After considering it, Dongfang Ya collected all the books and jade scrolls into her storage bag.
Although she couldn't use these, taking them back to the sect would be a small gain, especially since many of them were lost array formation classics.
After collecting everything, Dongfang Ya planned to leave and search for spiritual herbs elsewhere. Suddenly, her expression slightly changed as she sensed a strange fluctuation of spiritual power behind several rows of bookshelves.
She quickly walked over and stood in front of a wall behind the bookshelves. The spiritual power fluctuation was coming from this wall.
Dongfang Ya thought for a moment, then pointed at the stone wall with the magic weapon jade pen in her hand, condensing several ice thorns and hitting it. The entire stone wall was frozen into frost, and it seemed that there was nothing unusual.
However, Dongfang Ya's eyes lit up, sensing that a secret space seemed to be hidden behind this stone wall.
The jade pen moved quickly, drawing a yellow spiritual talisman in the air. Strands of yellow spiritual power formed rays of light, releasing dazzling spiritual light that enveloped her.
This was a Earth Evasion Talisman.
This kind of earth spell talisman is not easy to master, especially since she does not have an earth spiritual root. However, for her who specializes in Talisman Dao, it is not difficult to master. It only takes some time to practice specifically to master it roughly.
Dongfang Ya, surrounded by the yellow light, merged into the ground. In a moment, she arrived at a dark stone chamber, discovering that it was just a space of a dozen zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length) in size, empty and without anything.
A layer of black mist spread across the ground. Upon closer inspection, many blood-colored patterns were engraved on the ground, seemingly forming some kind of array.
The special spiritual power she had just used came from this array. It was a layer of dense Yin Fiend Evil Energy.
Just as Dongfang Ya was examining the array patterns on the ground, she suddenly felt a cold wind blowing on her body, causing her to shiver. What was going on? Why did she have this feeling?
Dongfang Ya's heart sank, feeling that something was not right. Could she have been affected by the Yin Fiend Evil Energy on the array?
At this moment, a strange laugh of " chuckle" inexplicably rang out.
Dongfang Ya's eyes changed, feeling as if something was staring at her, transmitting a murderous intent.
Without thinking, she immediately activated her magic weapon, drawing two spiritual talismans to form two layers of blue light shield to protect her whole body.
Immediately afterward, a yellow light flashed on her body, wanting to cast Earth Evasion again to leave this stone chamber, but she found that Earth Evasion had failed.
The black mist on the ground churned rapidly, swirling into a black vortex. A cyan-blue palm stretched out from it, instantly grabbing over.
Dongfang Ya shouted delicately and pointed with the jade pen in her hand. Firelight flashed on the jade pen, drawing several flame spiritual talismans that burst with a bang. A burst of hot firelight blocked her front.
However, it did not provide any protection. The cyan-blue palm passed through the firelight without hindrance and directly grabbed her.
The two layers of spiritual power shield on Dongfang Ya's body shattered instantly. Fortunately, at the same time the spiritual power shield shattered, a jade pendant-like object on her waist also shattered.
A layer of water-blue light curtain instantly blocked her body. The cyan-blue claws penetrated into it, as if trapped in a mud, unable to advance.
This was an automatic protective jade talisman she carried with her. She didn't expect it to be used here.
Dongfang Ya didn't have time to feel sorry for the treasure and quickly threw out several scarlet spiritual talismans. Three millstone-sized fireballs were created, emitting a burst of dragon roars, and condensed into three huge fire dragons in the air. They raised their heads together and spurted out pillars of fire, scattering the cyan-blue claws.
However, the chuckle laughter entered her ears again.
The rotating black vortex on the ground had turned into a black tornado. Within it, a ghostly blue light flickered, gathering into a vague monster face, like a evil spirit.
Dongfang Ya looked at the ghost face, as if falling into an ice cellar, feeling extremely cold.
The ghost face opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, and a scarlet tongue shot out, instantly reaching her eyes, making it impossible to dodge.
In a desperate moment, Dongfang Ya twisted her body, and her entire body slid horizontally for a distance, avoiding this disaster.
The sounds of swoosh continued, and the scarlet tongue followed closely, like a poisonous snake.
While dodging the danger, the jade pen in her hand floated up, along with the black inkstone she had used before, also floating beside her.
The black inkstone emitted a large amount of black ink, and the jade pen skillfully and quickly tapped, and various spiritual lights flashed, and in an instant, several layers of light shields covered Dongfang Ya's front.
