At the same time, while Zhang Ling was escaping, he was playing with the ghost head token he got from the linen-clad old man.
Suddenly, the ghost head token flashed with black spiritual light, and he was overjoyed.
There was no reaction when ordinary spiritual power was injected into this token. He thought of the Netherworld King Technique, which had a kind of Yin Fiend energy to activate magical treasures. He tried it slightly with this method, but he didn't expect to really activate the ghost head token.
As the token's black light flashed, Zhang Ling scanned it with his divine sense and sensed a piece of information on the token.
This item is indeed a cultivator's identity token, but it is not an ordinary identity token, but a Sect Leader Token. Moreover, it is the identity token of a certain Sect Leader of the Ghost King Sect.
"Yan Tian, the eighteenth Sect Leader of the Ghost King Sect."
Zhang Ling thought for a moment, and was secretly surprised. He immediately confirmed that the token was real.
After encountering the red umbrella youth before, he had specifically collected some ancient books introducing the Ghost King Sect. The Ghost King Sect was destroyed overnight ten thousand years ago, and the Sect Leader at that time was the eighteenth Sect Leader.
According to ancient books, this Sect Leader named Yan Tian was already at the half-step God Transformation realm at that time, and was one of the strongest people of the human race at that time.
Zhang Ling's eyes flickered a few times, and he suddenly thought of the Ghost King Sect during that period, which was also the manager of Yanhai Immortal City. It's just that Yanhai Immortal City was not called Yanhai City at that time, but seemed to be called Moonfall City.
The names of the twelve Immortal Cities, except for the main city, Sky Curtain City, have all been changed in a certain period.
The Ghost King Sect chose to use strange teleportation methods in Yanhai Immortal City to send them into this place. It seems that it was planned long ago. I'm afraid that even the Otherworld Demon Race has been calculated into it.
He looked at the ghost head token in his hand for a long time, and besides the simple identity information, this token was also a good defensive magic weapon.
With a flash of spiritual light in his hand, the ghost head token floated in front of him, releasing a mass of black light that wrapped around him, forming a layer of black spiritual power shield.
In Zhang Ling's perception, he did not fully activate this token, only exerting two or three percent of its power.
This is not because he used less spiritual power, but because the token was specially refined and can only be activated with the techniques in the Netherworld King Technique.
The Netherworld King Technique is originally the inheritance technique of the Ghost King Sect. Although he has studied it a lot, he has only cultivated some secret techniques in it and does not mainly cultivate this technique.
Therefore, this token cannot exert its full power in his hands at all, and can only activate a small half of its power at most, which is a bit useless(鸡肋: chicken ribs, something of little value or use).
Zhang Ling chuckled and put the token away.
In fact, another reason why he can activate this token is that the original owner's aura has long dissipated, and it is an unowned object. Things like this, similar to tokens, mostly have their own particularities. Not everyone can use it when they get it in their hands.
Then, he took out a volume of green bamboo slips and five or six pieces of black bamboo slips strung together.
He did not recognize the words on these two volumes of bamboo slips, but they did look like the same kind of immortal script.
"Senior, I still need to trouble you to see what's on this." Although he didn't recognize it himself, Blue Sparrow might. Zhang Ling directly threw this difficult problem to Blue Sparrow.
With a flash of spiritual light in his hand, the two volumes of bamboo slips were sent into the Sumeru Cave. Blue Sparrow's dissatisfied voice also came over. "You want to use me as a coolie again."
"Hehe, senior, please forgive me. Now we are trapped in this place, and we don't know if we can get out of trouble. This volume of bamboo slips is a treasure of the Ghost King Sect, maybe there are some clues that can help us get out of trouble." Zhang Ling smiled shamelessly.
Blue Sparrow did not answer, but the bamboo slips sent into the Sumeru Cave were still grabbed by her in her hand and studied.
Just as he passed over a high mountain in the ghost mist, the environment ahead changed drastically, and it was a vast expanse of white. Zhang Ling couldn't help but look up.
The black mist that was originally scattered everywhere turned into white mist here, distinctly.
With a sweep of his divine sense, he discovered that the vast white mist in front of him was not ghost mist, nor was it spiritual mist transformed by ordinary spiritual energy. It was very strange.
As soon as he entered it, his face darkened a bit, because the speed of spiritual power loss in his body accelerated a bit after entering the white mist range.
At the same time, he could no longer sense even a little bit of spiritual energy that he could originally sense. It seemed that he had entered the central area of the space, the spiritual energy-isolated area.
With a flash of yellow light in his hand, Zhang Ling once again took out a high-grade Earth Spirit Stone and held it in his hand, paying attention to his own spiritual power consumption at all times. The escaping light also slowed down by three points.
In this kind of place, he didn't dare to be careless at all.
