"Don't be anxious. This magical herb has been growing here for a long time. There must be a force that can protect it."

“If there is no protection, although the illusion of the outside world can conceal its existence, the fruit would have been devoured by other ancient beasts long ago.”

Chen Yun's heart was also boiling with passion, but on the surface he remained calm and responded calmly.

"Brother Chen, do you think there are ancient beast guards hidden here?"

Ever since learning from Chen Yun's description of the existence of ancient monsters in the Demon Valley, Zi Ling has become more alert to the situation there.

When I heard Chen Yun's answer, my heart tightened and my mind instantly became much clearer.

"That's right. Look at the two remaining marks on the top of the fairy grass. They must be the traces of being devoured by the ancient beast twice."

"Although the Lingzhu Fruit cannot help people improve their realm, it is indeed helpful for breaking through bottlenecks. No wonder it is reluctant to eat it all at once."

Chen Yun spoke slowly, then looked around, his gaze finally falling on the lake.

Obviously, if there are any living creatures active here, they must be hiding at the bottom of the lake.

After entering the inner valley, Chen Yun took off his cloak.

While using the Wind Control Wheel to perform the Ming Qing Spirit Eyes, he did not hide anything from Zi Ling.

Because Zi Ling already knew that he had a way to avoid space cracks, there was no need to hide it from her anymore.

So, when he used his spiritual sense to scan the lake and confirmed that there was nothing unusual, blue light flashed in his eyes.

His eyes penetrated the dozens of feet deep lake water and reached the bottom of the lake, and his expression changed slightly.

"Did Brother Chen find anything?"

Zi Ling, who had been paying attention to the changes in Chen Yun's expression, raised her eyebrows and asked in confusion.

"Please retreat. This ancient guardian beast seems to be quite difficult to deal with. We need to use some tricks to defeat it."

Chen Yun's expression returned to normal, and he turned to Zi Ling and spoke calmly.

Chen Yun was impressed that the ancient beast from Huzhou could actually evade his spiritual detection.

"Then I'll leave it to Brother Chen!"

Zi Ling knew that her own strength was not enough to help, so she took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield and stayed in a safe area to observe.

When Chen Yun saw Zi Ling leaving, he reached out and took the three spirit beast bags from his waist without hesitation.

At the same time, he raised up the sky, then formed seals with his hands, and countless golden flying insects broke out of the bag.

It blocked out the sun and the sky, and an area of ​​dozens of feet was transformed into a dazzling golden spectacle.

Zi Ling, who witnessed all this, was so surprised by the horrific scene that she couldn't help but let out a slight sigh.

Chen Yun did not intend to pay attention to Zi Ling's reaction. After deploying the gold-eating bugs, he waved his sleeves.

Thirty-six Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords broke through the air and transformed into dozens of golden lights, dancing below the insect swarm.

Several spells were cast into the air, and golden light flashed in the sky, instantly splitting into hundreds of overlapping shadows, blooming with brilliance.

"disease!"

Chen Yun gathered all his strength and suddenly pointed at the afterimage in the air.

Hundreds of sword lights suddenly dissipated in the air, and in a moment, the originally diffuse cloud of insects disappeared.

In an instant, the Da Geng sword formation spread all around, surrounding the area layer by layer.

However, Chen Yun did not relax his vigilance. He frowned and looked down at the calm lake, with a fierce look flashing in his eyes.

With his arms spread out, golden light was shining, thunder was rumbling, and a golden electric ball about the size of a fist gradually condensed into shape in his hands, with light flowing and extremely dazzling.

The electric ball instantly expanded to the size of a child's head. Chen Yun pushed out with both palms, and the electric ball broke through the air and hit the lake more than ten feet ahead.

The golden light surged, the thunder roared, the electric ball exploded, and the surface of the lake was instantly covered with dense electric arcs, crackling.

Zi Ling, who was watching the battle from behind, was shocked and looked around.

Before the golden arc dissipated, the lake water was stirred, and a huge whirlpool suddenly appeared in the center of the lake. A low roar rose into the sky, and black and white evil spirits overflowed, wrapping a strange-looking ancient beast inside.

The ancient beast's body was like a piece of rotten meat, full of grave-like depressions and black holes, with a towering tumor in the center and only one pitch-black eye left.

There is no doubt that Chen Yun could not recognize the appearance of this thing, and Zi Ling was also full of confusion.

Chen Yun did not dare to slack off in the face of this unknown monster. He quickly cast a spell, urging the insect cloud to quickly gather in the middle, turning into a huge golden cloud that enveloped the ancient beast.

