After calculating for a moment, Hu Le led Guan Kong to the mountainside. After turning a bend in the mountain, a dark cave suddenly appeared in front of them.
The cave entrance was about a hundred feet in diameter, and wisps of malevolent energy intertwined with the innate metal element energy, forming a thick layer of mist that floated above the cave entrance.
The fog was black with a white tinge, and golden fluorescence flickered and danced within it.
Suddenly a cold, biting wind blew in, but the fog remained as still as a rock, truly impervious to wind and rain.
"Teacher, could this be the place you've been looking for all this time?"
Guan Kong arrived at the cave entrance and peered inside, only to see a pitch-black expanse with no bottom in sight.
Hu Le released his divine sense and probed into the cave, reaching a depth of tens of thousands of miles before finally seeing the bottom of the cave.
The cave bottom is directly connected to the earth's veins, and a dense mass of innate Geng metal energy swirls at the bottom of the cave, transforming into a lake of spiritual liquid covering tens of thousands of acres. At the center of the lake, however, a metal-elemental spiritual vein is being nurtured.
After venturing deep into the West for so long, he finally found a spiritual vein formed purely from the energy of the metal element.
After all, most spiritual veins are a unified whole, with no distinction between yin and yang, and all five elements present. Even some unusual spiritual veins are mostly formed from earth element power.
Such spiritual veins formed solely from the element of metal, especially the innate element of metal, are extremely rare.
Perhaps only in the Western continent can some be found.
Just as Hu Le was about to go in and investigate, his divine sense, which was patrolling the cave, had already alerted some of the ferocious creatures living there.
These ferocious creatures were all bat-shaped, snow-white, with two pairs of fangs protruding from their mouths.
At this moment, it was flapping its wings, forming a dense white cloud, and rushing towards the outside of the cave.
Seeing this, Hu Le smiled slightly, then suddenly turned to look at Guan Kong and asked, "Disciple, since your birth, you probably haven't fought with anyone, have you?"
Guan Kong nodded upon hearing this. At this moment, she also sensed the swarm of white bats at the cave entrance and understood what Hu Le meant.
She immediately patted her chest and said, "Don't worry, teacher, I'll take care of these guys!"
"Very good! Let your teacher see your skills."
Hu Le stepped back a little while carrying his bamboo cane; he was certainly not worried about Guan Kong's safety.
After all, those bats, though seemingly overwhelming and numerous, were nothing more than a group of mindless monsters, the strongest of which were only comparable to the twentieth level of Qi Refining.
Even though Guan Kong's cultivation level was insufficient, she was protected by the Twelfth-Grade White Lotus. Even if she was no match for them, these bats could not harm her in the slightest...
Although Guan Kong was young, he was cautious. After all, it was his first time fighting magic, and he was facing so many demons. He summoned the Twelfth-Petaled White Lotus and placed it under his feet, his whole body surrounded by a hazy white light.
Where the white lotus's mysterious light shines, evil cannot invade, and all things cannot approach.
Guan Kong stood on a white lotus, and with a flick of her small hand, a precious sword appeared in her palm.
This sword was transformed from the lotus leaf of a twelfth-grade white lotus, and countless white bats flew in.
Guan Kong swept his sword, and a bright sword light slashed out.
In an instant, the sword light swept across the sky, cleaving countless bats in two.
However, due to the sheer number of white bats, countless others continued to swarm forward, each opening its gaping maws, their fangs gleaming coldly.
They looked extremely ugly and ferocious, but Guan Kong wasn't worried. Before these bats even got within a zhang of her, they all crashed headfirst into the white, mysterious light.
"Sizzle!"
As soon as the lotus light shone on them, wisps of black smoke rose from their bodies, causing them to howl in pain.
Although the sound was inaudible to the ears, it struck the very soul, and one could even see invisible waves of sound impacting the void, causing ripples to spread through the space.
If one is accidentally struck by this sound wave, at best their primordial spirit will be destroyed, and at worst, even their physical body will be unable to be preserved, turning into dust along with their soul.
However, Guan Kong, confident in the protection of his twelve-petaled lotus platform, was not afraid of this.
She even charged into the bats, wielding her sword wildly with one hand, unleashing streaks of sword light, while holding the Sun and Moon Divine Mirror in the other, emitting beams of divine light that swept around.
This light is formed from the condensation of the power of the sun and moon, and contains immense destructive power.
Wherever the divine light shone, countless bats rose up in bursts of flame, and then burned to ashes.
In no time at all, Guan Kong had strangled thousands upon thousands of white bats.
The remaining bats, having learned of Guan Kong's power, dared not approach. They flapped their wings and fled back into the cave, never daring to show themselves again.
Seeing this, Guan Kong didn't give chase. Instead, he put away his magical treasure, walked triumphantly to Hu Le, and puffed out his chest, asking, "Teacher, how was it? Did I do a good job?"
"hehe……"
Hu Le gave Guan Kong a forced smile. He'd only managed to kill some mindless beasts thanks to the power of his magical treasure; it wasn't even a proper fight. What was there to be proud of?
Then, ignoring her, he jumped into the cave.
"Teacher, wait for me."
Guan Kong also jumped into the dark cave.
Hu Le slowly sank down, and at the same time pushed up his hair bun, revealing a cloud of auspicious clouds on his head. The flowing light of the clouds illuminated the entire cave.
Both sides of the cave wall are lined with holes of varying sizes, some of which emit faint white light.
These faint lights are emitted by luminous sand.
As for Night-Shining Sand, it is bat droppings and can be considered a kind of medicinal herb...
Hu Le and his apprentice weren't particularly interested in these Night-Shining Sands. After all, there were countless kinds of spiritual herbs in the prehistoric world, and many medicinal materials could replace Night-Shining Sands. Why bother being a cat servant for bats?
Perhaps these bats were too afraid of being killed, because they didn't attack again until the master and apprentice's feet were on solid ground.
Hu Le arrived at the lake where the innate metal element spiritual energy had condensed. He reached out and drew a wisp of spiritual energy, only to find that the metal element energy was not pure. To refine it, he needed to remove the evil energy contained within.
As for these malevolent energies, Hu Le could clearly see that they were not acquired later, nor were they transformed from the corpses of ferocious beasts, but rather were created innately.
He used his primordial spirit to explore and found that at the source of the metal element spiritual vein, a naturally formed earthly evil spiritual well had been created.
As evil energy continuously emanated from the Earthly Fiend Well, it seeped into the Metal Elemental Vein, staining the originally golden and white primordial energy with a layer of blackish-gray.
As the saying goes, "A skilled craftsman must first have the right tools." If Hu Le wants to use the Metal Element Spiritual Vein, he needs to first seal the Earthly Fiend Spiritual Well and then purify the Metal Element Spiritual Vein.
This may seem troublesome, but it's actually because there are very few spiritual veins in the primordial world that are purely formed from innate metal element energy.
He and Guan Kong set off from the East Sea, a distance of hundreds of millions of miles, searching all the way here. This was the first time they had ever discovered such a spiritual vein...
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