Moments later, the four of them stood in front of a dark cave.

This should be a mine cave, and there are still a lot of black stones scattered on the ground, this is peat, Xu Chen knows.

The mine seems to have been abandoned for a long time, and the vicinity of the cave entrance is already overgrown with thorns and weeds.

Xu Chen said to the old Taoist master and apprentice: "You are waiting outside the cave, it is best to hide, we will go in and get rid of the soul beast and come out." ”

"Okay, okay." The old Taoist priest was excited, and pulled his apprentice to quickly hide behind a few big stones near the entrance of the cave.

"Let's go!"

Xu Chen walked into the cave first, his divine sense penetrated into it like a torch cave, and he saw the situation in the cave clearly, at that time, it was around a hundred zhang depth, and there was a powerful soul beast aura fluctuating.

It seemed that he felt the probing of the two divine senses, and the fluctuation of the soul beast's aura suddenly became stronger.

"Lan Daoyou, be careful, there is a black fog!"

After the two of them walked inward for more than ten zhang, a thin layer of black mist began to appear in the alleyway, which was exactly the same as the black fog in the Black Wind Ridge, but it was very thin, and it was in the dark, if it weren't for the strong sense of the two of them, they would almost not be able to feel it.

And the appearance of the black fog means that this soul beast has indeed been entrenched here for a while.

After all soul beasts die, they will quickly collapse into black qi.

Injured soul beasts, even if they only leave a soul bead, can be restored with the help of black qi after a long time.

Once the soul beast leaves the black mist range, it will continue to release black qi, so the longer the soul beast stays in one place, the more this black qi will accumulate.

Therefore, based on the range and concentration of the black qi in the cave, it can be roughly judged that this soul beast has been here for a long time, and it has not moved for a long time.

The two of them continued to go deeper one after the other, the black fog around them became thicker and thicker, and the fluctuating aura of the soul beast became more and more obvious, At the same time, the picture of the soul beast began to feed back into the soul, after Xu Chen saw it clearly, the whole person was stunned, and his heart couldn't help but puff and start beating wildly.

Because he saw an extremely horrible picture.

More than a dozen corpses of people and beasts were piled up and fused and grew together, forming a huge bat shape hanging upside down in the cave, and streams of black gas continued to emanate from these corpses like breathing, and then absorbed into it, just between this entry and exit, a large number of them were scattered in the cave, forming a black mist that filled the alley in front of them.

Lan You also saw this situation, his face turned pale in an instant, and he grabbed Xu Chen's arm tightly with both hands with an exclamation.

"Lan Daoyou, don't be afraid, it's just disgusting, you stay here, I'll go and see it alone!" Xu Chen came back to his senses and forcibly suppressed his emotions and soothed.

"No, I'm with you!" Lan You shook his head in horror and resoluteness.

"Alright then, you follow me!" Xu Chen raised his hand and summoned the flying sword to continue forward.

"Squeak~~"

Suddenly, a sound that stimulated the soul sounded, and in the churning and flowing black mist, a dense fist-sized bat phantom suddenly flew out.

"Lan Daoyou, be careful, protect the soul!"

Xu Chen reminded that his divine consciousness suddenly turned into a tide and rolled down the narrow alleyway to the depths, and a large number of bat phantoms were directly twisted into pieces under the impact of his divine sense, and almost none of them slipped through the net.

Divine Sense Impact is a magic skill that can only be cultivated by monks above the True Yuan Realm, but the requirements for divine souls are very high, and it can be regarded as a kind of tough confrontation and contest between divine souls.

Generally speaking, there are very few such battles between monks of the same level, unless it is a vendetta of life and death as a last resort, otherwise if you are not careful, your own divine soul will also suffer a heavy blow, especially if the other party has a magic weapon of divine soul attack, it is extremely dangerous.

Almost all the monks in the refining and refining qi stage use the Yuan Qi spell, and rarely use the Divine Soul Spell.

At the beginning of the Jingshi, the Jade Dragon Zhenren used the impact of his divine sense to forcibly oppress the three of them, but he was almost lost when Xu Chen borrowed the blue light of the jade bead to counterattack.

Therefore, the Divine Soul Spell Attack is a double-edged sword, hurting both the enemy and yourself, and you can kill yourself if you are not careful.

However, there were no sequelae for Xu Chen, because he had a blue light bottle to protect Zhihai, even a great cultivator of the Spirit Realm estimated that he would not be able to shake his divine soul, let alone these soul beasts that only had the strength of first-order demon beasts.

What's more, these bat phantoms, which are only the size of fists, are even weaker, and can almost only cause damage to mortal souls, even if they break into the bodies of ordinary monks, they can't cause much danger.

Xu Chen had already felt it very clearly by killing these bats through the impact of his divine sense, and it was weaker than the one he had just killed in the city.

It seemed to feel that a large number of small bats were dead, and the corpses hanging in the cave made violent shocks, and a large amount of black gas rolled out, melting and connecting the corpses, and everywhere opened their eyes and opened their mouths, and let out a terrible roar.

