Yangshan Old Daoist narrowed his eyes slightly, carefully scanning the ice-fire jade that sealed the middle-aged cultivator.
Under his perception, the ice and fire power contained in this ice-fire jade was extremely strong, several times stronger than ordinary ice and fire jade, seemingly a middle-grade ice-fire jade.
After looking at it for a few moments, this person suddenly waved his horsetail whisk, and a blue light shot out, hitting the ice-fire jade in front of him.
In a burst of ice cracking sounds, the ice-fire jade directly turned into a pile of broken ice, revealing the middle-aged cultivator sealed inside.
The old Daoist quickly made a grabbing motion with one hand, and a spiritual light immediately enveloped the corpse. With a flash of spiritual light, the two storage bags on his waist were grabbed into his hand. At the same time, his figure retreated more than ten zhang away.
Cao Madam didn't seem to expect this scene, her face sank and she exclaimed, "What are you doing, Daoist friend?"
"Madam, don't be angry, I just want to check if there is really a Core Formation Pill as you said. As long as there is a Core Formation Pill, the other things will naturally be returned to you," Yangshan Old Daoist said with a chuckle.
Seeing this, Cao Madam only frowned slightly and said nothing more. Instead, she turned her eyes to the corpse of the middle-aged male cultivator, and even released all of her spiritual sense to carefully investigate the corpse.
She seemed to be looking for something, and also seemed to be on guard against something.
Yangshan Old Daoist ignored the others and immediately released a wisp of spiritual sense, circling around the two storage bags. His spiritual sense invaded them.
Both storage bags were high-grade storage bags, and should have originally had a divine soul restriction, but because their owner had been dead for a long time, the restrictions on them had been worn away considerably. With a rush from his powerful spiritual sense, they were instantly opened.
Yangshan Old Daoist roughly shook his hand, and saw the two storage bags flash with spiritual light. Two piles of items were taken out by him, floating in mid-air.
One pile of items was very messy. At a glance, there were shining spirit stones, a considerable number, with five to six thousand of them, and several thousand of them were fist-sized middle-grade spirit stones.
Mixed in were some low-grade ice-fire jades of varying sizes. Most of these ice-fire jades had been refined into jade boxes, jade bottles, jade jars, and other items for storing things. There seemed to be thirty to forty of them. More than half of them seemed to contain items.
Yangshan Old Daoist's face showed great joy, and he quickly waved his horsetail whisk, covering these items with a layer of blue light. With a series of popping sounds, all the jade boxes and other items were opened by him.
There were a total of more than twenty jade boxes containing items. However, in the majority of them were various colored treasure beads.
Zhang Ling, hiding in the distance, was also observing the items in the jade boxes. Although he couldn't use spiritual power now to avoid being discovered by the two, he could roughly see what was in the boxes with his eyesight alone.
Those round beads were all demon cores, and judging from the spiritual power fluctuations they emitted, not a single one was a fifth-order demon core(妖丹: demon cores). Most of them were sixth-order demon cores, and five or six of them had a seventh-order demon core(妖丹: demon cores) with flashing spiritual light.
The value of these demon cores alone was considerable. Besides these dozen demon cores, the remaining jade boxes containing items also contained some rare demon beast materials.
If these items were taken to the outside world and exchanged for spirit stones, they would be enough to exchange for more than two million spirit stones. It was a considerable fortune.
Yangshan Old Daoist was pleasantly surprised to see these things. But then his face sank, and after checking with his spiritual sense, he didn't find a jade bottle containing pills. His purpose in coming here was not these riches. He turned his gaze to the other pile of items.
There weren't many items in that pile. First, he saw five or six magical artifacts. They seemed to be very spiritual and constantly rotating, belonging to high-quality magical artifacts.
The old Daoist only glanced at these few magical artifacts before his spiritual sense locked onto the dozen or so white jade bottles floating beside them.
If there really was a Core Formation Pill on this corpse, it was likely to be in these jade bottles.
With a grab of his hand, the dozen jade bottles floated in front of him. With popping sounds, they were all opened, and his spiritual sense quickly scanned them, locking onto one of the jade bottles.
That jade bottle was ice-blue in color and was also refined from ice-fire jade. With a shake, it was grabbed into his hand, and then a black-purple pill floated out.
The pill was only the size of a thumb, round and smooth. As soon as it flew out, one could see a layer of purple spiritual light surrounding it. At the same time, a medicinal fragrance came, and it seemed to be a very precious pill.
