Yuan Ming played with the fiery red spirit stone and shook his head regretfully.

Because of the different spiritual power contained in the spirit stone, it can be roughly divided into five categories: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, this spirit stone is obviously a fire attribute spirit stone, and the nine-yuan trick of his own cultivation is a wood attribute exercise, and he cannot assist in cultivation by absorbing the spiritual power in it.

Yuan Ming put the spirit stone back into the black pouch, took out the book, and opened it with great interest.

The book, which is hidden in a black pouch, must not be an ordinary book.

The pages of these books are not paper, but a soft white silk that lasts longer than paper pages.

He turned the first page, and four large characters came into view: the Black Wood Codex.

"Kuroki? It's a familiar name...... Could it be the Black Wood Master of the Fire Refining Hall mentioned by Chen Wan? Yuan Ming suddenly remembered what Chen Wan had said to him, paused to turn the book, continued to search for the corpse, and soon found a nameplate from the placket on his chest, on which were written two small characters "Black Wood".

"Sure enough, it's Master Kuroki." Yuan Ming's eyes were happy.

Kuroki is known as one of the best genius refiners in Biluo Cave for a hundred years, and the codex he left behind is definitely not low.

It's just that I didn't expect that such a legendary refining master would fall here for no apparent reason.

He was about to continue to open the black wood codex, when the gluttonous child who was playing in the house suddenly rushed over and jumped onto Yuan Ming's shoulder, squeaking eagerly, full of horror.

Yuan Ming's brows furrowed, and he immediately put away the black wood codex, the blue light flashed in his palm, and there was already an extra herring sword, and his eyes scanned the surroundings sharply.

However, as time passed, no anomalies appeared.

Yuan Ming didn't dare to relax a bit, and walked outside lightly.

Along the way, Huo Glutton's spiritual sense has been fulfilled many times, and it is really keen, and the breath of fire chalcedony can be sensed across the two stone walls, which must not be ignored.

Just as he reached the door of the stone chamber, the fire greed suddenly screamed again, and almost at the same time, a yellow shadow leaped out of the rock beneath his feet, and a long claw grabbed at his calf like lightning.

Yuan Ming didn't expect the enemy to emerge from the ground, so he hurriedly dodged to the side, and the herring sword reflexively counterattacked, slashing at Huang Ying's chest.

The yellow shadow's body technique was extremely weird, and he dodged the slash of the herring sword with a slight flicker, and his body crashed into the stone wall next to him, melting into it without hindrance, and disappeared without a trace.

Yuan Ming's figure staggered, and a long cut was made on his right leg, oozing a lot of blood.

Although he tried his best to dodge just now, he was still grazed by the yellow shadow's claws, but fortunately, the wound was not deep and did not affect his movements.

"It can easily penetrate the stone wall...... Could that thing just now be an earth-walking demon? He said to himself.

He had seen a record of the Earth Walking Demon in the classics, with the ability to drill into the ground, and could walk through the earth and rocky land at will, which can be said to be offensive and defensible, which is especially difficult to deal with in today's environment.

It is said that only in the depths of the 100,000 mountains will there be earthly demons, how can there be this area of Qianlu Lake?

Yuan Ming didn't care about dealing with his injuries, and immediately ran outside.

Huo Er squatted on his shoulder, looking around uneasily.

"yes, how did you forget to use its power!" Yuan Ming suddenly had an idea, and he pinched the wood stabbing technique in his hand.

At that moment, the fire gluttony screamed again, her eyes looking behind her.

Yuan Ming's right hand immediately pointed back, which was in the same direction as Huo Yu'er's viewing.

The wall behind the left was glowing with a hint of yellow, and the yellow shadow monster appeared half of its body.

At this moment, the green light of the stone wall under it flashed, and a sharp wooden thorn appeared out of thin air, piercing into the lower abdomen of the Yellow Shadow Monster.

This Yellow Shadow Monster belongs to the earth, Mu Ke Tu, and the Wood Thorn Technique easily broke through its body defenses and tore out a large wound.

The demon screamed miserably, and most of the yellow light on the surface of his body dissipated, revealing his true body.

This is a monster with a large head and a thin body, with an earthy yellow body, unusually smooth skin, and four thin and long claws, which reveal a bit of comical in its ugliness.

"Sure enough, it's an earthly demon!" Yuan Ming whispered and pinched the trick again.

Two wooden thorns burst out and stabbed at the body of the Earth Demon.

The Earthwalking Demon's body shrank, dodging the pursuit of the two wooden thorns, and sank into the stone wall and disappeared.

Yuan Ming's face was grim, without the excitement of a successful blow, and continued to run out.

According to the classics, the Earth Demon is extremely vengeful, although the wooden thorn technique just now hurt it, it may not hurt the vital point, this demon may still be wandering around, and must leave immediately.

On the next journey, the Earth Walking Demon did not attack again, and Yuan Ming quickly came outside, his face slightly relaxed.

The earthly demon can walk through the ground, the more closed the environment, the more beneficial it is, and now that it comes to the open place outside, the attack range of this demon is greatly reduced, and it is naturally not so dangerous.

Huo Yu'er got into Yuan Ming's arms, raised his head and whispered a few times, his body trembled, and his expression was full of fear.

