A faint layer of white-gold spiritual mist lingered in the mine, formed by the strong gold spiritual power of this place.
Along the wide mine, Zhang Ling quickly searched, sensing the gold spiritual energy, no weaker than the best-quality spiritual stone, through the Five Elements Spirit Determining Plate.
The deeper he went, the thicker this layer of spiritual mist became. At the same time, the icy coldness did not diminish, forming a bone-chilling cold.
Advancing all the way, Zhang Ling discovered traces of activity from many demons and cultivators in the mine. These traces were new, mostly recently made.
The deeper he went, he occasionally found some demon corpses. There were snow lions, giant icefield wolves, and snow rabbits. But the more numerous were a group of strange-looking, pitch-black worms.
At this moment, Zhang Ling was holding a section of worm corpse in his hand, constantly examining it.
He had never seen this kind of strange worm. It looked like a centipede, about the thickness of an arm, half a zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length) long. Its whole body was soft, without a hard shell, only the fist-sized head was quite hard, with many dark gold bumps, and a circle of sharp teeth in its mouth, which was extremely strange.
But the strength of this strange worm was not weak, roughly between the second and third-order demons. It could emit golden light thorns and ice attribute attacks.
Although it could not pose any threat to him, Zhang Ling was unwilling to provoke it if there were too many.
Like this kind of gregarious strange worm with not weak strength, once thousands or tens of thousands of them swarmed together, it would be extremely troublesome. Even if he could deal with them, it would inevitably consume a lot of spiritual power.
Fortunately, the cultivators who came here earlier had already explored the road. Zhang Ling only encountered a few living worms along the way.
After advancing for a while, suddenly, a roar came from the mine in front.
Zhang Ling was familiar with this sound, it was the roar of the snow lion. He quickly spread his divine sense and immediately found that several demons were running wildly in the passage in front.
The several demons were not of the same race, there were two snow lions, three round snow rabbits, and a unicorn gray wolf.
Behind these demons followed a large piece of golden light, and between the flashes of golden light, there was a burst of harsh chirping sound. It spread extremely far in the passage and formed countless echoes.
Those golden lights were not any strange things, but a group of strange worms, crawling very fast, densely packed, filling the passage.
The heads of these strange worms flashed with golden light, and between swimming, they shot out golden rays, like sword lights, shooting.
The running demons looked like they were fleeing in a hurry.
Numerous golden rays hit the demons, causing limited damage. But there were too many of them, and the demons only cared about running forward, and did not stop to fight.
One of the snow lions with broken wings ran the slowest and fell behind. Its body was covered with many worms. Its breath was gradually weakening. Although it was covered with frost, freezing many worms to death. But wave after wave of worms quickly covered its whole body, and many wounds had appeared on its body.
In a moment, it was submerged by countless worms, and only a few wails were heard.
Seeing this, the other demons ran even harder, and approached Zhang Ling's location in a blink of an eye.
Zhang Ling was not afraid of the worms, but he didn't want to waste spiritual power for nothing, so he hid his figure in advance. The demons and worms naturally couldn't find his trace, and ran past in a few breaths.
After this group of guys left, Zhang Ling showed his figure. He suddenly looked at the ice wall beside him and slapped it. With a soft sound, a crack opened in the ice wall, and a black ice block was revealed.
Inside, a white-haired snow rabbit about ten feet in size was frozen. It was still in a running state, extremely vivid, but it had been frozen to death.
This was because he had just asked Xuan Gui(玄龟: Black Turtle) to freeze a snow rabbit to death in an instant.
The reduced Xuan Gui was now lying on Zhang Ling's shoulder, sucking with his mouth, and the black ice block re-melted and turned into a cloud of black mist and swallowed into his mouth.
Zhang Ling expressionlessly pointed at the corpse of the snow rabbit, and a vague shadow of the snow rabbit flew out, which was the demon soul of this beast. Then he squinted his eyes and cast the Soul Searching Technique.
The Soul Searching Technique is naturally not only useful to monks, but also to demons and monsters. It can also get some information. It's just that these creatures are generally not as intelligent as humans, so the information obtained is a bit vague and chaotic.
But encountering these demons who had obviously come in earlier here, maybe he can get some useful information by searching souls.
After a while, Zhang Ling put the corpse of the snow rabbit into the storage bag. He continued to move forward, but his brows were furrowed. Judging from the snow rabbit's chaotic memory, it was similar to his speculation. Three transformed demon cultivators had really come.
One of them is the king of the snow rabbit group, a transformed female demon. There are also two other figures that make the snow rabbit extremely fearful. It seems to be a transformed snow lion and an icefield giant wolf.
It is worth noting that the transformed snow lion is stronger and may be a ninth-order demon cultivator.
Moreover, there are not only three transformed demon cultivators here.
Because, these demons that just ran past were originally following their transformed demon kings and constantly exploring this place.
But not long ago, the three demon cultivators discovered two human cultivators. At first, it was fine, but suddenly they started fighting for some reason.
These snow rabbit demons can sense that the two humans and their king are the same powerful beings.
Although the fifth and sixth-order demons have some intelligence, they have not been opened. Zhang Ling only simply obtained this information. But according to these, he can also infer some situations.
The monks discovered by the three demon cultivators must be two Nascent Soul monks. The fight was extremely fierce, and they couldn't care about these demon followers. The fifth and sixth-order demons were left far behind.
These guys lost their backbone. Unfortunately, they also encountered a large group of worms, so they fled in a hurry.
It seemed that there were more than thirty high-level demons originally, and the ones he saw were just a pair that was scattered by the worm swarm.
Zhang Ling moved forward while being vigilant. There are already demon cultivators and Nascent Soul monks fighting. This situation is more beneficial to him, and maybe he can fish in troubled waters.
This abandoned ancient cultivator mine has a large area. There are many winding mine passages. If you really want to explore it, even if he has the Five Elements Spirit Determining Plate, it will waste a lot of time.
Moreover, the gold spiritual energy here is strong, and the ground is full of gold stone structures. It is also covered with thick ice everywhere. The earth escape technique is not suitable for use. Only traveling along the mine passages opened by the ancient monks is the fastest.
Fortunately, he also got a situation through searching the soul of the snow rabbit.
A large area in front has been explored by three transformed demon cultivators, and Zhang Ling doesn't need to waste too much time. He immediately accelerated his escape speed and planned to explore other areas.
In this way, after quickly advancing for the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, passing through forty to fifty mine passages, Zhang Ling came to a huge ice cave.
This ice cave has a range of hundreds of zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length). The ground is full of ice shavings and gravel, and there are cracks. There are also several black pits on the ground that were obviously smashed out by fire attribute means.
Here, is where the three demon cultivators discovered the two Nascent Soul cultivators, and also the place where the fight started.
With a sweep of his divine sense, Zhang Ling felt that there were still some spiritual power fluctuations left by the fight. His eyes turned and he looked at a half-collapsed mine in the other direction.
That is where the two Nascent Soul cultivators fled. There are also many traces of fighting inside. Obviously, the three transformed demon cultivators and the two Nascent Soul cultivators did not leave for a long time.
Although he couldn't judge the exact time they left, it would not be more than half an hour at most.
Zhang Ling glanced at the Five Elements Spirit Determining Plate that he had been dragging in his hand. He found that the white dragon floating above was pointing in this direction. After a moment of silence, he still followed.
Although he didn't want to have a conflict with several transformed demon cultivators. But to find the best-quality spiritual stone that may exist here as soon as possible, he had to follow and act according to the opportunity.
