“I wonder what she wants me to take out,” Zhang Ling hesitated before asking. He had thought of several conditions, but hadn't expected to be asked to take an item out.
“Don't worry, it's simple for you.” As soon as the woman in the ice coffin finished speaking, her whole body flashed with white light, releasing an astonishing aura.
Zhang Ling was shocked and quickly prepared to defend himself.
He saw the woman waving her hands laboriously, seemingly performing some kind of secret technique.
At the same time, the chains wrapped around the ice coffin rattled, and streaks of purple lightning flowed on them, covering the entire ice coffin. The woman inside was also greatly affected, with wisps of green smoke rising from her body.
However, the woman remained unmoved and continued to manipulate the spell.
After a few breaths, she let out a delicate shout, and a layer of crimson light rose from her body. This layer of light directly penetrated the ice coffin and transformed into a two-丈 ( meters) large fiery red phoenix.
Zhang Ling was shocked by this scene.
He wondered if this woman was a transformed demon race, but her aura was not as tyrannical as those demon kings, and she was indeed a human cultivator.
While he was lost in thought, the fiery red phoenix spread its wings and flew around a few times, its size gradually shrinking, turning into a crimson feather.
“This is what I want you to take out. As long as you bring this out of the Tianyuan, it will fly away on its own.” With a flash of red light, the red feather flew towards Zhang Ling.
Zhang Ling's mind flickered, and the corpse bear stood in front of him, grabbing the crimson feather in its large paw.
“Hmph, unnecessary.”
The woman in the ice coffin snorted, seemingly dissatisfied with his action, but Zhang Ling just smiled.
After all, caution is the key to sailing for ten thousand years.
“Alright, take out a blank jade slip, and I will copy the information about the Nascent Soul spiritual objects for you.”
Zhang Ling waved his hand, and a white jade slip flew towards the ice coffin. After approaching the ice coffin, the jade slip began to rotate, flashing with fire, without the woman making any movements.
She was imprinting information on it with her divine sense.
This was a simple matter, as long as a cultivator was above the Foundation Establishment stage, they could do it with the power of their divine sense.
A moment later, the jade slip flew back.
Zhang Ling also did not reach out to catch it. He first released a strand of divine sense to check the information inside a few times before revealing a look of joy and putting the jade slip away.
“Alright, I've given you the information, but you still need to make a heart demon oath, promising to take out the feather. Only then can I help you escape from this place.”
A heart demon oath is a kind of constraint, a sincere and earnest poisonous oath made by a cultivator. However, there are many loopholes in this kind of constraint, and it can be avoided in many ways.
Zhang Ling thought for a moment, then nodded and made the oath, promising that as long as he could escape from this place and safely leave the Tianyuan, he would definitely take out the feather.
After all, this was not difficult, and escaping from this place was the top priority.
As for what the woman said about the item flying away on its own after he took out the feather, Zhang Ling didn't care. As long as he left the Tianyuan, regardless of whether the feather would fly away on its own or not, he would immediately discard it.
Afterwards, the woman in the ice coffin nodded and began to cast a spell, once again conjuring an even larger flame phoenix.
For a time, a large amount of lightning reappeared on the ice coffin, preventing the woman's actions.
After a dozen breaths, the stone cave covered in black mist began to burn with fire, turning into a sea of flames.
Zhang Ling, who was in the middle of it, immediately sensed the violent fire spiritual power and had no choice but to summon the Yellow Luo Umbrella to protect his whole body.
In this way, the sea of fire burned for half a cup of tea's time before the surrounding black mist became thin. The woman's aura also weakened a lot, whether it was suppressed by the lightning on the chains or consumed by the spell.
Suddenly, the woman shouted, “Do it!”
Zhang Ling did not delay. The seven flying swords in front of him had long since re-condensed into sword light. With a wave of the sword technique, after a loud bang, the sword light directly split open the black mist in front of him, revealing the stone wall behind.
He retracted the Twin-Tailed Cat and the Corpse Bear, and without turning his head, he crashed into the stone wall. With a flash of yellow light, he used the Earth Escape technique to travel outside.
Soon after, he arrived at the abandoned medicine field above. Zhang Ling did not delay at all and directly left this underwater cave.
In the secret cave, the woman in the ice coffin looked at the front with complicated eyes, seemingly spacing out. After a moment of silence, the woman's voice was heard.
“Wushan Ghost, do you still remember me?”
After whispering a sentence, the woman closed her eyes, seemingly falling back into a deep sleep.
……
At this time, Zhang Ling had already left the pool and flew directly away from this nameless valley.
During the flight, he flicked his hand and took out the crimson feather, beginning to examine it carefully.
In Zhang Ling's perception, this feather did not seem to be made of spiritual power at all, just like it had just been plucked from a demon beast. He repeatedly checked it with his divine sense several times, and after finding nothing unusual, he felt relieved.
At the same time, he wondered what the identity of the female cultivator in the ice coffin was, asking him to take out this feather. The biggest possibility was that this item was a token that would notify someone to rescue her.
After thinking for a while, Zhang Ling didn't think about it anymore. As long as he took this item out, his promise would be fulfilled.
This experience made him feel quite apprehensive, feeling that the Tianyuan Secret Realm was definitely not as simple as he understood it, and he didn't know how many secrets were hidden here.
The next trip should be more cautious, and it's best not to venture into places that are too dangerous.
Zhang Ling chuckled, put away the feather, and took out the white jade slip, which contained information about the Nascent Soul spiritual objects.
He had only roughly checked it just now, but now, after reading it carefully, his heart couldn't help but pound, and he showed a look of joy.
The information given by the mysterious woman was very comprehensive, recording three places where Nascent Soul spiritual objects might grow. Two of these places were marked with Earth Spirit Fruit, which was also the information he needed most now.
The other marked point did not record the Earth Spirit Fruit, but an ancient beast called the Azure Spirit Beast. It was recorded that the inner core of this ancient beast could refine a kind of Azure Spirit Pill, which could greatly assist cultivators in condensing the Nascent Soul, and seemed to be more effective than the Nascent Soul Pill refined from the Earth Spirit Fruit.
Zhang Ling muttered in his mouth, unexpectedly there were ancient beasts in this Tianyuan. He didn't know if this information was true or false.
However, at the end of the jade slip, there was indeed a pill formula for the Azure Spirit Pill. The required spiritual medicine materials were also mostly fourth-grade rare spiritual medicines.
It seemed that this kind of spiritual pill really existed, but no matter whether this Azure Spirit Pill was useful or not, he probably wouldn't be able to get it.
Because the Azure Spirit Ancient Beast was on the sixth level of the Tianyuan, and with his strength, he was afraid it would be difficult to deal with it. The Tianyuan was more dangerous than the last, and the fourth level had a lot of dangers, so going to the sixth level would probably be a one-way trip.
His biggest goal in entering the Tianyuan Secret Realm was to find the Earth Spirit Fruit. The two places where the Earth Spirit Fruit grew recorded on the jade slip were on Nine Dragon Island on this fourth level.
Therefore, finding the Earth Spirit Fruit was the current goal.
His divine sense was immersed in the jade slip for a long time, and Zhang Ling memorized the two marked locations. After identifying the direction, he flew towards one of the marked points.
