While hurrying on his way, Zhang Ling released his divine sense into the Liangyi Gourd to carefully examine the flower demon/spirit sealed by the vine. Within the vine cocoon, the main flower of the flower demon/spirit had completely closed, turning into a strange green and yellow flower bud.
The grayish-white root system below the flower had also lost its movement, limp and soft, like ordinary plant roots. The faint consciousness that could be sensed from the flower earlier had also completely disappeared at this moment.
It was as if it were just an ordinary spiritual flower.
Zhang Ling rubbed his hands together, and a grayish-white root system as thick as an arm appeared in his hand. This root system was a part that he had just pulled from the main body of the flower demon/spirit. At this moment, this root system was gradually turning gray-black, and at the same time, it was becoming harder.
With a gentle swipe of his hand, a sword light cut a crack in the root system, and immediately a few drops of emerald green liquid emerged from the crack.
These liquids were wrapped in spiritual power, and Zhang Ling carefully sensed them. To confirm the effect of the spiritual liquid, he even opened his mouth and swallowed a drop, savoring it carefully.
After a moment, Zhang Ling smiled. "It really is Wood Source Spirit Liquid."
Wood Source Spirit Liquid is a spiritual liquid that can only be nurtured by wood-attributed spiritual plants of extremely high quality.
This spiritual liquid can be used to refine Wood Spirit Pill, which is a top-grade wood-attributed medicinal pill. Even direct consumption has an effect comparable to a fourth-grade spiritual medicine. Moreover, this medicinal pill is extremely gentle, and cultivators who cultivate other attributes of spiritual power can also absorb it well.
Wood Spirit Pill also has the effect of improving physique and nourishing meridians. This effect is not small. If one can take Wood Spirit Pill for many years, the meridians in the body will be nourished and become more resilient.
The benefits are self-evident. The expansion of the meridians allows cultivators to absorb more spiritual power, and the spiritual power retained is also more profound.
In addition, Wood Spirit Pill is also a holy medicine for detoxification.
He had found hundreds of such root systems of various sizes in the pit. If all the Wood Source Spirit Liquid in them were extracted, it would be possible to refine hundreds of Wood Spirit Pill.
In addition, if he could use the mysterious pearl to hasten the growth of this flower demon/spirit, he might be able to obtain more spiritual liquid. Zhang Ling thought to himself that after he went out, he would have to study this flower demon/spirit that had not yet fully formed.
Suddenly, a buzzing sound came. Zhang Ling retracted his thoughts and looked ahead, and found that a large area of purple mist had appeared in front of him. A large group of small black insects were flying in it, rapidly spreading towards this side.
The purple mist also spread rapidly, covering an area of several hundred zhang in an instant.
Each of these small insects was only the size of a fingernail, with purple-blue patterns all over its body. Most of them were shining with a strange yellow spiritual light, flickering like fireflies.
Black Flame Insects!
Zhang Ling recognized these flying insects as soon as he saw them.
The individual strength of this kind of spiritual insect is even higher than that of the Earth Spirit Bees. If he remembers correctly, on the Spirit Insect Ranking in his hand, its ranking is more than ten places higher than that of the Earth Spirit Bees.
Black Flame Insects are also gregarious spiritual insects that can be cultivated by cultivators. The characteristic of this spiritual insect is that it will self-destruct when encountering danger, generating explosive spiritual power.
Zhang Ling's eyes lit up, and he thought to himself that his luck was so good today. Not only did he harvest a flower demon/spirit, but the Black Flame Insects in front of him could just change the taste of the Spirit Devouring Insects he was raising.
With a thought, he released his divine sense a little more, covering the purple smoke from which the Black Flame Insects flew out. He planned to find the Black Flame Insects's nest and collect some insect eggs. Then he could cultivate a large batch of Black Flame Insects himself.
This kind of spiritual insect has a violent temper. Only by finding the insect eggs and placing a restriction on it before it hatches can it be controlled.
Entering the purple mist, Zhang Ling felt something was wrong. The rather violent Black Flame Insects did not attack him, but flew in groups in all directions, looking as if they were fleeing for their lives.
As his divine sense continued to expand, he noticed a chaos more than fifty miles ahead. Explosions continued there, and piles of Black Flame Insects self-destructed, turning into a large area of flame, frantically attacking two strange demon beasts.
The two demon beasts were huge, each over twenty zhang tall, covered in purplish-red scales, somewhat like pangolins.
Faced with the flame attacks formed by countless Black Flame Insects self-destructing, the two strange demon beasts seemed not to care. They simply opened and closed their mouths, shooting out long, bright red tongues, rapidly waving in the air like long whips.
At the same time, they spewed black-purple mist from their mouths, and the Black Flame Insects that approached lost their ability to move and fell to the ground like rain. With a curl, a large area was instantly swallowed by the two demon beasts.
These seem to be two Insect Devouring Beasts, which are rare.
The purple mist they spew has a strong paralyzing effect. Cultivators can defend against it well, but these large areas of spiritual insects can easily be paralyzed.
Zhang Ling muttered to himself, confirming that these two demon beasts were the Insect Devouring Beasts that devour various spiritual insects. They are both seventh-order demon beasts. Their strength is already not weak, no wonder the hundreds of thousands of Black Flame Insects can't do anything to them.
Suddenly, a flash of light flashed in Zhang Ling's eyes, and he found a group of pitch-black insect clouds more than ten miles away, rapidly fleeing this place. That was also a group of Black Flame Insects. A strange thing was dragging in the middle of the flying insects.
That thing looked like a boulder thirty or forty zhang in size, with many tiny holes densely packed on it. With a sweep of his divine sense, he could find that there were many faint auras.
This was exactly the Black Flame Insects's nest he was looking for. Zhang Ling changed direction and flew over there.
But just as he flew a hundred zhang, he noticed a loud noise coming from underground, and a ear-piercing cry entered his ears.
A special aura was rapidly rising from underground. This aura was huge, and it was clear that something was about to break out of the ground.
Zhang Ling's face changed slightly, and he quickly flew into the high sky, no longer caring about the group of Black Flame Insects.
Like thunder, the sound rumbled from the ground, and in an instant, countless cracks cracked in the ground, and a large area of black mist puff out.
Large areas of earth and stone collapsed, and strips blood-red tentacles rushed out of the ground. Each tentacle was abnormally thick, ten zhang wide and thirty-four zhang long. Like intertwined red ribbons, rustling waving.
Zhang Ling turned into a yellow light, quickly dodging these rushing tentacles, and in the blink of an eye, he flew to a hundred zhang high in the sky.
Then looking down again, a large area of the ground sunk into a huge pit, large areas of ancient trees collapsed, and a behemoth appeared in a cloud of smoke.
This is...an ancient beast.
