Zhang Ling, however, looked at the three statues standing behind.
The three statues were all carved from grayish-white boulders, without any spiritual light. But they were in various forms. The one in the east was an old Taoist(老道: old taoist) figure with a whisk in his hand and a smiling face.
The image in the north was an evil ghost statue with angry eyes and hair standing on end.
The statue in the west was even more terrifying. It was carved as a demon god statue with two heads and four arms.
Looking at the three statues, Zhang Ling felt a little strange. Why were three completely different statues enshrined here?
But there was indeed no spiritual power or special aura on them. They were all dead objects. He smiled bitterly in his heart, wondering if he was overthinking.
In the next half an hour, the few people carefully searched the fourth floor, but apart from some things on the offering table, there were no other discoveries.
"Fellow Taoist Zhang, there are only a few magical instruments here. How about we divide them equally?"
"Okay."
Zhang Ling had no objections. With a wave of his hand, he directly selected the sandalwood jade-refined incense burner.
The others didn't mind. After dividing the other three magical instruments, they went to explore the fifth floor above.
The fifth floor space was filled with rows of wooden shelves, with some bottles and jars. Originally, they contained elixirs, spiritual herbs, and other items.
But over the years, the spiritual talismans originally attached to them had long lost their effect. After opening these bottles and jars, they either contained some dark elixir residues, or the contents had already vaporized, and only a faint medicinal fragrance could be smelled.
The few people looked at each other with bitter smiles and went to explore the sixth floor at the top.
The sixth floor space was even smaller. Inside was a quiet room for cultivation. Some spiritual patterns were engraved on the ground. Zhang Ling took a few glances and recognized that this was a kind of spiritual gathering formation.
But it still seemed to be working, and everyone felt that the spiritual energy was more than twice as strong as the outside.
Inside, there was a stone bed with a few futons on it. There were no other figures, nor the remains of ancient cultivators.
But in the center of the ground, there was a grayish-white Eight Immortals stone table, covered with a layer of yellow and green cover, with two square, cyan-gray stone boxes inside.
A careful scan with divine sense revealed that there were some dark patterns on the two stone boxes, constantly flashing with spiritual light and emitting some spiritual power fluctuations.
Seeing the stone boxes, everyone was overjoyed. They looked at each other, and Zhou Tai said with a chuckle.
"It seems we are lucky. These two stone boxes have been left behind. Let's open them to see if there are any treasures. If there are really treasures inside, we will discuss how to distribute them."
As he said this, he glanced at Zhang Ling.
Zhang Ling looked at the stone table expressionlessly. He was more interested in this stone table.
Because some inscriptions were engraved on the side of the stone table, which seemed to be a kind of ancient immortal script. He felt quite familiar, and then he thought of the black iron piece he had obtained after killing the bloody monster in the Ice and Fire Jade Mine a few years ago, which was densely engraved with some ancient characters, which seemed to be similar to those on the stone table.
Could it be the same kind of immortal script?
And Zhou Tai, seeing that he had no objection, called out to the other two and began to break the restriction above.
The actions of these three people were very rough. They directly used brute force to break the light cover above.
Zhang Ling didn't say much. This rough method was indeed more convenient for breaking some restrictions that were not very powerful.
He also waved his hand and shot out a few rays of light, attacking the light curtain on the stone table together.
The light curtain above flickered on and off for a while. But it was quite tenacious. It took a full quarter of an hour for the few people to wear down this layer of yellow and green cover before it broke with a puff sound.
At the same time, the entire stone tower shook a few times, but everyone ignored these slight vibrations. They thought it was some impact caused by breaking the restriction with brute force.
Everyone's eyes turned to the two stone boxes. Zhou Tai waved his hand, and the two stone boxes snapped and were opened.
One stone box contained two grayish-yellow ancient jade slips, and the other contained a bronze triangular token.
The jade slips contained information, and the token seemed to be the identity token of a certain sect. But these two were ancient objects and were of no use to the few people.
Even if these two jade slips recorded some ancient cultivation methods, they would not be of much use to them, the Golden Core cultivators.
