"That should be the case. The wind beasts here should have appeared more than ten years ago, so my father felt something was wrong at that time, and then he came here with the Sixth Elder to investigate.
But they were trapped here inexplicably afterwards, so the message was never brought back!
In addition, the presence of wind beasts here is not necessarily a bad thing. The three tribes of wind beasts certainly do not want the emergence of a fourth tribe of wind beasts.
Therefore, before the wind beasts here can go out and become enemies with the Tianli tribe, the wind beasts of the three tribes will engage in a fierce battle with the wind beasts here to seize territory.
Especially since this is where the power of the Wind Goose Beast and the Wind Iron Beast meet, these two wind beasts will be the first to take action and eliminate dissidents... "
Gong Chenying was thinking and organizing the answers he got.
"The fourth tribe of wind beasts appeared here. Do the 'Wind Goose Beast' and the 'Wind Iron Beast' know about it?... More than ten years ago, my father and the others were able to find something unusual here. Could it be that they didn't notice it all along
They should know, but if they knew, why didn't they take the opportunity to wipe out the wind beasts before they got out, or set up a sky-high formation above the swamp to seal it off
We have previously speculated that Dad might have fallen into a trap set by the three wind beasts. If the three wind beasts didn’t know about this place, they wouldn’t have been able to set a trap; but if they knew about the situation here, why did they allow the wind beasts here to grow stronger…”
New problems kept popping up, and Gong Chenying felt overwhelmed for a moment. These problems seemed to be related, but they were also contradictory...
After hundreds of breaths, Gong Chenying shook her head lightly. She couldn't sort out these questions for a while.
At this time, she thought of another information obtained from soul searching, that is, the ghosts here, or the unknown wind beasts, were extremely afraid of the deep cave behind.
"This means that deeper in the cave, there may be higher-level ghosts. That's why they don't dare to go deeper."
Gong Chenying quickly made a judgment in her mind, but after making this judgment, she began to hesitate.
If she goes back now, she basically won't encounter these ghosts again, but Li Yan has never caught up with her. Does she have to guard the entrance of the cave all the time
“… No, we still have to find a way out. Let’s explore carefully first!!”
Gong Chenying is not someone who would sit and wait for death, and she has never been used to relying on others.
Thinking of this, Gong Chenying carried his spear on his back, moved his long legs, and continued walking towards the deep cave...
Gong Chenying walked in the cave, carefully scanning the surroundings with her spiritual sense. Although she decided to move towards the deep cave, she would not act rashly.
She didn't know how many such caves there were under the swamp. The one she was in must be just one of them. Even if she had killed so many wind beasts in this cave, new ones would enter here soon.
Therefore, it is very difficult to kill the wind beasts, and even a powerful wind beast may appear from behind you, unless you can completely destroy the "Sky Eye Pit".
However, since ancient times, countless powerful people in the Wind God Continent have had this idea, wanting to destroy the "Sky Eye Pit" near their own sects or tribes, but in the classics that Gong Chenjing has seen, no one has been able to do it.
The origin of the "Sky Eye Pit" in the Fengshen Continent has always been an unsolved mystery. No one knows how deep it is or how wide it extends vertically underground.
Since ancient times, countless powerful people have gone deep into the underground "Sky Eye Pit", but in the end they were unable to enter the deepest part. There was endless depth there, and it seemed that only by destroying the Wind God Continent could the "Sky Eye Pit" be destroyed.
In the cave, Gong Chenying explored and moved forward all the way, but his speed was much slower than before.
About a cup of tea later, she had gone about another six thousand feet deeper. Suddenly, Gong Chenying turned around and struck back with the tip of her elbow.
In the darkness, a tall and thin figure just leaped up from behind her and pounced towards her!
Under the man's tattered clothes, there was a shriveled body with several large holes on his bony body, and his blackened internal organs were beating rhythmically.
His face was pale, his eye sockets were deeply sunken, leaving only two pitch-black holes. He had long black and purple nails on his hands, and his arms were wrapped around Gong Chenying.
Between his clasped arms, a circle of cold and icy energy as sharp as a knife emanated. He looked at Gong Chenying who was walking forward in the darkness, and a bloodthirsty smile appeared on his face.
