Ancient Devouring Technique

Chapter 901 Sword Embryo
In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Ye Xuan did not send his spiritual sense into the cave to investigate the details, nor did he use his clairvoyance.

You know, the perception of a strong person can sometimes be vaguely felt even with just a glance.

Hiding his body, he slowly approached the cave, and after making sure that the people inside didn't notice him, he carefully slipped in.

This cave is about five or six feet wide and high. It was opened up by the ancestor of the Yinsha Sect when he first came here. At that time, he felt some abnormal fluctuations in the mountain wall from outside, so he opened up this cave and finally found the God-Eating Vine and Sword Embryo hidden in the mountain wall.

Walking into the cave, Ye Xuan could feel more clearly the several fluctuations coming from inside. He finally confirmed that the strongest person among them was indeed Zeng Zhilong from the Baihua Sect. There were also the auras of three saints, who must be the other three people from the Baihua Sect.

In addition to the auras of these four people, Ye Xuan also sensed a large number of peculiar auras that were similar to those of monsters but somewhat strange. In terms of strength, the strongest one was probably similar to a semi-saint monster.

In addition, what Ye Xuan was most concerned about was another powerful fluctuation that was not from a living creature. The blazing fire spirit power must be the spiritual fire without a doubt. However, what surprised him was that although this spiritual fire fluctuation was extremely powerful, it seemed to be missing something. But he couldn't tell what was missing.

Although both are spiritual fires, their power is different in the hands of fire warriors at different levels.

With some doubts, Ye Xuan walked forward cautiously for more than a hundred feet. Suddenly, the scene in front of him became clear and a huge space appeared in his sight. This space was not opened up by the ancestor of the Yinsha Sect, but a space that already existed in the mountain wall. At that time, the ancestor of the Yinsha Sect simply dug a passage from the outside to connect here.

At this moment, an astonishing battle was taking place in this space. The raging flames illuminated the surroundings, and strange screams came one after another, making people's eardrums hurt.

In the center of the venue, the three saints of the Baihua Sect stood in pairs several dozen feet apart, forming an equilateral triangle. Each of them was fighting at full strength, either controlling a holy weapon or performing holy skills, constantly attacking the "enemies" that were rushing towards them from all directions.

And the ones fighting with them were actually a group of strange creatures the size of millstones, which looked like "rattan balls". It was impossible to see what they looked like originally. One could only see black vines as thick as babies' arms dancing on their bodies. These black vines looked extremely similar to the poisonous vines growing in this valley. They relied on the swinging and whipping of the black vines all over their bodies to constantly dart around. The power of the black vines seemed to be quite strong, and almost every whip would bring about a series of explosions. These strange monsters kept making meaningless "chirp" or "squeak" sounds, and fearlessly pounced on the several strong men in the middle like moths to a flame.

Poison vine beasts - this is the name given to these strange monsters in the secret records of the Yinsha Sect.

The secret records speculate that these strange creatures should be a kind of "companion beast" of the poison ivy in the valley. As for how they were born, or even whether this speculation is accurate, it is unknown. The strangest thing is that this kind of creature only exists in the mountain wall between the front and back valleys.

The strength of these poison vine beasts is not that strong, the most powerful one is only about equivalent to the semi-saint realm, and the weaker ones are at the Martial Emperor or even the Martial King realm. But what is terrifying is their number, which is as countless as a large ant colony. They live in this mountain wall and never go out. They only attack any creature that breaks in here - as if they are guarding something.

The central mountain wall that separates the Poison Ivy Front Valley and the Back Valley is no less than ten miles thick and is full of these creatures. This is why the only way to reach the place where the Sword Embryo and the God-Devouring Vine are located is from the Back Valley. From this side, you only need to enter the mountain wall for more than a hundred feet. But if you want to pass through the Front Valley on the other side, you need to pass through a ten-mile mountain wall. Even if you are at the Great Sage level, you will not be able to cope with the attacks of countless poison vine beasts when you use earth escape to travel.

At this moment, the poison ivy beasts jumping up and down in this space were densely packed, which was a beast tide. Of course, it was impossible for the three saints of the Baihua Sect to deal with it. In fact, the poison ivy beasts they resisted were only a minority. What really blocked the attack of these poison ivy beasts was another thing - a holy weapon.

Dozens of feet above the heads of the three people, there was a gourd-shaped magical weapon that was completely red. The gourd was floating in the air and rotating, and a stream of red flames was continuously spewing out from its small mouth. These flames formed a hemispherical flame shield with a radius of about thirty feet, which kept all the poison vine beasts out.

All the poison vine beasts that tried to pass through the flames were burned into piles of charcoal, even those with the strength of a semi-saint were no exception.

These flames are not ordinary fires, but... spiritual fires!!

Yes, this is exactly the spiritual fire that Ye Xuan sensed, but it was sprayed out from a holy weapon!

After Ye Xuan scanned the general situation in the field, his gaze fixed on the bottom of the sacred gourd, which was the center of the spiritual fire shield.

There, a figure was sitting cross-legged. It was Zeng Zhilong. At this moment, holy power was surging in his body. A layer of green light that was as solid as substance surrounded him. Ten feet in front of him, there was a small green tornado. In this tornado, a silver-white sword shadow kept colliding.

"Sword Embryo!!!"

The moment he saw the flickering sword shadow, Ye Xuan's gaze slightly condensed. The faint fluctuation that came out was very strange, very scary, and very sharp!
At the moment, Zeng Zhilong was obviously refining the sword embryo, trying to subdue it and take it away. And it seemed that he had been doing this for quite some time. The resistance waves coming from the sword embryo had become very weak, and it was likely that it would be completely subdued soon.

Seeing this situation, Ye Xuan couldn't help but frown, and a hint of hesitation flashed in his eyes - should he rob or not?

(End of this chapter)