Liang Meng nodded, and she took a step forward, "Junior Brother Li, let me try the effect of this token."

She stretched out her hand and a blue jade token floated up.

As time passed, the original soul imprint on the jade token had long since dissipated.

She and Li Zhiming easily left their soul imprints on it.

With this token, it means that they are disciples of Xuantian Taoist Sect.

This great sect protection formation should not stop her.

The jade token floated in front of the mountain gate, and the sect protection formation slowly emerged, and the light blue space barrier came into contact with the jade token.

The expected thing happened!

A gap opened in the formation barrier, enough for one person to pass through.

"Junior Brother Li, yes!"

Liang Meng was overjoyed when he saw this.

Li Zhiming nodded, followed Liang Meng to the mountain gate, and took out the jade token.

A blue light flashed by, and a second gap appeared on the formation barrier.

"Let's go in."

Li Zhiming looked at Liang Meng.

Liang Meng nodded in response and stepped into Xuantian Taoist Sect.

Li Zhiming looked around and found that there was no one, then he followed into the ruins.

As two blue lights flashed, the figures of Li Zhiming and Liang Meng also disappeared.

The place returned to its former silence, waiting for the next batch of visitors to arrive.

After Li Zhiming and Liang Meng entered the ruins, their vision became wider.

The inside and outside of the ruins are the same scene, with broken walls and ruins everywhere.

The attic collapsed, the ground caved in, moss and vines were everywhere, and weeds grew in the gaps between the floor tiles.

Li Zhiming was on a wide stone platform.

The stone platform extends forward to a stone staircase, which is connected to an arch bridge. There is a river under the arch bridge, but it has long dried up.

Li Zhiming looked around. The bricks and stones were old and yellowed, full of traces of the passage of time. There were also scattered corpses around, leaving only white bones.

"This should be a disciple of Xuantian Dao Sect. It seems that this sect was destroyed because of a huge change."

Liang Meng looked at the corpses lying all over the place and guessed.

Li Zhiming squatted down, and the moment he touched the corpse, the Taoist robe on the surface turned into ashes, and then the corpse turned directly into a pool of white ash.

Small bulges appeared one after another in the white ash, and a group of red ants emerged from them and then quickly fled.

"This is the legendary bone-eating ant..."

Li Zhiming frowned slightly.

This thing is very rare and is now generally believed to be extinct, at least it has never appeared in the Eastern Xuan Territory.

"Bone-eating ants, what kind of monster?"

Liang Meng lowered his head to investigate and saw groups of ants retreating from the white ash.

"The bone-eating ant is an ancient monster. I once saw a record of this monster in an ancient book."

"Most bone-eating ants are tiny in size, and their realms are between the lowest and ninth grades. They can only be born under special conditions and environments. They live on corpses and can release an acidic toxin that corrodes corpses."

"The strongest among the bone-eating ants is the queen ant, but her realm is generally around the third level, so she can't pose much of a threat to us."

"And Flame is the Emperor of the Bone-Eating Ants."

A ball of flame emerged from Li Zhiming's hand, the temperature around him suddenly rose, and the air became scorching hot.

The retreating bone-eating ants sensed the drastic change in temperature and suddenly increased their speed.

Immediately afterwards, large groups of bone-eating ants crawled out from the corpses and fled towards the river under the arch bridge.

In just a few minutes, all the corpses around turned into powder, and the torrent of bone-eating ants disappeared from Li Zhiming's eyes.

"pity."

Li Zhiming looked at the corpse that turned into powder, shook his head and sighed.

The corpses in Xuantian Dao Sect are basically intact. According to the scale and foundation of Xuantian Dao Sect, no matter how weak the sect's disciples are, they will not be too weak.

If they were not eroded by the bone-eating ants, disciples like these who collected corpses would be able to accumulate a lot of blood and true energy, as well as the most critical strengthening points.

Unfortunately, they were all destroyed by the bone-eating ants.

"Let's go."

Li Zhiming jumped up and landed on the arch bridge.

The river channel below had already dried up and cracked. After a large number of bone-eating ants detected the movement, they drilled down through the cracks to avoid danger.

"For a sect, the most valuable places should be places like the treasure pavilion and the inheritance place, but Xuantian Dao Sect is so big, where should we go?"

Liang Meng looked into the distance to determine his location.

