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Night in Beidu and morning in Gangde.
A door of convenience opened, and Ning Tao appeared in the cave on the cliff at the end of the Black Horn Tribe. The sun was shining brightly outside the cave, but it was pitch black inside. The underground river flows calmly towards the waterfall at the entrance of the cave, but there is no rumbling sound here.
Ning Tao had another purpose when he came back to pick up Hu Xiaoji and Roaring Sky Dog this time, which was to explore the ghost bat's lair.
Ghost bats are also very dangerous creatures. They are no less powerful than the soul-eating spiders in the soul-eating guard array at the edge of Yinyue City, and even the Bat King is stationed there. There is an ancient saying that has been circulating in the world of cultivation, that is, wherever there are dangerous things nesting and entrenching themselves, there are usually rare treasures.
Ning Tao wanted to go in and take a look since he discovered this place. He tried several times but failed once. Now that he has entered the out-of-body realm, he can not only make the Yuanying leave the body, but also has a powerful holding talisman that gives the Yuanying a little strength and can pick up things weighing almost five kilograms. The conditions for exploring the Ghost Bat's lair were ripe, so this time he came back to pick up Roaring Sky Dog and Fox Xiaoji. This was the place he came to first.
"I want to see what treasure is hidden in that nest. It would be great if it was an ancient flying sword..." Ning Tao sat cross-legged on a rock, thinking a little. Owning a flying sword has become his obsession.
But before Ning Tao could enter the inner world with Guanyin Sitting Lotus, several ghost bats suddenly flew out from the cracks in the rocks above his head. As soon as he found him, he immediately rushed towards him.
Ning Tao jumped into the mountain reservoir where the earth and rivers gathered. Those ghost bats came out just in time, which reminded him that his body was actually not safe when his Nascent Soul was out of body on the shore. This time he came back without any helpers, so there was no one to protect him. He had to find a safe place for the Nascent Soul to leave his body.
It's good underwater.
The Tianbao robe drove away the water flow, and Ning Tao sank to the bottom of the reservoir in a blink of an eye. Using his refined tactical flashlight, he found a natural backwater bay, then sat down cross-legged and entered the inner world in the posture of Guanyin sitting in the lotus position.
He goes in and Nascent Soul comes out.
Ning Tao glanced at himself sitting cross-legged on the rock, and then left the underwater space created by the Tianbao robe. With a thought, he returned to the place where he had just dived.
Several ghost bats were hovering in the air, seemingly looking for him.
Ning Tao's body eyes can't see these ghost bats blending into the darkness at all when he doesn't awaken his gazing state. But this situation does not exist in his spiritual eye. The dark night does not exist in his spiritual eye at all, because the Yuan Ying's spiritual eye, also known as the heavenly eye, does not see through the refraction and reflection of light at all. Objects, and darkness and light are themselves parts of heaven. Where can the things that the heavenly eye wants to see escape? Even the hidden innate air fields of Shan Yi and Wu Yue could not escape the eyes of his Nascent Soul, let alone these ghost bats.
Ning Tao looked at the crevice in the rock that he tried to get into last time but got stuck. As soon as he had an idea, his Nascent Soul reached the crevice. Those ghost bats couldn't feel his presence, they were still flapping their wings and searching for something.
The cracks in the rock continued forward. Ning Tao passed through a section, and the space in front of him gradually became wider and the direction changed. A curve appeared not far away. The curve abruptly "bent" the vertical upward direction and extended horizontally at a ninety-degree angle.
This place is really a bit complicated. If Yuanying hadn't left his body, Ning Tao wouldn't have been able to come here at all. After being left behind on the curve, Ning Tao's vision suddenly widened, and a flying saucer-shaped space suddenly appeared in front of him. It was a space formed by the overlapping of two huge rocks and the concavity in the middle. But even the space formed by two stacked rocks is almost a thousand meters deep and tens of meters high, which is surprisingly large.
But the shock brought by the space was replaced in an instant. In the center of this flying saucer-shaped gap space, there were densely packed ghost bats hanging upside down on the highest rock wall, numbering at least thousands. The largest one was dozens of times larger than an ordinary ghost bat, and its size was about the same as an eight or nine-year-old child, and that was without spreading its wings.
It is the "king" of this "kingdom" of ghost bats. Ning Tao couldn't see clearly last time in the water, but with the exaggerated shadow, he even thought he was meeting a winged dragon like those in Western fantasy movies. .
On the ground directly below where the Bat King was facing, a clear light shot up into the sky and shone squarely on the Bat King, while the scattered residual light shone on the ordinary ghost bats.
This is a very strange thing. Bats are creatures that are afraid of light. They only live in caves and dark environments. The scene of collective light absorption like this is really unbelievable.
The answer must lie in that luminous object, and it is the treasure guarded by this group of ghost bats.
After investigating the environment, Ning Tao was not willing to waste even a second. With a thought, he quietly floated towards the glowing place.
