Mortal Seeking Immortal

Ye Zhou flicked his sleeves, and the yellow sand covering the storage ring was blown away. The storage ring was carried by a spiritual power and flew into his hand.

Ye Zhou released his spiritual sense to scan the storage ring in his hand.

Lin Yunshan on the side said: "What have you found? This storage ring looks like it was just abandoned in the desert not long ago."

Ye Zhou said lightly: "The things in the storage ring have been emptied. The soul imprint on it did not dissipate by itself, but was forcibly erased by someone."

After that, Ye Zhou handed the storage ring to Lin Yunshan. Lin Yunshan released his spiritual sense to scan it and found that it was just as Ye Zhou said. His expression instantly became solemn: "This shows that what Han Sanniang said is true. The evil cultivators are really arresting monks who have left the city in the Ghost Desert. What exactly do they want to do?"

Ye Zhou shook his head and said to Lin Yunshan: "Search around before nightfall. Maybe there will be discoveries."

Lin Yunshan nodded.

The two agreed that they would return here to meet up in two quarters of an hour, regardless of whether they had gained anything or not. They then explored the surroundings separately, centering on the location where the storage ring was found.

Because the desert would occasionally blow up waves of yellow sand, covering the traces left before, this exploration was somewhat difficult for Ye Zhou and his companions.

A quarter of an hour later, Ye Zhou came to a severely weathered rock wall, on which there were some traces of fighting.

He stopped and his eyes fell on an open space below the rock wall, where a large amount of khaki-colored debris was scattered, and there seemed to be something buried under the debris.

Ye Zhou pinched his fingers, and the wind blew away the debris on the surface, revealing the true appearance of the object below, which turned out to be a six-scaled black armored snake with a dehydrated body.

The Quicksand Six-Scaled Black-Armored Snake is very common in the Ghost Desert. It is good at lurking under the yellow sand and waiting for an opportunity to attack passing monks. However, due to its fast speed and the amazing defensive power of the scales covering its body, it will drill back into the ground if it fails to hit. Therefore, it is very difficult for ordinary monks to kill it.

Ye Zhou waved his sleeves and shot out a flying sword. The flying sword lifted the huge corpse of the Quicksand Six-Scaled Black-Armored Snake into the air. The corpse of the Quicksand Six-Scaled Black-Armored Snake was like a boneless one, and its body hung straight down.

"There are no obvious external injuries on the surface of the corpse."

Ye Zhou murmured, releasing his spiritual sense to explore inside.

The next moment, Ye Zhou frowned slightly: "All the bones in this snake's body have disappeared! How is this possible?!"

Ye Zhou carefully explored and found some tiny traces of gnawing in the body of the Quicksand Six-Scaled Black-Armored Snake.

"These are traces of bites by spirit insects."

Like to gnaw the bones in the body of prey, Ye Zhou immediately thought of a kind of social spirit insect living in extremely yin places, ghost maggots.

"The climate in the Ghost Desert is hot most of the year, which is not suitable for ghost maggots to live. Ghost maggots need to absorb the mysterious yin energy to survive. The ghost maggots that killed the Quicksand Six-Scaled Black-Armored Snake here must have been raised by a cultivator."

As far as Ye Zhou knows, due to the cultivation method, righteous cultivators usually do not raise ghost maggots, which need to absorb the mysterious yin energy. The ones who raise ghost maggots must be the evil cultivators living in the desert.

Ye Zhou released his spiritual sense to scan the rock wall.

Based on the traces of fighting left here, it can be roughly inferred that there were three cultivators fighting here. One cultivator was leaning against the rock wall to resist, and the other two cultivators were attacking from the left and right.

While they were fighting, the Quicksand Six-Scaled Black-Armored Snake that had been lurking underground for a long time suddenly jumped out and was about to attack the cultivator standing on the left to besiege, but was unexpectedly killed on the spot by the ghost maggots raised by the cultivator.