Before long, the raging Yin-Yang winds also subsided.
After waiting for a moment, Zhang Ling transformed into a faint shadow and arrived in front of this jade wall.
He looked at the dark cave entrance and simultaneously at the holes on the jade stone. A gust of wind whistled from within, and a layer of flowing strange wind emerged here. It seemed that it would not be long before Yin-Yang winds formed here again.
After pondering for a moment, Zhang Ling also entered the dark cave.
It was very dim inside, but the stone walls on both sides were extremely smooth, and the ground was also covered with jade stones, which were clearly traces of cultivator activity.
The passage was very long, extending for a full hundred zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length). Zhang Ling released a bit of his divine sense and only then observed a hall fifty or sixty zhang in size. After observing for a while and confirming that Yangshan Old Daoist and his companion were not inside, he entered with peace of mind.
After exploring inside, he found several stone rooms on the walls of the hall, including a meditation room, a spirit beast room, and an alchemy room, etc. It was clearly a cultivator's cave dwelling.
Upon entering here, some dark array pattern traces could still be seen on the ground, and the ice and fire spiritual power here was a bit stronger. The spiritual energy concentration alone was more than half stronger than a medium-grade spiritual vein.
This indicated that the cultivation of the owner of this place was at least in the Golden Core realm.
After checking the several stone rooms and finding nothing, Zhang Ling once again followed another passage to explore deeper.
This passage was not long, and before long he entered a very large mountain belly space.
The sound of rushing water constantly echoed. This space seemed to be naturally formed, about a hundred zhang in size. The entire bottom of the space was a pool of black water, and in the center of the pool, a three-story pavilion could be seen floating above.
Zhang Ling found the style of this pavilion somewhat familiar at a glance, and then noticed that it was very similar to the other stone cave they had entered earlier.
At this time, the pavilion door was open, and two figures could be vaguely seen moving inside. It was Yangshan Old Daoist and Madam Cao who had entered earlier.
Seeing these two people, Zhang Ling quickly withdrew his divine sense. With a flip of his hand, a black spiritual talisman was applied to his body. This was a fourth-order spirit concealment talisman.
Although he had a spirit concealing gauze to hide his aura, he could not guarantee that he would not be discovered by these two if he got too close, so using another spiritual talisman was a safer bet. Then, holding his breath and focusing his mind, without using a trace of spiritual power, he quietly sneaked past.
Approaching the pavilion in the center of the pool, he heard the conversation between the two.
"Madam, could it be that you are deceiving this old Daoist? I have searched this place several times and there are no other treasures. If you don't give me an explanation, don't blame me for turning hostile!" Yangshan Old Daoist asked in exasperation.
"There is a secret room here that isolates divine sense, and that is where the treasures are placed. Search carefully again, and you will definitely not be disappointed," Madam Cao said unhurriedly.
Yangshan Old Daoist frowned, his expression was not good, but he did not really get angry.
With his strength, it would be easy to deal with Madam Cao, so in his heart, he still believed that this woman would not really deceive him.
And so, the two shuttled through the pavilion, searching room by room. After carefully checking all the rooms, the two finally returned to the first floor and stopped in an empty room ten zhang in size.
This room was simply furnished, with only some simple tables, chairs, and wooden benches. In front of one wall was a shrine. Inside was enshrined a strange-looking idol.
This idol was a demon god, with three heads and six arms, a red face and black hair, very similar to the six-armed ancient demon recorded in ancient books. There were also some faint traces of spiritual patterns on it, but it was not a special magic weapon, just an ordinary magical artifact.
The two had explored it before, so they didn't take it seriously. Now, after returning to this room, Madam Cao stared at the idol. Then, with a raise of her hand, a golden light struck the idol, and the two eyes on the head of the idol emitted a red light.
Madam Cao's face lit up with joy. She chanted a spell and cast a series of strange hand seals into the idol. The idol seemed to come to life, cackling strangely twice, and emitting wisps of black gas.
Seeing this scene, the two immediately retreated a distance and prepared to defend, but nothing dangerous happened.
Before long, all the black gas gathered in the air, forming a black ball of light. It slowly rotated. Suddenly, the entire pavilion trembled slightly.
Zhang Ling, who was outside the pavilion, felt it even more clearly. He quickly flashed and directly plunged into the water to hide.
Then, the entire pavilion detached from the water surface and floated in the air. Only then did he see that the bottom of the pavilion was a huge black stone more than thirty zhang in size.
This was naturally not strange, but the bottom of the pavilion actually held up black chains. Each of these chains was as thick as an arm and was engraved with some dark spiritual patterns, seemingly specially refined.
At a glance, there were as many as thirty or forty black chains.
As the pavilion continued to rise, these chains were pulled one by one from the water surface, pulled straight. The other ends of the chains disappeared into the water, seemingly dragging some heavy object.
Before long, the things under the water were pulled up. Upon closer inspection, each chain was dragging a jade stone of varying sizes.
These jade stones were small, only about ten zhang in size, and the largest one was more than twenty zhang in size. Moreover, each jade stone was diamond-shaped, like ice jade, and the spiritual patterns on them were all refined from blocks of ice and fire jade.
This place was located in an ice and fire ore vein, which was not uncommon, but these jade stones actually sealed things inside.
Zhang Ling hid in the edge position, and his heart skipped a beat when he saw the things sealed in the ice and fire jade. The things sealed inside seemed to be monsters, and just looking at their size, seven or eight of them seemed to be high-level monsters.
What are these things!
Yangshan Old Daoist also came outside the pavilion to see this scene, and also showed a strange look.
"Fellow Daoist, don't worry. These jade stones are sealed with desolate beasts, and the person sealed in that piece of ice and fire jade is the true owner of this place. The Nascent Soul Pill you want is in the storage bag on his body," Madam Cao stood beside him, staring at one of the ice and fire jade stones and said unhurriedly.
Hearing this, Yangshan Old Daoist also glanced over and found the ice and fire jade. It was a piece of ice and fire jade about two zhang in size, and there was indeed a figure sealed inside.
The person inside was wearing a white robe and a strange mask on his face. This person was sitting cross-legged, seemingly in a state of cultivation. Two black storage bags could indeed be seen on his waist.
Seeing these, although the old Daoist still had some doubts in his heart, he did not think much about it. With a flash, he flew into the air and landed next to the ice and fire jade.
Madam Cao also flashed and followed behind, staring unblinkingly at the middle-aged cultivator sealed in the ice and fire jade.
Zhang Ling, hiding not far away, also quietly observed this scene, but what he was more puzzled about was why so many desolate beasts were sealed in these ice and fire jade stones.
It seemed a bit unusual, which made him feel a sense of vigilance in his heart.
