Entering the half-collapsed mine tunnel, after not much travel, besides discovering more signs of battle, Zhang Ling also saw many glittering golden-white spirit stones in the stone walls of the passage.
These were all low-grade gold-attribute spirit stones, and there were quite a few of them, proving that this place was indeed a gold-attribute spirit stone mine.
Zhang Ling did not let any of the spirit stones seen along the way go to waste, collecting them all into his storage bag.
Of course, in order to search for top-grade gold spirit stones, he was not greedy for these low-grade spirit stones, only collecting the spirit stones exposed on the mine tunnel walls.
The further he went, the greater the number of spirit stones became. The gold-attribute spiritual energy became even stronger, already suppressing the icy-cold energy. The thick glaciers covering the passage walls also became much thinner.
After traveling some distance further, there were no glaciers around, replaced by a golden-white rock wall.
Zhang Ling specifically tested it, and these rock walls were very thick and extremely hard.
This was no ordinary rock wall, but a kind of symbiotic spiritual ore that would be born in a gold spirit stone mine, called Taibai Stone. It was a hard material for refining treasures.
If it was specially smelted, it could be smelted into gold essence, one of the five metal essences. It was much more precious than copper essence and iron essence. It was most often used to refine magical treasures like cultivation methods.
Through his divine sense, Zhang Ling could sense that the Taibai Stone rock layer was mixed with many medium-grade gold spirit stones. If he wasn't pressed for time now, and if Taibai Stone wasn't so difficult to collect, he would have stopped to collect some.
But it wouldn't be too late to collect it before leaving.
Suddenly, a rumbling sound came over. Zhang Ling's expression paused, and his divine sense probed forward. He discovered that the front led to a huge stone cave. The spiritual energy there was chaotic, obviously there were cultivators fighting.
Zhang Ling slowed down his flying speed a lot, quietly sneaking over. He saw a figure fighting with something.
The figure was about ten feet tall, a burly man, but upon closer inspection, he was not a human cultivator. The upper half of his body was covered with grayish-white hair, the head on his neck was a ferocious wolf head, and a faint blue horn grew on his forehead. A layer of dignified icy-cold demonic energy rippled around him.
Zhang Ling was quite familiar with this appearance. It was the half-demon transformation performed by a transformed demon cultivator.
At this moment, the wolf demon held a pair of white, glittering broadswords in each of its black claws. It quickly chopped, chopping out sharp ice marks. It looked like they were two ancient treasures with considerable power.
Zhang Ling quickly scanned the surroundings. Apart from this wolf demon, he did not see the other two transformed demon cultivators, nor did he see the two human cultivators that he had noticed in the snow rabbit's memory when he searched its soul before.
What was even stranger was that this wolf demon was fighting with a golden-light white tiger.
The white tiger was only the size of an ordinary tiger, and its aura was not strong, only equivalent to a seventh-order peak demon beast. But its speed was extremely fast, not weaker than a Nascent Soul-level cultivator, and it was running fast.
Most of the wolf demon's attacks were dodged.
Zhang Ling observed it a few more times, and noticed that the white tiger did not have any life aura on its body. It was not a demon beast, but more like some kind of demon spirit.
At this moment, the wolf demon roared, and the two flying knives in his hands instantly merged in the air, turning into a white, glittering blade light and slashing horizontally.
A dazzling white light flashed, and it slashed on the white tiger's body.
Zhang Ling knew that the white tiger could not withstand this blow when he saw this scene. But the next scene stunned him.
He saw the white tiger open its big mouth, and a golden light shot out. The blade light slashed on it, making a crisp clang sound. It was like hitting something hard.
The blade light was bounced away, and the golden light flew back.
The white tiger's body trembled, its entire body twisted, and it directly turned into a stream of light, plunging into a mine tunnel on the side and disappearing.
The wolf demon snorted and turned into a cloud of black wind, instantly chasing after it.
This scene only happened in two or three breaths. Watching the wolf demon leave, Zhang Ling pondered with a strange expression. That white tiger demon spirit did not seem to be an ordinary thing.
