Entering Floating Light Spring, Zhang Ling felt surrounded by a surge of vitality. His cultivation techniques began to operate on their own, unconsciously attracting the spiritual energy from the spring.
He felt warm all over, very comfortable.
The spiritual force field around him flickered, isolating the spiritual energy from the spring. The vitality in the water was just an illusion created by the abundant wood spiritual energy.
In this strange Floating Light Spring, he couldn't rashly absorb the spiritual energy. He needed to investigate thoroughly first.
After a moment, he descended a hundred zhang (丈: zhang, a unit of length) deep. The area below was much larger than Zhang Ling had expected. With his divine sense spreading out, the depth was at least several thousand zhang (丈: zhang, a unit of length).
These conditions indicated that the original spiritual vein level of this Floating Light Spring was at least a high-grade spiritual vein.
Suddenly, a splash of water rushed towards him from the side, hiding a translucent object.
Zhang Ling expressionlessly flicked his hand, sending out a vine. With a muffled sound, the object in the splash of water was directly smashed into a cloud of blood.
Without even looking, he continued forward. The thing hidden in the water was just a Water Light Fish with third-order strength, trying to ambush him.
Spiritual vein lands naturally attract many demon beasts to gather. Especially in this place, there was no cultivator management.
At this moment, Zhang Ling had already sensed that there were many creatures hidden below. Some belonged to high-level demon beasts of the sixth or seventh rank.
However, he didn't sense any existence above the seventh rank. It seemed that it was because the bone-horn giant lizard's nest was above. Within the nearby area, there were no other eighth-rank demon beasts or ancient beasts.
Quickly descending, Zhang Ling didn't hide his aura. The high-level demon beasts that sensed his aura fled in panic. Only a few ignorant low-level demon beasts crashed into him and were easily dealt with.
Before long, he reached the deepest part. At the bottom of the spiritual spring, a layer of green mist, gathered but not dispersed, floated. This was a spiritual mist formed by the deposition of wood spiritual energy.
Seeing this spiritual mist, Zhang Ling was overjoyed. He directly summoned the Wood Essence Gourd, and a magic incantation struck it. A cyan-green light flashed at the mouth of the gourd, forming a terrifying suction force.
Instantly, the green spiritual mist within hundreds of zhang (丈: zhang, a unit of length) around was absorbed into it.
This kind of pure spiritual mist had many uses. Since he saw it, Zhang Ling quickly collected it without hesitation.
At the same time, he sensed a more stable wood spiritual energy fluctuation in the silt below the spiritual mist.
Zhang Ling cast a yellow light, which transformed into a spiritual force hand. It grabbed towards the silt, and amidst the rolling silt, it caught a large cluster of glittering green light. Upon closer inspection, it was a piece of green jade.
Zhang Ling was very familiar with this thing. It was a large piece of wood spirit stone. Moreover, it was a medium-grade wood spirit stone.
Casually putting the wood spirit stone into his storage bag, Zhang Ling released his yellow light hand again and scooped downwards, obtaining an even larger piece of wood spirit stone.
With the divine sense sensing and adding, the entire silt under his feet could be said to be full of wood spirit stones. Of course, there were not only wood spirit stones, but also a small number of spirit stones of other attributes.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling wasn't surprised. Around spiritual veins that form spiritual eye springs like this, spirit stone mines would basically be conceived.
Suddenly, Zhang Ling exclaimed softly, grabbing another dark green stone from the silt. It also carried a rich wood spiritual energy. However, it wasn't a wood spirit stone, but a piece of green wood stone.
Afterwards, he found more than a dozen identical green wood stones around.
"Could it be that this spiritual vein is connected to the green wood stone ore mine in the northwest border?" Zhang Ling muttered to himself, not dwelling on the matter too much.
Not only spirit stone mines would be conceived near spiritual veins, but there was also a high probability of conceiving some other spiritual mines. Perhaps, the green wood stone spiritual mine was really a spiritual mine born with this place.
Based on the size of this Floating Light Spring, Zhang Ling could roughly deduce that there was an extremely vast spiritual vein hidden under the entire Green Shade Mountain Range.
The spiritual spring eyes nurtured within it were definitely more than just this one.
Zhang Ling chuckled and released the Xuan Turtle and the Nascent Soul Puppet, also letting them quickly collect the surrounding spirit stones.
As for himself, the magic incantation in his hand changed. While dragging the Wood Essence Gourd, he once again used secret techniques to sense for possible top-grade wood spirit stones.
At the same time, a cultivator was flying not far from above the swamp where Zhang Ling was.
This was a handsome-looking young man in golden clothes, but his face was somewhat gloomy. He was also carrying a yellow-faced old man who was unconscious, performing a soul search.
