"Tianque... this name is ordinary..."
Zhang Ning pulled out the giant sword, looked at the blade with some disgust, and then inserted it back into the ground.
"this……"
Li Baiyi didn't expect Zhang Ning's reaction to be so neutral, and all his words fell into place.
"Let's change our name in the future. Calling 'Panlong' or 'Juque' is much more domineering than your 'Tianque'..."
Zhang Ning murmured that he had made his own plan to change the name of the giant sword.
Li Baiyi wanted to say a few words, but he seemed to have thought of something, and his purple eyes were filled with sadness.
"That's all, as long as you can accept the inheritance of [Zongheng], changing the name of this sword is not a big deal..."
"Hey, by the way..."
Hearing what Li Baiyi said, Zhang Ning stopped talking to himself and asked.
"Although I promised you to accept the inheritance, what if I can't learn?"
"No, since you have been selected by Tianque, you will definitely be able to inherit the inheritance of [Zongheng], but..."
"Just what?"
Seeing Li Baiyi hesitate to speak, Zhang Ning subconsciously asked.
"It's nothing, I just feel that you don't have the sword spirit in you... Maybe you are more suitable for practicing swordsmanship..."
"Sword practice?"
Zhang Ning was stunned and looked at the giant sword in his hand.
He held it with both hands, raised it in front of him, and then swung it several times in a chopping motion.
"This giant sword can also be used as a sword wielder, it's quite handy..."
Seeing that Zhang Ning completely misunderstood what he meant, Li Baiyi was a little anxious and opened his mouth, preparing to explain in more detail.
But at this moment, a loud buzzing sound came from behind him, interrupting his words.
"Buzz——"
"Uh...what are you doing, little brother?"
Also attracted attention was Zhang Ning.
"Nothing..." 659 replied perfunctorily, still facing the two of them.
Like a child playing in the mud, 659's body squatting on the ground blocked most of the sight behind him, so that neither Zhang Ning nor Li Baiyi could see what he was doing.
However, judging from 659's gestures, it seems that he is digging something on the ground.
"What are you doing? Young man..."
Zhang Ning was curious, so he walked in to take a look and found that 659 was using his left palm as a shovel, repeating the digging action.
On the ground in front of him, a small pit with a small diameter but quite a depth had appeared.
During the excavation, a large amount of sand mixed with red particles was dug out of the hole and piled up into small mounds around the hole.
"You don't want to dig up the collapsed soil, do you? Don't bother, it's impossible."
Seeing that 659 kept digging holes, Zhang Ning thought that the other party wanted to open the road, so he opened his mouth to dissuade him.
Seeing that Zhang Ning misunderstood what he meant, 659 turned around and presented a handful of sand to Zhang Ning's eyes.
"No, I'm not trying to dig a channel, I'm just curious about these minerals. Speaking of which, do you know what these are?"
Glancing at the sand in 659's palm, Zhang Ning raised his eyebrows and spoke.
"You mean those glowing red sand grains, right? Those are spiritual crystal fragments. Have you never seen them before?"
"Spirit crystal fragments?"
Although 659 showed a puzzled expression on the surface, he actually felt enlightened in his heart.
These crystal minerals are indeed spiritual crystals!
"Yes, but there are just some debris here, and there is no formed spiritual crystal. But having said that, if there are large pieces of spiritual crystal, there may be spiritual crystal veins."
"If there are spiritual crystal veins, this place cannot be a hunting area. There is a high probability that it will be occupied by the other two tribes..."
It can be seen that Zhang Ning has completely regarded 659 as a rookie who has never seen much of the world, and by the way, he also taught him about the functions of spiritual crystals.
"If there are mineral veins, it is possible to produce complete spiritual crystals. The spiritual crystals can be fed to rice insects, and the rice insects that have eaten the spiritual crystals will be rich in spiritual energy."
"As long as you eat rice bugs, you can absorb these spiritual energies."
"You know about psychic powers, right?"
Having said this, Zhang Ning asked 659 as if to confirm.
"Well, psychic energy is the basis for ability users to use their abilities." 659 answered.
"Well... that's only half right. Psychic energy should be the contact of high-level ability users using their abilities. For ordinary ability users or lower-level beings, most of them don't need to consume psionic energy. It depends on your own physical strength.”
Zhang Ning added, and at the same time looked at the small hole dug by 659.
"If you want to look for mineral veins, I advise you to stop. Although there are a lot of spiritual crystal fragments in the snake's nest, there are no formed mineral veins, not even large pieces of spiritual crystal..."
"There is no formed vein?"
Hearing this, 659 raised his eyebrows.
Before starting to dig, he had already analyzed the psychic situation in the cave through a monocle.
The results shown are quite adequate.