Lan You's face was so pale that there was no blood.

Xu Chen also felt the chrysanthemum tightening, and the hairs on his body stood on end.

"What the fuck is this?"

Xu Chen was not afraid at this time, but disgusted, especially disgusting.

The bats composed of these corpses were black and terrifying, and there seemed to be a large amount of black corpse oil dripping down in the midst of the struggle, and then turning into billowing black gas, and soon the black fog of the entire cave became even thicker.

Xu Chen walked forward while enduring his nausea, Lan You grabbed his shirt tightly and followed behind, and soon, the two of them came to the position of the huge bat composed of corpses.

Looking at this terrifying and hideous ghost, Xu Chen's scalp was numb.

But even so, this soul beast didn't have the slightest intention of attacking, and it didn't run away, so it was easily found by the two.

"Lan Daoyou, this thing should be in a very special state, it seems that it wants to use the corpses of these people and animals to fuse to form its own body, and get rid of the pure Netherworld Black Qi state."

Xu Chen came to a conclusion based on his own observations.

"Xu, Xu Daoyou, this thing is disgusting, kill us quickly!" Although Lan You's cultivation was already in the middle of the True Yuan Realm, his whole body was trembling slightly.

Xu Chen nodded slightly, but did not do it immediately, but forcibly endured the nausea, released his divine sense to wrap the big bat composed of the entire corpse, and infiltrated it, wanting to see how this ghost thing was combined and how it was fused with the soul beast.

What the Netherworld Qi is, no one in the Great Song Immortal Realm knows.

Even before that, no one knew what a soul beast was.

Maybe the Taiyuan Gate that was destroyed knew about it, but it was a pity that the Taiyuan Gate had disappeared for three thousand years, and except for some remaining magic weapons and fragments of the Exercise Jade Slip, there was almost no record of the Black Wind and the Soul Beast.

If it weren't for the fact that he was caught up in the Forbidden Formation by the Xuanshui Youlian in the Linghu Canyon last time, he wouldn't have known that Taiyuan Gate had raised a strange and domineering monster like the Xuanshui Youlian in the depths of the Linghu Canyon before.

He had always wanted to figure out what the hell was Xuanshui Youlian.

It wasn't until today that he encountered this bat soul beast that was fusing with the flesh and blood of the human beast corpse that he suddenly had a realization, maybe the Xuanshui Youlian was also formed in this way at the beginning, but the type was different.

But no matter what these things eventually look like, they all have a common original name, which is the soul beast, or the underworld beast.

After the Netherworld Beast is out of the range of Netherworld, it will begin to reforge its body in another way, and then it will be able to survive normally like a demon beast in the mortal world.

However, the method by which these beasts forge their bodies is bloody and cruel, that is, a large number of human or animal corpses.

And as Xu Chen's powerful divine sense, which was comparable to that of the early stage of the Dan Yuan Realm, continued to penetrate into the body of this bat composed of corpses, he felt more and more surprised and frightened.

Because he found that the human and beast corpses that made up the bat's body were not dead, they were still alive, but they didn't have any separate souls, because their souls had also been fused together by the soul beasts.

Therefore, this corpse bat hanging upside down in the cave is actually an extremely complex fusion monster, neither a separate soul beast, nor a human and a beast, but after being fused together, it has the dual characteristics of a soul beast and a demon beast.

That is, this thing already has flesh and blood, and it is no longer a body formed by pure netherworld black qi.

In order to verify his thoughts, Xu Chen raised his hand and swiped lightly, and the flying sword cut off half of the corpse from the bat.

"Squeak~~"

With a splash of black water, the corpse fell from the bat's body, and the huge bat also let out a violent struggle and scream, and at the same time, billowing black gas came out of the wound, and a large amount of black liquid like corpse oil began to gather at the wound, and soon the wound began to solidify.

However, after being stimulated by Xu Chen's sword, the huge bat's entire body began to vibrate and squirm in the midst of fierce struggle.

A large number of unfused pieces of flesh began to fall off the body,

Arms, thighs, fingers, and heads crackled and fell like rain in black water.

The bat's body is also rapidly condensing and forming, and its wings, hook claws, head, and fangs are all clear at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Xu Daoyou, do it quickly!" Lan You's face was pale and bloodless, and he trembled in horror.

"Don't worry, Lan Daoyou, it doesn't have any chance to escape, I still have to take a closer look, this may be the best chance for us to figure out what will happen after the soul beast escapes from the Black Wind range......"

While Xu Chen was comforting, his divine consciousness penetrated into the bat's body more violently.

In his powerful divine sense, he could clearly see that the flesh and muscles of people and animals were rapidly merging at a terrifying speed, turning into a complex and clear bat body, and constructing strange but complete bones, blood vessels, skin and flesh and other tissues.

At the same time, he could also feel a soul with the breath of life being strengthened.

(End of chapter)