“Although the techniques I learned aren’t top-notch, in terms of strengthening soul, I believe that no one in the entire southern wilderness is comparable to me. Don’t even think of getting information with soul search.” Zong Yan’s expression changed drastically when he heard this.
“Really?”
Liu Ming raised his brows and turned to grip Zong Yan’s soul. Strands of black air emerged from his palm and enveloped Zong Yan’s soul.
Zong Yan let out a heart-wrenching scream. The black air was trying to infiltrate his soul, but it was blocked by a layer of strange light.
After a full quarter of an hour, Liu Ming withdrew his hand with a gloomy expression.
Unexpectedly, Zong Yan didn’t exaggerate. The soul search really couldn’t invade Zong Yan’s soul.
“It seems that you didn’t talk big. Forcibly soul search will only make your soul burst.” Liu Ming squinted.
“Then, is sir agree on the deal I mentioned just now?” Zong Yan’s soul looked sluggish at the moment as Liu Ming’s soul search had worn away a lot of his soul power. He said weakly.
“Since you have this ability, you are naturally qualified to negotiate conditions. Okay, as long as you honestly tell the truth about the teleportation array, I can spare your life.” Liu Ming said flatly, and he seemed to casually put his hands behind his back. A Mountain River Pearl quietly appeared on his right hand in a flash. A mini blue dragon with eyes tightly closed could be faintly seen in the pearl.
With the slight movement of his fingers, waves of lights flew into the Mountain River Pearl. The blue dragon opened his eyes slightly, and his figure moved slightly.
“Okay. It’s a deal then. With your strength, I believe you won’t lie to me. I don’t need you to make any heart demon oath.” Zong Yan didn’t notice the movements behind Liu Ming, and he said happily after hearing the words.
“Okay. Tell me, where is the teleportation array?” Liu Ming said noncommittally.
“Actually, it’s in this abyss. I just said that I came here once, after being teleported from the Middle Sky Continent.” Zong Yan said with a smile.
“Oh, here?” Liu Ming’s eyes flashed, and he nodded in amazement.
The s.p.a.ce in the abyss here WAs indeed a little unstable, otherwise there would not be a s.p.a.ce node leading to the Middle Sky Continent in this stone forest.
“Then lead the way?” Liu Ming’s expression did not change at all.
A gray light flashed on the forehead of Zong Yan’s soul, and a powerful Divine Thought spread out. After a while, he said, “Judging from the terrain, it should be not far to the east of here.”
Liu Ming didn’t talk nonsense. He waved his sleeve and flew to the east with Zong Yan’s soul and Qian Rupin.
2 hours later, under the guidance of Zong Yan, Liu Ming came to a rolling black mountain range.
Looking around, the mountains were filled with gray-black mist everywhere. The evil qi here was quite thick.
“It’s here. The teleportation array is in an underground cave in the mountains.” Zong Yan’s soul said.
Liu Ming nodded upon. As he was about to land, a dozen strange gray bird flew out from the gray mist in front.
These strange birds had flat beaks and long wings. Their bodies were full of gray air. Except for a pair of pitch black claws on their abdomen, there were also 2 shiny claws on their wings.
The aura emanating from the strange gray birds has reached the Crystallization Period, but their intelligence seemed to be very low. When they saw Liu Ming and others, they charged toward them menacingly.
Liu Ming snorted and waved 1 hand. The purple sword light shot out and transformed into 36 sword lights around him.
The 36 sword lights turned into a purple sword net and enveloped these strange birds instantly.
Under the cover of the huge sword intent, these dozen strange birds felt the fear of death. They screamed in horror and wanted to flee to the distance.
But the purple sword net had blocked all their escape routes.
The sword net shrank and sliced the dozen strange birds into pieces without any resistance, turning them into minced meats.
Qian Rupin looked at Liu Ming, and Zong Yan also had a strange look.
“Let’s go, where is the entrance to that underground cave?” Liu Ming put away the Bitter Wheel Sword and asked at the same time.
“In a canyon in the mountains…” Zong Yan said quickly, pointing the way.
Liu Ming turned into a black light and flew down.
“Ho ho!” A deep roar suddenly came out of the gray mist, which was similar to the screams of the strange birds just now, but much deeper.
Liu Ming stopped.
The whistling sound was loud!
A huge black shadow shot out from the mist. It was a huge bird several times bigger than the dozen strange birds just now.
The giant bird’s body was covered with black feathers. Its wings were more than 60 meters wide. There were 4 huge strange eyes on its head, shining fiercely.
This giant black bird was an evil beast at the Real Pellet State. Its 4 eyes were fixed on Liu Ming while letting out a ferocious roar. It was full of killing intent.
