The monks scrambled to pour into the second floor of the cave from a rocky passage dug by the miners. In just a short period of effort, almost all the cultivators above the middle stage of Qi refining had entered the second layer.

After all, all the spiritual objects in this cave have no owner, and whoever finds out and grabs it first will belong to whomever it is.

Of course, they did not want to be left behind the other monks.

In order to compete for spiritual objects, it is not uncommon for each other to sneak attack each other. As long as there are enough benefits, the monks are not afraid to kill. In a place like Earth Flame Mountain, there are no rules to speak of, killing people and looting treasures are common, and there is no strict order like Heavenly Mist Immortal Yuan City.

In search of spiritual objects in the spiritual land, generally weaker monks will form a team of guys, while strong monks prefer to choose to search alone.

Forming a group has the advantage of being a group, and by cooperating with each other, it is easier to find spiritual objects and prevent other monks from killing people and taking treasures. However, the shortcomings are also obvious, and it is easy to quarrel within the team because of the distribution of spiritual objects, anger and dispersion, and even infighting.

If you walk alone, you will be weaker in terms of security, but you don't need to share the spiritual objects you find with other monks.

Whether to hunt for treasure in a team or alone depends on everyone's choice.

Ye Chen followed the monks into the second floor of the cave. There were only a few dozen monks like him, and they generally chose to hunt for treasures alone, so as not to cause trouble when there were too many people.

The fire aura here is too domineering, and the qi refining stage cultivators who don't have the fire spirit root can only stay for more than ten days, so they must go out to rest for a few days to expel the dark injuries caused by the fire aura in their bodies before they can come back in to find the spirit treasure.

"Why is it so big!"

"The second layer of this Earth Flame Mountain Cave is dozens of times larger than the first layer of the Earth Flame Mountain Cave. ”

The monks poured into the cave, looked around the cave, and were about to rush to all parts of the cave to find spiritual objects, but when they looked up, they were immediately stunned by the cave.

The second layer of the whole karst cave is as high as hundreds of zhang, and there are hundreds of miles in a radius as far as the eye can see, and many sharp stalagmites up to 100 zhang hang down on the top of the cave, glowing with fire-colored light. If you follow the large and small cracks in the cave, you don't know where it can extend.

The larger the second floor of this cave, the more spiritual objects they could find.

On the ground, there were all large chunks of magma lava, steep hills, and some wild fire-type spirit grasses growing on the ground, swaying with the waves of fire spirit qi. The air was filled with the smell of a fiery spirit.

"It's so magnificent~!"

Ye Chen quickly looked at the second floor of the cave, and his heart was shocked.

Such a large space on the ground is nothing, but the appearance of such a space under the ground has a strong impact on his vision. I don't know how strong it is to open up such a vast space under the mountain.

He originally thought that the first floor of the cave was already outrageously large, but he didn't expect that the second floor of the cave was even bigger and unbelievable, and this place was fully qualified to be called a large spiritual land. He was almost sure that as long as he reported the detailed information of this Earth Flame Mountain to the Immortal Gate, it would definitely be a great achievement.

However, there is no rush in this matter. Even if he reports it now, it will take at least a few months or even a year before a large number of people sent by the Heavenly Void Immortal Sect will come over. Developing a large spiritual land is not something that can be completed in a year or two. It will take at least a decade for it to be exploited here.

He now needs to know more about the situation on the second floor of the cave, and by the way, see if he can find the spirit treasure, killing two birds with one stone. The more detailed the situation he reported, the more it became clear to the Heavenly Void Immortal Sect how many people it needed to send to develop this place.

"Chirp~!"

In mid-air, several huge firebirds, with a cluster of fiery feathers on their heads, flew between the stalagmites on the top of the cave, and let out a sharp cry from their mouths. It saw many monks entering the cave, but it had never seen a human monk, only hovering in the distance, not approaching.

"Fire dove, it's a third-order bird of prey demon beast! It will take the initiative to attack, everyone be careful!"

"The fire dove can survive here, it definitely needs a lot of food, there should be a lot of spiritual things here!"

