Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

As soon as these words were spoken, the hall fell silent.

After a moment, the 'Senior Brother Du' said, "Junior Brother Zhu, you're making things difficult for me. How could I possibly know where the True Person is!"

"Junior Brother Zhu" gave a dry laugh and said, "Senior Brother Du, among us few foreign cultivators, you are the most trusted by Elder Qi. If you don't know, who else would!"

"Senior Brother Du" emphasized his tone, saying, "Junior Brother Zhu, it's best not to inquire about the True Person's whereabouts. This is a top-level secret. Even among the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Demon Abyss, few are qualified to know."

At this time, several other people chimed in, saying that among the cultivators of the Demon Abyss, one should be cautious in words and actions, and just follow orders. Why ask this and that, only to arouse suspicion.

The group then changed the topic, discussing anecdotes and interesting stories, but no longer talking about the upcoming war.

Zhang Yuanjing listened for a quarter of an hour, but it was all trivial matters, so he withdrew his spiritual sense and moved towards the palace next door.

He continuously explored several halls and stone chambers. Some were just places to store miscellaneous items, some were inhabited by Foundation Establishment cultivators, and some had one or two Nascent Soul cultivators inside, but they all seemed to be meditating and cultivating, not speaking.

It was difficult to find a room with voices, and they rarely mentioned war deployments, the layout of this place, formation entrances and exits, or the taming of demon birds.

After an hour, there was a rustling sound from the soil again. Those carp rat demons were coming again.

At this time, more than an hour had passed since he killed the demon core realm carp rat demon. If the sound made by the carp rat demon before its death was to summon its companions, then these demons were a bit slow in coming.

Of course, this also meant that the signal sent by the carp rat demon before its death was not directly to the cultivators, and without the command of a cultivator, the reaction of this group of rat demons would naturally be much slower.

Zhang Yuanjing understood this, and heaved a sigh of relief. He swept his spiritual sense over, and they were all Spirit Opening realm carp rat demons, a large number, about seventy or eighty.

They burrowed through the soil, making quite a bit of noise, and the Nascent Soul cultivators above would definitely be able to detect it.

However, these carp rat demons must have been active in the soil a lot in the past, so the cultivators above would at most check with their spiritual sense and then ignore them.

Zhang Yuanjing had the experience of dealing with carp rat demons twice before, so he immediately went down dozens of feet, stopping at one hundred and twenty feet in the soil.

At this distance, for most Nascent Soul cultivators, they had to concentrate their spiritual power to extend their spiritual sense down, and the range they could check was also quite limited.

As soon as he moved, the carp rat demons all became excited and increased their burrowing efforts several times, quickly approaching him.

He communicated with the Primal Stone, filling it with mana, and remained still.

Before long, five carp rat demons burrowed to the side of the Primal Stone and began to scratch the Primal Stone with their claws. One impatient one even opened its mouth to bite.

The Primal Stone was in a protective state, very hard, and the surface was smooth. Whether scratching or biting, it had no effect and caused no damage to the Primal Stone.

It's just that this guy's spirituality has greatly improved after advancing to the second level. Being scratched and gnawed by this group of ugly, dirty rat demons, it was very unwilling and kept sending him thoughts, wanting to take action.

Zhang Yuanjing naturally did not allow it. It was still unclear whether this group of carp rat demons had come spontaneously after receiving the signal from the demon core realm rat demon, or whether they were driven by a cultivator or some other demon beast. Zhang Yuanjing wanted to take this opportunity to investigate.

In less than a quarter of an hour, a total of eighty-three carp rat demons had burrowed over, surrounding the Primal Stone, constantly squeezing for position, and occasionally bumping into the outer shell of the Primal Stone, making this spiritual stone very distressed.

Zhang Yuanjing turned a blind eye to the dense rat demons close at hand, and his spiritual sense only roamed back and forth within a hundred feet around and above, trying to find clues.

At the same time, he had to constantly communicate with the Primal Stone's thoughts to appease its emotions.

This actually made him discover that since devouring the gray particles extracted from those refined strange insects, the spirituality of this stone had grown a lot, and it even had very human-like "emotions."

This meant that it was not far from giving birth to spiritual consciousness like a Xiantian spiritual treasure.

From this, he also thought that he would need to communicate with this stone with his spiritual thoughts in the future to help it improve its spirituality and give birth to spiritual consciousness as soon as possible.

The carp rat demons, seeing that they could not bite or scratch the Primal Stone, began to release poisonous gas.

This was a kind of innate ability of this rat demon, especially powerful in the soil. It could penetrate the soil and make the prey in the soil unknowingly fall victim.

Zhang Yuanjing had the Primal Stone to protect him, so he was not contaminated at all.

It was just that the Primal Stone suffered, being shrouded in this strong, fishy, and smelly poisonous gas. Although it had no nose and could not smell the odor, it felt that this thing was turbid and very uncomfortable based on its spirituality.

If Zhang Yuanjing had not strictly ordered it not to act rashly and repeatedly comforted it, this stone would have quickly fled this place.

After a quarter of an hour, just as Zhang Yuanjing thought that this group of rat demons had come here spontaneously, two "hissing" sounds suddenly came from the soil above.

The sound was very small. If Zhang Yuanjing had not been carefully monitoring the movements above, he might not have heard it.

With just these two sounds, all the carp rat demons trembled and stood still in the soil, not daring to move at all.

Zhang Yuanjing's expression became solemn, and he knew what was coming—a strange insect!

Currently, strange insects have one common characteristic, which is that they are good at avoiding cultivators' spiritual sense and can approach cultivators silently and launch surprise attacks.

Of course, in terms of innate abilities, they are also very different from demon beasts and are even more difficult to deal with.

However, what he was worried about was how to quietly clean up this strange insect. Moreover, it must be captured alive.

Otherwise, the person who raised this strange insect would immediately know that something had happened and thus deduce that an enemy had come into the ground.

Before, he killed Han Rangyuan, which had already alerted the cultivators here. However, they probably would not have thought that he could sneak in here.

If something happened to the strange insect, the other party would definitely increase the protection of the ground a lot. At that time, it would be difficult to quietly snatch the sound transmission array.

While he was pondering, two more "hissing" sounds came, this time already close by.

The carp rat demons that covered the Primal Stone densely immediately dispersed, hiding several feet away, but none dared to leave directly.

After a breath, a ball of shadow emerged from the soil, round and rolling, like a yarn ball, but its surface was covered with sharp thorns less than an inch long, the tips of the thorns were golden yellow, and there seemed to be liquid flowing on them.

Although this insect beast burrowed through the mud, it was clean and free of dust.

Its eyes were very small, located in the center of the sphere, and its mouth was at the very bottom, only the size of a broad bean.

It is not known what talents this insect has. But judging from the reaction of the carp rat demons, this insect must be very powerful in the soil, making them unable to resist at all.

Zhang Yuanjing felt a great threat from the golden yellow liquid on those inch-long thorns.

This made him hesitate, wondering whether to let the Primal Stone swallow this strange insect into its belly and subdue it with the Yin-Yang Creation Furnace.

In such a small space, he only had one chance. Once he failed, the consequences would definitely be very ugly.