After a moment, Zhang Ling arrived at the foot of the main peak, in front of an ice wall to the northwest.
It was freezing cold here, with the cold wind whistling, and thick layers of glaciers overlapping each other. Even the few plants that were visible were covered with thick ice crystals.
This kind of environment is common in the ice field. What's strange is that the glaciers in this area are not ice-blue, but gold and blue ice crystals.
Noticing this, Zhang Ling carefully sensed it and found that it wasn't the ice and snow here that were strange, but the mountain rock wall covered under the ice crystals, which was reddish-gold, that reflected the ice crystals here into this color.
The sound of wailing kept ringing out.
Many demonic beasts were also wandering here. After passing through several ice walls, Zhang Ling saw an ice cave on the ground.
This ice cave was three to four miles in diameter, with a faint golden spiritual light lingering within. It was hard to see what was below.
The closer he got, the more sensitive Zhang Ling became. This golden light was a spiritual mist formed from pure gold-attribute spiritual energy. It seemed that the abandoned ancient cultivator's mine was below this ice cave.
At this moment, a group of demonic beasts surrounded the edge of the ice cave. But unlike the scattered demonic beasts on the periphery, this group of demonic beasts was clearly divided, roughly into three groups.
One group was giant horned wolves covered in gray fur. This was a group of ice field giant wolves, with a total of more than twenty. Although the number was not large, each one was a high-level demonic beast.
Another group of demonic beasts were those ice snow lions with huge wings. Their strength and number were roughly the same as the ice field giant wolves.
The last group of demonic beasts was actually a group of chubby, snow-white blue-eyed snow rabbits. Each one was two to three zhang tall, quietly lying together, looking like snowballs.
But the strength of this group of snow rabbits, the lowest were all at the sixth rank. The leaders were three giant snow rabbits at the peak of the seventh rank. Facing the ice snow lions and ice field giant wolves, they showed no fear.
The three different races of demonic beast groups each occupied a location, seemingly guarding something.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling could conclude that there must be demon cultivators above the Transformation stage here. It was very likely that there were three Transformation demonic beasts.
Zhang Ling hid to the side, quietly spreading his divine sense power, and explored the nearby hundred-mile area. He did not find any aura of Transformation demon cultivators, and finally his gaze fell into the ice cave.
His divine sense penetrated more than ten miles into it, but he still didn't reach the bottom. Instead, he was blocked by the golden mist inside, and couldn't sense the deepest part.
After thinking for a moment, Zhang Ling cautiously approached the ice cave. Although there might be danger below, he had already come here, how could he be willing to leave without going down to take a look.
Moreover, his strength and Xuan Turtle's strength were not weak, and together, they could deal with even a Nascent Soul middle-stage monster without any problem. Even if they really encountered a Transformation demon cultivator, they didn't need to be too afraid.
Having made up his mind, Zhang Ling went down into the ice cave. The three groups of demonic beasts naturally did not notice his trace.
The further down into the ice cave, the stronger the cold air became. Similarly, the golden spiritual energy was also more concentrated. It seemed that this mine may have originally been a high-grade gold spiritual ore vein.
This kind of extremely single spiritual stone mine is extremely rare. Seriously speaking, it is really possible to breed top-grade spiritual stones.
Middle and low-grade spiritual stone mines are simply impossible to breed top-grade spiritual stones. Only high-grade spiritual stone mines may find a few.
In ancient times, it is said that there were top-grade spiritual stone mines. But today's human world simply does not have this top-level ore vein.
The ice cave was getting bigger and bigger, and you could see some strangely shaped ice blocks such as ice pillars and ice cones everywhere. There are also large and small ice eyes, ice caves.
Suddenly, Zhang Ling stopped his descent, and with a flash, approached the ice wall on the right. He saw three long cracks on it.
These seemed to be claw marks left by some kind of demonic beast. The marks were not long, but the cracks were very deep. Each crack was thirty to forty zhang deep, directly penetrating the ice wall.
This was not ordinary.
The ice and snow in the depths of the ice field are very thick. They have existed for many years, and are glaciers that will not melt for ten thousand years. Although it is nothing for cultivator to break the glaciers.