"Another decoy, it's really a waste of time." A ball of flame emerged from the young man's hand, instantly burning the yellow-faced old man to ashes.
At the same time, he took out a dragon-shaped jade pendant and cast a spiritual light on it. The jade pendant emitted a layer of golden light.
The golden-clothed youth curled his lips and said, "Elder Sister, this one on my side is a smokescreen. It's not Third Uncle himself. I didn't expect Third Uncle to be so cunning..."
The youth spoke a long string of words as if pouring out his bitterness. Before he could finish, the dragon-shaped jade pendant trembled and emitted a clear, cold female voice.
"It's the same on my side, but I've already guessed the most likely location of Third Uncle."
"Really?" A gleam flashed in the golden-clothed youth's eyes, and he cried out in surprise.
"Sixth Brother, do you still remember the abandoned mine in the Green Shade Mountain Range?"
The youth looked up in the northwest direction. "Elder Sister is talking about the green wood stone mine, isn't it already completely mined out by the family a thousand years ago? Could Third Uncle be hiding there?"
The dragon-shaped jade pendant trembled again, and a rather affirmative female voice came out. "It's that abandoned mine."
The youth raised an eyebrow. "Impossible, what would Third Uncle do there?"
"Hmph, I usually tell you to read more family ancient books, but you're just lazy. Sixth Brother, don't you understand?" The voice coming from the jade pendant scolded.
Hearing this, the golden-clothed youth slapped his head, seeming to remember something. "Hehe, Elder Sister, don't be angry, little brother thought of it. Third Uncle wants to use the rotten wood energy there to break through his bottleneck. The Wood Dragon Great Art that Third Uncle cultivates is almost complete, and he needs pure Yin wood spiritual energy to assist him. rotten wood energy is an excellent material, no wonder he fled here."
He had also cultivated for hundreds of years, so he was naturally not really stupid. He instantly thought of the reason.
"We can take him down while Third Uncle hasn't broken through yet. If he really breaks through, the two of us will probably be unable to keep him here. I've already notified Grandfather, and he's on his way here too. Alright, let's go to that abandoned mine to meet up."
The dragon-shaped jade pendant flashed again, and the light on it dissipated, no longer transmitting any sound.
The golden-clothed youth put away the jade pendant, and the playful expression on his face became complicated. He wondered what reason Third Uncle had for betraying the family.
Due to bloodline reasons, their Dragon family had very few direct descendants. Every direct descendant would be painstakingly cultivated by the family. As long as their talent wasn't too bad, they could basically condense a nascent soul.
His Third Uncle was quite famous in the family. He was the strongest bloodline inheritor of the previous generation.
Speaking of which, he had followed Third Uncle on travels for a period of time before he formed his nascent soul.
He heard that ten years ago, the ancestor summoned Third Uncle, seemingly planning to cultivate Third Uncle into the next generation's guardian of the family.
But somehow, a few years ago, Third Uncle suddenly escaped from the family secret realm and became a traitor. And he also stole the Dragon Scale Sword.
The golden-clothed youth thought to himself, and his escape speed suddenly increased by three points, heading towards the abandoned mine on the other side of the swamp.
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Let's talk about Zhang Ling, who was looking at a teleportation array with a strange expression.
Just now, he discovered a hidden secret formation hidden here. After breaking the hidden formation, he saw this teleportation array.
This was an ancient teleportation array that was completely black, with the lower half hidden in the silt. Judging by its style, it was a small to medium-sized teleportation array.
However, according to his formation knowledge, Zhang Ling could identify that this was not the kind of teleportation array that transmitted over long distances, but only a small to medium-sized teleportation array.
The teleportation distance would basically not exceed ten thousand miles.
He casually cast a spiritual force on it, and the teleportation array lit up with a layer of green light, quickly absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy. In the blink of an eye, the pattern on it was activated.
Proving that the teleportation array was intact.
However, Zhang Ling didn't expect that a teleportation array was hidden under the Floating Light Spring.
He had now turned the bottom of the spiritual spring upside down, although he had collected a lot of wood spirit stones and some other wood attribute spiritual mines.
At the same time, he also discovered several formation cornerstones buried deep, all built with other rare materials, but he didn't find any top-grade wood spirit stones.
The only strange thing was this teleportation array, not knowing where it led to.
After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Ling decided to teleport over and take a look. Maybe there would be other discoveries.
Having made a decision, he no longer hesitated. He instantly stood on the teleportation array, and at the same time quickly took back the Xuan Turtle and the Nascent Soul Puppet.
Activating the teleportation array, in a flash of green light, Zhang Ling's figure disappeared into the spiritual spring.
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