Even though Yun Jinfan was holding a sword, she didn't dare to move for a long time. She was still in front of Minluo and Chen Chuan. The escaped bat demon approached her first. Seeing it getting closer and closer, her eyes widened and her face turned pale. It's getting whiter and whiter, and I can already smell the bad breath of the bat demon from a close distance.
"Junior sister Yun! Do it quickly!" Chen Tian also shouted.
"I...I...I...Ah!!!" Yun Jinfan was forced from many sides and had no way to escape. He closed his eyes tightly and shouted, then slashed forward with his sword without moving.
Suddenly, a dazzling sword light appeared like daylight. Zhao Ning paused, glanced sideways, his heart shrank, and quickly penetrated into the cracks in the cave. The sword light split dozens of feet away, splitting the bats along the way. Scattered into pieces, the sword light passed slightly in front of Zhao Ning until it hit the cave wall, and large pieces shook off, forming a new depression.
The sword light dispersed and the cave became silent.
Zhao Ning came out of the crack, and the ground was in a mess. Mingluo and Chen Zuan were stunned and lost their minds. Yun Jinfan still maintained his fearless appearance of wielding his sword.
Zhao Ning took a good look at Yun Jinfan's sword for the first time. It was a spiritual sword as thin as a cicada's wing. It was transparent and crystal clear, glowing with a light purple light. The hilt resembled an ancient mythical beast and was hollowed out and carved, making it more lifelike.
This is not like a spiritual sword that kills enemies and monsters, but more like a gorgeous decoration.
However, the forbidden spirit patterns on the sword are flowing and entwined, which is far from the commonly seen earth evil restrictions.
Above the spiritual weapon is the spiritual treasure, which is refined with the thirty-sixth level of Tiangang prohibition.
Yun Jinfan peeked with one eye and saw that everything had stopped. He was surprised and happy while holding the sword, "I...I am so powerful."
Mingluo swallowed, looked at Chen Di, and walked up hesitantly.
"Junior sister Yun, you are really amazing. In the first round of the competition, we only heard the junior sister's stunning performance. Now we are really eye-opening."
Yun Jinfan didn't respond in time and seemed to be distracted.
Zhao Ning walked towards Mingluo and the two, "Senior Sister Ming and Senior Brother Chen, where did they come from? They were teleported into the secret realm. I didn't see you two."
Mingluo waved his hand, "I originally thought that everyone would be teleported to one place, but I didn't expect that there would be several teleportation locations, and the General Affairs Hall would have to randomly test them."
"There are thousands of roads and caves here. It's not like a maze, it's better than a maze. You don't know what kind of spiritual beast you'll encounter when you turn around." Chen Tianhou said fearfully, "When we were exploring, we almost fell into the snake cave, and only our spiritual sense swept through it. As we passed by, we saw seven or eight peak-level ink pythons, as well as densely packed low-level snake demons. Fortunately, we ran fast. If we were noticed, we might not be able to escape even if the secret slip protection was used."
"We are unlucky. What happened to you? You stabbed the monster bat nest. There were so many monster bats that they almost gnawed you alive."
Zhao Ning didn't answer and only looked at Yun Jinfan. Mingluo and Chen Tian also looked over.
Several people's eyes were focused, and Yun Jinfan reacted no matter how distracted he was.
"Ah...what?" He then replied, "I looked at the silver sand all over the floor in the cave and thought it was some kind of treasure, so I went in to take a look and picked up a hosta."
She took out the things from her sleeve pocket and showed them to them. The style of hosta was very ordinary, and it was an ordinary decoration in women's hair salons.
"Perhaps one of the disciples left it behind." Mingluo didn't pay attention, but rubbed the silver sand attached to the surface of the jade pendant, "Hey, Kunli silver sand has actually formed. Hurry up and get some back. You can buy it at a good price."
With that said, Mingluo and Chen Tian walked towards the Bat Cave.
Yun Jinfan was confused and asked Zhao Ning, "What kind of spiritual stone is this fluorescent Kunli Silver Sand worth? I see it everywhere."
Zhao Ning walked forward and followed the two people in front of him leisurely, "Kunli Silver Sand is essentially luminous sand. It is formed after hundreds of years of infiltration with fire elements. It is an indispensable medicinal material for refining fire-attribute elixirs."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yun Jinfan had already rushed to Min Luo and Chen Tian, "Senior Sister Ming, I want it too!"
Just standing at the entrance of the cave, I was almost dazzled by the silver equipment on the ground. The night-light sand was probably paved dozens of feet deep, and the Kunli silver sand was mixed in it.