If it was just these scattered debris that led to such abundant psychic energy, how terrifying would the formed veins of spiritual crystals be?
"Yes, it has been checked many times. Not only the human race, but the undead must have been checked many times too, right?"
With that said, Zhang Ning looked at Li Baiyi beside him.
"It was just a cursory check and there was no sign of the existence of mineral veins, so I left it alone..."
Li Baiyi responded first, then frowned and answered.
"Of course, the previous inspection did not find any royal mutant snakes in the snake nest. If I knew this, I would not enter the village even if I were killed."
"You undead people have a large territory, so naturally you won't spend much time checking a useless place like this."
Zhang Ning sneered, and his mood became a little cold.
Although the three of them are currently working together, in the final analysis, Li Baiyi is a general-level zombie, and they are human beings.
If the bad feelings born over more than ten years could be eliminated just because of a giant sword and a period of time together, then the human race and the undead would probably have joined forces long ago.
Faced with Zhang Ning's strange aura, Li Baiyi didn't say a word. He just lowered his head in silence, not knowing what he was thinking.
Just when Zhang Ning was about to get up and take a look around, a sudden change occurred!
The originally quiet underground trembled once again!
Although it was not strong, it still made the three of them feel panicked.
After finally holding on until the shock was over, 659 raised his face and glanced at Zhang Ning resentfully.
"Didn't you say that earthquakes would never happen again? What happened just now?"
Zhang Ning was also surprised and quickly checked the surrounding walls, but as before, there were no cracks on them.
It was as if the shock just now was just the illusion of the three people and did not really happen.
"It's not an earthquake... If it were an earthquake, with the intensity just now, the passage should have collapsed long ago..."
"And even if there is no collapse, there will be at least some cracks on the cave wall. How could there be no traces at all? Could it be..."
There were constant murmurs in the air, and Zhang Ning seemed to suddenly think of something and walked quickly to the collapsed mound.
He reached out and grabbed a handful of broken soil, twisted it in his hand and brought it to his nose to smell it.
Soon, Zhang Ning's expression changed.
"Sure enough! There are not only snakes in this den, but also that thing!"
"what?"
659 saw that something was wrong and asked quickly.
"A kind of companion fungus! I have only heard other wilderness hunters talk about it. How come there is such a thing in the snake's nest..."
Zhang Ning's face was complicated, and he was afraid that he had made a mistake, so he brought his nose closer and smelled it again.
"It's really that kind of fungus..."
"What kind of fungus is it?"
659 frowned and asked.
Although he understood most of the mutant creatures, he only did so with the help of a monocle.
From a practical perspective, as a World Breaker, he is just an outsider to this timeline.
Their understanding of many things is inferior to that of the local indigenous people.
"Snakehead mushroom, also called mutated snakehead mushroom!"
As soon as Zhang Ning finished speaking, several data streams flashed across the 659 mirror.
"Biological serial number: 1748"
"Biocode: Snakehead Fungus"
"Description: Fungal mutant, which is essentially a hybrid organism and cannot move. The mature snake-head fungus can produce umbrella-shaped fruiting bodies, which use various mutant snake corpses as nutrients."
"Warning: The snake-head fungus itself does not pose any threat, but the mutant snakes that accompany it will be greatly enhanced. Mutated snakes that have eaten the snake-head fungus can increase the probability of transforming into king-like mutant creatures."
"Warning: The growth process of snakehead fungi is quite rapid. The hyphae lurking in the soil will proliferate and expand irregularly, which can easily cause local earthquakes."
"Note: After the maturity period of this fungus, there is a probability that the fruiting bodies that have not been swallowed by mutant snakes will produce derivative 1748-1, code-named mutant snakeberry, which can cure most mutant snake venom after taking it."
"It turns out to be a snake-headed fungus..." 659 muttered.
It seems that this associated fungus has no other dangers besides causing local earthquakes, but why does Zhang Ning look so nervous?
Zhang Ning saw the confusion on 659's face and immediately explained.
"If it's just the snake-headed fungus, there's nothing to be afraid of at all, but the key point is that a king mutant snake has already appeared in the snake nest! The cockscombed iron-headed viper outside! Do you remember it?"
659 nodded upon hearing this.
"The snakehead fungus itself does not pose any threat, but it can increase the probability of mutant snakes transforming into kings!"
"With such a huge branch, I feel that there may be more than one king mutant snake!"
"You mean, we are likely to encounter another king-like mutant snake in this den?"
659 also realized the seriousness of the matter.
If it were placed outside, even ten snake kings would not pose a threat to him.
It's just a matter of keeping distance and firing ball lightning.
But in the narrow den, everything is different.
The distance cannot be increased, and using ball lightning attacks rashly will only cause the cave to collapse.
I don’t know if the Snake King is dead by then, but he is definitely dead anyway...
