Not long after, Zhang Ling met up with Xuan Gui.
“This is the pseudo-spiritual treasure that those demons wanted to snatch.” Zhang Ling took the black Yin-Yang Calabash from Xuan Gui's hand and examined it carefully. He recognized it immediately as indeed an Yin-Yang Calabash.
Although it had been reduced to only a foot in size using secret methods, he could still feel the immense weight of the treasure in his hand, at least twenty to thirty thousand pounds.
This was still with the aid of secret methods; without them, the weight of this treasure would definitely be no less than a small mountain, making it impossible to carry away so easily.
At the same time, several chains were wrapped around the gourd, with many spiritual patterns engraved on them, all extending from within the gourd. It was unknown what they were for, but they looked unusual.
When he tried to probe into the gourd with his divine sense, a strange restriction at the mouth of the gourd blocked his investigation.
Zhang Ling changed his hand seals and tried several methods, but none of them could break through this restriction. Moreover, he couldn't activate this treasure, possibly because he hadn't broken the restriction.
With a flip of his hand, he put the black Yin-Yang Calabash into his sleeve. Now was not the time to study this treasure; it was better to wait until he left this secret realm.
Then, he activated a hand seal and spat out a ball of yellow light, which turned into a layer of yellow mist, enveloping himself and Xuan Gui. A flash of yellow light on the ground, and he and Xuan Gui merged into the ground, disappearing without a trace.
Zhang Ling used earth遁术, taking Xuan Gui and stealthily heading towards the corpse bear's location. Xuan Gui had already scouted the vicinity and confirmed the corpse bear's position, which was now hiding in the mountain belly.
He was connected to his second primordial spirit, and he knew that the corpse bear now had the strength of a Nascent Soul cultivator. Zhang Ling wasn't too worried about this. If it were other Nascent Soul cultivators, he might not provoke them.
But the corpse bear was a fiendish demonic clone he had personally refined, and part of the meridians in the corpse bear's body were transformed from the roots of the strange vines parasitizing his body. Using some secret methods from the Fiendish Demon Art, it wouldn't be difficult to restrain the corpse bear's physical body.
Moreover, the corpse bear was now seriously injured, even if it still had some of the strength of a Nascent Soul cultivator, it was definitely no match for him and Xuan Gui.
Since he had encountered the corpse bear here, he naturally had to figure out who was controlling the current corpse bear. It would be best if he could take it back.
If he couldn't take it back, killing it wouldn't matter.
After lurking underground for a while, Zhang Ling stopped, quickly contracting his divine sense to prevent being discovered by the corpse bear. He had already sensed a mass of corpse aura surging not far ahead, obviously the aura exuded by the corpse bear.
“You approach that area first and check it out.” Zhang Ling's mind flickered, and he immediately issued an order to Xuan Gui.
Xuan Gui didn't hesitate at all, approaching the location of the corpse aura.
At this time, Xuan Gui was draped in an invisibility gauze, and his own spiritual light was reduced to the lowest level, not revealing a trace of aura.
Zhang Ling himself was also covered in illusion mud, which he had transformed into the aura of soil, making it even more difficult to detect.
Although divine sense was incredibly useful, it was not easy to detect the traces of cultivators in the earth and stone. It would be greatly restricted.
Sure enough, Xuan Gui approached that area and saw the appearance of the corpse bear.
At this moment, the corpse bear was sitting in a not-so-small cave, with a gray-white round bead floating above its head. Wisps of gray spiritual power covered its body, and it occasionally showed a painful expression. It really was seriously injured and was recovering from its injuries.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling was overjoyed. This was the best time to sneak attack, and if he hit it right, he might be able to kill this beast on the spot.
But after thinking about it, he didn't let Xuan Gui attack immediately. Instead, he directed Xuan Gui to retreat.
Zhang Ling and Xuan Gui retreated more than ten miles away. Then, he took out some earthy yellow beads and directed Xuan Gui to bury these beads near the corpse bear, with its location as the center.
He himself also took out several array disks and array flags and began to fiddle with them.
After all, the corpse bear now had the strength of a Nascent Soul cultivator and would inevitably have some tricks. To ensure nothing went wrong, he prepared an extra layer while the corpse bear hadn't discovered them, making it safer to strike.
Zhang Ling pointed at a black-yellow bead in his hand, and the bead vibrated gently. The surrounding soil and stone vibrated along with the bead and slowly flowed. In the blink of an eye, the bead was buried in the soil and stone, disappearing without a trace.
This bead was an array eye for the current array. He set up a Earth Dragon Array in this mud, which was a earth-attribute array and very suitable for setting up here.
After a successful setup, it could imprison a large area, preventing the corpse bear from escaping.
After waiting for a moment, a yellow light lit up on a square array disk in his hand. Four dragon-shaped patterns appeared on the four corners of the array disk at the same time, representing that this Earth Dragon Array had been completed.
Zhang Ling smiled and immediately had Xuan Gui start to act.
Inside the cave, the corpse bear was completely unaware and still recovering from its injuries. Suddenly, it stretched out its furry palm and patted its chest, making a muffled sound, and spat out a ball of black blood.
As soon as the blood ball was spat out, it was instantly burned into green smoke by the golden flames wrapped within it. The corpse bear quickly stretched out another dark black claw and extinguished the flames in one fell swoop.
At this point, the golden flames that had stained its body had been forced out, and its injuries had improved greatly.
The corpse bear opened its mouth again and spat out a white ring, held the ring in its hand and shook it gently, and a one-foot-sized black jade bottle appeared on the ground.
It seemed that this white ring was a storage treasure.
Its current physical body was that of a demonic corpse, and its body didn't have much sensory perception. It was very likely that it wouldn't even know if a storage bag fell off its body, especially during a fight.
Therefore, swallowing the storage ring into its belly was safer.
After putting the ring back into its body, the corpse bear opened the jade bottle, and a cloud of rich blood fiendish aura emerged. Blood fiendish aura was the best tonic for corpse monsters.
By devouring this cloud of blood fiendish aura, its injuries could be quickly recovered.
Just as the corpse bear was thinking this, it suddenly sensed something, its emerald green eyes turned and scanned the cave, and it instantly stood up, grabbed a corner of the cave with one hand, and shot out a beam of spiritual light, transforming into a gray-black giant claw. It grabbed something all at once.
Then, with a flash of spiritual light, the giant claw turned into a ball of gray-white corpse fire, which had trapped several yellow-black spirit insects.
“So it's just a few ordinary spirit insects, humph…”
The corpse bear glanced at them and snorted coldly. With a thought, the spirit insects in the corpse fire were instantly incinerated.
This place was a natural cave, which looked small, but there were many cracks in the surrounding mountains, and one of the positions where several spirit insects emerged had a foot-long mountain crack. It seemed that these spirit insects flew in from outside.
But…
