Chen Lin stood at the entrance of the cave for a while, then turned and left.
After returning to Black Horn City and wandering around for more than ten days, he felt that even if the group had explored deeper, they should have come out, so he went back to the cave.
He first took out a crow puppet, controlled it to fly in and take a look, and then followed it in.
There was no light in the cave, it was dark and damp, and the ground underfoot was not flat.
However, these were no big deal for a cultivator who was building a foundation. He took out a glowing stone and moved forward with the faint light.
The cave is winding and goes down all the way.
The crow puppet led the way in front, and Chen Lin followed behind. They walked deeper and deeper. A layer of water droplets appeared on the rock walls on both sides, and puddles of water appeared in the low-lying areas under their feet.
In addition, he also found that the deeper he went, the colder it became. It was not an ordinary drop in temperature, but a feeling that made one's soul chill.
“Chichi!”
Suddenly, a strange cry came from the depths of the cave.
The sound is not only harsh, but also makes people feel terrified.
Immediately, several monsters that looked like large bats appeared in the crow puppet's field of vision.
Just as Chen Lin was about to take the puppet back, his vision was suddenly interrupted and the crow puppet had been destroyed.
However, he is now a foundation-building cultivator, and this little bit of mental damage has no effect on him. He hangs the top-grade spiritual weapon, the Red Fire Sword, in front of him, and when the first black shadow rushes up, he slashes with the sword!
"Bang!"
When the sword fell, there was no blood splattering. Instead, the monster exploded and turned into a ball of black gas.
What surprised Chen Lin even more was that the black gas was immediately absorbed by the next monster. This monster increased in size out of thin air and rushed towards him fiercely!
Chen Lin immediately swung out another sword.
The sword moved freely and accurately slashed the monster, but this time it failed to kill it with one strike. It took another strike of the sword to kill it.
Just like before, this monster exploded with a bang and turned into a ball of even denser black gas, which was immediately absorbed by the third monster that rushed out.
After the absorption, the monster became even larger and its momentum soared. In addition to this monster, there was also the sound of flapping wings in the cave, which was both harsh and frightening.
Chen Lin did not dare to kill again, but instead cast a defensive talisman, forming a light shield around his body.
No one knows how many of these things there are, and they become stronger the more they are fought. If a certain number of them are fused, it is possible that they could reach the strength of a Jindan cultivator.
The defensive talisman is of advanced level two and can withstand attacks from the late stage of foundation building. After activating it, Chen Lin felt more at ease and started to think about solutions.
But he soon discovered that the defensive shield was barely able to resist those ordinary monsters, but the big guy that had merged with the black energy slapped it several times with its sharp claws, and the shield began to shake.
"snort!"
Chen Lin snorted coldly, turned his wrist, and the golden silkworm net appeared in his palm. Then he pinched the magic spell, and the golden cocoon turned into countless golden threads and disappeared into the air.
The next moment, a huge golden net was formed, wrapping all the monsters that rushed out.
"receive!"
As soon as Chen Lin thought about it, the golden net tightened quickly, wrapping all the monsters together, making strange chirping sounds.
Seeing this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that it is still possible to capture them alive. They will not explode on their own, nor will they bite and devour each other.
Although the crisis was temporarily resolved, Chen Lin was still at a loss. These things could not be kept in the golden silkworm net forever. How to deal with them was still a problem. Moreover, he had not caught them all. There was still the sound of flapping wings deep in the cave.
He tried many methods but couldn't find a way to completely kill the monsters in the golden net. Instead, he blew up a few more of them. The black energy was swallowed up by the strongest monster, making it become like a big withering monster. In its frantic struggle, the golden silkworm net was about to break.
Seeing this scene, Chen Lin didn't dare to conduct blind experiments anymore. Hearing the sound of flapping wings getting closer in the cave, he planned to retreat first, study it clearly, and then explore again.
Just as he was pulling back, a monster suddenly rushed out from below. He didn't dare to use flying swords, talismans or other means, so he pointed his finger in desperation.
“Plop!”
The strange bird fell to the ground.
Chen Lin looked at this scene in astonishment. This time he didn't explode!
In the sight, the monster's body on the ground began to fade and disappear, leaving behind an inconspicuous black bead.
The Soul-Destroying Finger is actually effective
Chen Lin came closer with a strange look on his face, picked up the black beads by wrapping them with his magic power, and examined them carefully. After finding nothing special, he took out a jade bottle and temporarily put them away.
Then, he attacked the monsters struggling in the golden silkworm net with all his might, and soon the monsters disappeared, leaving only a small pile of black beads.
The largest one among them was the size of a quail egg, emitting a slight strange fluctuation.
Chen Lin was pleasantly surprised, thinking that there is always someone better. At the same time, he complained that Mu Linglong had not marked such important information.