Dongfang Ya's movements became much faster, turning into great afterimages. Between flashes and dodges, she constantly avoided the entanglement of the red tongue.
The three fire dragons released earlier also roared and attacked the ghost face in the black wind.
The black wind and firelight collided, emitting a loud noise. The entire stone cave shook, as if it was about to collapse.
However, the strange laughter in the black wind became more piercing, expanding several times in an instant and suppressing the three fire dragons.
Immediately afterward, the ghost face in the black wind opened its mouth wide, and all the black mist was sucked into its mouth, transforming into a humanoid monster.
This monster was about ten zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length) tall, with a cyan face and red hair, and two horns growing on its head. The entire body was covered with cyan-purple stiff hair, a living image of an evil spirit.
Sensing that the Yin Fiend Evil Energy on the evil spirit had reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, Dongfang Ya's face turned pale. This was actually a ghost comparable to a great cultivator.
The evil spirit's scarlet tongue kept spitting out like a snake letter, and its two ghost claws were suddenly raised. With a swish sound, dense ghost claws attacked.
Dongfang Ya dodged quickly, and at the same time took out a water-blue round pearl, releasing a thick water shield to protect her whole body.
Immediately afterward, the flying jade pen magic weapon quickly tapped, drawing fireballs, water knives and other attacks, bombing the surroundings, wanting to break a gap to leave.
However, the ground and walls around the stone chamber had become extremely hard, no longer ordinary soil and stone. This was also the reason why Earth Evasion had failed just now.
Dongfeng Ya constantly dodged the ghost claw attacks, but the stone chamber space was not large after all. Still, many ghost claws hit her body.
When the ghost claws landed on her body, first came a strong tearing force, and then it turned into ghostly blue ghost fire, a sizzling corrosive sound, quickly corroding the water shield defense on her body.
The water light on her body was not an ordinary water spirit shield, but the defensive power formed by the Water Leaving Treasure Pearl in her hand. The defensive power was not weaker than the top-grade defensive magic weapon.
Various attacks fell on it, and the water waves formed on the water shield would prevent the enemy's attacks from falling on one point. It had the effect of continuous and continuous defense.
Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, the water shield defense on her body was corroded by the ghost fire and became thin. The attack of the evil spirit was so sharp that she felt a crisis of life and death.
The ghost in the late stage of Nascent Soul realm could not be defeated.
Dongfang Ya did not dare to delay and immediately took out a gray and shiny spiritual talisman. The spiritual power of her whole body was frantically injected into it.
The spiritual talisman turned into a gray and bright silk thread, which did not attack the evil spirit, nor did it form a defense, but quickly carved a gray light array about ten zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length) in size under her feet.
Dongfang Ya stood in the array, no longer moving, while throwing out various attacks to resist the attack of the evil spirit, while seemingly waiting for something.
The eyes of the evil spirit blinked very spiritually, as if it had discovered something. The ghost face immediately became furious, and with a big mouth, the blood-red tongue shot out again, heading straight for Dongfang Ya's head.
A layer of cold sweat appeared on Dongfang Ya's face, but she still did not dodge. She just released a blue shield to block her front.
With a loud bang, the shield only slightly blocked this attack. As a red light flashed, the shield was pierced by the evil spirit's long tongue.
At the same time, a gray light flashed behind the shield, and Dongfang Ya's figure blurred and disappeared out of thin air.
Seeing the prey disappear, the evil spirit tore the blue shield in rage and made a furious cry.
...
Zhang Ling walked on the steps, his steps were very heavy, and he looked a little strenuous.
There were also restrictions on these steps, but they were just ordinary heavy pressure restrictions. It would not cause any harm to him.
As long as he was willing, running the Heavy Yuan Profound Light could offset most of the heavy pressure.
However, at this time, a layer of blood-colored spiritual light was flowing on his body. He did not use too much spiritual power, but only used his physical strength to resist this restriction.
So it seemed strenuous, but Zhang Ling felt quite refreshed. The heavy pressure on each step was stronger.
Pressed on his body, but made his whole body's blood boil.
I saw that between his walking, a layer of heat was still lingering on his body. Make his figure look a little blurry.
After walking such a long distance, dense sweat appeared on Zhang Ling's face. Looking up, there was still a long section of steps.
He chuckled and ran the spiritual power. The blood light on his body instantly turned into a layer of yellow light.
