According to Wu Gandang, those spiders moved so fast that they were surrounded without even noticing.
Xu Wen did not dare to wander into such an unknown place, so he used his spiritual consciousness to explore the cracks in the cliff.
But the rocks have a great influence on the consciousness, and these spiders are obviously hiding very deep and cannot be easily detected.
After searching for a while, nothing was found. Xu Wen no longer wasted his efforts. With a flash of yellow light, he activated his earth escape technique and escaped directly into the rock.
At the same time that Xu Wen was using his Earth Escape Technique, in a deep and unpredictable cave, a giant spider with a body the size of a human and each foot nearly ten feet long suddenly opened its eyes.
Amidst a strange squeaking sound, countless large and small spiders rushed in all directions like a tide.
Not knowing anything about this, Xu Wen activated his Earth Escape Technique and kept wandering underground, concentrating his eyes and observing everywhere.
After a moment, he suddenly raised his hand to pick up something, and then escaped from the ground.
It was an inconspicuous stone. The upper half was the most ordinary sandstone, while the lower half gradually turned into translucent crystal stone, surrounded by a faint aura.
He raised his hand and touched the crystal a little, and with a flick of his magic power, a faint aura was drawn from the crystal and wrapped around his fingertips.
Compared with the stone Wu Gandang brought back, there is obviously much more spiritual energy on this stone.
With joy in their hearts, this further confirmed Xu Wen and Wu Gandang's suspicions——
There may be a spirit stone mine here.
Spiritual stones are essentially a combination of spiritual energy and rocks. According to the amount and purity of spiritual energy contained, they are divided into four types: low-grade, medium-grade, top-grade, and top-grade.
Anyone with magic power can turn magic into a spirit and inject it into rocks to form spiritual stones.
However, this process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and no one would do it unless it was a last resort.
Most of the spiritual stones in the cultivation world are produced from spiritual stone mines.
The spirit stone mine is the cohesion of spiritual veins. The spiritual energy and the surrounding rocks slowly combine under natural conditions, and finally form a vein-like thing containing a large amount of spiritual stones.
According to the size of the spiritual veins, the spiritual stone mines are divided into four types: micro, small, medium and large, which can produce four types of low, medium, upper and extreme spiritual stones respectively.
Of course, this only refers to the highest-grade spiritual stone that the spiritual stone mine can produce. No matter what kind of spiritual stone mine, the main output is low-grade spiritual stone.
The formation of each spiritual stone is similar to the improvement of a cultivator's realm. It will automatically take shape after condensing a certain amount of spiritual energy.
Therefore, spiritual stones are universal. As long as they are of the same level, there will not be much difference due to different places of origin.
The formation of any spiritual stone will completely extract the surrounding spiritual energy, forming a zone that isolates the spiritual energy.
Therefore, unlike ordinary mineral veins, Lingshi mines are not continuous, and there are irregular intervals between each Lingshi mine, which brings many difficulties to the discovery and mining of Lingshi mines.
Among the various arts of cultivation, there is a profession that specializes in searching for various spiritual minerals, called a prospector.
However, this profession is only cultivated by large sects, and the success rate of prospecting is not high. Most spiritual stone mines are discovered accidentally by practitioners.
This is the case with the spirit stone mine where Xu Wen is currently located.
The spiritual stone in the process of being formed was discovered by Wu Gandang and brought to Xu Wen, which attracted Xu Wen's further investigation.
Otherwise, I don’t know how many years and months it will take until the prospectors from Bazhou Mountain find this place.
After escaping into the ground again, he spent some time and found several partially crystallized stones. Based on their crystallized parts, Xu Wen quickly roughly determined the direction.
On the cliff on the left, it slopes towards the mountain and leads directly to the middle bottom of the mountain.
But these things alone cannot determine the existence of a spirit stone mine. There is still the possibility of coincidence. Only by going deeper and discovering some spirit stones can the final determination be made.
What made him a little strange was that despite searching for such a long time, he still found no sign of the spiders that attacked Wu Gandang.
Even if he occasionally deliberately exposed his aura, the other party did not show up to attack him.
However, Xu Wen was not reassured by this, but instead became more vigilant.
Monsters are cunning, cruel, stubborn and bloodthirsty. They will never leave their lair unless absolutely necessary.
They might be watching him somewhere, and they might not be preparing to launch a surprise attack while he's inconvenienced.
Repeatedly performing earth escape techniques to search for crystal stones consumed a lot of mana and spiritual consciousness. Xu Wen did not go straight to the location of the mineral vein, but escaped from the ground and meditated to restore his mana.
Of course, he had another intention in doing this, which was to see if he could hook out those spiders.
But what disappointed him was that the spiders just didn't appear for some unknown reason.
With his mana restored and no longer waiting, Xu Wen suddenly used his earth escape technique and went straight to the depths of the mine.
Spirit stone mines are usually buried deep underground, and he must escape there in one breath.
The brilliance circulated, and under the brilliance of the earth escape technique, the thick earth seemed like gentle water waves, still driven straight in by Xu Wen, a swimming fish.
At a certain moment, he suddenly felt that there was something strange about the rocks around him, as if something was coming out of it.
Before he could think about what was going on, several rays of black light had broken through the brilliance of Earth Escape Technique and struck directly at his head.
He was horrified. He was hundreds of feet underground and was using his earth escape technique with all his strength. He didn't expect anything to attack him.
