Zhang Ling rubbed his head, the feeling of annoyance in his heart subsided a bit, at least he saved his life this time.
Thinking about it, he couldn't help but feel sleepy. The experiences of this period had exhausted his mind, especially now that he was seriously injured.
Zhang Ling couldn't help but feel his eyelids heavy. He glanced at the spirit beast and the corpse bear guarding the cave entrance, and he didn't insist anymore. He was really too tired now, so he should rest first and then make plans.
So Zhang Ling found a place in the cave, took out a few blankets and spread them on the ground, and lay down on them fully clothed. As soon as he closed his eyes, he fell into a dream.
He didn't know how long it had been, but Zhang Ling felt as if there was a heavy object pressing on his chest, making him feel like he couldn't breathe.
He opened his eyes and saw that it was his spirit beast, the fat cat, lying beside him, with its cat head pressing on his chest and abdomen.
The corner of Zhang Ling's mouth twitched. This little guy really knew how to find a place, he cursed inwardly. He touched the fat cat's round head and patted it a few times. The fat cat tilted its head and looked at him with a lazy look.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling couldn't help but take out the jade bottle again, poured out a Spirit Feeding Pill, and threw it casually. The orange cat immediately became energetic and appeared at the location of the Spirit Feeding Pill in a flash.
After watching the fat cat eat the Spirit Feeding Pill and sit beside him licking its fur, Zhang Ling took a deep breath. He stretched his arms and legs and stood up.
After getting up, Zhang Ling felt refreshed, and the feeling of fatigue was swept away. He felt like he had never slept so comfortably, and even the pain in his body seemed to have disappeared.
Zhang Ling looked around and saw that the formation was intact and the corpse bear was still standing in its previous position. It seemed that no monsters or cultivators had discovered this place.
After a little thought, he strode out of the cave, carefully observing the situation outside. He hadn't paid much attention to the surrounding environment before, but now he carefully examined it.
This was the side of a canyon that was about a mile wide, with gray-black stone cliffs on both sides, with some small grass growing on them. Not far above his head, he saw a crooked ancient tree, its trunk short and thick, deeply rooted in the cracks of the rock wall.
It was quite quiet here.
He looked at the sky, it seemed to be morning. From time to time, he could hear some chattering chirping. After looking at the environment for a while, Zhang Ling's mind moved, and he summoned the corpse bear and the fat cat.
Then he raised his hand and released a white jade flying boat. He saw the corpse bear flash onto it first, and the gray-white Yin energy on its body flashed and merged into the white flying boat, and suddenly the white flying boat was dyed gray-white.
This was the result of using the corpse bear's Yin energy to drive the magic weapon. Although the driving of the magic weapon required spiritual power.
But spiritual power was a general term. The five elements spiritual power cultivated by cultivators, the demonic energy of demonic cultivators, and the power of blood, Yin energy, etc. all belonged to spiritual power, only the attributes were slightly different. They were all transformed from the spiritual power of heaven and earth.
Ordinary magic weapons can also be driven by Yin energy and other spiritual power. Of course, some specific magic weapons can only be driven by corresponding spiritual power.
He was seriously injured now, so it was better to use less spiritual power.
Fortunately, under his control, the corpse bear only needed to release a certain amount of Yin energy. In addition, he could still control the flying magic weapon with his divine sense.
Thinking about this, Zhang Ling glanced at the twin-tailed orange cat at his feet. At this moment, the fat cat was looking around, looking curious about the surrounding things.
Looking at the fat cat's size, which was four or three times larger than ordinary cats, even if it wasn't a monster, its size was definitely that of a medium-sized beast.
Could he let this kind of spirit beast control the magic weapon? Zhang Ling shook his head, it seemed like this was also a way, but he thought it was better to forget it.
Letting a monster control the magic weapon, he wondered if other cultivators had such an idea. Zhang Ling sighed, released his divine sense to command the corpse bear to control the flying boat, and flew around in the air a few times. It wasn't as easy as driving it himself, but there were no accidents.
It was just that this multitasking made Zhang Ling feel a little awkward, but now he had no better way.
Then he also jumped on the flying boat, and then his divine sense also conveyed some orders to the orange cat. Suddenly, the orange cat looked up at the flying boat a few feet above the ground.
With a meow, it jumped onto the flying boat. For a moment, Zhang Ling felt the flying boat was crowded.
But now it was not suitable for him to take action. He would have to rely on the spirit beast and the corpse bear for a period of time. He released the spirit beast in advance to avoid being caught off guard if he really encountered danger.
In this way, a strange combination of one person, one corpse, and one monster, squeezed on a flying boat the size of a zhang, and flew away in one direction.
A full hour later, Zhang Ling flew back to the cave again. He had just explored hundreds of miles in one direction. All he saw were ancient trees and mountains, and he also saw several mountains of different heights, seemingly in a very large mountain range.
This was a completely unfamiliar environment, and people were naturally filled with inexplicable fear caused by ignorance of an unfamiliar environment.
Zhang Ling returned to the cave to rest for a while, and then set off again to explore in another direction.
This time it was the same situation, but there was a volcano a hundred miles away, spewing out plumes of black smoke, filled with the smell of sulfur. The two miles around the volcano were bare, without any plants growing, indicating that the volcano was very unstable.
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In the next three or four days, Zhang Ling basically explored the surroundings every day except for swallowing some healing pills to delay his injuries.
The range was centered on the cave he had opened up, constantly exploring in four directions, and each time the detection distance was farther than the last. He had explored at least a thousand miles in each direction.
He still hadn't found any trace of human beings, but it wasn't like he hadn't gained anything. He had also encountered many monsters. Among them, there were several that he didn't recognize, but fortunately the strength of these monsters was all at the first level, and none of them exceeded the second level. This also relieved him. Dealing with these low-level monsters was enough with the spirit beast and the corpse bear.
At the same time, he also roughly understood the general situation of the surroundings. It was really a large mountain range, and it looked like it was at least tens of thousands of miles in size.
Fortunately, he also observed the trend of the mountain range, high in the west and low in the east.
After Zhang Ling returned to the cave, he rested for a full day, and then he put away the formation and planned to leave.
Staying here could not solve his injuries, and the direction he was heading was east.
Judging from the environment here, if it was really a very large mountain range, it would make sense that there were no people, and the chance of human habitation would greatly increase as the terrain gradually flattened in the east.
In this way, Zhang Ling took the corpse bear and the spirit beast and walked towards the east. The monsters encountered along the way were all solved by the fat cat and the corpse bear who cleared the way.
After traveling for seven or eight days, he was dismayed that he still hadn't found any trace of human habitation, not even traces of human activity, except for some wild animals and some low-level monsters.
Although he didn't travel at full speed, he could still travel thousands of miles a day, and the distance was tens of thousands of miles.
He even suspected that there were no humans here. Fortunately, this idea changed after he walked for another three days and saw a village built under a low mountain in the distance.
