a huge black shadow rushed towards him.
Zhang Ling's face darkened, and he instantly sensed the aura on the black shadow. It was another high-rank desolate beast.
Before he could see clearly what kind of desolate beast it was, the black shadow crashed over like a huge black ball with a loud bang.
Zhang Ling quickly dodged to the side, moving dozens of feet away to avoid the attack.
With a loud noise, the black shadow crashed to the ground, dust flew everywhere, and the ground trembled violently, collapsing into a huge pit.
In the dust, a huge black shadow flew out, changed direction, seemed to lock onto him, and rushed over quickly.
Zhang Ling snorted coldly and waved his left hand, shooting out a dozen thick vines that wrapped around the black shadow in a flash.
Roar~
The black shadow was entangled by the vines, but as it moved, it carried black gas on its body, and it snapped the vines in an instant.
However, after being hindered by the vines, the speed of the beast was reduced by more than half.
A flash of azure light, and a series of azure sword lights hit it, sending out a burst of clanging sounds.
Zhang Ling also saw clearly that this was a Rank 6 Mountain-Pushing Beast.
"Mountain-Pushing Beast" sounds like a big name. It is a kind of wild boar monster. Generally, its strength is at Rank 2 or 3. Very few of these monsters break through to Rank 4, but the Mountain-Pushing Beast in front of him actually has Rank 6 strength.
This beast was fifteen or sixteen zhang tall, with a large body, like a huge black ball. The hard hairs on its back were dark and shiny, and the two snow-white tusks in its mouth were several zhang long, flashing with a sharp cold light.
The Mountain-Pushing Beast is famous for its thick skin, strong flesh, and infinite strength. The sword light that struck it seemed to have little effect.
Mountain-Pushing Beasts are worth a lot of spirit stones outside. Some sects raise them, and a few can be tamed by cultivators.
Speaking of which, the flesh and blood of this monster is also a treasure. It is often made into delicacies by cultivators, which not only tastes good, but can also slightly increase the cultivator's mana.
A Rank 1 Mountain-Pushing Beast can be worth at least several thousand spirit stones, and its fur and tusks are also good materials for refining magical instruments.
Some Beast Controlling Sects and chambers of commerce also cultivate this kind of monster, which can serve as a spirit beast for low-level cultivators and can also be used to transport materials.
This was the first time Zhang Ling had seen a Rank 6 Mountain-Pushing Beast.
At this time, the Mountain-Pushing Beast also turned around, staring at him with a pair of scarlet eyes.
Zhang Ling moved his mind and released two more flying swords, intending to kill the beast.
At the same time, the Twin-Tailed Cat opened its mouth and spewed out a thick pillar of fire that hit the beast.
This attack made the Mountain-Pushing Beast's whole body rise with black smoke, but it still did not cause any substantial damage. It can be seen that this beast's defense is amazing.
The Twin-Tailed Cat also seemed angry, meowing, its body suddenly soaring, strands of dark red flames appeared on its body, and the two tails on its back also turned crimson, quickly甩动之下, and甩出 a颗颗 deep red fireball.
For a time, the red light was massive, and the fireballs all hit the Mountain-Pushing Beast.
The Mountain-Pushing Beast had no intention of dodging, and charged straight at it. The Twin-Tailed Cat screamed and turned into a ball of fire to avoid the beast's impact.
The three flying swords in Zhang Ling's hand quickly merged, intending to fuse the sword light and kill the beast with one blow.
But he saw that after smashing more than a dozen strange trees, the Mountain-Pushing Beast was no longer attacking them, constantly howling and撞 all over the place.
Zhang Ling frowned, not understanding what was going on.
Even if the Mountain-Pushing Beast was corroded by turbid Qi and had no intelligence, he had never encountered such a thing as suddenly going crazy in the middle of a battle.
He saw that after the Mountain-Pushing Beast ran wildly for more than ten breaths, with a shrill howl, its huge body stopped and fell stiffly to the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.
Zhang Ling scanned with his divine sense and found that the beast had died suddenly.
Meow~woo!
The Twin-Tailed Cat also howled a few times, ran to his side, and looked at the dead Mountain-Pushing Beast with a look of astonishment. It also seemed not to understand what the beast suddenly died from.
Zhang Ling patted the spirit beast's head and walked towards the Mountain-Pushing Beast's body. The beast suddenly died inexplicably, which was not a good sign.
You must know that this was a high-rank desolate beast with Rank 6 strength, and its vitality was very tenacious. It was impossible to die for no reason.
Maybe the beast was attacked by something. He had to figure out what it was to prevent himself from being tricked.
Zhang Ling came to the corpse of the Mountain-Pushing Beast and looked at it carefully.
The beast had some wounds of varying sizes on its body, as well as bursts of charred black, but these external injuries were only considered very light injuries for a Rank 6 desolate beast.
What's more, this was a Rank 6 Mountain-Pushing Beast, which was thick-skinned and fleshy. These injuries could only be considered tickles to the beast, and naturally would not be the cause of the beast's death.
Then it was possible that something happened inside the beast's body.
Thinking in his heart, he directly dissected the beast with a flying sword. After some exploration, there was nothing unusual inside the Mountain-Pushing Beast. Only the beast's demon core was unusual.
The Mountain-Pushing Beast's demon core was a fist-sized yellow and red demon core, which contained pure earth spiritual power and fire spiritual power.
The spiritual power on it was nothing unusual, but a layer of gray-black spiritual light was also condensed on this demon core, and gray-black spiritual patterns also appeared on the demon core. This was a layer of dignified desolate domain turbid Qi transformed into spiritual light.
The demon cores of desolate beasts all have such a layer of turbid Qi, but the turbid Qi on this demon core was several times thicker than that of ordinary desolate beasts.
Zhang Ling guessed that the beast might have gone crazy because it was too deeply corroded by turbid Qi. But turbid Qi can only interfere with the mind, and will not cause death.
Even if mortals are corroded by turbid Qi, they will not die, they will only turn into desolate beasts.
After exploring for a while, he still did not figure out the cause of the Mountain-Pushing Beast's death.
Zhang Ling no longer delayed, and directly put the beast into a separate storage bag to study it later.
