Chapter 289: Potential Crisis
Lin Yuanfan's divine sense also stretched along the cave, but the route in it was extremely complicated, not like it was done by a demon beast, it was very likely to be a group, and his divine sense was difficult to penetrate too far into it, so he could no longer continue to track it, so he had to give up, hoping that the foundation building elder of Kunlun Dao would find out.
Xiao Chuan's thousands of paper cranes quickly shuttled through the complex vertical and horizontal passages, and one of them suddenly made a discovery, only to see that in front of it there was a pangolin moving forward with a fist-sized spirit stone in its mouth, a hard dark gray scale armor flashing with cold light, and its body size was much larger than the ordinary pangolins in the outside world, about the same size as a teenager, and the momentum on its body was like a martial artist at the peak of its internal strength, and it still belonged to the condensation period.
The pangolin also found the thousand paper cranes behind him, turned around, a pair of small eyes flashed with a strange red light, and his body exuded a faint demonic aura, obviously a low-level demon beast, it was very puzzled by the existence of the thousand paper cranes, but he only cultivated too low, and his spiritual wisdom was not opened, and after curiosity, he no longer cared, and continued to move forward with the spirit stone in his mouth.
"Pangolins at the peak of internal strength?" Xiao Chuan was puzzled, it was the first time he had seen such a strange thing, the strength of a pangolin was almost close to that of a grandmaster, which was unbelievable in the outside world.
These pangolins do have the ability to punch holes here, but the general low-level demon beasts will not be too interested in the spirit stones, because they can't use the spiritual power in them at all, and most low-level demon beasts only find the spirit stones special and attractive.
Then his other cranes spotted two other pangolins, which moved quickly and quickly emerged from the other side of the mountain along the familiar passage.
Xiao Chuan saw through the Thousand Paper Crane that the three pangolin demon beasts were heading towards the same place, so he asked the Thousand Paper Crane to follow the three pangolins closely, wondering where the stolen spirit stones had gone.
Half an hour passed, and those pangolins traveled all the way to another rocky low mountain in the distance, and the thousand paper cranes also found many traces of pangolins along the way, like a pangolin dynasty.
Following the three pangolins, more than a dozen thousand paper cranes came to a wide cave in the middle of the mountain, Xiao Chuan saw that there were spirit stones like a hill in that cave, the number was extremely huge, I am afraid that there were tens of thousands, such a number of spirit stones, can supply the spirit stones of their two major sects in a hundred years.
Before Xiao Chuan could get happy, a huge pangolin that was curled up and sleeping next to the spirit stone felt the fluctuation of spiritual power on the thousand paper cranes, a pair of red and blood-devouring eyes opened, and the huge body also stretched out, and a powerful momentum suddenly appeared in its lair.
The body of this huge pangolin is one zhang long, if you add the tail that is the same length as the body, his whole body is almost two zhang, the size is not like that, the black scale armor covers the whole body, the defense is amazing, like a moving tank, and the terrifying sharp claws, and the whole body exudes an extremely dangerous aura.
This breath alone made the thousand paper cranes refined by Xiao Chuan unable to resist, and one by one they lost their spirituality and fell from the sky, and then the tail of the huge pangolin swept away, and all the thousand paper cranes disappeared.
Xiao Chuan felt the power of the huge pangolin, his face changed greatly, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"How could it be? How could there be such a powerful demon beast around here. ”
The people around him also noticed Xiao Chuan's abnormality, and they had a bad feeling in their hearts.
"Elder Xiao, what did you see?" Zhou Jie hurriedly asked.
"The spirit stone here was stolen by a group of pangolins, and their lair is nearby, and there is a huge pangolin demon beast among them, which is extremely powerful. Xiao Chuan explained.
"How strong is it?" Zhou Jie's expression became very solemn, and if he could say "extremely strong" from Xiao Chuan, an elder in the early stage of foundation building, then the other party's strength would definitely not be simple, and it would not be something that could be dealt with casually.
"If I'm not mistaken, the strength of the pangolin is probably comparable to that of the late stage of foundation building, and it can't be sure that it collects spirit stones for further evolution. Xiao Chuan said solemnly, and told him what he had seen as it was.
Everyone was shocked, the demon beasts in the late stage of foundation building, that is an existence that they can't deal with, and the two people with the highest realm here are only in the early stage of foundation building, compared with the late stage of foundation building, one is in the sky and the other is on the ground, not an order of magnitude.
Lin Yuanfan also fell into contemplation, and felt a trace of pressure, the demon beasts in the late stage of foundation building are not what he can defeat now, unless his five spirits completely step into the foundation building, and maybe there is still the power of a battle, otherwise he will only have to escape when he encounters the demon beasts in the late stage of foundation building.
Zhou Jie couldn't believe that their spirit stone vein was actually discovered by a demon beast in the late stage of foundation building, so it would be very difficult to do.
They also know a little bit about demon beasts, and the spirit of demon beasts with foundation building strength will be more or less opened, and they have learned to think, and they can cultivate to the later stage of foundation building, and their spirit intelligence should be similar to that of adult ordinary people, and they will understand more things.
Demon beasts and humans also need to cultivate, and the process is even more difficult than that of people, but because of this, once the demon beast has achieved cultivation, its strength will generally be much higher than that of people in the same realm, and it is almost impossible for ordinary monks to defeat demon beasts in the same realm.
"Elder, what should we do then, are we going to give up this place to that beast?" Ouyang Po worried, if that demon beast knew about the existence here, maybe there would be some danger for them to stay here.
"What's the panic, I'm scared if I don't even see the shadow of the demon beast, don't embarrass my Kunlun Dao. Xiao Chuan said.
It is absolutely impossible for them to give up this spirit stone vein, everything in the future of the two sects is counting on these spirit stones, without the spirit stones, the two major sects will quickly decay, no one wants such a thing to happen.
"I have here a set of protective formations that the Sect Master Ancestor gave me before leaving, which can envelop all of this place, and you can't enter it below the Jiedan. Xiao Chuan said calmly.
This is the means that Zheng Kun gave him to use as the last self-protection before leaving, and now that the spirit stone vein is threatened, he has to make some countermeasures, even if it will attract the attention of the surrounding demon beasts, but he must do this, if the spirit stone is taken out, there is no guarantee for the future of the two of them.
"Yes, let's set up the formation first, then we won't provoke the pangolin in the late stage of foundation building, and we will leave when we have collected enough spirit stones. Zhou Jie affirmed.
He also had the powerful means prepared by the Ancestor of the Infinite Dao, which was the most important guarantee for their survival in the future, but he was unwilling to use it at the first time.
As long as they harvest the spirit stone, they will go to other places to avoid the location of the demon beast, presumably there will not be too much danger, there is a powerful demon beast around the spirit stone vein, such a big thing they are going to go out and notify the ancestor to deal with it.