Mo Ling Mountain Range
Lu Zhong's body was shrouded in a layer of pale yellow baleful energy, and his speed was extremely fast.
"I didn't expect this Mud Demon Veil to actually be useful at this time!"
Surrounding the pale yellow baleful energy were earth-shattering roars of ferocious beasts. The sky and earth were filled with ferocious and arrogant beasts.
These ferocious beasts rampaged unscrupulously among the fallen ancient trees, fighting and devouring each other.
Lu Zhong, enveloped by the pale yellow baleful energy, entered without attracting the attention of these mongrel fierce beasts.
Lu Zhong's expression was calm, and he occasionally looked towards the surroundings of the Mo Ling Mountain Range.
With his divine power, it wouldn't be difficult to kill these mongrel beasts infected by the baleful energy, but doing so would inevitably alert the ferocious beasts inside, as well as the great cultivators monitoring the Mo Ling Mountain Range from the outside.
Lu Zhong moved at extreme speed, his Innate Spiritual Energy enveloping the cudgel in his hand as he continuously sensed the invisible fluctuations in the void.
He rapidly stealthily moved towards the valley in the south foot of the mountain.
South Foot Mountain Valley
Lu Zhong's figure, transformed into a red light, parted a large patch of mutated demonic vines, and his body appeared on a barren land.
What was originally a rather fertile ancient forest here had completely withered, with wisps of dense baleful energy circulating.
"This should be the place!"
Lu Zhong's expression was calm, a wisp of scarlet divine light appearing in his eyes as he scanned the valley before him.
Currently, several enormous mongrel fierce beasts were lurking in the valley.
On the surface, this was just a rare baleful energy nexus, but with the ferocious beast leg bone Lu Zhong held, he suddenly had some guesses.
With a shift of thought, his body directly floated into a cave deep within the valley.
Roar roar!!
Instantly, a furious roar erupted from nearby. Two terrifying claws whistled towards him, but just as the dreadful stench appeared, it came to an abrupt halt. An invisible, vast wave of energy from Lu Zhong's body surged through, a substantial impact that even caused the entire cave to vibrate slightly.
Divine might impact.
The soul-level power surge instantly caused the ferocious spirit of this beast to collapse.
"Spare..."
More than ten steps away, a thin, ferocious beast that resembled a wolf and a tiger lay on the ground. It was a Linzheng, a very common ferocious beast.
Before dying, this ferocious beast's mouth was wide open, and it hadn't been able to utter a single word. Its cruel beastly eyes were still filled with fear.
Lu Zhong glanced at the corpse of this ferocious beast.
This was a ferocious beast comparable to a Golden Core stage cultivator.
It was not common for an ordinary Linzheng to cultivate to this level.
There were three more such ferocious beasts. Lu Zhong's expression was stern. His figure disappeared into the cave for a moment, and he reappeared in the same spot a dozen breaths later.
He had already dealt with those three ferocious beasts.
With the divine might impact, their ferocious spirits were shattered in a single encounter.
After clearing the ferocious beasts in the valley, Lu Zhong waved his sleeve, and a layer of vast flame surged into the depths of the cave.
Gurgle gurgle!!
Instantly, the earth deep underground rumbled violently, and a layer of scorching red waves suddenly surged out from the depths of the earth. In this surging, liquefied torrent, the soft soil and hard rocks suddenly softened under the red light.
A scorching high temperature erupted, causing the temperature of the entire valley to rise sharply.
The heat waves were astonishing!
Under the surging earth fire, the ground cracked open.
Almost the moment the earth's crust broke, a terrifying baleful energy, wild, domineering, and filled with murderous intent, erupted.
The baleful energy shot directly towards Lu Zhong!
Like light, like lightning!
That was a ferocious spirit baleful essence formed from countless earth fiends refining ferocious spirits and residual vital energy of deities deep within the earth. Even deities would retreat from it!
Upon seeing this, Lu Zhong's expression changed, and his soul felt somewhat hazy. Just then, a radiant treasure suddenly reacted deep within his soul. Serene heavenly sound and noble purple energy suddenly circulated around him, and a Pure Yang Lotus intertwined with blue and red appeared in the void.
Within the Pure Yang Lotus, there was also a jade pendant.
The terrifying baleful energy that made Lu Zhong's mind sway was suddenly blocked by a warm, peaceful, radiant light.
The Tranquility Jade Pendant played a huge role at this moment.
"Purify!"
Lu Zhong stimulated this treasure with his divine sense. The Pure Yang Lotus above his head immediately catalyzed, transforming into a serene, radiant light that enveloped this blood-colored baleful energy, slowly consuming and dissipating it.
The Tranquility Jade Pendant possessed a highly pure purification ability, capable of purifying external demonic baleful energy.
After this blood-colored baleful energy was consumed and dissipated, the baleful energy spewing from underground was no longer so oppressive.
The Tranquility Jade Pendant retracted again, transforming into a blue and red radiance that merged into the depths of his brow.
Lu Zhong looked intently and immediately saw something.
In the vast expanse of earth fire magma, many huge white bones intertwined and emerged from the magma.
Even the terrifying magma flames could not melt these eerie white bones.
"There are so many ferocious beast remains?"
Lu Zhong looked at the scene below with shock, finding it hard to imagine.
He had only guessed before that there might be the remains of a powerful innate ferocious beast here, and that there might be some benefits, so he came to investigate. He hadn't expected this to be a ferocious beast battlefield.
Ferocious beast battlefields are usually formed by ferocious beasts fighting each other for opportunities to become kings.
In ancient traditions, ferocious beast battlefields were not uncommon.
To give birth to powerful ferocious beast kings and to temper their own bloodlines and abilities, many powerful ferocious beasts would voluntarily participate in such battles to achieve breakthroughs among the beast hordes.
Once such a beast king appeared, it would be comparable to those innate ferocious beast kings with uncommon talent.
Lu Zhong's eyes were full of surprise. He walked step by step into the hundred-foot-deep underground magma. The surging, terrifying magma and earth fire coiled around him, causing him no harm. Instead, they seemed to surround him, as if escorting a divine being in fire.
"It's a pity these ferocious beast white bones have been buried for too long!"
After examining some of the white bones, Lu Zhong's eyes were filled with regret.
These white bones were excellent materials for refining weapons and alchemy. Unfortunately, they had been buried here for too long. The Fierce Beast Blood Essence within had long been corroded and lost by the Mortal Qi of the Earth.
Even the baleful energy attached to the ferocious beast remains had almost completely dissipated.
"Better than nothing. Collecting them might be useful soon!"
Lu Zhong glanced at the pile of beast bones piled up before him, resembling a small mountain.
He opened a storage pouch in his hand and put all the excavated beast bones into it.
However, one storage pouch was not enough, so he took out several more.
Regarding this pile of beast bones, Lu Zhong suddenly had an idea.
As he dug deeper, Lu Zhong found other parts of the ferocious beast leg bone he held. Unexpectedly, there were still traces of residual essence blood within the remains of this ferocious beast.
Besides this ferocious beast leg bone, Lu Zhong also found several other bone sets that still retained essence blood. These bone remains were completely different in value from the previous white bones.
Lu Zhong also collected them.
As these white bones were excavated, a beam of spiritual light suddenly shot out from underground, transforming into a red light and rushing out of the cave.
In the red light, precious aura purple radiance shone like stars, and a dense radiance shone directly into his eyes.
"What is that dazzling thing?"
Lu Zhong's expression was stunned. Almost instinctively, his Three Thousand Blazing Flame Divine Domain expanded around him, and dense innate divine flame covered the void, intercepting this beam of treasure light.