Meimei is a very thoughtful person. If she gets too scared and tries to find her, she might fly around aimlessly and end up crashing into that strange demonic aura.
Zhao Xi wanted to go back to the tent and tell her, but she couldn't tell her the truth.
"I guess that great demon wants to take us hostage and use us to threaten Master into letting it live. I don't know what it's using to surround us, so your brother Haiye is leading people to dig a tunnel, planning to escape together."
"Wow, that big devil is so wicked!" Meimei completely trusted the Master's strength and had no doubt that he would get hurt. She waved her little fists indignantly.
“Yes, it’s outrageous!” Zhao Xi nodded in agreement, took out the scent pouch that Feng Xiaoxian had given her, found a few scattered kingfisher feathers on the bed, hung them on her waist, and said, “You stay in the tent. I’ll help them shovel dirt. If everyone goes down into the tunnel together, you follow Haiye and listen to his instructions. If everyone gathers up later, don’t come looking for me yourself. Just tell Haiye about the scent pouch.”
"Yes! Don't worry, Headmistress, Meimei will take good care of herself!" Meimei nodded earnestly.
Zhao Xixiang was indeed not worried about this.
This little brat was kept very carefully guarded at the zoo.
She left the tent and headed towards the tunnel.
In just a short while, the tunnel had become quite deep, and the monsters passed by her in an orderly fashion, each displaying their unique abilities.
Moles, badgers, rats, and rabbits with sharp claws and swift movements dug deep into the earth. Even more powerful and mighty beasts donned protective armor and smashed through the rocks. Fast-moving animals, carrying baskets in their mouths or hands, formed two lines on either side of the cave, emptying the debris before returning with their defensive formations, which they then stuck to the rocks on one side.
The Kangnan demon clan has survived to this day only through such tacit cooperation and order.
Large cracks appeared in the surrounding rocks, but the defensive array prevented the rocks from falling.
After walking for a while, Zhao Xi saw several forks in the road and heard Hai Ye and the demon cultivators talking in one of them.
This must be the real escape route.
She quickened her pace, wanting to catch up with them, but the monsters breaking rocks caused earthquakes, preventing her from moving very fast.
"I knew those guys from the Hundred Beasts Garden were unreliable! They're supposed to be true immortals from the Upper Realm, but they can't even handle a big demon!"
Haiye: "We must not speak ill of the True Immortal in this way. Perhaps this demon beast is cunning and wants to capture us, using the True Immortal's mercy to threaten us in order to gain a chance of survival."
"But what should we do now? Why can't we break this damn rock?! Ugh..."
Zhao Xi thought: "..."
Several more violent crashes of rocks broke, and the earth shook.
She leaned against the stone wall, barely managing to stay upright, but then noticed that the commotion was different from before.
But from the end of the passage came Haiye's terrified little voice: "Oh no! We've probably struck gold! Does anyone have a magic weapon that can mine these spirit stones?"
"Heavens! High-grade spirit stones! If we escape, we'll be rich! I happen to have a magic weapon that can break them! I'll go get them right now!" A demon cultivator rushed out.
By the time he passed by Zhao Xixiang, he had transformed into a giant wriggling earthworm, darting towards the tunnel exit like a snake.
"Even with magical treasures, it would be too late; that great demon would catch up. No wonder that great demon didn't have time to infiltrate its demonic energy here..."
Haiye placed his palm on the stone, closed his eyes, and sensed it. A spiritual light shone around him, but it went out after a moment. He shook his head with a bitter expression.
The ore sheltered them, but it also trapped them inside.
As they were talking, the other monsters digging at the fork in the road also encountered the same difficulties.
They all rushed here to find Haiye, waiting for the next course of action.
The demon cultivators had lost all confidence and sat on the ground, defeated and disarmed.
Some decided to have a good meal before they died, taking out their treasured elixirs and stuffing them into their mouths to swallow them whole, while others hugged their kin's demonic beasts and cried loudly.
The tunnel was noisy.
Fortunately, a few remained rational. Haiye reverted to his original form and discussed with the kingfisher demons whether it was possible to forcibly break through the demonic energy from the sky and then allow everyone to escape from the ground. The mole demon and the earthworm demon were researching whether they could create a powerful mining artifact now.
Zhao Xi wanted to take advantage of this gap to sneak to the front of the spirit stone mine. He took the large iron spoon and tapped it left and right, and even put his ear to the stone surface to compare the tapping sounds.
Spirit stones are a general term for stones with spiritual energy. Blue fluorescent spirit stones are the most common and widespread. If you really go to the immortal mountains and caves to mine, you will also find spirit stones of other colors.
Regardless of the composition of these spirit stones, their value is calculated solely based on their spiritual energy.
The monks were focused on their spiritual practice, and no one studied geography.
If they studied it even a little, they would find that the essence of minerals can only be distinguished by their chemical composition.
Take some metals, for example...
When you pour an acidic substance onto it, the metal is displaced.
For example, some carbonates...
If you pour an acidic substance on it, it will melt.
"Grandma Immortal, our tiger demon clan has been wiped out here! How am I supposed to face you when I cross the Bridge of Helplessness?! Waaaaah~"
"Stop crying! Think of something else!"
Zhao Xi found some citron juice, tried it out briefly, and then turned around and said, "Um..."
"What else can we do? Shall we try digging in a different direction?"
"Idiot, are you trying to get yourself killed by that spider? We're surrounded on all sides, where else is there to go but here?"
Zhao Xi thought: "..."
They kept shouting at the top of their lungs, and no demon paid any attention to a weak and helpless mortal.
never mind.
Then I'll do it myself.
She found the crystal distillation flask she used for making aromatherapy and lit it with a fire talisman. She fed the live animals some food from the ring, then drilled a hole in their stomachs and inserted a tube to extract the gastric juices.
Some of these animals were ones that Lin Che and I encountered in the mountains during the day, and he casually put them into his ring; they were still alive.
Some of them are monsters captured from the Beast Garden and kept in the Beast Taming Enclosure, with the intention of slaughtering them for a fresh meal later.
Animals have an extremely strong healing ability and do not need to be treated; they can heal themselves very quickly.
Zhao Xi tried to move the formation to seal the gas in the stone wall and sprinkle water with a water talisman.
These damp, hot, acidic gases have a strong corrosive effect. At the same time, a wind talisman must be used to continuously blow away the solution displaced from the stone surface, allowing the gas and ore to come into full contact.
Fortunately, the passage array they created could also isolate the gas, otherwise she would have already suffocated to death from the poisonous gas produced by the impurities.
After a while, the ailing demon cultivators suddenly felt the cave become brighter.
Spirit stones naturally emit light; the purer and more spiritually potent they are, the brighter they become.
After a while, the demon cultivator felt as if his beastly eyes had been blinded by the light.
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