The sensed heavy pressure immediately lightened by more than half. Zhang Ling stretched his body, and there was a cracking bone collision sound.
"It seems that the limit of my current physical strength is here." After exhaling, he felt refreshed, and he strode up.
The strength on the steps he was standing on was already very heavy. Ordinary fifth and sixth-order demon beasts would be crushed here.
Walking all the way with only physical strength was just to re-examine the physical strength enhanced by cultivating the Glassy Demon Bone.
He had already measured the limit, and Zhang Ling would naturally not delay too long.
Walking so fast, he went to the top of the mountain in a blink of an eye. Take a closer look.
The environment at the top of the mountain was quiet, and there were many flowers, plants and trees growing around it. A layer of faint clouds lingered under his feet, as if entering a fairyland. A group of palaces was located in it, with palaces, pavilions, towers, stone pillars, etc., occupying most of the top of the mountain.
The sky above was full of silvery-white lightning, and there was a burst of loud noises.
Zhang Ling glanced at it, and his expression became strange. Because most of the buildings in the front building complex had collapsed and turned into ruins.
This was very different from what he imagined. There were also many pits on the bluestone slabs on the ground.
With a scan of his spiritual sense, the largest palace in the center of the building complex, made of red wood and golden tiles, was well preserved, covered in a layer of flowing colored clouds. That seemed to be the Hall of Lost Gods.
Zhang Ling walked over carefully, paying attention to the surrounding situation at any time. There were no restrictions found along the way.
Halfway through, he suddenly stopped. With a wave of his hand, a strong wind rushed to the left and dispersed a cloud of mist.
I saw that there was a pile of crushed stones twenty or thirty zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length) away from him. It looked like it was originally a stone tower, but it had been broken.
But under the pile of crushed stones was a dark thing, which seemed to be a piece of iron.
Zhang Ling felt that the iron piece was a bit familiar, and released a piece of yellow light again, lifting the crushed stones, and he could see clearly that the iron piece below was a broken puppet.
This was a beast-shaped puppet, seven or eight zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length) high. Only a small part of the box was well preserved, and the head of the puppet was a black lion head.
He was very familiar with this puppet. It was an Iron Lion Puppet.
To verify this, Zhang Ling walked over and carefully checked the puppet fragments on the ground.
"It really is an Iron Lion Puppet. And looking at the refining techniques of these fragments, they are very similar to his refining techniques. It seems that this broken puppet also comes from the puppet technique of Tianji Sect." Zhang Ling held a black iron ball that was split in half in his hand and muttered to himself.
This iron ball was the spiritual core of this broken puppet. There were many dark gold and silver spiritual patterns on it, and the spiritual patterns engraved on the core of the puppet he refined were eight or nine points similar.
Judging from the remaining spiritual power on it, the power that this broken puppet could exert was even stronger than the Iron Lion Puppet he refined.
After thinking for a while, he put the broken puppet away.
Immediately afterward, Zhang Ling searched around and found another three broken puppets, one of which was an Iron Lion Puppet, and the other two were broken Giant Ape Puppets.
He had never seen the style of the Giant Ape Puppet, but through observation, it was a high-level puppet of the wood attribute. And the refining technique also came from Tianji Sect.
Zhang Ling couldn't help but guess that maybe a master of Tianji Sect had been here, or these high-level puppets were arranged by the Divine Light Sanren.
He was more inclined to the first guess, because he also found several traces of restriction damage nearby.
There were also signs of looting in those broken buildings.
These discoveries made Zhang Ling realize that not only they had entered here. Maybe some cultivator had discovered this place and came to investigate it long ago.
Looking at the traces of destruction and the broken puppets, the person who came here may also be a Nascent Soul old monster, and his strength must be not weak.
Zhang Ling's face sank slightly. If it was as he guessed, the treasures here might have been taken away.
The treasures that Fairy Ruolan said that could help overcome thunder tribulation had not been summoned. He thought there was a reason for this.
But looking at the main hall in the center, there were still restrictions covered. It was not that the cultivators who had been here before did not break the restrictions, or they sought other methods.
Whether or not, he had to go in and take a look.
After searching around, he didn't find anything. Zhang Ling walked to the front of the main hall and frowned as he looked at the colorful clouds covered.
After thinking for a while, he flicked his finger and released three flying swords. The magic formula changed, and the flying swords merged into a green-golden sword light and slashed over.
Silently, the flying sword slashed into the flowing colored clouds outside the palace.