Mingluo and others simply put them in storage bags, while Yun Jinfan followed behind and was very busy.
Zhao Ning looked around the cave. Obvious paw prints and traces of bats could be seen above the cave. There were countless holes on the top, and there were some young bats peeping out of the holes.
"Let's leave early. The bats here have not been cleared to prevent accidental regeneration."
Chen Tian stood up, glanced around, nodded, and told Mingluo and Yun Jinfan to "don't be greedy for too much."
Mingluo looked at the ground sadly, knowing that he couldn't stay long, so he asked Yun Jinfan, "Where did you see the hosta just now?"
Although the jade pendant is ordinary, there are only disciples of our sect in the secret realm. There may be some reason why the jade pendant is left behind for no reason. There is no harm in paying more attention.
Yun Jinfan pointed to Zhao Ning's side, "It's three steps to the left of Zhao Ning."
Zhao Ning was close and subconsciously took a few steps in that direction. The night-glow sand on the ground was as usual, with only the traces of the hosta left by Yun Jinfan.
After thinking for a while, he hit the Qingfeng Jue. The breeze blew on the surface of the ground, and layers of luminous sand were lifted up. There was nothing unusual about it.
The breeze could barely sustain a breath, and the seven or eight breaths of wind did not stir up anything. Mingluo and the other three had already reached the entrance of the cave, but they did not want to take their last breath. When Zhao Ning was about to leave, a piece of fabric the size of a fingernail was exposed.
Zhao Ning's expression condensed, and he made a secret to cast a spell. His spiritual light looked into the bottom of the luminous sand, and a corpse rolled out like a rope.
"Dead man!" Yun Jinfan screamed and hid behind Min Luo.
"How could it happen?" Minluo shouted in surprise.
"Han Ying?!" Chen Tian caught the corpse's appearance at a glance and called out the corpse's name. He strode closer, squatted next to the corpse, and checked with his spiritual power, "It has been dead for a long time."
"Senior Brother Chen knows her? Could it be that she was one of the first senior sisters to come in when the secret realm appeared?" Zhao Ning asked.
Chen Tian nodded, "Exactly. I'm afraid I'll encounter a group of bats alone after I come in, and I won't be able to escape. Han Ying and I recruited immortals into the sect in the same year, and we also had morning classes together. I heard that he was already at the seventh level of Qi training last year. ,Pity."
Zhao Ning glanced at the corpse, her eyes passed over his waist and cuffs, and she frowned slightly.
"Senior Sister Han Ying's soul lantern remains, I wonder if anyone in the sect has ever checked it."
"Junior Sister Shen, are you suspicious?" Mingluo walked up and said, "I heard that among the first batch of disciples who came in, they all died under the tide of spirit beasts. It was not man-made."
"How come Senior Sister Han Ying's storage bag, identity token, and all her accessories are missing?"
"No wonder it looks strange at first glance. I remember that Junior Sister Han had a jade bracelet with an east bead embedded in it, which could be used to store and withdraw spiritual objects. It was also missing." Chen Chuan murmured, raised his head and speculated, "Could it be that someone who came here earlier took it from us? gone."
Mingluo frowned, "This bat lair, if we hadn't killed them all together just now, we wouldn't have been able to get in easily."
Speaking of this, she glanced at Yun Jinfan with strange eyes. Yes, there were so many bats, how did Yun Jinfan pick up the hosta.
Yun Jinfan froze, she couldn't tell the secrets and...
She rolled her eyes in a circle, raised her hand and waved, "It's not me, I really came in by accident. I was thinking that the fire spirit power here is very strong. Didn't Senior Brother Jia Rui get a red fruit in the secret realm? I also thought If you want, I just fumbled over, and I don’t know why those bats didn’t notice me at first.”
Listening to her explanation, the three of them exchanged looks.
Zhao Ning thought, maybe it wasn't the mysterious man who lured her here, and it wasn't Yun Jinfan who alarmed the bats, but the hosta.
The hosta still retains the spiritual energy fluctuations in front of Han Ying.
Zhao Ning asked Chen Tian, "I heard that Senior Brother Chen works in the Outer Punishment Hall. I wonder if he knows the secret method of Yuan Guang Retrospective Jue."
"It's true that I know a little bit, but I'm not proficient enough. I can only go back ten breaths."
"It's longer than the Soul Lantern Relic, and it can also cover more situations at the time."
After hearing this, Chen Tian nodded, made secrets with his hands, silently recited the incantation, fluttered his hand gestures, and spread circles of seals over the corpse, absorbing the last trace of breath remaining on the corpse.
Then, the round light turned into a mirror, reflecting the scene at that time.
The scene is looking back.