Feeling the threat of the gold-eating insects, the ancient beast quickly swallowed up the green liquid in the holes and fought back against the golden insect cloud. A foul smell spread, and Chen Yun's face changed slightly, but then he relaxed.

The green liquid failed to hurt the gold-eating worms at all, and the golden worm cloud completely devoured the ancient beast. However, the black and white qi protected the ancient beast, and although it was severely injured, it still had a chance of survival.

Seeing the huge cloud of insects devouring the black and white energy that he had cultivated for many years, the ancient beast panicked, and its body dropped rapidly, trying to dive to the bottom of the lake.

However, at this moment, Chen Yun, who had planned for a long time, suddenly stretched out a finger towards the lake, and there was a "puff" sound at the fingertips.

A walnut-sized azure fireball slowly emerged, and then, with a slight flick of the finger, the blue fireball rushed out.

Accompanied by a crisp "crackling" sound, the fireball exploded and blue light spread everywhere, making it difficult to look directly at.

Immediately afterwards, a strong blue chill spread out rapidly, and wherever it passed, the lake water froze into solid ice.

In a flash, the entire emerald green lake turned into a huge ice sculpture.

The ancient beast's original attempt to dive into the water naturally failed. Instead, its head hit the blue ice in front of it and was bounced away.

The beast was even more terrified when it saw this. Its black and white aura trembled suddenly, and it flew away diagonally with the dense golden bugs on its body.

However, just as it flashed and flew to a corner of the Green Lake, when there was no one around, a golden light flashed in the sky, and a golden line as thin as a hair appeared strangely, aiming at the ancient beast and sliding silently across the sky.

All I saw was a piece of black and rotten flesh, splattering blood, falling from the cloud of insects.

The ancient beast's protective shield formed by the black and white aura was instantly broken, and a small part of its body was cut off by the golden thread.

Without the protection of the protective shield, countless golden insects swarmed over and instantly covered the entire body of the ancient beast.

The beast suddenly felt as if it had suffered a serious blow and was in extreme pain, with a flash of light on the surface of its body.

A layer of enchanting green flame suddenly burned, as if trying to repel the gold-eating bugs approaching it.

Unfortunately, although this green flame is a powerful magical power that the ancient beast has practiced for many years, these gold-eating insects do not have much resistance to it.

Even their bloodthirsty nature was aroused, and these flying insects worked together to speed up the speed of devouring. The ancient beast was in extreme pain, and immediately changed direction, trying its best to escape to the other side of the green lake.

Chen Yun stood quietly by the lake, looking relaxed and contented, watching coldly the ancient beast that was tightly surrounded by the cloud of insects, flying and crashing around like a headless fly.

However, at this time and place, he had already set up the Da Geng Sword Formation.

Although the formation has not yet been officially activated and has not yet exerted its full power to strangle the ancient beast, it can at least stop the beast no matter where it flies.

They will encounter golden threads transformed from sword light, which will cut their bodies mercilessly.

In the blink of an eye, most of the ancient beast's body had disappeared.

Its screams became weak and powerless, and finally with a "thump", it fell heavily on the ice, unable to move even a step.

The real ability of this nameless ancient beast lies in the ability to restrain its breath and transform.

Once it uses this magical power to camouflage and hide, even a cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage will not be able to detect its whereabouts, so its performance in battle can only be considered mediocre.

Unfortunately, the beast was first discovered by Chen Yun's Mingqing spiritual eyes, then targeted by the gold-eating bugs, and finally trapped in the siege of the Da Geng sword formation.

He was simply unable to use his innate magical powers to escape, and so he was defeated by Chen Yun so easily.

After a short while, the golden cloud of insects flapped its wings and soared into the sky with its head held high. The ice surface suddenly became empty and silent.

Only a strange round bead in black and white was left, which was the beast's magic pill.

At this time, Zi Ling flew to Chen Yun's side and said to him with envy:
"Brother Chen, your magical powers are truly unfathomable. You can easily defeat even this ancient monster. It is truly amazing."

"It seems that the rumors in the outside world that Brother Chen is the most outstanding person under the three great cultivators are not groundless."

"It's not that Chen has great magical powers. In fact, the strength of this ancient beast is not that strong. Compared with the ancient beasts I have seen before, it is far inferior."

Chen Yun shook his head calmly and responded without any modesty.

Then he stretched out his hand and grabbed the air. With a "whoosh", the demon pill was sucked into his palm.

When Chen Yun lowered his head to examine it, he saw black and white spiritual light flashing continuously on the surface of the demon pill.

