At the beginning, I traveled through the wilderness, and I controlled the beasts to survive.

The scene inside the black spire was too weird, and Han Ning didn't want to stay nearby for too long.

After successfully killing a Shadow Reaper, he didn't hesitate at all, took the body and returned straight away.

The further away from the black spire, little Feilin gradually stopped trembling and returned to her original innocent and curious look. She licked her thumb and lay quietly in Han Ning's arms, as if what happened just now had never happened.

"I don't know what the strength of the two soul beasts in the black tower is... there must be something special about being protected by a group of C-qualified Shadow Reapers."

Although he was far away from the black tower, Han Ning was still curious about what he saw in the black tower.

Whether it is the architectural style or the layout inside, the civilization that built these buildings is very close to human aesthetics.

Unfortunately, it is too dangerous there and is not suitable for exploration yet.

After returning all the way to the quiet lake, Han Ning signaled Yin Yi to put the Shadow Reaper's body on the ground.

It can penetrate the stone gate and is immune to some physical attacks, but it is not invincible. It is not immune to psychic attacks. It will still die in the face of the overwhelming attack of silver ripples.

This Shadow Reaper is about 2 meters tall. The most exaggerated thing is their sickle-shaped limbs, which have no limb structure at all. They look like four extremely sharp pale blades.

It is more like a biological weapon than a living thing.

Han Ning estimated that its strength would not exceed the extraordinary limit, let alone the warrior level. Compared with other Shadow Reapers, it might be a "little guy".

However, the panel does not require the level of Shadow Reaper blood. The extraordinary level should be enough for Feilin.

He was not in a hurry to let Egg Pan cut up the body of the Shadow Reaper, but planned to keep its body and wait to bring it back to the academy so that the teachers could study how this kind of soul beast could be between the virtual and the real. conversion between.

Using the blood-sucking ability of the Vientiane Spiritual Silkworm, Han Ning drained nearly two-thirds of its body's blood before pulling out the sharp tentacles in his hands from its body.

The extracted blood showed a faint light green color, and under the irradiation of spiritual energy, it looked like a pool of illusory liquid, with sparkling waves.

Feilin on the side shrugged her little nose, with a look of longing on her face.

"You can't drink it yet."

Han Ning touched Feilin's silky hair, hugged her and stood up, looking around.

The most difficult thing to obtain, the blood of the Shadow Reaper, was obtained in a relatively smooth way, which made him feel relieved.

In addition to blood and some necessary materials that Aktu can provide, he currently lacks a material called "Dark Spring".

Compared with the previous materials, Dark Spring seems to be easier to obtain.

By searching through the inherited knowledge of the Insek tribe, Han Ning learned that the dark spring is actually a liquid containing a certain amount of dark energy and death energy, and the opposite is the "life spring".

Generally speaking, in places where dark energy is rich and many corpses are buried, it is easy for dark springs to be born. This is probably because the nearby water veins have been affected by the two energies for a long time and have undergone some magical changes under the baptism of time.

"Hidden Spring, isn't that where Feilin's body was found?"

Han Ning recalled it and found that the small pool where they met the Winged Demon last time fit the characteristics of a hidden spring.

Before leaving, everyone also collected some samples of spring water, but the quantity was too small, and so far, no research has been done to find out the reason.

"How far is the distance between where I am now and that deep pool..."

Han Ning looked at the dark valley bottom, thought for a while, and decided to use the "radar" of the spirit fusion method again, trying to find places with strong Yin Qi, but avoiding the direction with the most abundant Yin Qi.

Places with strong Yin Qi are more likely to have hidden springs. There must be more than one hidden spring in this huge misty valley.

He closed his eyes and entered a deep state of meditation. Under his mental perception, particles and air masses of various colors, large and small, appeared around him again.

The black ones are dark psychic particles.

Gray represents the energy particles of the undead.

Except for the place in the northeast where the Yin Qi is the strongest, the second strongest one is in the north.

So, Han Ning packed his bags, headed north, and set off again.

…

Han Ning was detecting and searching at the same time. Whenever he passed by a place with relatively strong Yin Qi, he would send ghost bees to investigate to confirm whether there was a hidden spring.

But after passing 4 places with strong yin energy in succession, there were no hidden springs in those places except where some dark soul beasts lived.