In the blink of an eye, a quarter of an hour passed. Zhang Ling estimated that he had traveled a thousand miles, but he was still in the white mist. The fog was even thicker, as if he was traveling through the clouds.
The deeper he went, the faster his own spiritual power was lost. Fortunately, he had spirit stones to replenish, so the spiritual power in his body could maintain its peak state.
According to the records in the classics, the spiritual energy-isolated land isolates the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but it doesn't seem to have said that it will cause one's own spiritual power to dissipate outwards. It's just that cultivators cannot meditate in the outside world to replenish consumption.
But this white mist allows one's own spiritual power to continuously dissipate outwards, which is obviously unusual.
However, there are very few records in ancient books about such a special environment as the spiritual energy-isolated land. It seems that either the records are not complete, or there is something strange.
Suddenly, the wind picked up in front of him, and a bald-headed bird with black feathers several feet in size swooped over. It carried a sinister aura and had the strength of the fifth or sixth rank.
Zhang Ling didn't stop his escaping light. With a slight shake of his arm, a jet-black vine shot out, directly entangling the monster in mid-air. A sword light flashed, and the bald-headed bird was split in half.
The vine pulled the bird's corpse and he collected it into his storage bag.
Along the way, he encountered several monsters that suddenly appeared like this. The strength of these monsters was uneven, some only had the strength of the first rank, and some had such high-level strength. However, most of them were rushing outwards, seemingly wanting to leave this white mist area.
Most of these monsters were not native to this place, but were prey captured by the Snake Ancestor into this space.
Regarding the Snake Ancestor, he specifically inquired about it in Ghostfolk Village.
The linen-clad old man and others said that the Snake Ancestor would use terrifying power to capture some prey from the outside world as blood food every once in a while.
Whenever the Snake Ancestor showed its power, the entire space would be filled with yin wind and the environment would become extremely harsh. Many people would die in the raging yin wind.
This has no regularity. It happens once in a short period of more than a month, and it is difficult to see it once in a long period of several years.
The high-level monsters that are captured are mostly directly swallowed by the Snake Ancestor, and only a few escape the white mist range. Like the natives, they live in the outer area of the entire space.
However, these monsters often do not live long and will also consume their own monster power, and their strength will also greatly decline.
This is also the main source of food for some of the natives. Of course, the main food is still the few two or three kinds of spiritual plants that can survive in this place.
These are all varieties that were painstakingly cultivated from the seeds of spiritual medicine or spiritual rice brought by the monks who entered this place before.
Among them, there is a kind of ordinary spiritual rice, a green spiritual rice that has mutated, and has the best yield. It is called green food by the people here.
According to the linen-clad old man, it is more valuable than ordinary spiritual rice. Often eating it will enhance one's physique.
Zhang Ling was naturally not polite and asked for some of this special spiritual rice.
After traveling another distance, Zhang Ling suddenly heard a strange noise coming from a distance. With a thought, his whole body immediately became blurred and hidden.
Divine sense was greatly affected in this area, but he quietly released his divine sense power and still sensed a blue escaping light moving quickly in the direction of the sound.
That escaping light was extremely fast. It was a lonely Nascent Soul fleeing in panic. He recognized it. It was the Nascent Soul of the Puppet Spirit Old Monster.
Previously, when this person fought against Ghost Chariot Elder with them, his physical body was destroyed. He used Void Insects to save this person's life. He didn't expect that this old monster was in a panic again. Could it be that he encountered some danger again?
Although this person has lost his physical body, he still has a puppet at the Nascent Soul level, which should have a certain ability to protect himself.
Zhang Ling's divine sense checked the direction from which the old monster came, but there was no spiritual power fluctuation there, and no enemies chasing him. With a thought, he approached the Puppet Spirit Old Monster.
Since he ran into him here, he might as well ask him what danger he encountered. If there is really some unknown danger, he can also prepare himself.
Zhang Ling accelerated his escaping light and caught up with the Puppet Spirit Old Monster after a few breaths. He directly appeared and stopped this person.
With a flash of yellow light, Zhang Ling appeared more than ten feet in front of the Puppet Spirit Old Monster. The Puppet Spirit immediately sensed the spiritual power fluctuation, and a look of horror appeared on the Nascent Soul's face. Without even thinking about it, he used the teleportation technique and escaped to the other side.
"Fellow Daoist Puppet Spirit, don't panic, it's me."
The Puppet Spirit Old Monster instantly left fifty or sixty feet away. Hearing Zhang Ling's voice, he couldn't help but turn his head and take a look. His face relaxed. "So it's Fellow Daoist Zhang, you scared me to death."
"Fellow Daoist is in a hurry, could it be that you have encountered some danger again? Could it be the cultivator of the Ghost King Sect?" Zhang Ling asked with a helpless smile.
