Starting from the Hall of All Souls and heading west, passing through the bustling central area where there are many monks, the environment below gradually becomes colder and quieter.
Sitting cross-legged on the broad back of the golden feathered eagle, Mo Juren kept looking down while thinking. This is the true gathering place of spiritual veins in Spirit Beast Mountain. Among the continuous mountains and ridges, there are unknown number of Foundation Establishment disciples, and even the cave of Elder Jie Dan.
Naturally, he would not choose his base camp here. It is too restrictive, has low freedom, and cannot hide any secrets. Wang Ping was smarter in this regard and chose a remote location further away.
This reminded him that the area near the other party's cave seemed to be a good choice. Moreover, the other person's character is trustworthy and we can get along with him for a long time in the future. There are many conveniences in being close to each other.
Of course, there must be suitable spiritual veins there, otherwise, everything will be in vain.
Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated and stretched out his hand to pat Xiaojin's back. After receiving the order, the latter flapped its wings suddenly, turning into a golden stream of light and flying through the air.
The area where Wangping Cave Mansion is located is a continuous valley with dense forests, numerous mountains, and few human footprints. This place is a bit far away from the sect, so the spiritual veins nearby are rarer than other places.
At Xiaojin's speed, it only took less than half an hour to fly there, and finally landed slowly on a mountain top.
Mo Juren looked around for a while and thought to himself, with so many hills here, there shouldn't be only one spiritual vein in Wangping Cave Mansion, right?
He was looking forward to it in his heart, but the movements in his hands were not slow. He took out a silk thread and tied the double-pupiled rat, and then let the other person out after eating and drinking.
The pair of pupil rats were extremely fast and had a slim body. As soon as they hit the ground, they turned into a yellow shadow and disappeared from sight. If it weren't for the pull of the silk thread in his hand, he might not be able to track the other party.
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Time flies, and two days have passed in the blink of an eye.
The two-eyed rat has been searching since it was released. During this period, it returned several times to eat and rest before setting off again. Unfortunately, there has been no result until now.
Mo Juren, who was following behind with a silk thread in hand, secretly complained in his heart, you are also a double-pupiled rat, and I am also a double-pupiled rat. Look at them, and then look at you, there is really no comparison.
Complaining is just to relieve the boredom in his heart. He still likes the double-eyed rat in his heart. Although this little guy may not be big, he works very hard. In addition to eating, drinking and taking a short rest for two days, the rest of the time was spent searching hard, which was no less difficult than him.
I thought to myself that when the search is over, I must reward the other person well.
Another half day passed, it was evening, and the sky was a little dark.
Mo Juren, who was walking on the mountain road, suddenly had a look on his face and felt that the thread in his hand seemed to tighten. Before he could think about it, the thread moved again, as if he had discovered something, and kept pulling forward.
Mo Juren reacted instantly and fled quickly in the direction pointed by the thread. After a while, he had flown to a certain mountain wall, staring at a fist-sized hole on the ground below the mountain wall and thinking silently.
You are a first-level spiritual beast, a double-eyed rat, not a land rat. How could you do such a thing of burrowing into the ground? Don’t you think it’s a disgrace to your two-eyed rat clan?
At this time, the thread in his hand was no longer pulling. It seemed that the other party had stopped somewhere.
"It shouldn't be right?" Mo Juren frowned, and suddenly, as if he thought of something, he murmured, "Could it be that you really discovered something?"
Random guesses were of no use, so he took out a flying sword-like magic weapon and started slashing towards the entrance of the cave.
The hole in the front section is relatively narrow, no different from an ordinary mouse hole. However, when it reached a distance of about ten meters, it actually became wider and wider. After dozens of meters, a wide mountain passage was revealed.
"Predecessor Cave Mansion?"
The moment he saw the passage, Mo Juren's heartbeat suddenly accelerated. It can be seen from the stone walls on both sides of the passage that this place was obviously dug manually. From the traces left on it, we can also infer that it must have taken a long time.
Taking out a luminous orb, the passage suddenly became brighter. Without further delay, he continued to explore. However, out of caution, he still took out several spiritual talismans and clasped them in his palms in case of emergencies.
The passage is very long and gradually goes downwards, as if it is going deep underground. When walking to a certain location, the temperature suddenly dropped sharply. He could clearly feel the cold air surrounding him. If his physical body was not strong, he might not be able to bear it.
"What on earth is this place? Why is there nothing strange outside? Once we cross a certain boundary, the temperature immediately changes so drastically? Could it be the formation?"
With doubts and confusion, I continued to move forward at a steady speed and continued for about 20 minutes before stopping. At this time, looking at the scene at the end of the passage, I was stunned.
He really guessed that this place was indeed a cave left by previous generations.
After crossing the stone gate that had been destroyed for some time, what came into view was a large stone room, which was very simple and empty. The stone wall at the top is densely inlaid with countless luminous stones, illuminating the entire space extremely brightly.
The area in the center of the stone chamber is a circular pool with a radius of about two meters. There is a small fountain in the center, which is continuously spewing milky white spring water upwards. What's even more strange is that the spring water seems to be extremely cold, making the two-eyed rat who had already arrived here shivering from the cold.
"Spring of Spiritual Eyes! It's so big!" Mo Juren was overjoyed when he saw the fountain. He didn't expect such a spiritual thing to exist in this cave. It’s no wonder that even though the double-eyed rat was frozen like this, it still stubbornly hid at the edge of the pool and refused to leave.
After taking a few steps closer, I suddenly felt that the spiritual energy was getting stronger and stronger, and I was about to lean over to investigate. But at this moment, he suddenly noticed a skeleton sitting in a corner of the stone room.
A burst of cold air rushed out from behind, and Mo Juren felt shocked, and he clasped the magic talisman tightly in a defensive posture. However, after waiting for a long time, nothing strange happened.
"Totally dead?" Mo Juren guessed in his mind, but still did not dare to be careless. This is the world of cultivation after all, and weird things can happen. There are not too many examples of the body being destroyed but the soul still existing.
After waiting for a while, there was still no reaction from the skeleton. With a sudden move, Mo Juren activated a fireball talisman and threw it instantly.
"boom……"
The moment the talisman came into contact with the skeleton, it immediately turned into a huge fireball. However, what surprised him was that the skeleton did not hold on at all and directly turned into a ball of fly ash, scattering all over the ground.
"It looks like he is really dead!" Seeing this scene, Mo Juren felt relieved a little. He waited until the fireball was extinguished before he cautiously stepped forward. Looking around among the ashes, he was suddenly attracted by a square jade box the size of a palm.
"What's this?"