The next moment, the wings trembled violently and launched countless wind blades toward Liu Ming.
“Ah!” Qian Rupin’s cultivation was only at the Condensation Period. Under the raging wind, her body suddenly became unstable. If Liu Ming hadn’t stood in front of her, she would have almost been torn apart.
The small figure transformed by Zong Yan’s soul was also startled.
“Court death!”
A hint of anger flashed on Liu Ming’s face. He launched a black air and turned it into a black light curtain, wrapping Qian Rupin and Zong Yan in it. At the same time, he waved another heavily. 8 Mountain River Pearls shot out and enlarged, smashing toward the giant black bird with terrifying power.
The moment the wind blades touched the Mountain River Pearls, they collapsed one after another after making a burst of metal collision.
Boom!
The first Mountain River Pearl hit the back of the giant black bird. There was a clear sound of bone cracking. The giant black bird let out a wail. Its eyes were full of horror.
Before it could escape, the remaining 7 Mountain River Pearls had already smashed down.
After a series of m.u.f.fled noises, the giant black bird’s body was already destroyed. It fell down like a stone without a hint of vitality.
Liu Ming waved his hand to retrieve the Mountain River Pearls, then he landed beside the giant black bird.
The evil beast’s corpse was full of useful resources. Especially its bones were extremely strong, which were excellent forging material. The value of a Real Pellet State evil beast was no less than that of a Real Pellet State beastkin. Even if he didn’t need it, he could bring it back to the Savage Ghost Sect.
When the Mountain River Pearls smashed just now, even a mountain collapsed. Although the giant black bird had also been smashed to death, its body remained basically intact, which showed its tenacity.
Liu Ming glanced at the giant bird’s corpse and was about to put the corpse into the Sumeru Ring, then he suddenly let out a confused sigh.
“Brother Ming, what’s wrong?” Qian Rupin couldn’t help asking.
“The cultivation of this evil beast has clearly reached the Real Pellet State, but there is no such thing as real pellet in its body, but it has such a thing growing in its head.” As Liu Ming murmured, he used Bitter Wheel Sword to split the giant bird’s head and took out a fist-sized black oval crystal stone.
This black crystal stone was cold. The smooth surface emitted a faint black light. There was no spiritual power fluctuation inside, but it seemed to emit a fluctuation similar to Divine Thought.
Zong Yan looked at the black crystal stone in Liu Ming’s hand with a sparkle in his eyes.
“Why, could it be that sir recognizes this crystal stone?” Liu Ming glanced at Zong Yan and said calmly.
“This is also my first time seeing this thing, maybe it’s a special crystal stone formed in the body of this evil beast.” Zong Yan said with a laugh.
Liu Ming smiled and didn’t ask any further questions. After playing with it for a while, he put it away and continued to fly forward.
The rest of the journey went much smoother. Under the guidance of Zong Yan, they soon came to the bottom of a canyon in the mountain range.
Zong Yan pointed to a flat gray stone wall at the bottom of the canyon.
“The entrance is here, but in order to prevent those evil beasts from entering and destroying the array, the dragon placed a few enchantments here.” Zong Yan said after thinking about it.
Liu Ming nodded. These enchantments naturally couldn’t stop him. They were dispelled by him easily.
Boom!
As the last white light curtain was shattered by Liu Ming’s punch, a cave entrance with the height of one person suddenly appeared in front.
Inside the cave was an acre-sized s.p.a.ce, it was filled with gray stones everywhere. There was a large open s.p.a.ce in the middle of the stone pile, on which were engraved countless patterns and colorful crystal stones, forming a rather ancient array.
“This is the teleportation array?” Liu Ming exhaled and said with twinkling eyes.
“Yes.” Zong Yan said without hesitation.
Liu Ming circled around the teleportation array a few times, frowning slightly. With his cultivation of the array, he really couldn’t see anything.
On the contrary, when Qian Rupin saw the teleportation array on the ground, his beautiful eyes fixed on the array patterns on the ground, and she couldn’t look away anymore.
Liu Ming glanced at Qian Rupin and smiled slightly. He was secretly glad that he brought this girl by his side. With this array master around, many things would be much easier.
“This ancient teleportation array seems to have lost its function, can it be repaired?” Liu Ming Divine Thought inspected the teleportation array, but he couldn’t sense any spiritual power fluctuations. Thus, he turned his head and said to Zong Yan.
“There is a big difference between the ancient teleportation array and the current teleportation array. I studied for a long time before I developed the method to use it. To activate this teleportation circle, a magic weapon called Miluo Token is needed.” Zong Yan replied without thinking.
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