In the last five breaths before his death, all he could remember was the swarm of bats covering his body and the painful screams that made no sound.
From the ninth to the sixth breath before death, a swarm of bats flew towards him in the light of fire.
On the tenth breath before death, several strange figures dimly appeared behind the burst of fire.
The clothes are casual, the expressions are twisted, and the sarcasm is full of greed.
It's a casual cultivator.
Chapter 106
"Why would a casual cultivator appear in the secret realm?!"
Mingluo shouted in shock, "I remember from the appearance of the secret realm, to the mission of the outer sect, until today, the sect's little competition, the sect has never disclosed the secret realm of Ten thousand caves to the outside world. Where did the casual cultivators come from?"
Chen Tian could only maintain the round light retrospection method for ten breaths. Zhao Ning asked him to use it again. His eyes repeatedly looked at the scene of the last breath, not only the unfamiliar figures, but also the completely hazy corners blocked by the firelight.
Yun Jinfan didn't understand what they were surprised about, "Maybe there are other entrances. After all, this secret realm was born."
Chen Tian couldn't sustain the technique for too long, so he stopped when Zhao Ning didn't say anything.
He explained to Yun Jinfan, "Isn't it strange that junior sister doesn't understand? This is the rule of the world of cultivation. After the secret realm appears and belongs to the sect, there will be Master Jindan or even Master Yuanying to block other entrances, and the only entrance may be located in In the sect's station, or simply sealed in the teleportation compass using secret methods, in short, once it is classified as a sect resource, it will not be open to others for use."
This rule of the world of cultivation is extremely overbearing. Even though Chen Tan and Mingluo know this rule, they do not know its original meaning.
Zhao Ning knew a thing or two when she listened to Qin Keyuan's explanation of the situation in the world of cultivation in Zhaori Mountain. She remained silent, not because she didn't question, but because it was not their turn to question the cultivation world.
When Yun Jinfan heard this for the first time, his expression was particularly exciting. He opened his mouth to argue, but somehow he swallowed the words.
In the end, there was only one murmur left, "It is impossible to say that he is a real person, and the Master is unreliable."
Zhao Ning glanced at her, not so much acknowledging her words, but rather trying to capture the hint of the mysterious man from her words.
But Mingluo and Chen Zhuan didn't know this, and they were naturally in awe of powerful people. Their expressions changed and they shouted at Yun Jinfan in unison.
Yun Jinfan curled his lips in grievance.
Zhao Ning did not get involved in their argument. She put Han Ying's body into a storage bag alone, and then looked at the cave again, inspecting it inch by inch.
If Yun Jinfan hadn't been exposed, she would have stayed away early to avoid trouble, but now Yun Jinfan vaguely told her a clue.
——Zhu Guo is here.
She walked to the rock wall, explored with her spiritual power, and sensed with her heart, but she did not sense the hidden space.
Zhao Ning walked around the cave. Mingluo was impatient with Yun Jinfan's concept of not being allowed to live in the world, so he simply avoided her and went to find Zhao Ning.
"Junior Sister Shen, did you just see you collecting Han Ying's body?"
Zhao Ning paused and explained, "Of course I want to bring Senior Sister Han's body back to the sect. Firstly, I want Senior Sister Han to return to the sect and rest in peace. Secondly, there are differences in the secret realm, and Senior Sister Han is a witness."
Mingluo nodded and did not refute anything. Perhaps this inquiry was just to get rid of Yun Jinfan, who randomly picked a topic. Seeing Zhao Ning inspecting the surroundings, he asked "Is there anything unusual?"
Zhao Ning pursed her lips slightly, and was about to shake her head when suddenly her thoughts jumped and her gaze went up to the top of her head.
The rugged rock top and dense bat caves make your scalp numb at first glance, but you can look around and just see the whole.
Zhao Ning raised her lips and said, "Senior Sister Ming, do you think this nest on the head looks like a formation?"
Mingluo was stunned for a moment and looked up. The more he looked, the more terrified he became. "Is it possible that someone is raising something on top?"
She subconsciously took two steps back towards the entrance of the cave.
The voices of the two of them were low. Yun Jinfan, who turned to "discuss Taoism" with Chen Tian, should not have noticed, but he seemed to be reminded and abruptly interrupted the conversation with Chen Tian.
He glanced in the direction of the two of them, and finally couldn't help but get closer, "Zhao Ning, Senior Sister Ming, what are you talking about?"
Zhao Ning didn't look at her and just joked, "Thousands of these bats are only the first level. They can't contain the aura of heaven and earth. There are very few insects to eat in the cave. What do you think they can eat?"
