A peculiar golden small sword.
Zhang Ling paid it no mind, his eyes fixed intently on the object, determined to see what it was.
It was this thing that had triggered some kind of restriction, causing a fierce golden wind to rise within the mine and sweep them away.
As the soft, limp golden sword, resembling a leather sheath, emitted a spiritual light, it rapidly expanded.
Out of caution, Zhang Ling flicked his finger, sending out a ball of yellow light to envelop it.
From Xuan Gui's mouth, blue-black lightning flashed, coiling into strands of Water Astral Divine Lightning.
He had Xuan Gui prepared at all times to tear apart the strange little sword if anything unexpected happened again.
In a couple of breaths, the golden sword had inflated into a strange golden bag, bulging as if filled with something.
Suddenly, a slit opened at the hilt, and a white light flashed as another white tiger cub shot out.
This little white tiger's aura was identical to that of the two spirit treasure fragments, appearing to be a demon spirit transformed from a fragment as well.
The little white tiger bared its fangs and leaped into the air, its sharp claws instantly tearing through the surrounding yellow light, heading straight for the sealed spirit treasure fragments.
With a flash of lightning, a Water Astral Divine Lightning bolt as thick as an arm struck the white tiger, sending it tumbling backward.
The little white tiger flashed with golden light, instantly recovering without much damage.
However, a thick gray mist had risen around it, rapidly converging towards the center, instantly trapping the little white tiger in the air.
The little white tiger struggled fiercely, its body flashing with golden light that manifested as arc-shaped lights resembling sword marks, but it couldn't break through the gray mist.
Zhang Ling gently shook the Four Directions Flag in his hand, releasing another thick cloud of gray mist, trapping the little white tiger completely.
At the same time, he raised his hand and sent out a beam of azure sword light, which struck the white tiger with a clang, weakening its aura.
The azure sword light flashed repeatedly, and Zhang Ling commanded the azure flying sword to unleash hundreds of attacks, creating a continuous series of crisp clanging sounds.
When the white tiger's aura weakened to a certain extent, it let out an unwilling roar and shrunk into a palm-sized, gold-white iron piece.
"As expected, another spirit treasure fragment," Zhang Ling chuckled, summoning the iron piece into his hand with a wave.
Held in his hand, the iron piece vibrated incessantly with spirituality, as if trying to escape.
However, this piece was much smaller than the other two, and the aura of the transformed little white tiger was not strong, so he subdued it instantly.
Zhang Ling narrowed his eyes, examining the iron piece. Upon closer inspection, it wasn't an irregular shape, but a finger-length sword tip.
It looked like the very front tip of a flying sword.
He looked at the other two spirit treasure fragments and compared them, discovering that the three iron pieces could roughly be pieced together into a foot-long broken sword section, like the front third of a flying sword's blade.
"So it seems that these three spirit treasure fragments are shattered pieces of a flying sword-type spirit treasure," Zhang Ling muttered to himself, stroking his chin.
But he was still amazed that such broken spirit treasures were still so spiritual. If they could be repaired, they might be even better than his Black Bone Giant Claw.
The thought popped into Zhang Ling's head, but he shook his head with a wry smile. Spirit treasures were not ordinary magic weapons, and so broken, how could they be completely repaired?
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he remembered something. With a flash of white light in his hand, Zhang Ling took out a piece of azure jade slip.
It contained the introduction to the Two Forms Gourd that Bluebird had given him, as well as the Five Elements Treasure Art, which contained many methods for using the Five Elements Spiritual Light.
The Five Elements Spiritual Light in the gourd was originally used to quickly cultivate the power of magic weapons and to balance the cultivator's five elements spiritual power.
These were the two main functions.
He now remembered a certain application of the Five Elements Spiritual Light. Although the Five Elements Spiritual Light could not be used to directly repair broken magic weapons, it could be used to refine some of the spirituality in the treasures.
If he put the three spirit treasure fragments into the Two Forms Gourd and merged the spirituality in the fragments into his seven flying swords, he could quickly enhance the spirituality of the flying swords.
Especially with such highly spiritual treasure fragments, it could even greatly increase the power of his flying swords several times.
Of course, not everything was suitable for merging into flying swords, and it was also necessary to judge whether the properties of the treasure were suitable.
The three spirit treasure fragments all emitted strong golden sharpness and spiritual energy, and they were flying sword fragments, so merging them into treasures that also belonged to flying swords should not cause too many problems.