Han Ning was not discouraged but continued to search.

About an hour later, they passed through the sparse and dilapidated grassland, and a forest of pale bones, each one only a few to ten meters high, appeared in front of them.

This was not the first time Han Ning had seen the forest of dry bones made of the white bones of dead soul beasts. When he first entered the misty valley, he had seen similar scenes with other teachers and classmates.

After traveling hundreds of meters between white bones, two large collapsed white bones intertwined, causing the road ahead to become narrow.

"Easy!"

Feilin pointed at the gap left by the collapsed bones and screamed.

After walking for dozens of steps, a narrow passage that slopes slightly downwards and leads to the ground is gradually revealed under the feet.

At the end of the road, there is a small cave entrance that can only accommodate about three people, shrouded in mist.

A pair of sharp dragon horns on the top of the egg cake emits bright red light, suspended above the bone forest, and the thick dragon claws point to the bottom of the tunnel: "Chi Chi~"

At such a close distance, with Han Ning's mental perception, he could vaguely feel that there was a faint and cold atmosphere behind the cave entrance, slowly escaping along the black hole.

He closed his eyes, felt carefully for a while, and then said to the surrounding soul beasts: "Wanpan, you go back to the soul beast space first, and Yin Yi is responsible for exploring the way."

"Ji~"

The passage was too small, and Omelet had no choice but to let out a grievance and was taken into the spirit beast space by his master.

Silver Ripple shook its blades, the flashing light on its body became brighter, and took the lead to enter the passage.

Suddenly, dozens of salivating, head-sized "black crows" with jet-black wings and scarlet eyes flew out of the underground passage and blocked their way.

"Gah!"

The pupils of a group of crows were flashing with cold light, as if they were not welcome.

Han Ning took a closer look and saw that the leaders were three large crows shrouded in black mist and with high psychic fluctuations.

"Ye Ming Crow? Yin Yi, I leave it to you."

The silver ripples floated up slightly, and thick vines began to grow around them.

In the blink of an eye, it changed from a height of more than 1.8 meters to a "behemoth" with a height of 5 meters.

It clapped its hands and threw out many long, narrow and thick black vines that were tens of meters long, shooting towards a group of night crows in front of it.

At the same time, the air around Han Ning rippled slightly, and the space suddenly split open, revealing a pair of red dragon pupils.

A group of Night Crows faced Yinyi's attack. As soon as they reacted, they felt an unstoppable and powerful pressure pressing hard on their bodies.

"Gah!!"

Before dozens of Night Crows could resist, they were struck by thick vine whips and fell heavily to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, emerald flower thorns streaked through the air like a gust of wind.

Bang bang bang!

One after another, muffled sounds echoed in the quiet tunnel. Each Night Crow's feathers were broken, blood spattered, and it seemed that it was no longer alive.

After neatly dealing with the soul beasts blocking the way, Han Ning collected the crystals in their bodies and continued walking into the tunnel.

Entering the dark hole, a pungent smell of decay instantly hit the floor.

What came into view was a tattered, shapeless corpse of a creature lying on the ground.

Large, small, insects, beasts, all kinds of corpses of soul beasts that had long since decayed were piled together, and a strong stench surrounded the empty cave.

There were hundreds of night crows, large and small, surrounding the corpse, happily pecking at the rotten flesh on the ground.

"...There are so many corpses, the yin energy is indeed very strong..."

Han Ning covered his nose and looked around. He only saw a mess and filth. However, he did not see the dark spring he imagined. Instead, he entered the Ye Ming Crow's lair.

Their arrival undoubtedly alarmed more Night Crows.

In an instant, dense eyes suddenly focused on him and several soul beasts.

"Excuse me for disturbing you..."

Han Ning cursed secretly and was about to turn around and leave.

But at this moment, Feilin in his arms suddenly let out a cry, pointed to the center of the body, and stared at him with longing eyes.

"What's wrong?" Han Ning motioned to Yinyi and a few puppet soul beasts to stand in front of him and asked Feilin what he meant.

"Eee~Eee!" Feilin didn't know how to express it, she just kept sucking her thumb and making a delicious look.

"……Understood."

He nodded, kept the soul beast space open, and said to the egg cake with a head exposed, "Egg cake! Stop them!"