Li Zhiming looked forward, where there was a square with a statue standing in the center.

The statue had collapsed, leaving only half of its body, and the rest was broken into dozens of pieces, lying quietly on the ground, covered by vines.

According to the map, this is the West Gate Square of Xuantian Taoist Sect. There are six roads around it that lead to other areas.

"Come with me."

Li Zhiming walked down the arch bridge and came to the statue.

"Come."

"Come quickly."

Suddenly, a woman's voice came from behind.

Li Zhiming turned his head and glanced at Liang Meng, "Senior Sister, are you calling me?"

Liang Meng's eyes froze for a moment, "No, Junior Brother, are you too nervous recently and have auditory hallucinations?"

“…”

"Perhaps."

Li Zhiming frowned.

Given his current state and mental state, how could he be hallucinating?

"Come!"

"Child, come quickly."

"I'm waiting for you."

The woman's voice appeared again, and this time Li Zhiming heard it clearly.

But he still couldn't determine the exact location of the sound, as if it appeared out of thin air.

"Junior brother, what's wrong with you?"

Liang Meng noticed that something was wrong with Li Zhiming.

"It's okay, let's go."

Li Zhiming felt that this place was a little weird, so he didn't want to stay there for long and hurried to the location of the Medicine Valley marked on the map.

It is the place where Xuantian Dao Sect grows medicinal herbs and spiritual plants and refines elixirs. It is one of the important places of the sect.

At the same time, Yaogu also obtained the most valuable area on the map.

In addition to the marked locations, there are many details on the map, such as seals and restrictions, the location of small protective formations, etc.

Liang Meng followed Li Zhiming and left the place quickly.

Snap!

After walking a few steps, a subtle voice was heard.

Li Zhiming looked down and saw a tiny crack on the ground.

Snap~!

Several more cracks appeared, and then the cracks expanded, and the ground shook and bulged.

"Um?"

Li Zhiming sensed a swift, clear and fierce aura.

"Something is approaching quickly!"

Li Zhiming's expression suddenly became solemn.

"There!"

Liang Meng pointed to the distance, where the ground was rapidly rising and cracking, as if something was about to come out from underground!

"Walk!"

Li Zhiming grabbed Liang Meng's wrist and threw her into the sky.

Liang Meng understood what he meant, and used the force to jump up. He swung the golden sword in his hand violently, which turned into a golden light and shot towards the raised position on the ground.

Ding~!

A crisp sound was heard, and Liang Meng's sword was actually bounced back.

“It bounced!?”

Liang Meng's face changed drastically. Her sword was a top-grade spiritual weapon, but it was easily bounced away. What the hell was that thing underground?

She reached out to catch her sword, spun around and landed on the arch bridge on the left.

"Junior Brother Li!"

Liang Meng shouted.

Li Zhiming jumped high and the ground suddenly collapsed.

Only the statue in the center still stands firmly.

He floated in the air, looking down to the west.

It turned out that the bottom of the square had been dug into a hole, which was so deep that one could not see the bottom. The entire Ximen Square had sunk!

The culprits were the bone-eating ants, densely packed with them crawling on the earth wall.

Among these bone-eating ants, there is a giant ant that is three meters long.

It was she who pushed open the ground and rushed towards Li Zhiming at a rapid speed!

Li Zhiming let out a low roar, and a terrifying wave of true energy swept over.

"Child, come quickly!"

At this time, the woman's voice sounded in Li Zhiming's ears again.

Li Zhiming's holographic eye opened naturally. He originally wanted to detect the bone-eating ants.

But he accidentally discovered a route leading to the distance, which was condensed by his own primordial energy and continued to extend in a certain direction, as if guiding him.

"That's the direction the sound came from!"

Li Zhiming frowned, the voice attracted the primordial energy in his body.

Could it be that the Xuantian Taoist Sect is related to the Taichu Heart Sutra?

A bold guess emerged in Li Zhiming's mind.

"Deal with the Bone-Eating Ant Queen first!"

Li Zhiming locked his eyes on the giant ant rushing towards him, and Yin Yue appeared silently.

【Bone-eating ant queen (variant)】

[Realm: Quasi-First Grade]

"Um, mutant?"

"Has it been contaminated by the weirdness?"

Li Zhiming's eyes changed slightly, and the sharp sword intent surged. The silver moon swept out, drawing a silver arc like a crescent moon.