"No," the Puppet Spirit Old Monster shook his head. "It's the Otherworld Demon."
Zhang Ling frowned. "Otherworld Demon cultivator, it shouldn't be."
"Alas, I am really unlucky. I got some information from some natives here before and came here to check and find a way out. Just now, I ran into that Otherworld Demon with a heavy blood fiend aura and the strength of the late Nascent Soul stage. This person suddenly attacked me. I am not an opponent of such a strong person even in my heyday. If I hadn't self-destructed the puppet, my Nascent Soul would have been able to escape and save my life."
Hearing this, Zhang Ling was shocked. He didn't expect that this old monster would run into that Ancient Demon. No wonder he would end up in such a situation.
"What are your plans now, Fellow Daoist?"
"What else can I plan? Now I don't expect to find a way out. I want to find a place to recover from my injuries first," the Puppet Spirit Old Monster gave a wry smile and looked around. He cupped his fist at Zhang Ling. "Fellow Daoist Zhang, I will take my leave now."
"Fellow Daoist, please wait, I wonder if you still remember that I saved you not long ago?" Zhang Ling's eyes flashed and he stopped this person.
"Uh," hearing him suddenly mention this matter, the Puppet Spirit Old Monster's face stiffened and he gave a dry laugh. "Fellow Daoist saved Lu Mou for a while, and Lu Mou will not forget it. Brother Zhang, don't worry, as long as I get out of trouble from here, I will definitely thank Brother Zhang. At the same time, Brother Zhang will also be an honored guest of my Heavenly Extremity Sect. At that time, if Brother Zhang has any requests, Lu Mou will never refuse."
This person called himself Lu Mou, it seems that his original name was Lu.
"With Fellow Daoist's words, I can rest assured. I just happen to have something I want to ask Fellow Daoist."
"I don't know what Brother Zhang wants to ask him. As long as Lu Mou knows, he will definitely tell you everything," the Puppet Spirit Old Monster agreed readily.
"Do you recognize this puppet?" With a wave of Zhang Ling's hand, a headless golden armored puppet appeared beside him.
"Eh, this is... Ancestor Mu Kui's Five Spirits Puppet, how is it in your hands?" The Puppet Spirit Old Monster showed an extremely surprised expression.
Zhang Ling smiled. This person really recognized this puppet. The headless puppet was naturally the Nascent Soul level puppet obtained from the Bewildering God Palace.
At that time, he also encountered the spirit of Mu Kui Shangren. Mu Kui Shangren was a cultivator a thousand years ago. Counting it, he is indeed this person's grand uncle-master.
"This puppet was obtained by me unintentionally. I wonder if it is possible to repair this puppet."
"This, it doesn't look like it's seriously damaged. If I take the puppet back to the sect, I am very confident that I can repair it completely," the Puppet Spirit Old Monster stared at the headless puppet with his eyes unblinking, his eyes burning with heat, and he also revealed a hint of greed.
"That's good," Zhang Ling nodded as if he didn't see it.
The Puppet Spirit Old Monster also said with a smile. "If Brother Zhang can sell me the Five Spirits Puppet, whether it is cultivation resources or other conditions, you can ask for anything. After all, this puppet is the puppet of my sect's ancestor. If it can be..."
Before he could finish his words, he didn't notice that a ball of five-colored spiritual light suddenly appeared behind him, and another Zhang Ling appeared silently behind him, revealing a kind smile.
"Oh, you let me ask for any conditions?" Zhang Ling raised his hand and shot out a dazzling yellow light.
This voice came from behind the Puppet Spirit Old Monster. The old monster shivered and turned his head to look. He saw another Zhang Ling appearing behind him.
Before he could react, he was covered by the yellow light. The yellow light compressed, forming a thick yellow light ball, trapping the Nascent Soul inside.
The Puppet Spirit Old Monster's face changed drastically. He used teleportation to try to escape from the spot, but he was trapped in the yellow light and couldn't use it at all. "Fellow Daoist, what are you doing? I haven't offended you."
"Don't worry, I won't harm you. Fellow Daoist, sleep for a while first. After you are out of danger, I will let you leave," Zhang Ling said.
Zhang Ling activated a magic formula and shot out more than a dozen yellow spiritual lights, rushing into the Puppet Spirit Old Monster's Nascent Soul, sealing his Nascent Soul. This person's Nascent Soul rolled his eyes and lost consciousness.
He then took out a black and red wooden token, the Soul Sealing Token, and sucked this person's Nascent Soul into it, temporarily sealing it.
At this moment, the five-colored spiritual light that he had transformed into next to the headless puppet dissipated.
This was naturally a clone transformed by the Water Bubble Ancient Treasure, taking advantage of the conversation to confuse this old monster.
The reason why he suddenly attacked and captured this person's Nascent Soul was naturally to repair this headless puppet.