It was a pit, which had been smashed out somehow, and the traces of the energy impact of the collision were clearly visible. If the top of this pit was a sinkhole, it would be understandable, but it is a huge rock plate above, and it is impossible to imagine how it was formed.
Ning Tao came to the edge of the pit and finally saw the glowing thing.
It was a piece of black ore, about the size of a fist, and didn't look very heavy. It is not transparent, but clear light is emitted from the inside, giving people the impression of a "total solar eclipse". What’s even weirder is that there are obvious signs of space distortion around it, giving people the feeling that you can see it, but it’s not in the same space as you, and you can’t touch it at all.
"What kind of ore is this?" Ning Tao recalled all the books about spiritual materials he had read, and the stories about spiritual materials he had heard, but none of them were related to the ore in front of him.
Compared with the cloud ore, the ore in front of me has a stronger sense of mystery, and even gives people an obviously more "advanced" feeling.
Any guesses are futile in front of this magical ore.
However, this is not difficult for Zhong Er, who knows astronomy and geography at all. If he could take this piece of ore back and give it to Zhong Er to identify what kind of spiritual material ore it is, wouldn't the mystery be solved
"I hope it doesn't weigh more than five pounds..." Ning Tao jumped into the pit.
The pit is more than ten meters deep, and the walls of the pit are even burned out by the high temperature. Diamonds are scattered here and there, but they are very small in size. They reflect the clear light released by the black ore, creating a dreamlike feeling.
Ning Tao was not interested in those diamonds at all, so he cautiously approached the black ore. It was during this process that he discovered that the black ore was not actually in contact with the rocks at the bottom of the pit, but was suspended in the void, and from a close look, there were signs of space distortion around it. ,very obvious.
Ning Tao stood next to the black ore and observed. He did not feel any discomfort during the process, nor did he feel any crisis. After making sure that there was no danger, he stretched out his hand little by little towards the black ore.
When passing through the twisted halo belt of space, Ning Tao was surprised to find that his hand seemed to be twisted and stretched into another space. The palm, which was originally in the form of energy, strangely felt like flesh and blood!
"What kind of ore is this? It's so magical!" Ning Tao was filled with surprise and excitement, and his hand grabbed the black ore at that moment.
However, his hand passed through the black ore and caught nothing. After all, it is the hand of the Nascent Soul in the form of pure energy. He cannot even pick up a needle without using the powerful holding talisman.
However, just when Yuanying's palm passed through the almost black ore, Ning Tao's spiritual sense clearly captured a magical and weird feeling. Under that feeling, he felt that the black ore was a part of him, flesh and blood, powerful, full of spiritual energy and extremely powerful!
Puff puff…
There was a sudden noise above the head, and the energy fluctuations of the black ore obviously alarmed the ghost bats above the head. A shadow suppressed it, and it was the Bat King, and it took action.
Ning Tao retracted his hand and looked up at the Bat King, which was flying overhead, looking for the "enemy", as well as the densely packed ghost bat soldiers accompanying it and escorting it.
Ning Tao can see the ghost bat, but the ghost bat cannot see Ning Tao's Nascent Soul.
"Chi-chi!" The Bat King suddenly made a sharp cry from its mouth, and a green flame spurted out from its mouth, burning the area next to the pit. It seemed to feel that something was invading, but it couldn't see its enemy. This made it very angry and irritable, and it was also very nervous, so it attacked randomly.
Ning Tao stood still and watched Bat King burning the ground.
After a while, Bat King was exhausted from all the tossing and returned to the place facing the clear light on the top of the cave, hanging upside down. The ghost bat soldiers flying all over the sky also returned to the rock wall at the top of the cave, hanging upside down, accepting the clear light. This is obviously absorbing the energy generated by the black ore and recharging its energy.
With a thought, Ning Tao returned to his body and opened his eyes. He turned on the refined tactical flashlight, shined it on the small medicine box on his back, then took out a powerful holding talisman from the small medicine box and put it on his forehead.
The spiritual power was activated, and when the Yuanying came out of the Niwan Palace again, he held the talisman vigorously and turned it into pieces of energy spots that merged with the Yuanying.
As soon as the thought came to mind, Yuanying was already in the pit in the ghost bat's lair when he paused again. This is the speed of Yuanying's movement. As long as Yuanying has been to any place, Yuanying can reach it in an instant. Of course, this has a range limit. Without the blessing of the powerful holding talisman, Ning Tao's Nascent Soul can only move within a range of four kilometers. With the blessing of the powerful holding talisman, the range of the Nascent Soul's movement will roughly double.
Returning to the pit again, Ning Tao reached out and grabbed the black ore without any hesitation.
With this grab, the fist-sized piece of black ore was caught in his hand. His palm showed signs of being twisted again, but the black ore was truly grasped by him. Just before taking action, he was worried that the black rock weighed more than five kilograms, in which case he would have to think of other ways to get the black ore. But it was with this grasp that he discovered that this black rock did not weigh much, and even gave people the feeling of being weightless!
"Jiji!" Bat King pounced down.