"Huh!"

Yuan Ming suddenly discovered an abnormal situation, these purple-black demon vines not only grew lush vine leaves, but also bloomed purple-black flowers, and their length also changed greatly.

The demon vine was originally seven or eight zhang long at most, but the demon vine in front of him was far more than that, at least twenty zhang or so could it be related to the strange black gas absorbed?

Yuan Ming groaned slightly, and communicated with the black toad through divine thoughts.

The black toad's belly shook and he woke up.

Sensing Yuan Ming's presence, the black toad hurriedly flipped over its body, and a purple-black light emerged from its back, and the demon vines that crawled all over the hall quickly contracted and submerged into its back.

After a few breaths, all the demon vines in the hall disappeared, and the black toad also jumped to Yuan Ming's side.

Yuan Ming communicated with the black toad and asked why he came here.

The Black Toad's mind buzzed, trying to tell the story of his time in the Snake King's Valley.

The black toad's intelligence is not high, and the story is not very clear, Yuan Ming even guessed, and only then did he roughly understand the process of the black toad's coming here.

After Yuan Ming left it in the Snake King Valley that day, the black toad immediately returned to the Snake King Cave and continued to absorb the fierce black qi in the black stone pillar.

After a few days of uneventful life, the black stone pillar suddenly rose from the ground, and the ground below shook like an earthquake, and the straight hole appeared.

The black stone pillar then burrowed into the cavern, as if someone was manipulating it.

The black toad was lying on the stone pillar at that time, and seeing such a drastic change, he hurriedly used the demon vine to wrap his body around the stone pillar, so that he was not thrown off.

The black stone pillar followed the bluestone passage under the ground and came to the gray underground palace.

The strange black qi here was even stronger, and the black toad was overjoyed, so he simply stayed here and released the demon vine to absorb it.

The purple and black demon vines are very popular, and the more those strange black qi are inhaled, the more lush they grow.

And the black toad, as the symbiotic body of the demon vine, although it didn't get any benefits, it also felt very comfortable, and soon fell into a deep sleep, until it was woken up by Yuan Ming just now.

Yuan Ming secretly thought about all this, and at the same time felt incredible, his eyes looked at the back of the black toad, and the bulge had grown a lot at the moment, and it looked like it was wrapped in several purple-black leaves.

"Where is that black stone pillar now?" Yuan Ming asked.

The black toad raised his head and looked into the deepest part of the dungeon.

There was a closed black stone door on the wall, and the black stone pillar was standing on the right side of the stone door, and the patterns on it glowed with black glow, and the black qi gushing out was ten times thicker.

"You don't have to worry about me, continue to absorb the black gas." Yuan Ming commanded.

When the black toad heard this, it grunted happily and released the demon vine again, absorbing the black qi here.

Yuan Ming came to the vicinity of the stone pillar and used his divine sense to investigate again, but unfortunately, as before, he was bounced away by an invisible force as soon as he touched the stone pillar.

He sighed, looked at the black stone door, and used his divine sense to probe inside.

However, the stone door, like the wall, also has some kind of prohibition that the divine consciousness cannot penetrate at all.

Yuan Ming searched carefully around the stone gate again, but he didn't find anything like the door opening mechanism.

The black stone pillar will not come here from the Snake King Cave for no reason, and there must be a big article behind the stone gate.

Yuan Ming was silent for a moment, and suddenly pointed out.

A brilliant golden sword light shot out, and it was the nine-ring golden knife obtained from Gu Tu's body, which slashed at the stone gate.

With a loud bang, the nine-ring golden knife shook back, and the black stone gate was unscathed.

Yuan Ming's brows furrowed, and then he grabbed his right hand weakly, brewing the Ignition Explosion Technique, and constantly injecting mana into it.

Now that he has cultivated to the twelfth level of Qi Refining, not only is his mana much stronger, but his control of spells has also been greatly improved, and he quickly swelled the fireball to the size of a grinding plate, and the mana fluctuations that burst out were far more powerful than when he fought with the bone map.

"Go!" Yuan Ming pushed his hand, and the giant fireball hit the black stone door, and at the same time, his figure retreated.

The rolling red flames spread out, flooding the entire stone gate, and the huge explosion made the dungeon tremble, and the stone gate was flooded with chaotic ripples.

The red flames quickly dissipated, and a large charred pit was blasted out of the ground in front of the stone gate, but the black stone gate was intact.

A few zhang away, Yuan Ming's face sank completely.

He groaned slightly, put his hand into his arms, and took out a small black bag, which was the body of Gu Tu's body bag containing the body of the Venerable Celestial Serpent.

With a wave of his hand, he summoned the body of the Venerable Celestial Serpent, and was about to remove the black iron nail and manipulate the corpse with the soul crow.

The corpse of the Venerable Celestial Snake suddenly opened its eyes and shot out a fierce light of extreme excitement, and the black iron nails in the door of the head buzzed and trembled, as if it was about to be pushed out by an invisible force.

The "sonorous" sound came from the front, but it came from behind the black stone door, as if someone was knocking frantically inside.

Yuan Ming's expression changed greatly, and his heartbeat beat violently with the knock behind the door, and an indescribable fear welled up in his heart, as if there was a giant beast standing in front of him.

He immediately urged the body bag, put the Venerable Snake back away, and used mana to suppress his body.

The body of the Heavenly Serpent gradually calmed down, and the knocking sound behind the black stone door also disappeared.

Yuan Ming immediately stayed away from the black stone gate, and his beating heart subsided, and his eyes flashed when he looked at the black stone gate.

The corpse of the Venerable Snake seemed to be the key to open this stone gate, but what was there behind the stone gate that gave him such a terrible feeling?

