"What should we do now? Which way should we go?" Zhao Dongsheng asked everyone.
"It's dark all around here, and everything looks the same!" Zhang Jingxuan took out a flashlight from his Qiankun Ring, shone it around and said.
Zheng Yunxia and the others were not too surprised when they saw the glowing thing in Zhang Jingxuan's hand. After all, there were many magical weapons in the world of cultivators that they had never seen. Then he said to everyone: "Since there are 81 black nails, they must be distributed all over the dark forest. It doesn't matter which direction you go. Don't worry about it. Just find a direction at random."
Then, Zheng Yunxia took Danxia and flew up first to leave, while several Qi Refining disciples stood on the flying swords of disciples with slightly higher realms. These Qi Refining disciples were all the outstanding young generation of their sect. The purpose of bringing them to the exchange meeting was to let them gain some insights, but they did not expect to encounter such a thing. If Zheng Yunxia had known in advance that the exchange meeting would be like this, she would never have brought them here.
"Wait, Sect Master Zheng, this is too much trouble for you. The disciples in the Qi Refining Stage should take the flying boat!" Bai Ziling said as he took out a small flying boat from the Qiankun Ring. In this forest, the space is not that wide, and they also have to look for the black nail, so it is naturally impossible for all of them to sit on the flying boat. For only a few disciples in the Qi Refining Stage, a small flying boat is enough, and a small flying boat is also much faster, so they will have a chance to escape if they encounter any problems.
Zheng Yunxia nodded without any pretense and let several Qi Refining disciples board the flying boat. Lingxiao Sect's Han Menglu and several other Qi Refining disciples as well as Li Yunxi also boarded the flying boat. The control was handed over to Zhao Ying. She was considered a person who had received Pangu's inheritance, and was much stronger than others in every aspect. In the past six months, she had spent most of her time digesting Pangu's inheritance, and it only took her one month to cultivate to the peak of Qi Refining. Her future cultivation speed would definitely be the fastest among this group of people.
Since Lingxiao Sect and Danxia Sect were basically one of the last few teams to be teleported over, the people who had been teleported before had already gone far away, so there was not much point in them going further into the teleportation array, so they simply started searching nearby after flying not far.
From Sun Shaoqian's description, although the black nail was not small, it was nailed into the ground, and only the top of the nail, which was the size of an adult man's fist, was visible outside. It was extremely difficult to find in this vast dark forest. Even if everyone was a cultivator, it was not easy to search using spiritual sense. Therefore, for the sake of efficiency, everyone had to disperse and conduct a carpet search.
"Ah~" Not long after the crowd dispersed, a disciple of Danxia Sect exclaimed, and everyone hurried over. They found that on the tree in front of the disciple was the corpse of an unknown creature. The creature looked very much like a bat, but it was huge, like a buffalo. It was nailed to the tree trunk with a dagger, and the corpse was already somewhat decayed.
"Wolf-headed bat! This..." Zheng Yunxia said in horror.
Everyone was puzzled and looked at Zheng Yunxia. Zheng Yunxia explained: "Although the Dark Forest is still open to the outside world from time to time in recent years, it is only the outer part that is open. Thousands of years ago, the Dark Forest even opened its core to the outside world, and this wolf-headed bat is a common monster in the core. The strength of an ordinary adult wolf-headed bat is comparable to that of a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage!"
"Hiss~" Everyone gasped. Is he so abnormal? He is so powerful just after he became an adult?
"Is this wolf-headed bat an adult?" Zhao Dongsheng asked with a frown.
Zheng Yunxia frowned and said, "Judging from its size, it is not only an adult, but also has an age of more than 300 years!"
"At adulthood, he's comparable to a Nascent Soul cultivator, so how can he be a monster for three hundred years!" Zhang Jingxuan's eyes widened.
Zheng Yunxia shook her head and said, "It's not that exaggerated. I've read ancient books. Wolf-headed bats are considered adults when they are 150 years old. The strength of this wolf-headed bat was probably between the late Yuanying stage and the peak stage when it was alive!"
That’s pretty impressive too, everyone exclaimed.
"Has someone already searched our area? Was this wolf-headed bat killed by that group of people?" Zhang Jingxuan thought for a moment and said.
Zhao Dongsheng said helplessly: "You are stupid, the body has begun to rot. It is obvious that the wolf-headed bat has been dead for who knows how many days."
"That's right, and with those people who just entered, no one can kill this wolf-headed bat without resistance!" said Li Luoyi, the great elder of Danxia Sect.
Everyone nodded.
"Well, we seem to have overlooked something important!" Bai Ziling said.
Everyone looked at her in confusion.
Bai Ziling continued: "Just now, Sect Master Zheng said that this wolf-headed bat is a common monster in the Dark Forest, and we came here through the teleportation array, so our current location is..."
Everyone was shocked. If they were really in the core area, then if common monsters like wolf-headed bats were so powerful, what about other stronger monsters? You have to know that the ancestor of the Dark Forest can fight against the existence of the entire continent's scattered immortals by himself. How can the monsters under his command be simple?
Zheng Yunxia saw what everyone was thinking and said, "In fact, the commonness mentioned here is relatively speaking. You have seen the situation in the Dark Forest. The bottom is not suitable for living things to survive, especially in the core area, which is the territory of high-level monsters. There are even fewer monsters. Although monsters such as wolf-headed bats are very suitable for surviving in such a cold and humid environment, their numbers are not large, not to the extent that they are everywhere."
Bai Ziling also said: "I heard that the monster tribe has declined for some unknown reason. Apart from the legendary monster saint, there are no other great monsters to show off."
Everyone understood. No wonder they hadn't seen any monsters for so long since they came in. The only thing they saw was the corpse in front of them.
"But even so, this core location is not something that the sects in Ping'an Domain can barge into. Aren't these three major sects trying to cheat us?" Zhao Dongsheng said.
Everyone nodded. No wonder the three major sects only sent some small minions in. So this was the reason. But now everyone was even more confused about their purpose. Was it just to weaken the strength of other forces in Ping An Domain? This didn't make sense. With the strength of the three major sects, as long as they were of one mind, no one could shake their position.
"Forget it, let's take it one step at a time! The monsters in the Dark Forest are not unreasonable. They won't attack us if we don't provoke them." Zheng Yunxia said.
"That's right. It's not that we don't have the ability to protect ourselves!" Bai Ziling agreed. With Li Yunxi here, he believed that as long as their luck was not too bad, they would still be able to protect themselves. If things really didn't work, his master Daofa Tianzun was still living in his Qiankun Ring. He couldn't just watch them all die, right?
When everyone heard them both say this, they had no choice but to do so. There was no better choice now.
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