At this time, besides Yangshan Old Daoist and Cao Madam's gazes falling on this pill,
Zhang Ling also quietly sneaked into the water below the two, and stared at the purple-black pill with his eyes unblinking.
But after taking a look, his brow furrowed.
This pill seemed to be somewhat different from the Core Formation Pill recorded in the classics. He usually refined the pills he took for cultivation himself, and also had a deep understanding of alchemy.
Extremely precious pills like this were recorded in the classics. He immediately thought of the characteristics of the Core Formation Pill in his mind.
The Core Formation Pill recorded in the books was mostly cyan-purple, surrounded by a circle of cyan-purple light. It belonged to an extremely precious fifth-grade pill. After the pill was formed, it would emit an extremely strong medicinal fragrance.
But the pill in Yangshan Old Daoist's hand at the moment was purple-black, which didn't conform to the characteristics of the Core Formation Pill. Could it be that this wasn't a Core Formation Pill?
Could it be that Cao Madam was deceiving the old Daoist? Zhang Ling immediately thought of this possibility in his heart.
In this moment, Yangshan Old Daoist seemed to have finished examining the purple-black pill in his hand. His face immediately turned green and black, and he stared at Cao Madam with fire in his eyes, saying each word distinctly.
"You dare to deceive me, this pill isn't a Core Formation Pill, is it?"
Hearing this, Cao Madam said without any expression on her face. "What are you saying, Daoist friend? This is indeed a Core Formation Pill, but it's just a waste pill."
"Waste pill, ha ha. Do you think I'm a fool? Although a waste pill is also a refined pill, it contains a certain amount of medicinal power, but it also contains a large amount of impurities. Taking it is harmful and not beneficial. You still say you're not deceiving me?" As Yangshan Old Daoist spoke, the aura on his body suddenly increased sharply, obviously enraged.
"I only know that this person indeed has a Core Formation Pill in his hand, but I can't guarantee whether it's a waste pill or not. Could it be that Daoist friend wants to attack at this time?"
Hearing this, Cao Madam sneered, her aura not weak at all. While speaking, she raised her jade hand, and golden light flashed in her hand. Her Blood Moon Token appeared in her hand.
The Blood Moon Token instantly emitted a dazzling blood light, transforming into a blood-colored light curtain, blocking the old Daoist's attack.
At the same time, with a flash of her body, she instantly arrived in front of the meditating middle-aged male corpse. With a wave of her hand, she formed a gust of wind, instantly rolling up the male corpse. She carried the male corpse and flew to another piece of ice-fire jade, more than ten zhang away, that was several zhang in size.
"Hmph, so what if you dodged one attack? You are destined not to leave this place today." Yangshan Old Daoist snorted, and with an opening of his mouth, he spat out a ball of blue spiritual energy, which entered the horsetail whisk. This treasure instantly left his hand and once again transformed into an ice dragon more than ten zhang in size.
At the same time, with a flick of his sleeve, the strange blade reappeared, transforming into an ice blade about ten feet in size, and brushed out more than ten light blades to attack.
"Old thing, I knew you had no good intentions. At this moment, I'm not afraid of you." Cao Madam sneered, and shot a blood-colored spiritual light towards the man's corpse beside her.
A flash of spiritual light appeared in the male corpse's sleeve, and a palm-sized white jade small cauldron appeared in his hand. A magic art hit it, and a layer of blood-colored spiritual light lit up on the small cauldron, instantly transforming into a blood-colored jade cauldron about ten feet in size.
Blood light flickered inside, and a large mass of blood-colored mist floated out, immediately wrapping Cao Madam in it.
Yangshan Old Daoist's attack fell into the blood mist, like a stone sinking into the sea, without a trace.
But the old Daoist only smiled sinisterly, and called out with a greedy look. "It's actually an ancient treasure, haha... Then I can't let you leave even more."
Saying that, the aura on his body increased by another three points, using all the strength of the late Golden Core stage. His hands quickly urged the magic art, and the ice dragon transformed from the magic weapon hissed, quickly swimming in the air, spraying out a large piece of ice mist, forming an ice storm and pressing towards the blood mist.
The blood mist and ice storm immediately collided in mid-air, erupting with powerful spiritual power fluctuations, and bursts of roaring sounds came.
At this moment, Zhang Ling, hiding in the pool below, smiled bitterly in his heart when he saw this scene. He didn't expect that it was really a Core Formation Pill, but it was a waste pill.
