Chapter 23 Entering the Tunnel
Zhaoming did not respond to the threat from the wild dog demon, but just continued to walk towards the entrance of the cave, and Shura hurriedly followed.
The heat wave at the entrance of the cave was as if a fire dragon was lying in the cave to breathe and breathe. Zhaoming was not uncomfortable. This heat was a pleasure for the fire-swallowing demon. He was just a little worried about Shura.
Fortunately, although Shura frowned, it was not a big deal. The two walked into the entrance of the cave one by one.
Seeing the two of them like this, the wild dog demon sneered and stopped talking. After the two of them entered, they invited the others to hide between the jungle and the rocks.
The heat in the cave is amazing. After walking for a distance, the light gradually becomes dim. The cave is quite large, with a horizontal length of ten meters. There is a dark golden luster on the walls, unlike stones, but like metal condensation.
Such a cultivator could not dig out such a cave. It was thought that the power of the earth veins exploded, and lava broke through the strata and left behind.
Zhaoming was worried that there was an invisible danger around him, so he quickly dispersed his spiritual consciousness and looked around. As soon as he was moving, he suddenly felt that his spiritual consciousness seemed to be flying in something, and rushed out of distance with a swish.
After careful sensing, he couldn't help but be shocked. The range of his spiritual sense sweeping increased dozens of times than under normal circumstances. Although the exploration range behind him reached the entrance of the cave, he could explore the situation ahead, and the situation of the cave that was thousands of meters down was clearly investigated by him.
Could this cave have the effect of expanding the spiritual consciousness? Zhaoming thought to himself, but suddenly heard Shura say behind his back: "Zhaoming, slow down, it's dark, beware of danger."
"It's okay, there is no danger here, it doesn't matter if you can't see it, just use your spiritual sense to check it." Zhaoming hurriedly said to Shura.
Shura shook his head, "I can't find my spiritual sense."
Can't find it out? Zhaoming was stunned. The situation seemed to be completely opposite to his own, so he immediately asked carefully.
Shura briefly explained that the heat in the cave was amazing. Although Zhaoming felt as comfortable as the spring breeze, it was different for him. Moreover, a strange power was condensed in the cave. As soon as Shura's spiritual consciousness was protruded out of the purple palace, it would be forced back by that strange power, which was completely useless.
Weird power? Zhaoming was puzzled, especially his spiritual consciousness was not forced back like Shura, but instead became stronger, which naturally made him wonder.
I immediately looked around carefully and swept it with my spiritual sense. After a moment, I immediately discovered something bizarre.
There are Taoist patterns everywhere around the cave, but they are hidden in the strata, appearing and scattering in all directions like spider webs.
My spiritual consciousness has not been enhanced, but it will not be imprisoned in the body like Shura and cannot be released. Once it is protruded outside the body, it can be connected to those Taoist patterns, and receive the situation around a certain range of Taoist patterns into my mind, so it feels like it has increased dozens of times.
This Taoist pattern symbolizes the power of flames. I am a fire-swallowing demon, so my spiritual consciousness is not only not affected, but can also be like a fish in water, making it easier to use.
There is no other reason, so I can only explain it like this. However, this is definitely a good thing for Zhaoming. Others cannot explore their spiritual sense, but they can know the situation inside. Even if something big happens outside, they hide in this cave. Unless someone with great supernatural powers comes, no one will do anything to him.
"Follow me! I feel it's unbearable and say it." Zhaoming hurriedly pulled Shura and walked deep into the cave.
Judging from the situation of the Elephant Demon, he naturally knew that the environment was dangerous. However, Zhaoming still chose to go in, but he was not acting voluntarily. He was a fire-swallowing demon. Such an environment was quite beneficial to him.
The only thing I was worried about was Shura. The two of them were already low in strength. He was a blood demon. Although he could not be completely restrained by the flame, he would never have much ability to adapt to the flame.
Shura cannot be left at the entrance of the cave, otherwise the guards will see him once they come in, and they will inevitably cause trouble. So he is going to find a suitable place for Shura to hide, and then go to find the Red Light Flame Stone by himself.
The depth of the cave is unknown, and the heat becomes more and more terrifying the further down. After walking more than a thousand meters, Zhaoming could only feel two demon corpses that were being dried by heat, and nothing else. If he wanted to dig the Red Light Flame Wave Stone, he might have to reach ten thousand meters.
It was ten thousand meters below, and I don’t know how hot it was. No wonder the elephant demon digs three red light flame wave stones and turns into that shape. This is thanks to his good strength. If it were other demons, they would probably be directly burned to death by the power of earth fire in the cave.
After walking down nearly a thousand meters, he suddenly felt Shura tremble all over his body. His spiritual sense swept over and found that he was covered in blood and sweat, his face was extremely ugly, and it was obvious that he could no longer adapt to the heat here.
But he was born with a stubborn temper, and maybe he didn't want to seem useless, so he would rather die than say anything. If he hadn't been able to tremble just now, Zhaoming, who was determined to check the situation ahead, did not notice it.