He glanced at the Five Elements Spirit Disc in his hand. The direction pointed by the white dragon was not the direction the wolf demon was chasing. It was another mine tunnel.
Zhang Ling did not delay and continued to move forward. As for what exactly the white tiger that the wolf demon was chasing was, it had nothing to do with him.
He came here to find top-grade spirit stones, so naturally he would go to the place with the strongest gold spiritual energy to take a look first.
The more scattered these old monsters who came here first were, the more beneficial it would be to him.
As time passed, Zhang Ling entered a narrow stone cave. After traveling for a quarter of an hour, he saw a golden stone cave.
This stone cave was square, and seemed to have been specially opened up. The space inside was not small, with a radius of a thousand feet. It was like a huge underground cave.
A layer of golden mist swirled around the top of the mine, and a strange popping sound came from it. Wisps of golden silk and some large and small golden cyclones rippled in the air, looking very strange.
This was a manifestation of even stronger gold spiritual energy.
When he arrived here, due to the excessive gold spiritual energy, Zhang Ling felt a slight stinging sensation on the surface of his body while breathing.
The spiritual power in his body circulated, and a layer of yellow light appeared on the surface of his body, which offset this discomfort.
The five elements of spiritual energy are mostly manifested together between heaven and earth. Even if one kind of spiritual energy becomes strong, it will be balanced by other spiritual energies.
But the gold spiritual power here was too strong and could not be balanced, so this special situation was formed. This place was a typical spiritual evil place.
This place had strong gold spiritual energy, so it was a gold evil place.
This kind of place was very beneficial to cultivators who practiced gold spiritual power techniques, and some people who practiced body refining techniques.
In this kind of place, ordinary people without spiritual power could not stay for a moment at all. Their bodies would be corroded by the gold spiritual power in an instant.
Even Nascent Soul cultivators could not stay for too long. When coming here to cultivate, they must go out every once in a while to harmonize their own spiritual energy, otherwise it will have a great impact on their own cultivation.
Inside the cave, the golden mist rolled, and golden lights sprinkled down, illuminating this huge stone cave. However, the scene on the ground was like a battlefield.
There were broken stones and potholes everywhere, mixed with many bone fragments and some broken magic weapons, etc.
There seemed to have been a fight here, but it seemed to have been a long time ago. Many traces were buried in the dust.
In the center of the stone cave was a collapsed square platform, which looked like an altar.
Zhang Ling glanced at it and noticed a figure sitting cross-legged on it, facing away from him. But there was no breath at all, it seemed to be just a skeleton.
But it was not very clear, and it was also vague. This was also because the divine sense was interfered by the gold spiritual power inside.
Zhang Ling took a deep breath, condensed his divine sense power, and saw it more clearly.
Suddenly, the Five Elements Spirit Disc in his hand trembled, and the white dragon shadow that appeared on it became much more active, flying out of the copper plate and rushing towards this stone cave.
But as soon as the white dragon shadow rushed in, a rumbling sound rang out. The golden mist on the top of the stone cave became much clearer. He saw a flash of golden light, and two golden arcs fell down, cutting the white dragon phantom in half at once.
The dragon shadow instantly vaporized into a wisp of spiritual light and dissipated.
With a crisp cracking sound, the round bead condensed by the spiritual power of the top-grade earth spirit stone on the Five Elements Spirit Disc cracked into pieces, and also turned into starlight and dissipated.
"Restriction"
Zhang Ling's face darkened a little, he glanced at the Five Elements Spirit Disc and put it away. Then he released the Yellow Canopy Umbrella, held it above his head, and lowered a layer of yellow light to protect his whole body.
With a flick of his single hand, a white snake puppet several feet long was released. With a thought, the puppet white snake swam into the stone cave.
The golden cloud in the stone cave rolled again, and a golden light fell again, slashing towards the white snake puppet.
Zhang Ling commanded the white snake puppet to travel very quickly. It dodged this blow, but after five or six breaths, the puppet was still cut into several sections and lost its ability to move.
