The entire pack of beasts marched forward mightily. Zhang Ling also noticed that most of the gathered wild beasts were above the second rank; none were below it. It seemed like a carefully organized demon beast army.
As for where this group of demon beasts was going, after a moment's thought, he guessed that they were most likely going to fight against the wild beasts.
Every time this special period arrived, the demon race also had to fight against the turbid Qi. However, it was said that these un-transformed demon beasts, especially those with low intelligence, were mostly assigned to the human cultivators' side to fight together.
Zhang Ling had never seen such an army of demon beasts before, and he was quite surprised.
After half an hour, this group of demon beasts gradually moved away. Zhang Ling carefully went deeper into the mountains, thinking of quickly finding a hidden place.
In the following period, he encountered two more waves of demon beast groups, but he always proceeded cautiously and was not discovered by any of the transformed demon beasts.
Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
Zhang Ling had already gone tens of thousands of miles deep. The situation deep inside was not as peaceful as the outer area of Demon Wind Mountain Range. He could see some scattered demon beasts everywhere, but there were not many high-level demon beasts. He had only encountered two or three in the past few days.
It seemed that many high-level demon beasts had been transferred away by the demon race, which was also a good thing for him, reducing the risk of encountering trouble.
Moreover, he also discovered a strange thing. Although some turbid Qi also spread in this mountain range, it was not strong. It was not as strong as in the human race area.
Zhang Ling guessed that the geographical location of the Demon Wind Mountain Range was in the southernmost part, and this area might not be the area affected by the turbid Qi.
At this time, he just flew over a thousand-foot-high peak and immediately saw a dozen low hills on the back of the mountain. The terrain here gradually leveled out.
Among the hills, there was a huge canyon, which looked hundreds of miles long. The canyon was shrouded in a layer of mist, and it was dark and bottomless.
As soon as he flew to this area, Zhang Ling keenly felt a cold current rushing upward from the canyon. Although he did not expect to find any Yin veins to help the Black Tortoise break through,
the cold air below was not weak. It seemed to be a Yin and cold place, and this place was quite hidden, which exactly met the place he was looking for.
After all, the situation of the second primordial spirit and the Black Tortoise was quite special and could not be delayed for too long. Moreover, he did not dare to go deep into the Demon Wind Mountain Range all the time.
The deepest part was the demon race's base camp, where there were many transformed demon beasts, which was too dangerous.
Zhang Ling pondered for a while, then flew down into the canyon. Soon after, he landed on a piece of black soil. Sure enough, the surrounding cold air was even stronger.
Zhang Ling released his divine sense to explore the surrounding area. He planned to let the Black Tortoise break through here, so the surrounding situation naturally had to be explored clearly to prevent any danger.
Several hours later, he explored an area of more than three hundred miles around and only encountered a giant bear with fifth-level strength, which he easily solved.
At this moment, Zhang Ling came to the deepest part of the canyon. The sound of rushing water came, and there was a black water river next to it. The water flow gathered here, forming a small pool.
The entire pool was shrouded in a layer of white ice mist, which was the place with the strongest Yin and cold Qi in the entire canyon.
There was also a pool of blood beside the pool, lying dozens of black-skinned giant crocodiles, two of which were more than twenty feet long. These were fifth-level iron-mouthed crocodiles.
The pool was their lair, and he had just cleaned the pool. Zhang Ling was busy with a dozen array flags in his hand, and began to set up a guardian array.
More than an hour passed, and the entire pool was shrouded in a layer of mist.
Zhang Ling set up three sets of arrays nearby. A set of Kui Water Spirit Array, a set of Xuanbing Spirit Gathering Array, and a set of Water Yuan Misty Cloud Array.
These three sets of arrays were all water-based arrays. The Kui Water Spirit Array and Xuanbing Spirit Gathering Array were used to gather nearby water spiritual Qi and Yin and cold Qi.
The Water Yuan Misty Cloud Array was a hidden array set up with the help of the water mist here, but it was to hide the spiritual Qi here to prevent attracting some trouble.
All three sets of arrays were refined before. At that time, he refined a dozen sets of arrays in order to hunt wild beasts in different environments in the wilderness. Now they came in handy.
Zhang Ling was quite grateful to Old Long for being able to refine these arrays.
This Old Long was an array mage. He followed Ding Ruozhao and others to find ancient ruins before, and this person died there. There were many array-related books in his storage bag.
After that, he also collected a lot of related knowledge. Although he basically did not study it in depth, he mostly drew gourds according to the patterns, and followed the complete array step by step to refine the array tools in order to set up the array.
Zhang Ling knew that the refined arrays were not very clever, at most they were only enough for his own use. He was still far from reaching the level of an array master.
After all, his talent in this area was not high, and he did not spend too much time. After setting up the array, he released the Black Tortoise. The second primordial spirit controlled the Black Tortoise and directly submerged into the pool, starting its closed-door breakthrough.
Zhang Ling also opened a cave on the nearby rocks, while meditating and practicing, while protecting the Black Tortoise. He didn't know how long the Black Tortoise's breakthrough would take, but he thought it wouldn't be short.
He was also prepared to stay here for a while.
In a stone house, Zhang Ling waved his hand, and several storage bags appeared on the stone table. Two of them were Jiang Hao's storage bags, and the rest were the red-faced man's storage bags from before.
At that time, he just glanced at them in a hurry. Now that he was safe, he had time to check them carefully.
After a while, he roughly checked the things in the storage bags. Except for the spirit stones, the other things were not very useful to him.
Of course, there were many valuable things among them. There were seven or eight magic weapons alone. There were also some high-level wild beast materials.
And the most valuable thing was the treasure bead refined with Nether Soul Jade obtained from the red-faced man's storage bag, which was very valuable for research.
In the following days, Zhang Ling was studying this treasure bead, which gathered many demon souls of high-level wild beasts. From the feeling, it was more like a magic weapon used by ghost cultivators.
However, the demon souls inside had not been refined, and seemed to be just a device used to collect high-level demon souls.
He directly extracted these demon souls and threw them all into the Yin Soul Banner in his hand.
As for the Nether Soul Jade itself, it was also engraved with some blood-colored spiritual patterns, which seemed to have been specially refined by other cultivators, and it also looked like a magic weapon.
Zhang Ling took a closer look and found that he was actually very familiar with these spiritual patterns. They were part of the runes engraved on the Blood Soul Cauldron.
He had the iron piece in his hand that recorded the entire set of Blood Soul Cauldron refining methods, and there were records of related runes.
Zhang Ling determined that this Nether Soul Jade was only a semi-finished product and had not been completely refined. It also made him more certain that the red-faced man was a Snow Moon Tower cultivator.
