After flying out of the underground world, Liu Ming stood in front of the two green stone pillars. He took out the Jade Slips left by the young man surnamed Li and stuck it on his forehead.
He didn't take it to heart at that time. Now that the young man surnamed Li and the Demon Mystic Sect disciple had both died, and the time he spent sacrificially refining the Mountain River Pearl had greatly exceeded his expectations. Instead of meeting up with the people of Taiqing Gate, it was better to investigate alone.
Since the youth surnamed Li believed that three False Core Stage cultivators would be able to enter this place, then the risk of entering this place shouldn't be too great. Now that he had the Bead of Mountain and River, as long as he was careful, there shouldn't be any problems.
After thinking so, Liu Ming flew in the direction recorded by the Jade Slips.
Tens of thousands of miles away from the ice and snow, there was a huge dense forest.
If you looked down from the sky, the entire dense forest was a dense dark green, but if you entered the dense forest, it was a different scenery.
Amidst the mottled landscape, blood-colored vines wrapped around thick tree trunks. Golden bugs the size of fingernails crawled all over the tree trunks, and fist-sized fruits hung from the branches like lanterns.
These fruits also faintly exuded a soft aura, illuminating the entire dense forest.
A purple escape light flew across the dense forest. On a purple flying sword in the escape light, Liu Ming in a green robe was looking around vigilantly.
Since he left the ruins, he followed the location marked in the Jade Slips of the young man surnamed Li and combined it with the records in the Sect's map.
According to his estimation, as long as he directly crossed this dense forest, he could directly reach his destination.
As for the situation in the dense forest, he had already released his Divine Thought to explore from afar. Those spirit insects were just the most common low level spirit insects. The lantern-like fruit could be used as low level feed for spiritual pets, but for Fei Er and Scorpion of the Crystallization Period, it was almost useless.
However, the vastness of this dense forest was far beyond Liu Ming's expectation. He had been flying on the sword for more than 4 hours, but he still hadn't seen the end of the dense forest.
Just at this moment, the space in front of them rippled. The entire space suddenly trembled as a unique spiritual energy drifted past.
Seeing this, Liu Ming made a gesture and the Bitter Wheel Sword under his feet made a clear sound. It trembled and stopped in the air.
He released his Divine Sense and swept it forward. He was surprised to find that somewhere a hundred miles away, there was a large area that had collapsed, and a large amount of Spiritual Qi was constantly gushing out.
Liu Ming muttered to himself for a moment before putting away the Bitter Wheel Sword. Stepping on a black cloud, he slowly flew toward the center of the Spiritual Qi fluctuation.
A distance of several hundred kilometers could be traversed in the blink of an eye. Only then did he discover that there was a towering tree with a diameter of several hundred feet in the center of the mountain that had clearly collapsed not too long ago.
At the root of the giant tree, there was a huge tree hole, and there were some traces of artificial destruction around it. It seemed that someone had already gotten here before them.
This was most likely the location of the ruins that Cultivator Li had told him about. However, it appeared that someone had already taken a step ahead of them. The nearby ground had been broken open from the inside out, and the cultivator had fled.
The golden insects on the ground were currently lining up to crawl into the tree hole as if there was something inside that was attracting them.
Liu Ming's expression darkened, but since he had already arrived here, he was naturally unwilling to leave empty-handed. After muttering to himself for a moment, he immediately landed at the base of the giant tree.
After he confirmed that there were no abnormalities in the surroundings, his figure blurred and he entered the tree hole.
As a result, when he entered the tree hole, he discovered that there was a completely different world inside. It was actually a large hall embedded in the giant tree.
The large hall was very spacious, and there were tables, chairs, and cabinets that were carved out of wood. Behind the large hall, there was a passageway that spiraled upwards and downwards.
Liu Ming narrowed his eyes and unconsciously released his Divine Sense to investigate. However, after his Divine Sense reached a hundred feet along the passageway, it was immediately blocked by some kind of restriction.
He had no choice but to go up the passageway first.
After some exploration, it turned out that along this spiraling passageway, there were more than a dozen inner chambers embedded in the giant tree.
The doors of each inner chamber had already been destroyed, but there was a small isolation restriction array at the door. No wonder his Divine Sense couldn't penetrate inside.
After Liu Ming thought about it, he returned to the door of the first inner chamber and stepped in.
This was a room that was around an acre in size, and there were a series of small dark chambers within it. Insect eggs and feeds of all sizes were scattered all over the ground, and it was quite clear that this had once been a secret chamber used to rear spirit insects.
From the perspective of the layout, at least dozens of kinds of spiritual insects had been raised here. However, it was a mess now. The dark room had already been looted. There were abandoned insect bags and beast rings everywhere. The golden insects that crawled in from outside the cave house were gathering densely, gnawing on the remaining dead eggs and feeds of the spiritual insects with relish.