In fact, some refining masters could also successfully integrate such spiritual fragments into other treasures to increase the power of the treasures.
The success rate was generally not high, and it could easily damage the original magic weapon.
But the Five Elements Spiritual Light could do this very well. Thinking of this, Zhang Ling immediately became very interested and took out the second Two Forms Gourd in his body.
This gourd was the Gold Essence Gourd, which he had re-refined according to the Dawn Treasure Gourd in the Five Elements Treasure Art, and it only contained seven flying swords.
With a thought, the Gold Essence Gourd spewed out a ball of blue-white Five Elements Spiritual Light, directly enveloping the three spirit treasure fragments and sucking them into it.
Zhang Ling himself also flashed into the gourd and came out again after a while.
He had temporarily sealed the three spirit treasure fragments in the gourd, and he would refine the three fragments by operating the spiritual light after returning.
After all, now was not the time to refine treasures.
After dealing with this matter, Zhang Ling's gaze turned to the golden small sword that had returned to its soft and limp state. He had guessed that this thing might be a special storage treasure.
He flicked a spiritual light onto it, and the soft golden sword released its light again, expanding and turning into a golden bag in the shape of a flying sword, looking like a strange bag that had been inflated.
With a sweep of his divine sense, Zhang Ling sensed that the hilt was the opening of the bag. A strand of his divine sense delved into it, exploring the internal space. This was indeed a storage treasure. The space inside was a hundred zhang large, much larger than the space of ordinary high-level storage bags.
The first thing he saw was some glittering spirit stones, occupying half of the space inside. Most of them were mid- and high-grade gold spirit stones.
After a slight count, Zhang Ling revealed a look of joy. Just these spirit stones were more than he had accumulated in his hands.
This was a considerable fortune.
Zhang Ling chuckled a few times, took a breath, and calmed his mind, looking at the other things inside. There weren't many things left.
There were several well-sealed large boxes, as well as some bottles and jars and other things similar to elixirs.
He first took out a few bottles and jars and checked them, finding that most of them were five elements elixirs. The quality was very high, at least third-grade or higher.
Several of the fifth-grade elixirs were even suitable for his current realm. There was also a kind of Golden Sun Pill, which was a top-grade gold attribute elixir, and a good cultivation elixir for late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators.
At this time, he opened one of the red boxes, which contained a strange red jade bowl. As soon as he took out the jade bowl, Zhang Ling sensed that it was filled with a strong gold spiritual energy.
There was a layer of scarlet spiritual light on the jade bowl. Beneath the spiritual light, there was actually a golden wind团 winding around it, with some white spots inside. In the center of the wind团, there was also a strange glimmer of gold and white light. Upon closer inspection, it was actually a drop of strange water.
The golden spiritual energy he sensed was emitted by this drop of water.
Zhang Ling revealed a look of doubt, and then his eyes lit up. He thought of the Gold Devouring Beast that Bluebird had just mentioned, and he had a guess in his mind. The water drop in the bowl might be the Gold Devouring Beast's Gold Marrow Jade Liquid.
After all, the golden wind 团 lingered in the bowl, making it easy to identify. It was the golden wind that the Gold Devouring Beast spat out.
Should he try it?
Zhang Ling smiled and put down the thought. It was not too late to study it after returning. He turned his gaze and looked at the remaining thing in the box.
That was also an irregular iron piece, but it was not a spirit treasure fragment, but a black iron piece, the size of three or four palms, with dense small characters engraved on it, which were actually demon clan characters.
Seeing this iron piece, Zhang Ling was stunned again. Because he had seen this kind of iron piece, and it could be said that he was very familiar with it. He himself had a similar iron piece in his hand, with demon clan characters engraved on it as well.
Zhang Ling stared intently at the iron piece. After a full quarter of an hour, he rubbed his head with a strange expression and put away his mind.
This iron piece also came from the same place as the one in his hand. It had a great origin.
It recorded a demon refiner's technique called Glazed Demon Bone.
Although the name was strange, Zhang Ling roughly read it and judged that it was a top demon refiner's technique. When this technique was cultivated to great success, the blood energy in the body would condense a glazed demon bone.
According to the record of this technique, after refining the demon bone, the cultivator would have a supernatural power similar to an undying body. Not afraid of the destruction of the physical body, he could use blood energy to re-condense the physical body.
