Looking at the two silent people, the old man pretended to be a senior, but he was secretly delighted in his heart.
He had already led these two people into the mountain gate. Without the cultivation base of the Foundation Establishment Stage, they couldn't escape even if they wanted to.
Moreover, he believed that the treatment of being allocated a spiritual field as soon as he entered the sect was not much different from that of some large sects.
It wasn’t easy, but his Jin Guang Sect finally welcomed two new disciples, and its development and growth is just around the corner.
While the old man was secretly happy, he didn't know that Xu Chunniang was already planning to leave.
At this moment, a strange sound suddenly came from the spiritual spring.
"Gudong, gudong..."
The spiritual spring water, which was originally scarce in the spring, was sucked up completely.
The spring, which was originally only the size of a fist, has shrunk by half.
Seeing this, the old man jumped with anger.
"It's getting smaller again! It's been shrinking more and more frequently recently. If it continues like this, I'm afraid it will dry up completely."
After he finished speaking, he realized that his angry behavior just now was not in line with his "superior temperament".
He coughed unnaturally and said, "Don't panic, I will find out the reason."
Xu Chunniang looked towards the spiritual spring, her spiritual sense probed into the depths of the spring, her expression moved slightly.
This spring is extremely deep, running almost through the entire mountain and reaching deep into the ground.
It is impossible for so much spring water to disappear for no reason. There must be something that sucked it all up.
Xu Chunniang took out the magic weapon made of thunder-falling bamboo, handed it to Shen Miaoling, and gave instructions.
"I have to leave for something. You can stay in the mountains for a while."
After saying that, she took a step toward the next step down the mountain and disappeared on the spot.
This scene frightened the old man so much that he kept looking down the mountain, but he could no longer see Xu Chunniang.
The young man was also stunned, "Master, if she jumps down like this, won't she die from the fall?"
The old man had no time to pay attention to him. His eyes widened as he muttered to himself, "She must have used a teleportation charm. That's right, that's it!"
The old man took a deep breath, calmed down his emotions, and looked at Shen Miaoling with a look of gloating.
"Your master used the teleportation talisman and ran away. She left you here alone and doesn't want you anymore!"
Shen Miaoling tightly grasped the new bamboo pole that her master had just given her, and her pretty nose wrinkled.
"You are lying. Master will never abandon me."
The old man shook his head and said sympathetically, "Why deceive yourself? Although my temple is small, I don't accept everyone. You should just become my disciple instead."
"You're dreaming. I won't choose another master. Master will be back soon."
The old man stopped persuading and walked towards the spiritual spring and began to examine the spring.
After a while, she will naturally give up and face the reality.
While the two were arguing, Xu Chunniang had already found an underground river along the spring.
This underground river is complex and the water level is obviously shallower than before. It is unknown where it leads to.
Xu Chunniang released her spiritual sense and continued to go deeper into the ground along the dark river. After walking down for two quarters of an hour, she found an inconspicuous black insect.
After discovering her, the little black bug directly attacked her consciousness.
But its power was too weak, and after attacking her consciousness, it soon died from the backlash.
Xu Chunniang's spiritual sense swept over the dead insects and she pondered secretly.
Insects generally live in groups, so it is impossible for only one to appear at a time.
She continued walking deeper along the increasingly wider underground river. Soon, she smelled a wonderful fragrance.
This fragrance... Could it be the earth lotus recorded in ancient books
Xu Chunniang's heart moved, and she continued to go deeper in the direction of the fragrance, and finally reached the end of the underground river.
The end of the underground river suddenly became clear and gathered into a black pool.
There is a pure white earth lotus in the pond, about to bloom, tender and juicy.
When she saw the Earth Lotus, Xu Chunniang's eyes flashed with surprise and unexpectedness.
The Earth Heart Lotus is a fifth-level spiritual medicine with extremely harsh growing conditions.
It only grows deep underground in places with abundant spiritual energy, and is almost extinct in the entire northwestern continent.
Earth Heart Lotus has a wide range of uses. If taken directly, it can increase your cultivation level, and it can also be used as medicine.
Its lotus seeds and lotus roots also have various wonderful uses, and it is no exaggeration to say that they are rare treasures.
What’s even more commendable is that the earth lotus in front of us seems to be about to mature.
The strange fragrance emitted becomes more and more intense.
But why is the water in this pool black
Xu Chunniang's gaze fell on the pool water. She walked along the underground river. The water in the underground river was clear and had a faint spiritual energy.
But at the end of the dark river, the water turned into a deep black color, as if it could swallow everything.
All Xu Chunniang's knowledge of Earth Lotus came from ancient books, and she didn't know whether this situation was normal.
After staring at the pool for a long time, she actually felt uncomfortable, as if she was looking into the eyes of some living thing.
But when she probed into it with her spiritual sense, there was clearly nothing in the black pool. Could it be that she was overthinking
Xu Chunniang frowned slightly and injected a stream of spiritual energy into the pond, stirring the water.
The Geocentric Lotus, which was about to bloom, swayed with the shaking of the pond water and unknowingly unfolded two petals.
The earth lotus has a total of thirteen petals. When all its petals are unfolded, it will be fully mature.
Unripe ground lotus can be taken or used as medicine, but the effect will be greatly reduced.
The spiritual energy that was injected into the pool vibrated for several circles and then merged into the water, and the water surface gradually returned to calm.
Everything is normal. Perhaps this is the growth environment of the Earth Lotus.
However, the uncomfortable feeling in Xu Chunniang's heart not only did not disappear, but became even stronger.
The seventh petal of the earth lotus bloomed, and the strange fragrance in the air became stronger. In half an hour, the earth lotus would be fully mature.
But at this moment, Xu Chunniang condensed a wind blade and slashed towards the Earth Heart Lotus in the pond.
If there were other people here, they would probably be so angry that they would vomit blood after seeing this scene.
It takes a thousand years for the Earth Heart Lotus to grow. If this wind blade cuts it hard, the Earth Heart Lotus will be harvested prematurely and its effectiveness will be less than one-tenth of that of a mature Earth Heart Lotus.
The thing lurking under the pool finally moved.
A large number of black flying insects rushed out of the water, buzzing incessantly. A small number of them flew towards the wind blade, and blocked the wind blade with their bodies before it could cut through the Earth Heart Lotus.
Other black flying insects swarmed towards Xu Chunniang.
Xu Chunniang glanced at the black swarm of insects and found that these insects were not the same as the black insect she had seen before, and should be a different species.
She directly summoned the Meteoric Heart Flame, and the scorching flames engulfed the large swarm of insects, burning many of them to death in an instant.
The charred insect corpses turned directly into ashes, and the remaining insect swarms continued to retreat and returned to the pool.