Caught off guard, he only had time to turn his head, and several black lights struck him hard on the chest with a disgusting fishy wind.
The golden and jade armor made a brilliant display, blocking all the black lights.
This thing appears very strangely, but it is not very powerful and cannot break through the protection of the golden silk and jade armor.
But the fishy smell was very irritating. Xu Wen held his breath and turned his magic power, and the stuffy feeling got better.
Angry in his heart, the green-scaled sword flew out and slashed at the black shadow.
With a few crisp sounds, the black shadow was cut down, but their master quickly fell into the dirt without dying from his injuries.
Under the brilliance of Earth Escape Technique, Xu Wen faintly saw the silhouettes of spiders.
He was immediately shocked. These guys actually knew the earth escape technique and were extremely rare earth-walking spiders. No wonder Wu Gangdang didn't find any trace of them at all.
The underground is completely different from the ground. Most of the mana is used to maintain the earth escape technique, and very little mana can be used for attack and defense.
Otherwise, once the earth escape technique is broken, the ground will become his biggest enemy without the opponent attacking.
Even if he can activate it again, the gap of a moment is enough for a master to kill him many times.
After a moment's hesitation, Xu Wen changed direction and fled to the ground.
The earth escape skills of these earth walking spiders definitely cannot be obtained through practice, but are their bloodline spells.
Although their level is not high, bloodline spells are much easier to cast. It is definitely not the best idea to fight these beasts underground.
The Earth Escape Technique was flowing, and Xu Wen rushed towards the ground. The next moment, hundreds of Earth-Walking Spiders rushed out, and the thick forest-like Earth-Walking Spiders' legs slashed across the rocks, all stabbing Xu Wen.
The blue-scaled sword rose violently, its brilliance was as bright as practice, and it killed dozens of earth-walking spiders in one encounter.
The mirage dragon soul crystal exploded with brilliance, and Xu Wen's spiritual consciousness was stimulated to the maximum. He swept away the remaining dozens of earth-walking spiders and their brains exploded.
In a flash, Xu Wen rushed past their obstruction and was about to leave.
The next moment, a cold consciousness suddenly rose from the ground and slammed into Xu Wen.
This spiritual consciousness was so powerful that Xu Wen had to stop the momentum of Earth Escape, gather all his spiritual consciousness, and collide hard with the opponent.
Like a steel arrow hitting an iron plate, a cry of pain suddenly came out of the darkness. Xu Wen's eyes were filled with stars, and even the brilliance of the earth escape technique almost disappeared.
The mana turned rapidly, and it took him a while to regain his composure. He still wanted to escape, but hundreds of earth spiders appeared in front of him, all rushing towards him.
Although they are all earth spiders in the Qi refining stage, the underground is their home ground, and earth escape is as natural to them as eating and drinking.
Even if his magic power far exceeds that of his opponent, it is impossible for him to resist so many earth-walking spiders at once.
His magic power turned sharply, and his Earth Escape Technique reached its peak. He quickly backed up dozens of feet, and then rushed sideways, trying to rush out of the ground from the other side.
The next moment, the cold consciousness rushed out again and hit hard.
Shocked and angry, Xu Wen immediately understood the other party's intention.
The opponent seemed to know that he was no match for him on the ground, so he had been holding back until now, hoping to kill him underground while he was in Earth Escape.
"Let's see if you die or I die!"
Xu Wen had never been targeted like this by the demon clan. Xu Wen was furious. The mirage dragon soul crystal reappeared, and his consciousness turned into a heavy hammer, hitting the opponent's consciousness hard.
Another strange cry came. Although the opponent's spiritual consciousness was strong, his methods were very monotonous, and he obviously suffered a greater loss.
But Xu Wen was also dizzy. When he recovered, the surroundings were once again filled with countless small earth-walking spiders.
The Earth Escape Technique was used again, and he began to escape continuously on the ground, trying to break out of the ground, but the Earth Spider tried its best to stop him.
There were many little demons chasing and blocking him. Xu Wen tried several times in a row but could not break out of the siege.
Seeing his opponent's speed getting slower and slower, there seemed to be a hint of joy in the consciousness attacking Xu Wen.
At a certain moment, his spiritual consciousness attacked again, and he had a head-on confrontation with Xu Wen.
When he woke up from his drowsiness and thought that the other party would run away like before, he suddenly discovered that the human had actually changed direction and rushed towards him.
He hurriedly ordered countless descendants to stop him, but found that in the previous battles, all the little earth-walking spiders had been led to the other side unknowingly, and there was no time at all.
Pushing the Earth Escape Technique to its strongest level, Xu Wen threw himself like an arrow into the depths of the ground.
After several clashes of consciousness, he had roughly figured out where the other party was.
If he can use his spiritual consciousness to attack here, the opponent cannot be too far away from his position. Earth Escape Technique can probably hold him there.
Of course, this is a bit risky. If possible, he would rather be conservative and escape directly from the ground.
However, the other bastard eats the weight and is determined to kill him underground and not let him leave. Taking risks is an inevitable choice in desperation.
The various things in the ground passed in front of Xu Wen, and the shining stones flashed across the escape light from time to time, and they were clearly spiritual stones.
This is indeed a spirit stone mine, so it is no longer unusual for the Hidden Spirit Flower and Earth Spider to appear here.
They were attracted by this spiritual stone mine and gathered in these places.
(End of chapter)