"Look, you little guy scares the hell. But also, first the four-eyed golden ape, then the black giant crow, and now there is an earthly demon, it is indeed better to leave early! Yuan Ming stroked the fluff of Huo Yu'er's head, and he also had a retreat in his heart.

Although this island shrouded in thick fog is full of dangers, it also highlights its mystery, especially the appearance of Kuroki's corpse makes it have the urge to find out, but unfortunately his strength is still too weak, so he can only talk about it when he has a chance in the future.

He returned the same way he had followed the cold stream, and soon returned to the black pine forest he had used to be.

Yuan Ming hesitated for a moment, and did not plan to return the same way.

According to the previous path, it is very likely that he will encounter the black giant crow and the four-eyed golden ape again, and he doesn't want to have any unnecessary entanglements with these two guys, so he can avoid it.

Yuan Ming carefully recalled the situation after entering the island, and reluctantly judged that this black pine forest should also be on the edge of the island, and if you walk in the opposite direction of the cold stream, you should also be able to reach the edge of the island.

He walked according to his own judgment, and the black pine forest gradually thinned out, and the sound of rushing water was heard, and soon he came to the lake.

Yuan Ming's face was relieved, and he immediately lifted the draping technique, found a dry place to sit down, and considered a way to get out while running the Nine Yuan Technique to restore his mana.

He still had rope on him, and it wasn't difficult to build another wooden raft, but the trouble was the black monster that could send out lightning attacks, and he always felt that the monster was still hovering near the island, waiting for him.

At this moment, Yuan Ming suddenly opened his eyes and looked at a pine tree next to him.

And yet it was empty, nothing.

"It shouldn't be, I just felt that there was something there......" Yuan Ming muttered to himself, and suddenly thought of a possibility.

"Silvercat, is that you?" He stood up and spoke.

There was silence nearby, and there was no response.

"I know you're around, can you show up and see you?" Yuan Ming cleared his throat and said in a sincere tone.

Although I don't know why, the silver cat has always followed him out of nowhere, and it should be there now, this cat is extraordinary, if you can help him, it will be much easier to leave this place.

Apart from the sound of the water and the wind, there was still no movement.

Yuan Ming smiled bitterly, knowing that this was the silver cat's response to his reluctance to help, so he didn't continue to call, sat down again, and continued to use the Nine Yuan Jue to restore mana.

After a while, he got up and took out the herring sword, cut a few black pines, cut the branches and tie the ropes, and soon made a new wooden row.

Yuan Ming did not drain the wood into the water, but put it into a black storage bag, then took the incense burner into the air, rose as high as possible, and then flew away into the distance with all his strength.

The wind whistled in his ears, and the white mist was also scratched a trace, and he soon flew away for seven or eight miles.

When he arrived here, Yuan Ming's face turned pale, and he slowly fell downward, stopping a few feet above the lake.

He took the raft out of the black storage bag, gently threw it into the lake, and then floated down, gasping slightly.

After flying so far, Yuan Ming's body had little mana left, and his body was extremely weak, so he couldn't wait to fall asleep, but now was not the time to rest.

Reluctantly, he took out a pole, carefully propped up the wooden raft, and drove quickly forward.

This is Yuan Ming's strategy to get out of the way, first use the incense burner to fly as far as possible, and then use the wooden raft to escape.

If it was before, this method would not work, the storage bag given to him by the Lord of the Three Caves could not hold a wooden raft at all, and after he got the storage bag of Master Kuroki, he had this escape strategy.

This method is very risky, if he is recognized by the black water monster, he has almost no power to resist, but he has no other way but to take the risk once.

Yuan Ming quickly propped up the wooden row, one heart up and down, always paying attention to the movements around him.

Time passed little by little, the black water monster never appeared, his tense heartstrings gradually relaxed, and continued to move forward for more than ten miles, confirming that the black water monster would not appear, then stopped the wooden row, sat down cross-legged to recover his mana.

As soon as the mana was restored, Yuan Ming immediately put the wooden raft into the storage bag and continued to use the incense burner to take off.

Half a day later, it was already dark.

On the shore of a certain place in Qianlu Lake, a wooden raft drove quickly and slowly approached the shore.

"It's out." Yuan Ming went ashore and let out a sigh of relief.

This trip to search for Bishui Stone was an easy task, but I didn't expect so many branches to grow.

Yuan Ming shook his head and left quickly.

Dozens of zhang away from Yuan Ming, in the lake water, a round black thing protruded, as big as a grinding plate, smooth and slippery, and there were two huge turquoise eyes, which looked like the head of a creature in the water, and in the surrounding lake, a few black tentacles loomed, paddling hard, and quickly approached the shore.

If Yuan Ming was here, he would definitely be able to recognize at a glance that this thing was the black water monster that had chased him before.

It's just that there is no murderous light in the eyes of the black water monster, revealing a sense of dazedness, as if it has been manipulated by someone's mind.

On the black head, there was a small silver figure squatting, but it was a silver cat.

The black water monster quickly swam to the shore, and the silver cat jumped lightly and landed on the shore silently, its heterochromatic eyes shining in the night, looking in the direction of Yuan Ming's departure.

The black water monster's body trembled, the misty color in its eyes suddenly disappeared, and it glanced at the silver cat in horror, and immediately got into the water and disappeared.

(End of chapter)