"One hundred spirit stones." Yuan Ming held up a finger and said.

"No, at least one thousand spirit stones, I only have four." The man in black shook his head resolutely.

"One hundred and one spirit stones." Yuan Ming said.

"Fellow Daoist, it's very insincere for you to bargain like this." The man in black frowned.

"This one-time thing, that's the price." Yuan Ming raised his eyebrows and questioned.

"Just eight hundred spirit stones, if you don't agree, then forget it." The man in black didn't take a stubble, and said directly.

"Two hundred spirit stones, don't be in a hurry to disagree, if the thing is easy to sell, you won't be unable to sell it for a few days." Yuan Ming said.

"Do you want to buy it...... man's face to it," the man in black said angrily.

"Of course I buy it, I think the people who can use this thing don't have spirit stones to buy it, most of the people who have spirit stones are strong enough, and those who buy this spirit stones might as well build a high-grade magic weapon." You're right? Like the guy over there." Yuan Ming said, waving his hand into the distance, and said hello to Gu Qiuming.

The latter also cooperatively raised his remaining arm and responded.

When the man in black saw this scene, his brows couldn't help but twist into twists, and he couldn't speak.

"Fellow Daoist, the price I gave you is already a reasonable price." Yuan Ming patted the shoulder of the man in black, looking serious.

"Well, I've never met someone as eloquent as you. A thousand spirit stones, three heart-splitting thunders are yours. Let's talk about it first, and don't make any more counteroffers!" After hesitating for a while, the man in black said with his shoulders slumped down.

"Okay, then you wait here, and I'll get the money right away." Yuan Ming readily agreed.

"That's not going to work, it has to be settled right away." The man in black said immediately.

"What are you worried about? I put the deposit of three hundred spirit stones here, and the Heart Splitting Thunder is still in your own hands, don't you worry?" Yuan Ming said, giving three hundred spirit stones and the man in black.

"Really? Aren't you afraid that I will swallow your spirit stone and run away?" The man in black immediately caught the letter and said suspiciously.

"It's okay, three hundred spirit stones, I can afford to lose. No, my sect's senior brother is also setting up a stall there, if you have a rare bird or beast that you can sell him, you can report my Hagong name." Yuan Ming smiled, dropped this sentence, and turned to leave.

The man in black glanced at the one-armed old man, and then at another vendor not far away, and then swept to the two people leaning under the tree, and suddenly felt that Yuan Ming's people were all around, and the things he was selling were a little sensitive, so he dared to have the slightest dissent, so he could only wait there honestly with trepidation.

He didn't know that in the darkness not far from him, there was a black soul crow, staring at him without blinking. Yuan Ming hurriedly returned and found Gu Yue, who had not yet had time to help him sell things.

After some discussion, let him help pull together a thousand spirit stones, and the price was that no matter how much the follow-up magic weapons and storage bags were sold, they would all belong to Gu Yue, and they had nothing to do with him.

After rushing back to the ghost market, Yuan Ming successfully bought three Heart-Splitting Thunderbolts, and almost spent his savings at one time.

After that, he used the only more than 100 spirit stones left on his body to buy some useful talismans, and then rushed back to the 100,000 Mountains overnight to continue his retreat.

About a month later.

Yuan Ming used up the remaining Qingxuan incense, and with the help of swallowing Jinhua Dan, he finally broke through to the twelfth layer of qi refining in one fell swoop.

At this time, there are only less than ten days left before the White Deer Hill Alliance.

Although he has a Tsukidan, he doesn't want to give up the opportunity to build a foundation promised by the sect, but he has made a lot of preparations, in his opinion, this so-called opportunity, most of it is also a Tsukidan, if he can get his wish, he can have two Tsukidan, and the chance of success in building the foundation will naturally increase greatly.

However, when the time comes, all the sects are full of talents, and they must be fully prepared, and they should also take back the black toad.

……

Yuan Ming rushed all the way to the Snake King Valley.

The environment in the valley is the same, with giant trees towering and miasma shrouded in miasma, as if it has been like this for eternity and will never change.

He's working with black

The toad sat down cross-legged at the entrance of each one, closed his eyes to sense the position of the black toad, and his eyes sank suddenly.

He couldn't even sense the beast control rune in the black toad's body!

According to Yuan Ming's current cognition, there are only two possibilities for this phenomenon, one is that the black toad has been killed by someone, and the beast control rune will naturally dissipate, and the other is that the black toad has been banned and locked up by some kind of magic circle, cutting off his connection with the beast control rune.

The black toad has advanced to the second level, and has awakened several powerful abilities, and is his most important helper at present, if he is killed, it will be too heavy a loss.

Yuan Ming's thoughts were spinning in his heart, and he faintly felt that something was wrong, and forced himself to calm down.

Now, first of all, it is necessary to determine the life and death of the black toad.

The black toad had liked the black pillar before, and it was likely that he had gone there.

Thinking of this, Yuan Ming hurriedly walked towards the Snake King Cave.

With the blessing of the white jade belt, he quickly arrived at the entrance of the Snake King's cave, and was about to enter it, when he suddenly stopped and waved his hand to release three soul crows.

One flew into the Snake King's Cave, one stayed outside the entrance, and the third monitored the surroundings.

After doing this, Yuan Ming took out the water cloud banner and clasped it in his hand, entered the Snake King Cave, and soon came to the deepest part of the Snake King Cave.