This was a second-order puppet, Zhang Ling naturally did not feel bad about it. From this, he roughly judged the strength of the formation restriction inside.
Although it had some tricks, it could not pose any threat to him.
His hands changed gestures, and he formed three Xuan Guang Shields outside his body, and entered it.
The reaction of the Five Elements Spirit Disc just now indicated that there was a spiritual energy no weaker than that emitted by a top-grade spirit stone in the stone cave. It seemed to be on the broken altar in the center.
With this discovery, he naturally had to go in and take a look.
As soon as he entered the stone cave, the golden cloud above the stone cave emitted several golden rays, attacking him.
The loud banging sound continued, and the golden rays were like sword lights, not only was the attack speed not slow, but the strength was not small either.
Each attack was roughly equivalent to an attack from a Foundation Establishment mid- to late-stage cultivator.
After entering twenty or thirty feet inside, the golden light attacking Zhang Ling was already dense, with hundreds of them. Fortunately, it did not cause too much damage to the Nascent Soul cultivator. The protection of the Yellow Canopy Umbrella was enough to deal with it.
Zhang Ling suddenly stopped and looked down.
He saw a stone under his feet, about the size of a millstone. It was covered with a thick layer of dust, gray-black in color, and did not seem to be anything special.
With a grab of his single hand, the stone flew up. Sweeping away the dust on it, the stone's true colors were revealed. This was a golden-white stone, exactly the Taibai Stone that existed in this mine.
But embedded in this Taibai Stone was a fist-sized bright golden crystal. It was actually a high-grade gold spirit stone.
Zhang Ling smiled and put the Taibai Stone into his storage bag.
The output of gold spirit stones was the least compared to the other five elements of spirit stones, and high-grade gold spirit stones were even more difficult to collect. Now, he only had a few in his hand. Its value was equivalent to that of exotic spirit stones such as ice spirit stones and lightning spirit stones, and sometimes even higher.
In the blink of an eye, he had walked two or three hundred feet, approaching the center. On this road, he had harvested more than ten high-grade gold spirit stones. And thirty or forty medium-grade gold spirit stones.
Of course, he had also harvested a lot of Taibai Stone. And the quality was very high, the lowest was medium-grade. It could be considered a small harvest.
Because the gold spiritual energy in this stone cave was too strong, the entire ground, and the surrounding rock walls, were covered with a thick layer of golden light.
At this time, a golden light flashed in front of him, and something crashed over.
Zhang Ling thought it was another golden light attack released by the golden cloud above. He didn't take it seriously, but he immediately felt that something was wrong.
Because he immediately sensed that the spiritual power fluctuation of this golden light was very strong, at least ten times that of other attacks.
The golden light had already reached his eyes, and there was no time to dodge. Zhang Ling suddenly raised his hand, and a jet-black vine was thrown out.
With a loud bang, the vine hit the golden light. But the vine was instantly broken into two pieces. It didn't stop the attack at all.
Zhang Ling raised his eyebrows, and the three Xuan Guang Shields floating outside his body recombined into a giant shield, blocking in front of him. With a loud clang, he took a step back, before blocking this blow.
Immediately afterwards, a beast roar came from the left side of his body, and a giant golden claw probed over.
Zhang Ling immediately turned around, and with a flick of his hand, a gourd was released. A rustling sound rang out, and specks of yellow sand poured out. Turning into a semi-circular sand wall.
The golden claw slapped on it, scattering a lot of sand. But most of the force had already been offset.
Zhang Ling took advantage of this opportunity and had already retreated several feet. With a flash of his eyes, he saw clearly that the owner of the golden claw was actually a white tiger.
This stunned him for a moment, and then he discovered that this white tiger also had no flesh, and seemed to be the one that the wolf demon had dealt with not long ago.
But it seemed to be somewhat different, this white tiger was two feet tall, and its strength was obviously better.
But now was not the time to consider these things.
Three green lights flew out of his sleeves, turning into three flying swords, and slashed over.