Because at their level of cultivation, they would basically not change cultivation methods. Even if it was a top-grade cultivation method of the same attribute, changing it would waste a lot of time and be a losing proposition.
So seeing the jade slips and the token, the few people frowned and were disappointed.
"Are these the only things? Let me see what information is recorded on these jade slips."
Zhou Tai also smiled bitterly when he saw the things in the two wooden boxes. He waved his hand and wanted to lift the wooden boxes up.
But the two boxes only flashed with spiritual light and did not fly into the air. Instead, they were firmly stuck to the table, as if they were connected to the table.
He frowned, grunted and released a blue light to illuminate the two wooden boxes, wanting to use spiritual power to pull up these two boxes.
"Fellow Taoist, wait."
Zhang Ling felt something was wrong at the same time as this person used his ability. He shouted and wanted to stop this person, but it was still half a step late.
The blue light flashed, and the two wooden boxes were pulled into the air.
It turned out that there were two white and black ring-shaped jade pieces pressed under the two wooden boxes. They looked like two jade bangles inlaid on the table.
But after the boxes were taken away, the black and white jade pieces lit up. Suddenly, a strange spiritual light also appeared on the entire table. A rumbling sound rang out, and the stone tower they were in shook violently.
This time the tremor was very strong, but it also stopped in an instant, as if nothing had happened.
When everyone came back to their senses, they saw that the stone table in front of them had turned into a black and white light pillar. They were shocked. This was obviously triggered by some kind of restriction.
Zhang Ling didn't have time to consider other things. He flashed to the wall behind him, and with a shake of the flying sword in his hand, he chopped out several cyan sword beams that crashed into the wall.
He wanted to break a hole in it to get out, but he saw that the gray rock-like wall also showed a layer of black and white spiritual light. The sword light slashed on it, only bursting out some sizzling loud noises, without breaking through the wall.
Zhang Ling's face sank. At this time, the others also reacted, and their faces changed slightly. They also used their methods to attack the four walls.
But obviously it was too late. The entire stone tower was covered in a layer of black and white spiritual light. They were trapped here.
At this moment, the light pillar in the center suddenly scattered, revealing a round hole several unit of length in size on the floor. Gusts of yin wind came out from inside, along with a large piece of emerald green mist drifting out from inside.
And you could also hear bursts of rustling sounds. When divine sense probed into it, it was discovered that countless insects were crawling up from below.
In an instant, countless strange insects crawled out of the hole. These insects were as thick as arms and unit of length long, like some kind of worms. Their bodies were segmented like earthworms, but their backs were covered with countless black bumps of various sizes.
As soon as the strange insects crawled out, they seemed to immediately sense the few people. They made a cawing strange cry, raised their bodies, and the black bumps on their backs lit up with dark green spiritual light at the same time. thud sounds entered their ears, and they shot out emerald green water arrows to attack.
Zhang Ling and the others naturally wouldn't sit idly by and wait for death. They all took action to deal with these strange insects.
Zhou Tai waved his hand, and a black dagger floated out. It rotated quickly in front of him and transformed into more than a dozen ice blades to attack.
The Junior Sister Li next to him shouted sweetly. A jade ruler engraved with dense runes appeared in her hand. White light hit it, and the spiritual patterns on this treasure flashed with silver light, condensing into light blades to attack.
The surnamed Sun short-haired big man hummed expressionlessly. He opened his mouth and spat out a ball of crimson flame. This ball of flame flashed and was grabbed in his hand. With a flick of his hand, it transformed into a flame whip, lashing out streaks of flame marks, and instantly blasted seven or eight strange insects.
Zhang Ling also released a few sword lights and killed more than a dozen strange insects.
But in an instant, he discovered that although these strange insects were not very strong, only equivalent to second-order demon beasts, after being killed, the insect's corpses quickly dried up, emitting out wisps of emerald green mist.
In an instant, the small space they were in was filled with a pungent smell.
Even the spiritual force shields on everyone's bodies seemed to be affected. This was obviously the smoke transformed from the poisonous gas on the strange insects.
The few people did not dare to relax their vigilance. They worked together and killed fifty or sixty strange insects that crawled out of the floor hole, but bursts of cawing strange cries continued to come from below, and countless more strange insects rushed out.