Although the black beads could not merge with each other, he still kept them separately for safety reasons and continued on his way.
After walking for about two quarters of an hour, my vision suddenly widened and an empty space appeared in front of me.
There were several forks in the road here, and from one of them one could occasionally hear the sound of flapping wings, indicating that the monster came out from this passage.
But he no longer worries.
Along the way, he killed at least nearly a hundred of these monsters, and even deliberately let some of them devour and fuse, obtaining several black beads as big as pigeon eggs, and two as big as chicken eggs.
The Soul-Destroying Finger is simply the nemesis of this thing, it can destroy as many as it comes.
After observing for a while, Chen Lin took out the map jade slip, and after comparing it, he came to one of the downward forks.
The markings on the map were not very detailed, but if he hadn't entered the wrong cave, he should have been heading straight down from here.
"Um?"
Suddenly, Chen Lin's eyes moved and he looked towards the corner of another fork in the road.
I pushed the glowing stone forward, and sure enough, there was something there. It turned out to be a storage bag!
While walking, he picked up a storage bag, but Chen Lin was not surprised. Instead, he became alert.
The storage bag is the lifeline of a cultivator. It is impossible for it to fall off except through death.
Of course, it could be a trap, left here intentionally for fishing, but I guess no one would choose a place where few people come all year round to kill people and steal treasures.
After hesitating for a while, Chen Lin took out a foundation-building puppet and directed it to pick up the storage bag.
After the puppet opened the storage bag on the spot, a large pile of items poured out. There was a sparkling light inside, and it looked like there were a lot of good things.
After waiting for a while and seeing that there were no traps, Chen Lin took out a few foundation-building puppets and walked over to check as a guard.
"Um?"
When he came to the fork in the road, he found a dead body lying a little bit inside the cave, with eyes wide open, as if he died with his eyes open.
Moreover, he had seen this person before. He was one of the four people he met outside the cave that day!
Chen Lin went forward to check and confirmed that the scars on the other party's body were left by the bat monster. He felt relieved. This kind of monster might be difficult to deal with for other cultivators, but it posed no threat to him.
I don’t know if the other three also died or left.
After sighing for a while, Chen Lin put the things back into the storage bag, then came to the vertical downward entrance of the cave, took out a new crow puppet, and controlled it to go down to investigate the situation.
After a while, he also used the levitation technique and slowly floated down.
The empty space fell into darkness again, with strange noises occasionally coming from several other branching passages.
After a while, a figure in a monk's robe slowly walked out of the passage where the corpse was. He stared at the cave entrance that Chen Lin entered for a long time before whispering, "He actually went down. It seems that he didn't come for the altar. But he is careful enough. He also has a puppet in the foundation-building stage. You saved your life."
The monk muttered something, then did not touch the body, but went back to the surface along the same path.
Chen Lin went down all the way, not knowing how far he had walked before the passage finally became slanted again, allowing him to land on the ground.
After walking for about another half an hour, I turned several intersections according to the markings on the map, and finally I saw the light and arrived at my destination.
This is a constantly tumbling black pool of water. Mu Linglong calls it the Soul Cleansing Pool, saying that after soaking in it the soul will become purer and more closely integrated with the body. It can also enhance one's perception of one's own soul, which is extremely helpful for practicing the Soul-Destroying Finger.
The reason why he was willing to take the risk and run so far was not actually to practice the Soul-Destroying Finger, but because he was attracted by the second effect mentioned by the other party, which was to increase the closeness between the soul and the body.
After traveling through time and space for so many years, Chen Lin felt that his soul had not completely merged with his body. Although there was no abnormality, there had always been a sense of separation. This feeling became even more obvious, especially after he practiced the Soul-Destroying Finger.
Otherwise, he had already received the Silver Fairy's inheritance and it would be impossible for him to need such a long time to polish himself to reach the entry level.
Perhaps the Silver Fairy did not expect this, and thought that he would be able to achieve some success after the infusion, so she paid no more attention to him after giving him the inheritance jade slip. It was not until she saw him again that she reminded him of the importance of this spell, and her words also revealed a little disappointment with his training speed.
“I hope this place can give me some surprises!”
Chen Lin whispered, took out a small cage from the package, and after removing the black cloth covering it, a mini monkey appeared.
In fact, with his wealth and status, it was not difficult for him to get a spirit beast bag that could hold living things, but a spirit beast bag could only hold spirit beasts that had recognized their master. Raising a spirit beast was very time-consuming, and he had not encountered a suitable spirit beast cub, so he did not get those.
This is a first-level monster, the silver-tailed monkey. Apart from its size, its body structure is very similar to that of humans, and its intelligence is also very high. He brought it here for experiments.
Even Mu Linglong didn't fully understand the reason why this pool of water was formed, so he naturally had to be careful.