Continuously opening the soul beast space will continue to consume mental energy, but it will allow Egg Pancake to participate in the battle. This is a fighting method he discovered that is suitable for Egg Pancake in a small space.

"Jiji!"

The two tentacles in front of Yuan Bao's forehead instantly burned with boiling crimson flames.

The moment the flames burn.

All the densely packed Night Crows, which were smaller than one meter in size and the size of heads, suddenly burst into flames. They roared in pain, fell down on the spot, and quickly turned into ashes.

"Egg pie, release your heat!"

"Dragon Breath!" Han Ning shouted.

"Jiji!"

The egg cake let out a loud dragon roar and opened its mouth towards the Night Crows ahead.

In an instant, the dark cave was enveloped in bright red flames. The dark red fire light merged with the dragon's energy and blood, turning into a terrifying flow of particles that poured down.

Huhuhu~

The terrifying dragon's breath pours onto the earth wantonly.

Whether it was a newborn baby Night Crow or two giant Night Crows over 5 meters in size, their bodies were all stained with rich blood-colored flames.

The screams of pain and the snapping sounds of exploding limbs formed a symphony of death.

In an instant, the entire cave turned into a painful hell burning with flames.

The dragon's breath only lasted for 3 seconds, and the cave that was noisy just now fell into an eerie silence.

"Jiwu..." Egg Pancake shook his head and got back into the spirit beast space.

Although it seems cool to breathe dragon breath, with Egg Pancake's current spiritual energy reserve, it can only maintain the amount of spray for 3 seconds, which is still far behind Yin Yi's endurance.

The piled-up rotting corpses were burned by the high-temperature flames into charcoal that exuded a strange burnt smell.

The surging heat flow always surrounds the cave, raising the temperature inside by at least ten degrees Celsius.

At this time, Feilin pointed to the location under a pile of coke:

"咿咿~"

"You mean, there is something underground?"

"Easy!"

Feilin nodded and began to swing her snow-white feet again.

Worried that there were still Ye Mingya who had not been burned to death and would attack her, Han Ning did not let go. Instead, she hugged the little guy and walked to the coke pile under the protection of Yin Yi.

Tentacles shot out from his fingertips, pulling away the charcoal on the ground.

However... after the stinking corpse was moved away, nothing appeared on the ground. It was still a piece of rocky land covered with scorch marks.

"Err?"

Feilin was also a little dazed. She tried to tilt her head and kept wagging her nose towards the ground.

This time, Han Ning let go of his hand.

"Hey~"

Little Feilin stepped on the dark ground with her white and tender feet, pressed her body to the front, and sniffed something.

Then, her eyes lit up, she pointed to an area under her feet, and kept shouting at Han Ning.

"Easy!"

"You mean...there's something underground?"

"Hey~" Feilin nodded vigorously.

When it comes to finding things from the ground, rock-breaking ants are undoubtedly the most suitable.

He immediately dispersed the ghost bees responsible for detection and commanded the Vientiane Spiritual Silkworms to condense a rock-breaking ant and burrow into the ground.

From the perspective of the rock-breaking ants, Han Ning could clearly see that just a few dozen centimeters below the ground where they stepped, there was a pool of indistinct color liquid flowing, about 5-6 meters square. Not much.

The ground trembled slightly, and after a while, a circle of irregular cracks appeared around their feet.

It has to be said that the soul beasts of the rock type are really good at engineering. Whether it is demolishing houses, building buildings, or even mining mineral deposits... they can all play a great role.

Seeing this, Yin Yi shot out thick and long vines, extending downward along the cracks, wrapping around the separated stones, and struggled to lift them up.

Stones were lifted up one by one and fell to the side, revealing a cave that could accommodate one person.

Yinyi was the first to get into the hole.

Han Ning followed it closely and looked inside through the hole.

The pitch-black space was illuminated by psychic light.

Below is a space similar to a cave. At the bottom, a pool of transparent liquid surrounded by a light black mist appeared.

Under the brilliance of the silver ripples, the spring water ripples and sparkles, and there seem to be illusory faces crying and howling on the surface...

Han Ning took a deep breath, and the dense mist hit his face with a cold smell. For a moment, he felt a strange feeling of being deprived of human emotions.