But Zhang Ling could sense that the three claw marks on the ice wall were not made with spiritual power, but were caused by a light scratch. The three cracks were smooth and neat, and the most likely thing was that the demon cultivator caused them.
He fell a full two to three thousand zhang deep before reaching the bottom of the ice cave. At first glance, there were many traces of buildings where he fell.
It was not dim below. Many gold gems were inlaid on the surrounding ice walls, illuminating a large area.
Huge stone pillars lay across the foot, and many boulders and some dark wood collapsed around. Many broken demon beast skeletons can still be seen on the ground, but most of them are frozen in the ice, which looks a bit old.
Overall, the bottom is a huge ice cave. There are many ice caves on the left and right sides, as well as in the front, and I don’t know where they lead.
The edges of the cave entrances are inlaid with some black- cyan stones, which are engraved with spiritual patterns. Obviously, they have been specially reinforced. Without thinking, you know that these ice caves are the original mine of this ore vein.
With a flip of his hand, Zhang Ling took out a bright yellow crystal, which was the only earth-attribute top-grade spiritual stone in his hand. Compared to before, the spiritual power contained in this top-grade spiritual stone had recovered a little.
When he first obtained this piece of top-grade spiritual stone, the spiritual power on it had been consumed by half.
But after joining Haoyuan Sect, he had a cave dwelling with a top-grade spiritual vein, and he specially built a small secret room, arranged a spirit gathering array to restore the spiritual energy of the top-grade spiritual stone.
Although it was very slow, it was indeed like recorded in the ancient books. Putting the top-grade spiritual stone in the spiritual vein area could slowly restore the consumed spiritual energy.
This process was extremely slow. Even if the top-grade spiritual stone in his hand was only half consumed, Zhang Ling estimated that it would take at least two to three hundred years to completely restore it in the top-grade spiritual vein.
Now taking out this top-grade spiritual stone is naturally to explore whether there are any other top-grade spiritual stones here.
With the magic arts urging, the earth-attribute top-grade spiritual stone in his hand floated in the air. With a gentle point from Zhang Ling, the spiritual stone lit up with dazzling yellow light.
After a while, he waved his hand, and the spiritual stone was put away by him. But the yellow light emitted by the spiritual stone did not disappear. It turned into a ball of light mist of scattered spots, flowing in front of him.
Continuing to cast spells, this ball of light mist quickly condensed and gathered into a yellowish-brown round bead, only the size of a broad bean.
This is a strand of pure earth-attribute spiritual power stripped from the top-grade earth spiritual stone.
At this time, a palm-sized round copper plate, appeared iron black, appeared in Zhang Ling's hand. The yellowish-brown round bead fell on it. The copper plate trembled dripped, and lit up with five-colored spiritual light.
Immediately afterwards, the five-colored spiritual light differentiated and turned into five small and exquisite dragon-shaped phantoms. Each one looked only the thickness of a finger and a chi long. The colors were different, namely a white dragon shadow, a cyan dragon shadow, and a black, red, and a yellowish-brown dragon shadow.
This is five elements spiritual energy, manifesting the purest spiritual light. It corresponds to metal, wood, water, fire, and earth five elements spiritual power.
I saw the five dragon shadows gradually turning into dragon-shaped patterns of different colors, engraved on the copper. It became dim.
A magic arts hit it.
The copper plate rotated rapidly, and a white dragon shadow reappeared, swimming quickly on the copper plate. Finally, the dragon head looked in one direction and stood still.
Zhang Ling smiled and flew in this direction. It happened to be a wide mine on the left. He entered it directly and searched.
This piece copper plate is a five elements spirit-determining plate that he specially refined. It is considered a special magical instrument. To be precise, it is a array plate.
Basically all array formation masters have a spirit-determining plate. It is also widely used. It can not only survey earth vein spiritual energy, but also find some special spiritual objects.
At this time, using the spiritual energy of the top-grade earth spiritual stone as a guide, you can roughly sense whether there is the same quality of spiritual energy here. To judge whether there are other top-grade spiritual stones.
The white dragon shadow displayed on the five elements spirit-determining plate proves that the gold spiritual energy is the most abundant here.
Zhang Ling is using this method for the first time. But the spirit-determining plate's current response proves that there is indeed a share of gold-attribute spiritual energy of equal value here.
Then he probably came to the right place.
