sbdcsierra Chapter 118 Winning Fish
Chapter 118 Winning Fish
The two tried their best to restrain their inner ecstasy and silently walked out of the huge cave in the belly of the mountain. The precious Gengjin Stone had been carefully put into Zhang Liang's pocket. This stone was invaluable to the two of them - for Zhang Liang, it could be used to refine his own life magic weapon, and for the little golden monkey, it was expected to help it break through the current bottleneck of cultivation and successfully be promoted to a third-grade spiritual beast.
Not long after, Zhang Liang, the little golden monkey, and more than a dozen Tianzong disciples came out of the cave together. They had tied up the spiritual peach tree and could easily lift it up and take it away. On weekdays, they might just carry the peach tree and cut down trees to clear the way. Although the speed was a little slow, it would only take a few days to get out of the forest. But now, they couldn't do that, because such an action would leave too many traces and easily attract others to track them. Although it was not certain that someone would come to cause trouble, Bei Mingzi still decided to act cautiously. After all, what if there was really an ancient relic hidden nearby?
Most of the cultivation methods in the world today are derived from the inheritance of ancient relics. Even if those ancient methods may not be fully adapted to the current cultivation environment, there are often many precious ancient treasures preserved in the relics. In the past hundred years, Bei Mingzi has only found Zhang Liang as the one who has inherited the ancient heritage, but he judged that Zhang Liang did not inherit from the ancient relics because Zhang Liang has never left Xinzheng City in these years and has not had any special treasures on hand. Everything seems to be logical and traceable.
Leaving the Tianzong disciples to rest in place, Bei Mingzi and Zhang Liang immediately sneaked into the dense forest. "Brother Taoist, this won't work. The forest is too dense and it's hard to investigate clearly. You can fly, right? Take me up to the sky and have a look!" Zhang Liang suggested after observing for a while.
"Okay, but I can only stay in the air for a short time. I don't think I can last long with you." Bei Mingzi replied.
"Just take a look!" Zhang Liang said readily.
Bei Mingzi said no more, grabbed Zhang Liang's shoulders, and flew straight into the sky. People call practitioners like Bei Mingzi "land immortals" because they can achieve short-term flight without relying on any external objects for a certain period of time.
In just a moment, the two of them had already reached a height of a hundred feet, and could clearly overlook the surrounding land for dozens of miles. "The feeling of flying is really wonderful!" Zhang Liang couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Stop sighing. When your cultivation level improves, you will be able to do this. Now, look around and see if there is anything unusual!" Bei Mingzi urged.
Zhang Liang immediately collected his thoughts and began to carefully observe the ground from the air. Soon, he found something wrong: "Brother Taoist, the landforms in this area do not seem to be naturally formed. Compared with the mountains in the distance, the terrain here is very strange, like a huge tomb..."
"You're right, it does look like a big tomb, especially that cliff, which looks like a tombstone!" Bei Mingzi echoed.
"Then let's go down and continue digging along the cavity in the mountain. Maybe we can find something!" Zhang Liang suggested decisively.
"Let's go!" Bei Mingzi took Zhang Liang back to the original place without hesitation.
Afterwards, the two continued digging in the original direction. Zhang Liang was in the front, turning the hard rock into soil, while Bei Mingzi was behind, moving the soil away. The two worked very efficiently. Soon, they dug more than two miles deeper.
At this moment, Zhang Liang suddenly stopped and took out an object from the rock. It was a piece of bluestone only a few feet in size with obvious traces of human intervention. It was carved with a huge creature that looked like a fish but had bird wings, but part of the statue was incomplete.
"This is Yingyu. It has wings on its body and is good at controlling water flow. It is a strange and ferocious beast in ancient waters!" Bei Mingzi looked at the bluestone and explained in a low voice.
"Keep digging!" Zhang Liang's heart was so excited that he didn't even have time to catch his breath, and immediately continued to dig at the mountain wall.
Gradually, the area they dug was no longer all hard rock, but a mixture of sand and gravel. Before long, as they continued to dig deeper, traces of human activity became more and more obvious, and they even dug up a few useful pieces of metal and spiritual objects.
"Let's take a break. We don't know if there is any danger inside. We need to conserve our energy!" Bei Mingzi reminded.
"Okay!" Zhang Liang understood the logic and immediately took a few pills to restore his true energy. He sat on the ground cross-legged and meditated to regulate his breathing.
Not long after, Zhang Liang recovered and was about to get up when he suddenly felt the earth and rocks around him begin to shake.
"Be careful!" Zhang Liang immediately shouted alertly.
Bei Mingzi's reaction was equally quick. Almost as soon as Zhang Liang finished speaking, his finger had pointed to the left side of the mountain wall and instantly released a beam of energy.
With a "puff" sound, an unidentified beast similar to a pangolin was pierced through the body by Bei Mingzi's finger force and died on the spot.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Liang felt more movements coming from the earth and rocks.
"Oh no, there's more than one. Everyone be careful!" Zhang Liang drew out his sword and became nervously alert.
As expected, a few moments later, more than a dozen pangolin-like beasts emerged from the soil and pounced on the two. Fortunately, the strength of these beasts was not strong, only equivalent to the level of first-grade spiritual beasts, and they were quickly killed by Zhang Liang and Bei Mingzi.