A waste pill is a failed product caused by the cultivator's failure to neutralize the spiritual power inside the pill during the alchemy process. Each pill basically requires several kinds of spiritual herbs, or even several kinds, or dozens of spiritual herbs.
These spiritual herbs all contain spiritual power, and they can be refined into pills only when the medicinal properties are matched according to a certain ratio.
During this process, cultivators must use their spiritual sense to control the spiritual power in the spiritual herbs, neutralizing the medicinal power while removing impurities. It is very exhausting, especially for this kind of extremely special pill. It is often more difficult to control.
If one is not careful, the furnace will explode directly, and even a complete pill will not be formed. A waste pill is much better than an exploding furnace. Although the pill is formed, there are too many impurities inside.
If one wants to take it, it is possible, but nine out of ten waste pills are poison pills. Taking them often not only fails to increase the cultivator's strength, but also harms the body.
Zhang Ling often refines waste pills during the process of refining pills now. This is unavoidable. Even complete pills have a little impurity, but not much.
This is also why cultivators develop drug resistance after taking a large amount of one kind of pill, and even accumulate a large amount of pill poison in their bodies if they take it improperly.
It's no wonder Yangshan Old Daoist was furious. Looking at the fight between the two above, Zhang Ling sneered and sneaked towards the entrance of the cave.
He didn't want to participate in the fight between these two, and it was best to leave as soon as possible.
Zhang Ling's movements were very fast. After sneaking for most of the distance, he glanced at the fight between Cao Madam and the two behind him. They were fighting fiercely.
Although the Blood Jade Cauldron in Cao Madam's hand seemed to be an ancient treasure, this woman's own strength was not as good as Yangshan Old Daoist, and she was gradually at a disadvantage.
Yangshan Old Daoist had reached the late Golden Core stage for a hundred years, and was considered an old-brand Golden Core expert. The cultivation technique he practiced was not weak, and the power he displayed when cooperating with the magic weapon in his hand should not be underestimated.
Suddenly, Zhang Ling felt that something was wrong and stopped. After carefully sensing it, he immediately found that the water flow in the pool had suddenly become several times faster. It felt even stronger when he stopped. He glanced around, and the entire stone cave seemed to be shaking slightly.
The tremor seemed to be coming from underwater. Zhang Ling had a bad feeling in his heart and immediately released a wisp of spiritual sense to investigate underwater.
This pool was not deep, only more than twenty zhang deep, and the bottom was also a rock structure. Several fast-flowing undercurrents had appeared in the water at some point, turning into underwater tornadoes, stirring up the surface of the water.
At the same time, a special spiritual power rose from underwater.
Zhang Ling felt that something was wrong and quickly flashed out of the water. Floating in mid-air, he used a bit of spiritual power and subconsciously glanced at the battle group of Cao Madam and the two. He hoped that these two hadn't discovered him.
But he saw a strange side. The two didn't pay attention to his direction and didn't seem to notice him.
But the pavilion floating in mid-air suddenly lit up with a layer of black light, shooting out more than ten black spiritual lights that sank into the surrounding stone walls. Then the pulling chains trembled with a clattering sound.
The sound of ice cracking constantly entered his ears, and the ice-fire jade pulled by the chains shattered one after another. The demon beasts sealed inside fell into the water.
Cao Madam said that these demon beasts were desolate beasts before, but they seemed to be the same as the middle-aged male cultivator, already dead, just corpses.
But after sinking into the water, the entire pool immediately turned scarlet, looking very strange.
Ah! Suddenly, Cao Madam screamed. This woman exclaimed in shock. "What's going on? You're not dead."
Zhang Ling quickly looked towards Cao Madam's side. He saw this woman flying backwards out of the blood mist, with a look of shock and anger. Her abdomen was scarlet, as if something had bitten her. She was injured.
Yangshan Old Daoist's face also changed. He seemed to have noticed something was wrong and quickly retreated a distance to the side.
Howl!
A burst of demon beast howls came from the blood mist released by Cao Madam. The blood color gradually dissipated, revealing a hunched figure, which was the corpse of the middle-aged male cultivator just now.
But this corpse had come alive, but its form was a bit strange, bending over with its limbs twisted strangely. It looked very awkward. The howls from its mouth seemed to have no intelligence. As it howled, corresponding beast roars also came from the pool below.
One could immediately sense more than a dozen not-weak auras coming from the water.
For a time, Cao Madam, Yangshan Old Daoist, and Zhang Ling, who was still hiding, were all shocked to see this scene.
