The booming sounds continued incessantly, as fire and metal spiritual energies clashed repeatedly, creating an increasingly intense commotion, plunging the originally golden space into further chaos.
Zhang Ling and the others released their divine sense power, constantly searching for a breakthrough.
After about fifteen minutes, Zhang Ling hadn't discovered anything special. He sighed inwardly, wondering if he had miscalculated and there were no formations or restrictions here.
If that were the case, escaping this predicament would be even more difficult.
"Fellow cultivators, come quickly! I may have found the formation eye on my side!" Suddenly, the voice of Ning, a fellow cultivator from Ice Cloud Valley, echoed from afar.
Zhang Ling glanced in the direction of the person's probing and quickly approached that side.
At this time, Ning was standing in mid-air, tens of miles away, with a golden vortex about five or six zhang in diameter rotating in front of him.
This kind of spiritual energy vortex formed by the swirling of metal spiritual energy was very common in this place. However, due to the interference of fire spiritual energy formed by the formation's power, most of the spiritual energy vortexes in the nearby area had long been dispersed.
This rather stable spiritual energy vortex seemed somewhat abrupt.
Moreover, upon closer inspection, one could find a strange black light flashing in the spiritual energy vortex, as if something was hidden inside.
The group gathered next to Ning, observing the spiritual energy vortex one after another.
"Fellow cultivator Zhang, do you think this could be the potential formation eye?" Elder Wang asked.
"This spiritual energy vortex is quite stable, it may indeed be the formation eye," Zhang Ling nodded after taking a few glances.
"Haha, now that we've found the formation eye, what are we waiting for? Let's quickly destroy it and leave this place!" The white-clothed woman revealed a look of joy, immediately clapping her hands lightly. A blue ice-colored bead appeared in her hand. She cast a spell on it, and the bead rotated once, releasing icy energy.
With continuous whooshing sounds, dense ice spikes shot out from within. Countless ice spikes shot into the golden vortex, only to be met with a series of cracking sounds, but the vortex only shook slightly and did not change much.
Seeing this, the others also began to use their own methods.
Zhang Ling frowned slightly, wanting to observe more before acting. However, since they had already started, he couldn't stop them.
However, seeing that the golden vortex had not changed much after the white-clothed woman's attack, it shouldn't be a big problem. He also waved his hand and summoned two green flying swords to attack.
Fellow cultivator Ning summoned a black flying sword, which instantly transformed into a giant sword several zhang in size and slashed over.
The red-clothed Jade Fairy's methods were not weak either. Two rays of light, one red and one blue, flashed in front of her and transformed into two jade talismans carved with dragon-shaped patterns, from which a fire dragon and an ice dragon rushed out.
But the most conspicuous among the group was Elder Wang. With a flick of his hand, a huge circular bronze hammer was summoned. The bronze hammer expanded and contracted, transforming into a size of more than ten zhang, like a small house, and smashed down.
With a loud bang, the golden vortex was directly smashed out of shape.
The power of this kind of heavy magic weapon is generally not weak.
As the group attacked, the vortex was constantly squeezed and deformed like a cotton ball, becoming extremely unstable.
The black light at the very center of the vortex became clearer and clearer, appearing to be a black stone about the size of a fist, with some gold and white spiritual patterns engraved on it.
With a few cracking sounds, cracks appeared on the stone. Seeing this, the group attacked with all their strength, not stinting on their mana.
After a dozen or so breaths of time, the vortex exploded with a bang, and a terrifying golden wave of energy swept around.
The shockwave was quite powerful, but fortunately, everyone had made preparations in advance and each summoned their defensive means to resist it.
The black stone inside was also shattered into powder and directly destroyed.
Everyone stopped attacking, sensing the changes around. After the vortex was broken, the nearby metal spiritual energy did weaken a bit, but it was far from disappearing. Moreover, the metal spiritual energy became even more chaotic.
"We don't seem to have escaped this place."
The white-clothed woman's face darkened a bit, and the faces of the other people were naturally not good either.
"In my opinion, this is just a hidden small formation eye. Although it has slightly changed the metal spiritual energy environment here, it is far from completely breaking the restriction. There may be other formation eyes," Zhang Ling reminded, narrowing his eyes slightly. He flashed and flew in one direction, intending to continue exploring this place.
The others immediately understood his meaning and dispersed again to the surrounding area, searching for the formation eyes again. After tossing around like this, they found two other formation eyes and successfully destroyed them.
However, apart from making the metal spiritual energy here a little thinner, there was no substantial change. Although the group was depressed, they continued to search for the remaining formation eyes in silence.
With everyone's knowledge, they could all guess the reason. They were searching for small formation eyes and had not found the core formation eye, which was why the current situation had occurred.
After another moment, just as the group was destroying the fourth formation eye they had found, suddenly, an earth-shattering loud noise came from above. The movement was so great that the entire space shook. It immediately attracted the attention of Zhang Ling and the others.
Their divine sense power was not weak. In an instant, they discovered that the place where the commotion came from was emitting a powerful icy spiritual energy.
"This spiritual energy seems to be from that ninth-order demon cultivator," Elder Wang snorted with a gloomy expression, seemingly sensing something through the fluctuation of this spiritual energy.
Divine sense spread to seventy or eighty miles away, Zhang Ling found that in a certain place above, three figures were releasing powerful auras, attacking a certain rock layer.
The three people were quite familiar, it was the ninth-order demon cultivator, as well as the wolf demon they had seen before. There was also a blue-haired woman, whose aura indicated that she was another demon cultivator.
Sure enough, the three demon cultivators had also been teleported to this place. The rock layer they were attacking was emitting a layer of white light, hiding a stone emitting gold and black colors. It was densely engraved with many spiritual patterns.
After taking a glance, he immediately confirmed that this stone was the core formation eye of the formation restriction here.
With another loud bang, the gold and black stone finally couldn't hold on under the attacks of the three demon cultivators. The spiritual light dissipated, and it turned into powder with a bang.
The entire space shook even more violently, the sound of wind howled, and another powerful wind pressure swept out from nowhere, enveloping everyone.
Fortunately, although the wind pressure was strong, it did not have teleportation ability like before. Zhang Ling and the others circulated their whole body's spiritual power to offset the pressure.
The wind pressure came quickly and went quickly, like a gust of wind passing through, blowing all the way. It blew away most of the rippling golden mist around, and the spiritual energy became stable. The environment here became much clearer at once.
The faces of the people became better looking, this was obviously because the restriction power had disappeared, and they were out of trouble.
"Eh, there are so many gold spirit stones!" At this time, Jade Fairy's exclamation came from her ear.
The group immediately discovered that the soil and rocks under their feet, as well as the rock walls hundreds of zhang above, were flashing with many golden light spots, like stars in the night sky, and they didn't know how many there were.
These light spots were emitting pure gold spiritual power, most of which were actually mid-grade or above gold spirit stones. Looking over, there were quite a few high-grade gold spirit stones as well.
This seemed to be a huge mine. With so many gold spirit stones, this might be the core of the entire vein.