After Liu Ming thought for a while, he waved his hand and collected the insect eggs on the ground. He then walked to the other inner rooms and searched them one by one patiently.
After a while, in the cave house hall, Liu Ming looked at the pile of spiritual insects and beasts corpses in front of him with a bitter smile.
This early comer plundered too thoroughly. Except for some corpses of spiritual insects and beasts that he was not interested in, there were only some dead eggs. There was almost nothing valuable left.
Even the 2 inner chambers at the top of the giant tree, which were suspected to be the bedroom and the training room, were also empty. There was not even a single spiritual grass.
Liu Ming, who got nothing, had to collect the spiritual insects and beasts corpses scattered around these houses, as well as the dead eggs of various insects and beasts. He hoped that these corpses and dead eggs could also be of some value. He could give them to the Sect to make up for the number in the future, or he could sell them as forging materials for some spirit stones. In this way, he would not return empty-handed.
After he put all the things in front of him into the Sumeru Ring, he walked down the spiraling passage.
As expected, there were also 5 inner chambers below, but the situation was similar to the inner chamber above.
However, just as Liu Ming walked into the last secret room and was about to collect the dead eggs scattered on the ground, Scorpion's voice suddenly came from the soul-recovering bag around his waist.
"Master, wait … The aura here is not right. As soon as I entered here, I couldn't help but tremble. It seems that there is a natural enemy that can restrain me."
Scorpion's words were full of deep fear.
"Natural enemy?" Liu Ming's expression changed slightly when he heard this.
"Master, I also feel a sense of unity aura here. Although it is a little weak, it still makes me feel very uncomfortable." In another soul-recovering bag, Fei Er also said with slight fear.
"Oh?"
He had already experienced Scorpion's treasure hunting supernatural power. Now that even Fei Er said so, this made Liu Ming feel a little strange. He hurriedly scanned the house again carefully.
Inside this spiritual beast house, there was a large piece of beast eggs with a faint golden glow scattered on the ground. As far as he knew, these were the eggs of a beastkin called the Three Crown Golden Rooster Beast, and there was almost no aura. They were obviously dead eggs.
Speaking of which, the Three Crown Golden Rooster Beast was a relatively common fire attribute spirit beast. Although it was quite rare in the Middle Sky Continent, it was not a rare thing. The general spirit beast trading market would sell this egg. One could be bought for more than a hundred thousand spirit stones.
After this beast was carefully cultivated, it could reach the strength of the Condensation Period in adulthood, and it was extremely fierce. It was usually purchased by the family or the Sect for the Condensation Period disciples to accumulate actual combat experience. It was impossible to bring any fear to Scorpion and Fei Er who had already advanced to the Crystallization Period.
Liu Ming carefully scanned the insect eggs with Divine Thought, but he didn't find anything strange, nor did he find the existence of a beast egg with a strong aura.
So he patted the soul-recovering bag on his waist, and a black and a green mist floated out. After condensing, the figures of Scorpion and Fei Er appeared.
"Since you two can sense its existence, bring it out." Liu Ming ordered directly.
"Yes, master." Fei Er and Scorpion replied in unison.
In the following time, the two spiritual pets began to bend down and carefully check the beast eggs in the room one by one.
After a while, Fei Er suddenly ran over to Liu Ming with a beast egg that glowed with a faint golden light in his hand.
"Master, I found it. It's this!"
Upon seeing this, Xie'er hurriedly tossed away the dead egg in her hand, and black Qi swept forth as she appeared beside Fei'er. She stared at the golden egg in Fei'er's hand and took a step back with deep fear in her eyes.
"Yes, master, it's this beast egg."
Liu Ming moved his fingers and picked up the beast egg from Fei Er's hand. He put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully.
The egg was slightly smaller than a chicken's egg, and it was a faint golden color. There were some faint white markings on the egg, and the aura it released was faint. It was somewhat similar to the holy beast egg he obtained from the Sea Race.
Apart from being a bit larger than a normal Three Crown Golden Rooster egg, there was no other difference. It was extremely common for beast eggs to have different sizes, so it was impossible to determine what kind of mutation it was.
Liu Ming swept his spiritual sense over the egg and found that it was completely chaotic without any abnormalities.
However, since Fei Er and Scorpion both had a strange feeling about it, he didn't dare to ignore it.
In the following time, he tried various methods, such as pouring his Fa Li into the egg or using special talismans to identify the grade of spirit beasts. However, he didn't get any clear results.
After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, Liu Ming helplessly shook his head.
"Master, we don't know what's going on, but this beast egg is …" Fei Er scratched his head with a face full of confusion.
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