The so-called undying body was also a supernatural power of some gifted demon beasts. Speaking of which, it was a kind of supernatural power similar to Xuan Gui's regeneration spirit body. It was just that the undying body was more powerful.
After reading this technique, Zhang Ling immediately realized that this Glazed Demon Bone was the technique cultivated by the Blood Demon Sanren.
When fighting with this person, he was puzzled as to why the Blood Demon Sanren always used the Nascent Soul's out-of-body sneak attack method to fight. Ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators would not do this, the risk was too great.
Originally, Zhang Ling thought that this person was too conceited, relying on the late-stage Nascent Soul realm that steadily suppressed them, constantly using the Nascent Soul's out-of-body.
Now it seemed that the Blood Demon Sanren was relying on the Glazed Demon Bone. At that time, he quickly refined a new physical body, and faced five or six Nascent Soul cultivators without falling behind, and still steadily suppressed them.
Zhang Ling could not help but feel a little fortunate. If there were no Bluebird and Gold Devouring Beast, they would really not be this person's opponent.
At the same time, he thought of this strange storage bag, which was found under the ancient cultivator's remains in the mine with restrictions.
Could it be that the remains were also the original physical body of the Blood Demon Sanren?
Otherwise, why would this person possess the wolf demon at the beginning and attack them?
Thinking of this, Zhang Ling looked around and spread his divine sense, intending to search this abandoned mine again. Maybe he could find something else.
With a plan, he acted immediately. Although this entire mine seemed to have collapsed, it was not urgent for him now. Using earth escape to search would not waste much time.
In the next few hours, he and Xuan Gui dispersed around and searched.
During this period, Zhang Ling also found that the mine had changed greatly, and most of the rich gold spiritual energy had dissipated.
This looked like a real abandoned mine.
Zhang Ling thought that this might have something to do with the Gold Devouring Beast.
As for the space where they were swept into by the golden wind before, Bluebird also explained to him that the golden space was the physical body of the Gold Devouring Beast.
It was just that the physical body of the Gold Devouring Beast had been destroyed due to the self-explosion of the Blood Demon Sanren's Nascent Soul, forming an impact.
Regarding this matter, Bluebird also said that the Gold Devouring Beast actually did not have any physical body in the real sense. It was just a layer of golden shell formed by the spiritual energy that the Gold Devouring Beast had stayed in for a long time.
Not long after, Zhang Ling found the mine again.
The restrictions that originally existed in the cave seemed to have disappeared due to the collapse of the entire mine. It was full of ruins and buried in a pile of soil and rocks.
After searching for a while, he saw the cultivator's remains again under a boulder. At that time, he just glanced at it roughly and did not pay too much attention to it.
Now carefully checking the cultivator's remains, although he could not determine whether it was the original physical body of the Blood Demon Sanren.
But this remains that had turned into white bones was indeed not the remains of ordinary cultivators after sitting down.
Zhang Ling flicked his hand and released two sword lights, hitting the remains and making two crisp clanging sounds. This skeleton was intact and undamaged, and its hardness was no less than that of ordinary magic weapons.
After careful inspection, Zhang Ling also noticed that the ribs between the chest and abdomen of the skeleton were not like ordinary bones, but showed a light green color, and also emitted some light golden lines.
This was the mutation of his own bones after cultivating the Glazed Demon Bone, this technique. From this, it could be determined that its original owner cultivated the Glazed Demon Bone.
Of course, most body refining techniques can also cause the cultivator's bones and meridians to mutate when cultivated to a high level.
Zhang Ling determined this because the Glazed Demon Bone generally condensed in the position of the heart. With such obvious characteristics, the probability would not be false.
He then took out a long wooden box and collected this skeleton as well. The value of this kind of bone was no less than that of the spiritual bone born in the body of the demon beast, and it was a good treasure refining material.
Naturally, he could not let it go.
Next, Zhang Ling and Xuan Gui stayed in the depths of this abandoned mine for two days, collecting a lot of the Tai Bai Stone that was associated with this mine, and also collected a lot of gold spirit stones.
Of course, most of them were low-grade gold spirit stones. And a small amount of mid-grade spirit stones.
Three days later, Zhang Ling left the Binglan Mountains.
Although he encountered many dangers this time, the harvest was also great. He not only got top-grade gold spirit stones, but also spirit treasure fragments and other things.
After returning, he had to plan the use of these things well.
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