"Fellow Taoists, we cannot be trapped here. Let's attack this stone wall together and break a hole."
Zhang Ling's face sank when he saw this situation. He immediately said something. At the same time, cyan light flashed beside him, and two more flying swords appeared. Together with the flying sword in his hand, the three flying swords turned into three streaks of cyan light and slashed on the wall beside him.
Although he did not break through the stone wall, he also blasted the black and white spiritual light on it to continuously shake. Obviously, the restriction above also had a range of tolerance. If they kept attacking, they might be able to break a hole.
"What fellow Taoist said is true. This is not a place to stay for long."
Zhou Tai also nodded. With a clap of his hands, several magic seals hit the black dagger. The black knife rotated a few times and turned into a black light blade a unit of length long. With a whoosh sound, it slashed on the wall that Zhang Ling attacked, emitting a loud noise.
The remaining two people did not neglect. They all attacked this wall together. For a time, the wall was constantly trembling, and even the stone tower they were in was shaking violently under constant attacks.
Sensing this situation, everyone was overjoyed and increased their attack intensity. For a time, all kinds of spiritual lights greeted on one wall, blasting the spiritual light above to flicker on and off.
As for the many strange insects crawling out of the hole, they did not pay too much attention to them. The few attacks that were released from time to time were enough to kill these low-level strange insects.
Zhang Ling also constantly released part of his divine sense to observe the hole, because he found that as the time they stayed here longer, the strength of the strange insects crawling out of the hole was getting stronger and stronger.
At the same time, in addition to this kind of worms, a kind of centipede covered with green patterns crawled out of it.
Although the number of centipedes was not large, and seemed to be chasing the worms to climb up, they did not attack everyone, but were busy constantly devouring the worms. But the strength of the centipedes was not weak, and most of them were demon insects with three or four rank strength.
If the number of these strange insects reaches thousands, it can also pose a considerable threat to them, after all, they are now trapped in this small space.
Zhang Ling guessed that this hole might lead to an insect nest, otherwise how could so many insects crawl out of it.
In the blink of an eye, a cup of tea had passed. As the few people continued to attack, the black and white spiritual patterns covering the wall had also dimmed by more than half. It seemed that it would be possible to break through it in a while.
But at this time, a hiss strange cry came from the black hole on the ground. The sound was very loud and ear-piercing.
Then the few people immediately sensed a high- rank wild beast's aura coming from the hole, and a high- rank wild beast might rush out soon.
This made their faces sink.
Zhang Ling immediately took a deep breath, not wanting to waste any longer. His hands changed incantation gestures, and several yellow magic seals hit the three flying swords. The flying swords rotated rapidly and began to become bright and overlapped.
He planned to expend more mana to condense more powerful sword light. At the same time, he was also about to urge the other few people to use powerful attack methods to quickly escape with him.
The attacks of the few people just now seemed not weak, but they were basically just ordinary attacks.
Because their judgment was that although the number of strange insects crawling out of the hole was not small, they could not pose too much threat to them in a short time.
But now it was different. If a high- rank wild beast crawled out, it would be no joke.
Before Zhang Ling could speak, he sensed that the stone tower under his feet was shaking more violently. At the same time, he found that the black and white restriction covering it had suddenly weakened by more than half of its light.
whoosh whoosh Several attacks fell on it, and suddenly this layer of black and white restriction cracked with streaks of cracks.
Seeing this scene, the few people were overjoyed. Although they didn't know what was going on, they also unleashed out various attacks.
In the next few breaths, with a bang loud sound, the wall in front of them was directly blasted open with a large hole. The few people did not delay and flew out in an instant.
As soon as they flew outside, the stone tower that had trapped them collapsed in a rumbling sound. Even more terrifying strange noises came from below, and more worms and black armored centipedes emerged.
Fortunately, they were now flying in the air. These insects were all low-level demon insects and did not have the ability to fly. The few people were relieved.
But before they had time to fly away from this place, they saw a shrill hiss coming from under the ruins of the stone tower. This sound seemed to have some kind of power. When it was heard in the ears of the few people, they immediately changed their expressions drastically.