This color of demon pill was the first time he had seen it at his current level of cultivation.

Therefore, a look of great interest appeared on his face.

However, there were more important things waiting for him right now.

Naturally, Chen Yun could not waste time studying this magic pill at this time.

So he made a decision immediately and flipped his palm forward.

In an instant, accompanied by a flash of green light, the mysterious object disappeared without a trace.

Then, Chen Yun stretched out his arm again and released three empty spirit beast bags from the Qiankun bag.

He pointed fiercely at the group of gold-eating bugs in the air at the speed of an arrow, and at the same time let out a long and loud sound.

In an instant, the buzzing sound of the insect swarm was heard, and they transformed into three golden cloud-like forms.

They flew back into the bags of the three spirit beasts and were finally carefully put into Chen Yun's pocket.

As for the powerful Da Geng Sword Formation, Chen Yun successfully restored it to its original thirty-six golden flying swords with just a thought.

After a slight change in volume, it moves autonomously into the shoulder pocket.

"Let's go find the spiritual fruit quickly. We need to race against time. I don't know how long the illusion array I set up earlier can delay the cultivators of the Ghost Spirit Sect."

As Chen Yun said this, his entire body turned into a ray of green light and quickly shot towards the center of the lake.

Seeing Chen Yun's actions, Zi Ling immediately followed closely.

In an instant, the two of them appeared above the spiritual grass, about one meter above the ground.

After inspecting the top of the spiritual herbs for a while, Chen Yun did not rush to pick them. Instead, he quickly turned his head and said calmly to Zi Ling who was standing beside him:
"Please pick them first and be sure to observe carefully. The characteristics of this Lingzhu fruit are very unique. It must be stored in wooden materials, otherwise its medicinal effect will be lost in just a few days."

"Thank you for the reminder, Brother Chen. I will be more cautious." Zi Ling tried hard to suppress her inner excitement, smiled charmingly at Chen Yun, and then thanked him softly.

She waved her sleeves without hesitation, and an emerald green wooden box appeared in her jade hand.

Then, she stretched out a jade-white finger and gently stroked the empty space below.

Immediately, a dazzling white light flashed, and a spirit candle fruit fell to the ground.

However, Zi Ling, who had been prepared, had already turned the wooden box over. A stream of white light poured out from the box and instantly rolled the spiritual fruit into the box.

Then she gently stroked the lid of the box with one hand, and the lid closed automatically.

After completing all this, Zi Ling took a deep breath and then carefully put the box into the storage bag.

"Could it be that Miss Zi Ling will not choose another spiritual fruit?" Seeing the scene in front of him, Chen Yun was slightly surprised, with a puzzled expression on his face.

"Thank you for your kindness, Brother Chen, but I think one spiritual fruit is enough to meet my needs. This time when I came here, I didn't put in too much effort except for gathering some information at the beginning."

"All the gains were obtained thanks to Brother Chen's magical powers."

"Although I have a certain friendship with Brother Chen, I will not be so shameless as to ask for an equal share of these fruits. Brother Chen can keep all the remaining parts."

"After all, in addition to being used to refine elixirs, this spiritual fruit can also bring some magical effects if eaten directly, which can help improve one's cultivation to a certain extent." Zi Ling replied with a smile.

Chen Yun was somewhat surprised to hear Zi Ling's rational and reasonable answer.

In fact, although this famous beauty from Chaos Star Sea was charming and beautiful, and could be called the most beautiful female cultivator he had ever seen, her mind was quite deep, especially after the Miaoyin Sect was taken away, her personality seemed to become more paranoid. This made Chen Yun feel a sense of respect and distance from her.

However, at this moment, she was able to express her thoughts so rationally. Whether it was out of sincerity or deliberate to please him, it changed Chen Yun's impression of her.

After all, facing such a precious spiritual fruit of heaven and earth, it is not easy to suppress the greed in one's heart.

"Since Miss Zi Ling said so, then Chen will not refuse." Chen Yun nodded and said nothing more. Then, he raised one hand and patted his waist. A white light flashed in an instant, and one of them disappeared.

Chen Yun just pulled lightly with one hand, and the three spiritual fruits all fell into the wooden box in his hand.

"We should leave now! This is definitely not a place to stay for long, and we don't know when the guys from the Ghost Spirit Sect will track us here."

"Although I have no fear of them, I really don't want to fight with them here. After all, the most important thing right now is to refine the elixir."

After Chen Yun properly placed the wooden box, he spoke slowly. (End of this chapter)