"It's a shame that I have a little bit of effort, otherwise those third-rate martial artists really won't be able to climb this mountain. Ye Ling muttered to himself.

At this time, the heavy rain had intensified into a torrential rain, and the mountain wind was violent, carrying the rain, and "snapped" on Ye Ling's body.

Walking along the path of the mountain wall, there is a high cliff on the side, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will be crushed, and it is terrifying to watch.

Even though the environment was treacherous, Ye Ling's speed was not slow.

Dressed in a blue-blue cloth robe, he stepped on rocks, like a dexterous swimming fish, moving through the dense rain curtain.

Within an hour, he had already reached the top of Xiaoling Peak.

Under the washing of the rain, many messy branches were piled up, and a black cave appeared in front of Ye Ling.

"It seems that this cave is perfectly suited to the conditions for the growth of ice grass, and I hope this rain will not be in vain. ”

Ye Ling twisted his sleeves and slowly approached the cave.

In his arms, he took out the fire fold that was originally rolled out of clay paper, and he pouted helplessly, but now the fire fold was soaked and could no longer be used.

Looking into the cave, I saw that the original dark front was faintly glowing with a faint ice blue shimmer!

That's exactly what Ice Grass shines on!

Ye Ling was overjoyed, and hurriedly went deep into the cave, but saw that the blue glimmer was slowly moving......

"There are living creatures!"

Unsheath and draw the knife.

Fierce beasts like dark environments the most, and the cold ice grass itself has an aura, Ye Ling has long been prepared to face fierce beasts.

While holding the knife in one hand, Ye Ling snapped his fingers with his right hand, attracting a small amount of spiritual energy to gather at his fingertips, forming a white ball of light to illuminate the road ahead.

Soon, in front of Ye Ling, ten steps away, the "murderer" who tried to steal the cold ice grass appeared.

It was a giant rat the size of an adult wild bear, fat and round, standing on two hind legs with two small short hands holding the ice grass.

The eyes of the rat are red, and the whole body is pitch black, except for a crescent-shaped white hair on the chest, which makes it look more like a blind bear from a distance.

"It's actually a mountain giant rat!" Ye Ling suddenly became excited.

The mountain giant rat, a lower-level first-order fierce beast, is the most powerful existence among the vast number of fierce beast species in the Hongyuan Continent.

Don't look at their huge bodies, they are actually "fat", their combat effectiveness is extremely low, they hide in inaccessible corners all year round, and they like to live alone.

Over the years, it has been common for giant pangolins to be hunted by ordinary large beasts or hunters.

The two stood staring at each other, and the giant rat sniffed the air with its nose, its sword-sharp whiskers quivering up and down.

Gradually, its round eyes glowed with a touch of essence!

Ye Ling knew that this was a precursor to an attack by the giant rat.

Due to Ye Ling's special bloodline, the giant rat couldn't feel the martial arts breath in Ye Ling's body, and saw that the ball of light on his fingertips was shining incomparably, it should be a treasure, so he had the idea of killing people and grabbing treasures.

Suddenly, the mountain piercing giant rat jumped up violently and jumped in front of Ye Ling in one step!

They attack in a peculiar way, using no claws or teeth, but using tentacles to pierce enemies.

The giant rat has a total of six tentacles, and when it enters the combat state, it is like six sharp swords, and ordinary weapons collide with it, and it will break with a single blow, so most of the hunters use bows and arrows when they hunt and kill giant rats.

Ye Ling didn't have a long-range weapon in his hand, but fortunately, the long knife in his hand was not an ordinary product, it was a weapon forged with a little spiritual copper fused with stainless steel, and it was specially used to kill low-grade fierce beasts.

The giant rat shook its head, and six afterimages attacked.

"Great Thunderbolt!"

Ye Ling burst into a shout, stepped forward, looked at the position, picked and slashed with his horse, and the blade met the rat's whiskers, and when the two were handed over, there were sparks!

Click!

The three rat whiskers were cut down from the bottom up, and the giant rat couldn't help but feel severe pain, rolled to the ground, shrunk into a ball, and convulsed continuously.

The beard of the giant rat is like a human fingernail, and when three whiskers are cut off, it is as painful as pulling out three human fingernails!

The claws scratched wildly, the cold ice grass fell to the ground, Ye Ling leaned over and quickly picked it up, and retreated more than a dozen steps in succession.

The giant rat curled up, without the slightest resistance, but Ye Ling was not in a hurry to kill it.

Giant rats have a natural appetite for treasure and hide them in their nests.

It can be said that every adult giant rat is a treasure cave in its nest!

Judging by Ye Ling's experience, this giant rat has a fat body, thick and hard hair, and is at least 60 years old, and there are definitely a lot of good things in its cave!

After a few breaths, the giant rat got back to its feet and stumbled into the depths of the burrow.

Ye Ling chased after him in the rear, and his steps were not hurried, so as not to anger the mountain giant rat and lead it to fight to the death.

The cave is much deeper than it seems, like a never-ending labyrinth with many forks in the road.

After chasing a pillar of incense for a long time, the giant rat stopped its footsteps, rolled into a pit on the right hand side.

Ye Ling stood at the edge of the pit, and the aura orb in his hand couldn't shine at the bottom of the pit at all, as if there was an endless abyss below, devouring all living beings.

"The martial arts tournament is imminent, it is a godsend to encounter the treasure cave of the mountain giant rat, how can there be a reason to return halfway?" Ye Ling muttered to himself, and jumped into the pit without hesitation.

Descending the pit, he found a slide-like slope below, less like a natural formation, but rather a ventilation duct left behind when building underground structures such as tombs.

After sliding for a long time, Ye Ling's pants were worn out in a large piece, and he felt that his feet were empty, and then he fell down.

Boom!

Ye Ling bent his knees slightly, adjusting his posture in the air to prevent falling on the hard ground, but found himself landing on a soft meat pad.

Tumbling down, he found himself pressed against the belly of the giant mouse.

It may be that its whiskers were broken, so that the giant rat could not maintain its balance in the air, and when it landed, it fell headfirst down, and actually fell to its death.

"Brother Rat, Brother Rat, if you don't think badly of me, why did you end up like this?" Ye Ling shook his head and sighed lightly.

Soon, his attention was drawn to the huge space in front of him.

There are no candles here, but the view is good, and the corner of the wall glows with a warm orange light.

"This—a lot of spirit stones!" Ye Ling became excited, and realized that the source of the light was a massive amount of spirit stones that had been piled up like a small mountain!

The spirit stone is the crystallization of the aura between heaven and earth.

Absorbing the aura in the spirit stone is one of the easiest ways for a martial artist to improve his cultivation to the realm.

Depending on the grade of the spirit stone, a fist-sized spirit stone can be worth half a month, or even a few years of cultivation for an ordinary martial artist!

Some martial arts cultivators may not be diligent in practicing, and their qualifications are mediocre, but if they encounter an adventure and get a large amount of spirit stone immortal grass, they can immediately get a great improvement, and their strength far exceeds that of martial artists of the same age.

This doesn't sound fair, but luck is also part of strength, there are many secret treasures in the Hongyuan Continent, and the people who can get them are all people with Hong Fu, and they can't be simply summarized by the word "luck".

Ye Ling looked around and found that there was more than just a spirit stone in this mysterious space.

There were many broken swords scattered in this room, Ye Ling picked one up at random from under his feet, put the blade and hilt together, and instantly let out an exclamation.

"This ...... It turned out to be the human king sword!"