The black stone pillar that towered here disappeared, and a large hole with a diameter of three zhang appeared in the ground, and the black pitch was bottomless, and there were many large and small stones and soil scattered on the ground nearby, which seemed to be caused by the black stone pillar being pulled out alive.

Yuan Ming had already discovered this situation through the soul crow, and he was not surprised, and with a thought, he controlled the soul crow to fly into the black cave to investigate, and he searched for it everywhere in the cave.

With the power of his powerful divine sense, he quickly discovered that he had found a purple-black broken vine under a large stone, which was part of the purple-black demon vine, and it seemed that the black toad had indeed been here.

The soul crow also arrived at the bottom of the black cave at this moment, and this big hole extended straight downward, reaching a depth of more than thirty zhang, resembling a deep well.

The space at the bottom of the cave is much larger than above, but it is empty, and a bluestone passage appears on the side of the bottom of the cave, extending into the distance.

The floor and stone walls of the bluestone passage are level, and it looks like it was built by man, and it is covered with dust.

Yuan Ming manipulated the soul crow to explore the underground, and after finding no danger, he sacrificed the water cloud banner to protect his body and jumped into the big hole.

The water cloud banner shot out two blue rays of blue light like a big hand, grabbing the cave wall, causing his falling speed to be greatly reduced, and he soon landed safely.

He rummaged at the bottom of the cave for a moment, found no new broken vines, and looked at the bluestone passage.

The soul crow had already flown into the passage, and had flown forward at least three hundred zhang at the moment, and still had not reached the end.

At this point, Yuan Ming did not flinch, he raised the water cloud banner to protect his body, stepped into the passage, and his divine consciousness also spread.

He hadn't gone far before he stopped and looked at the wall of the cave on his right, where there was a dark spot the size of a thumb in the corner, which looked like it had been corroded by something.

This place is inconspicuous, and if he hadn't unfolded his divine sense, he wouldn't have discovered it at all.

Yuan Ming approached the black spot and sniffed it gently, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

The black spot emitted a sour smell, which was the smell of black toad venom, and it seemed that the black toad had been here, most of them were in front.

He quickened his pace, and his figure quickly disappeared into darkness entirely.

The length of the cyan passage far exceeded his expectations, and Yuan Ming hurried forward for a quarter of an hour, still with no sign of the end.

Fortunately, there is no fork in the bluestone passage, so you don't have to worry about getting lost.

After walking forward for a while, Yuan Ming's eyebrows suddenly rose.

The soul crow that was used to find the way in front finally reached the end of the bluestone passage, and an exit emitting a white light appeared there.

Yuan Ming ordered the soul crow to stop, and he quickened his pace, and soon arrived at the exit of the passage.

With a stunned look on his face, he looked overhead.

After Yuan Ming entered the bluestone passage, he did not forget to control the two soul crows on the ground, and the soul crow at the entrance of the Snake King Cave was still in place, monitoring the situation at the entrance of the cave.

And that one was sent out

The probing soul crow was controlled by him to fly directly above his head, so that he could confirm his location.

The soul crow on his head came to an unexpected place at this moment: the ancient castle that Gu Tu and the others had been to before.

This passage leads to the underground of the castle, and it seems that there is some connection between the two.

Yuan Ming raised the water cloud banner to protect his whole body, and stepped into the white exit.

His eyes were filled with dazzling white light, and the next moment all the light suddenly disappeared, and the others appeared in a gray stone hall.

The stone hall is rectangular, with a length of fifteen or six zhang, a width of seven or eight zhang and a height of only one or two zhang, giving people a very depressing feeling.

On each side of the main hall stand four stone pillars with one person hugging, and many reliefs in the shape of human figures and beasts are engraved on them.

Far from enriching the stone hall, the strange style of these reliefs makes it even more eerie, looking like the underground palace of a mausoleum.

Yuan Ming didn't pay attention to the environment here at all, because the walls of the gray dungeon were crawling with lush purple and black vines, and the eight stone pillars were wrapped with purple and black vines, which were none other than the purple and black demon vines in the black toad's body.

The black toad was lying next to a stone pillar at the moment, flipping his belly and falling asleep, his round belly shrinking one by one, which was quite funny.

Yuan Ming breathed a sigh of relief and glared at the black toad again.

This black toad actually slept here, which made him worry in vain.

After confirming that the black toad was safe and sound, Yuan Ming's heart was completely settled, and then he carefully looked at the gray underground palace.

The walls of the gray dungeon flickered with black fluorescence, and he used his divine sense to investigate, but he couldn't go deep just after a little bit of it, it seems that the white fluorescence is some kind of prohibition, which can isolate the power of divine consciousness, no wonder the existence of the black toad can't be sensed from the outside.

Not only did the walls of this dungeon flash with black light, but there were also wisps of black gas suspended in the air, like clouds, and each wisp exuded a faint fierce aura.

Yuan Ming was no stranger to this aura, it was the black aura emitted by the black stone pillar before.

The purple black demon vine on the black toad's back is cooperating with the black toad's chest undulating, and the flowers are also closing one by one, as if breathing through the mouth and nose, the black qi in the hall slowly converges and is sucked in by the flowers and leaves of the purple black demon vine.

Yuan Ming was not surprised, the black toad had been absorbing the strange black qi before, but looking at the situation in front of him, it was probably the purple black demon vine that really absorbed the black qi.