Gong Chenying turned around and swung his elbow with lightning speed. With a "bang!" sound, the cold and gloomy energy that was as sharp as a knife was instantly shattered into pieces.
At the moment when the tall and thin man's smile froze, the cold energy protecting his body was broken, and Gong Chenying's attack continued with undiminished force, hitting him squarely on the throat with his elbow.
There was another crisp "click" sound, and the tall and thin figure's head was raised high back, presenting a strange posture.
Then, the whole body flew back at a faster speed than when it came.
With a loud "bang", he hit the cave wall behind him heavily. Under Gong Chenying's cold gaze, the man slowly slid down the cave wall without any movement.
"Second level ghost wind beast!!"
The moment Gong Chenying launched an attack on the opponent, she judged his strength. An attack equivalent to that of a foundation-building cultivator would result in an instant kill for her.
At this moment, as her consciousness spread to the distance, some shadowy figures appeared. They were hiding in the dark cave, amid the whistling sound of strange wind...
A stick of incense later, Gong Chenying kicked a wind beast with green hair and a long tongue dragging on the ground in the chest.
"laugh!"
The entire body of this ferocious ghost-like wind beast was instantly torn into pieces by an invisible force.
"The fourth ghost wind beast, compared to the lowest-level ghost wind beasts at the beginning, they already have a sense of territory. Usually there is only one second-level wind beast in a range of about fifty miles..."
Gong Chenying was thinking silently in his heart, and at the same time recalling the second and third ghost wind beasts whose souls he had searched before.
In their memories, they were born deep underground, and were later swept into this cave by a force, or rather different wind columns.
They could not get out of the cave, otherwise they would be strangled by the wind columns at the entrance.
At the same time, they also don't like the outside of the cave, because deep in the cave, there is an extreme cold force that they like and makes them feel extremely comfortable.
And the further they go inside, the stronger they will quickly become as they are nourished by the increasingly dense cold and yin energy.
They would also fight each other, and through this fighting and devouring, they would gradually become stronger.
From the memories of the two ghostly wind beasts that Gong Chenying searched the souls of, they had no idea how deep the cave was, because deeper inside there was a powerful being that they feared.
Moreover, there was a time when some other powerful being killed most of them, causing them to lie dormant in fear for a long time.
"Is there still no way to know if this is the only cave here? Moreover, these ghostly wind beasts devour each other, and there are creatures in there that terrify the second-level wind beasts
That should mean that there should be a third-level ghost wind beast, but I don’t know if there will be a fourth-level ghost wind beast. If I encounter a third-level peak ghost wind beast, I should be careful, or try to move forward a distance to find a way out, but that would be gambling with my life;
Either retreat immediately, or finally take a gamble and walk out of the cave to find a way out of here..."
Gong Chenying was thinking in her heart, she was worried that she would encounter a fourth-level ghost wind beast deep in the cave.
According to current judgment, although the distribution of ghosts and wind beasts in the cave follows a certain pattern, it does not necessarily mean that she must wait until she encounters a third-level peak ghost wind beast before she can encounter a fourth-level ghost wind beast that she cannot contend with.
It is also possible that a fourth-level existence will appear directly in the near future, but Gong Chenying still feels that he should give it a try.
As long as the opponent doesn't suddenly appear as a fourth-order mid-stage ghost wind beast, she will be able to fight and should have a chance to withdraw.
However, if the situation really came to that, she estimated that the chances of getting out of it unscathed might be less than 30%.
In the darkness, Gong Chenying's breathing was adjusted by her to be intermittent, like a nimble civet cat constantly sneaking in the night!
An hour later, after she had killed seven second-level ghost wind beasts one after another, plus the previous journey, Gong Chenying had already gone six or seven hundred miles deep into the cave.
The Yin energy here was so dense that it seemed to be real. Gong Chenying could only use his internal energy to melt the ice on his body surface. During this section of the journey, many forks in the road appeared in the cave.
Gong Chenying entered and explored each of them one by one, which slowed down her progress greatly. These forks in the road either ended up being dead ends or led back to the main road again.
Fortunately, Gong Chenying had marked every fork in the road so that he could redefine the direction as quickly as possible. In addition to his own use, these signs were also left for Li Yan.