He was shocked and immediately took Shura back hundreds of meters. He felt that his condition had improved, so he stopped.
"Zhaoming, am I useless?" Shura was a little depressed.
He said he wanted to dig the Red Light Flame Stone, but before he even saw the ore veins, he could no longer hold on.
Zhaoming smiled and patted his shoulder: "Who was not weak? We are just not strong enough now. This is the land of flames, and I am the fire-swallowing demon, so it's okay. You are much stronger than me outside. I almost died even after passing through a swamp. It's not thanks to you."
This made Shura's face relax a little, and Zhaoming instructed again: "You stay here to meditate and regulate your breathing. Although the heat in the cave is terrible, it is not without benefits for practice. It can be used to temper the true qi in the body."
The spiritual energy outside is much thinner than the real dragon's collar, but perhaps because of the earth veins below, the spiritual energy is more abundant than the outside. The further down, the more abundant the spiritual energy there is. At this time, the richness of the spiritual energy in the place where the two are located is not as good as the real dragon's collar. If you can master a suitable degree, you will definitely practice faster than outside.
Immediately, some of the flame body quenching techniques in the furnace body refining technique were told to Shura. Although it may not have much effect on him, it is better than nothing.
"If you feel that your body can't bear it, go back a little longer and I'll go downstairs and take a look. You don't have to worry about the Red Light Flame Stone. I'm the Fire-Swallowing Demon, so there should be no problem."
After repeated instructions, Zhaoming continued to move forward alone.
He had never seen the red light wave stone, so he naturally didn't know where to dig it up. However, seeing that there were no traces of excavation along the way, I thought I would have to go deeper.
After walking for a while, I saw two corpses in my spiritual sense, baked by the heat in the cave, and were about to turn into ashes.
After moving forward for a long time, after a depth of ten thousand meters, the cave in the spiritual consciousness also changed greatly.
The stone wall is no longer a dark and golden iron block, but has turned red because it is attacked by heat.
The cave no longer walks one road to the end, but there are many forks, extending deeper into the ground like several roots.
The Taoist patterns here are more obvious and dense, which greatly increases the scope and sensitivity of Zhaoming's spiritual sense exploration.
He chose a random path to continue moving forward, and soon he sensed the existence of the demon clan from his spiritual consciousness.
He was pitch black, with a slightly long mouth, and had fangs on both sides. He looked like a wild boar monster. Judging from his breath, he was stronger than the green snake monster who chased him and Shura, but he was not much stronger. He should be in the realm of an immortal.
At this time, he was pressing his hand on the hot stone wall, enduring the heat coming from above, and constantly polishing the true energy.
This is the vein of earth fire. Unless it is a high-level weapon, metal will not enter, and tools such as jade cannot dig such stone walls, so they can only be polished and excavated with true energy.
Fortunately, after the stone wall was burned red, the difficulty of polishing was reduced a lot. The wild boar demon dug out a large stone of one meter from the stone wall without much time.
Put it on the ground, then carefully use the real qi to carve it, with indescribable expectations on your face.
After all the large stones in a meter radius were polished, they quickly turned into ashes, and they immediately turned into disappointment, and they began to repeat the previous actions.
Zhaoming frowned. He thought that the red light flame wave stones were inside these red stone walls, but now he realized that he was thinking too simple.
There should be red light flame wave stones in the stone wall, but the amount is definitely not much. Even though I am not afraid of the heat here, it will definitely not be so easy to dig up the red light flame wave stones.
Bypassing the wild boar demon and swept his spiritual sense, I found many other monsters that were mining. The number was not large, but there were also dozens of them, all of whom were doing things like wild boar demons.
He was too unaware of the situation here, and Zhaoming was wondering whether to ask one of them, but suddenly he heard a demon clan ahead shouting: "Dig, dig it!" There was an uncontrollable ecstasy in his voice.
After looking carefully, he saw a red stone the size of a fist in his hand, with black patterns flashing faintly, which was somewhat similar to the one that the Elephant Demon had taken before, but not exactly the same.
As soon as the sound fell, a gust of wind blew and the stone disappeared. A leopard demon with dark bodies appeared in front of the demon clan, holding the red light wave stone in his hand.
"I dug this, give it back to me!" The demon clan whose stone was stolen roared loudly, furious.
The Black Panther Demon sneered: "Is that so? You dug it, but it belongs to me!"
When his palm flipped, the stone disappeared and had been taken away.
The demon clan whose stones were snatched away roared: "I'll fight with you."
Chigang's rules are to dig up five pieces and leave here. He finally dug up one piece. When he was excited, he was careless and was snatched by the black panther demon. How could he not be angry?
The two demon races had similar strengths and immediately fought in this hot cave.
These demons are probably not good at dealing with them. They ask them about the situation, but they still don’t know what will happen.
Zhaoming immediately gave up the idea of inquiring, avoided other demons, chose an authentic tunnel without anyone, and walked slowly.
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Chapter completed!