With his current strength, it seems that he is not qualified to open this door, and he is afraid that there will be something waiting for him that he cannot deal with when he rushes in.

Yuan Ming turned his head and walked to the side of the black toad, ignoring the black stone gate, and sat down cross-legged, recovering the mana that was almost lost due to the use of the Explosion Technique.

As soon as his mana recovered slightly, he was afraid that the corpse of the Venerable Snake would cause any further changes, so he immediately left with the black toad.

It wasn't until he stepped on the ground of the Snake King Cave that Yuan Ming was completely relieved.

Without the strength above the foundation building period, Yuan Ming would never come here to investigate again.

He cast a spell to cover the entrance to the underground cavern, then turned and left the Snake King Valley, returning to Biluo Cave.

Three days later, Yuan Ming rushed back to the sect.

The White Deer Hill Alliance is not far away, and the atmosphere in Biluo Cave is much more active than before, even the disciples who have not signed up are looking forward to the grand event of the Alliance, guessing which of the Biluo Cave disciples who participated in the Alliance this time are expected to achieve good results.

Yuan Ming naturally ignored these trivial matters, and stayed in his residence when he returned to the sect, closing the door.

Fast forward and another three days passed.

On this day, Yuan Ming was cultivating in the house when there was a knock on the door, which seemed a little hurried.

He got up and opened the door, only to find that the man outside the door was a servant cleaning the area.

"Shangxian, there has just been news that the sect has summoned all its disciples to gather at Qingluo Square." The servant said respectfully.

Yuan Ming was stunned for a moment and asked, "Gather all the disciples? But what is it?"

"I didn't say it." The servant shook his head.

"Okay, I see, I'll be right over." Yuan Ming said after a moment of silence.

The servant saluted, took his leave, and went to knock on another disciple's house nearby.

Yuan Ming tidied up his clothes, walked out of the door and walked down the mountain.

The Qingluo Square that the servant said is the large bluestone square at the foot of the mountain, and the major events in Biluo Cave occur on weekdays, and the disciples need to be gathered, so they will choose there.

When Yuan Ming arrived at Qingluo Square, there were already a lot of people here, and the disciples of each hall automatically gathered together He came to the disciples of the Fire Refining Hall, Fang Ge, and Amuhe had already come here.

"Senior Brother Yuan Ming, it's been a while, hey, your cultivation?"

Fang Ge greeted with a smile and a sudden look of surprise on his face.

"I've been in retreat for a while now, and I've finally achieved something." Yuan Ming said vaguely.

"When you were refining the sword before, your cultivation was only at the ninth level of qi refining, and it has only been a long time, and you have reached the tenth level of qi refining, it seems that Senior Brother Yuan Ming has another chance." Checkered exclaimed.

"What kind of chance, it's just that some time ago, I happened to get a bottle of the pill that strengthened Peiyuan, and I was lucky to advance." Yuan Ming said humbly.

"Oh, I see." Fang Ge nodded, there was still a trace of doubt in his eyes, Yuan Ming's cultivation speed was really incredible.

Yuan Ming naturally saw Fang Ge's doubts, but the speed at which his cultivation was improved was too fast, no matter how he found a reason, it would give people the feeling of wanting to cover up, and he simply didn't explain, and Senior Brother Fang Ge was not a person to find the root of it.

After all, although Biluo Cave is a sect, in fact, except for the inner disciples, the high-level and even the elders in the sect basically don't care much about the situation of ordinary registered disciples.

Amuhe was holding a rune book in his hand and looked through it carefully, not participating in the conversation between the two.

More and more people came to the square, and soon, except for some people who were performing the tasks of the sect, all the disciples of Biluo Cave gathered in Qingluo Square, and there were seven or eight hundred people.

The foundation-building elders of each congregation also came, standing in front of the crowd.

This is the first time that Yuan Ming has seen the foundation building period monks of Biluo Cave assembled, and the number of them has reached as many as seventy or eighty.

In the distance of Qingluo Square, a silver cat crouched on a big tree, with its head resting on its forelimbs, looking at the people in the square with interest, watching the excitement.

There was a sudden commotion in the crowd, and all eyes were on the front.

Two figures walked over, but it was a middle-aged man with copper rings in his ears and an old man with black beard with sturdy yellow skin and a sturdy body, ascending the temporary wooden platform built in front of the crowd.

"Why is it that only the Great Cave Lord and the Second Cave Lord came, didn't the Third Cave Lord and the Great Elder come?" The crowd was talking.

Yuan Ming also looked at these two monks with some curiosity, but it was a pity that he was too far away from the wooden platform to sense the breath of the two cave masters.

"Elders and disciples of Biluo Cave, summoning you here this time is related to the White Deer Hill Alliance. The significance of this ten-year alliance to the five major sects in the entire southern and northern regions must be clear to you, so I won't repeat it." The big cave master spoke, and the sound shook the audience, and everyone fell silent.

"Two days later, it will be the day of the alliance, and since Bailu Hill is quite far away from the sect, tomorrow the second cave master and Elder Chuxiong of the Law Hall Mosa Hall will lead the participating disciples to set off." After a pause, the Great Cave Master continued.

Everyone in the audience expected that this gathering was related to the White Deer Hill Alliance, and they were not surprised.

Yuan Ming had already made sufficient preparations, and he carried all the key things with him, so there was no problem even if he set off now.

"There are two things to make clear to everyone before leaving, the first is to announce the rewards prepared within the Alliance Sect this time." The big cave master said, glancing at the black-bearded old man beside him.

Everyone in the audience was buzzing and talking about the disciples who signed up for the meeting, and Yuan Ming was naturally no exception.