In the end, Gong Chenying didn't find anything in these forks in the road, but she also found some traces of ghosts and wind beasts living there.
As beings with intelligence, those mid-level ghost wind beasts certainly would not wander around aimlessly all day long. Instead, they would spend more time absorbing and exhaling the cold and evil ghost energy here.
Although some discoveries were made, Gong Chenying did not obtain any useful information from these caves.
"Ding!"
Gong Chenying had taken the spear behind her back in her hand without her knowing when, and she suddenly fired a shot at a place in the darkness.
Suddenly, a ball of sparks erupted in the darkness.
"Huh?? Tua Wuyi..."
Afterwards, Gong Chenying heard a slight exclamation and a series of strange sounds.
She had also heard the sounds made by those second-level ghost wind beasts before. They were no longer as dull as the first-level ghosts, but would say some strange words, but Gong Chenying could not understand them at all.
In fact, the Tianli tribe knew quite a bit about the languages of the three tribes like the "Wind Goose Beast", after all, they had fought with each other for generations.
The ghosts and wind beasts here basically remain silent. They mostly attack by surprise. Only when they are angry or feel that death is approaching will they say some strange words to Gong Chenying.
"Finally, a third-level ghost wind beast appeared!"
Gong Chenying repelled the opponent's attack with a single shot, her body as steady as a mountain. In her spiritual consciousness, the man was holding a thick stone pillar in his hand and had just hit her head.
That stone pillar was not an ordinary object. After it collided with Gong Chenying's magic weapon, even with the sharpness of the red spear tip, only a small piece of stone fell off the stone pillar.
The man's face was considered relatively normal among the ghosts and wind beasts that Gong Chenying had seen. He was a middle-aged man.
But his body was still extremely thin, with the skin on his arms almost close to his bones, and his tendons were tangled like thin snakes, protruding and coiled on his body surface. He was shirtless, wearing shorts and barefoot.
The thin man first glanced at the stone pillar in his hand, then stared at the spear in Gong Chenying's hand, with deep hatred in his eyes.
Ever since Gong Chenying refined the red spear tip, the power of this magic weapon has greatly increased, and it can increase the power of Gong Chenying's attacks by 30%.
Gong Chenying was somewhat surprised to see that his attack was blocked by the opponent, whose cultivation was only at the middle stage of the third level, one level lower than his own.
From this we can see that once the ghost wind beast reaches a higher grade, its combat power will be quite powerful.
Gong Chenying became more alert to her surroundings. She did not encounter a third-order early stage ghost wind beast;
Then, the fourth-level ghost wind beast might also appear in advance, and so far, she has not found any way to get out.
The spear in Gong Chenying's hand emitted a streak of red light in the darkness and stabbed towards the opponent's forehead.
Since it was basically determined that the other party was a wind beast, Gong Chenying would not hold back at all. However, she still wanted to see if she could capture the other party alive and then search his soul to get more information.
The other party was just one small realm lower than himself. In terms of general spiritual strength, he was the best target for soul searching. Otherwise, Gong Chenying was not sure whether he would be retaliated by the other party.
The red-glowing spear tip quickly passed through the extremely cold cave!
With the infusion of Gong Chenying's magic power, the tip of the spear was like a red stream of fire, breaking through the layers of thick cold air and bringing up wisps of green smoke in the air.
A red light flashed by, vaguely illuminating the surrounding space and making it appear distorted. The thin man also had a circle of dots in front of him with one hand.
As he moved, a shield with a huge human face carved on it suddenly appeared in front of him, and the face was covered with runes.
As soon as the shield came out, the cave, which was originally like the underworld, was immediately filled with gusts of cold and biting wind.
"Bang!"
In a flash, Gong Chenying stabbed the shield with a gun.
At this moment, the huge human face on the shield suddenly came to life, opened its mouth wide, and a long tongue with a little icy spikes shot out.
It twisted and turned until it was wrapped around the red spear tip, like a strange snake covered with ice chips.
In an instant, there were continuous "hiss, chih, chih..." sounds, and a large amount of smoke rose in the cave. The red lights that had just lit up disappeared again in a flash.
The entire red-glowing gun tip was covered in smoke and was tightly wrapped by the long tongue that came out of the huge mouth.