The monks were stunned for a moment, followed by ecstasy.

The demon beasts under the ground all came in through some narrow cracks in the surface. It's just that this gap in the surface is in a steep place deep in the mountains, and the monks don't know it, or they know it, but the monks can't pass through it.

The strength of the demon beasts on the first floor of the cave is weak, and it is rare to see demon beasts above the third order. As soon as they entered the second floor of the cave, they actually saw a third-order fire dove. It seems that the level of the spiritual objects here is much higher than that of the first floor.

"Let's go!"

"Brothers, hurry up and find the spiritual object!"

Many monks shouted, in groups of three or five, and hurried towards the depths of the cave.

"Bang!"

In a crack in the ground, a dazzling flame suddenly erupted, dozens of feet high.

"Ahh

I only heard a miserable scream, and a mid-stage Qi cultivation monk who was passing from above the crack in the ground was suddenly engulfed by this flame, his clothes, hair, and eyebrows were all burned, and he screamed and struggled to extinguish the flames on his body, but this flame was too domineering, only a few breaths, and the other monks didn't have time to rescue, and the Qi refining period monk was burned to ashes by the flames, and his body was annihilated together with the Yuan Shen, completely disappearing between heaven and earth.

"Not good!"

"Dead!"

The monks were rushing in all directions, and when they saw the tragic scene of the monk who was rushing the fastest, they were immediately shocked and hurriedly retreated.

"No! Second brother!"

A man in the crowd screamed with a terrible face, watching the monk being burned to death, but he could not do anything, and fell to his knees with a thud, a pair of iron fists frantically smashed the ground, and the iron fists smashed blood stains, and he was overwhelmed with grief. The monk who died in the flames was his brother.

The two brothers learned that a new spiritual land had appeared in this Flame Mountain, and they came to explore the spiritual treasure, but in the blink of an eye, one of them died, and they couldn't even find the ashes.

"On the second floor of the cave, there is a ground fire eruption!"

"I'm afraid the power of this earth fire is comparable to the fire wall of the foundation building monk!"

The monks looked at each other, their faces were ugly and they were going to die, and it was inevitable that some rabbits and foxes would die sadly.

Ye Chen broke out in a cold sweat, fortunately he was not in a hurry to leave just now. Otherwise, I don't know who this unfortunate thing will fall on.

The second layer of the Earth Flame Mountain Cave is so dangerous. If he had just passed through the crack in the ground without any preparation in advance, this sudden burst of intense flames would have been absolutely impossible to resist with his foundation building cultivation, and he would have been seriously injured if he didn't die.

The immortal cultivation world is so cruel, the monks seem to be infinitely beautiful, but a small accident is enough to die.

The monks hesitated for a moment.

However, the desire for spiritual things still overwhelmed the fear of death. They had come to look for spiritual objects, and they had long anticipated the danger of entering the second layer of the cave. It's just that the earth fire just now came too suddenly, and it frightened them a lot.

"Everyone, be careful, watch out for the flames that erupt from the cracks in the ground!"

"If you have fireproof armor, put it all on!"

The monks regained their courage, roared, blessed their protective shields, put on their vestments and armor, divided into large and small teams, and scattered towards the second floor of the cave.

This time they were no longer rash, they were much more careful, and when they came across cracks in the ground, they tried to avoid them.

Ye Chen blessed himself with a golden bell jar and stone skin, a golden spirit sword in his hand, thought for a while, and then picked a direction with a small number of people, and searched for it without hurry.

Entering the second floor of the cave, there are about 1,000 monks.

The middle and late stages of Qi cultivation accounted for the vast majority, and there were about dozens of monks in the foundation building period.

Ye Chen's real competitors were these dozens of foundation building period cultivators. As long as he wasn't a foundation building period cultivator, other Qi cultivators wouldn't be able to compete with him at all.

The number of monks in the thousands looked like a lot, but as soon as the caves were scattered for hundreds of miles, no one could be found soon.

On the second floor of the cave, there were exclamations from time to time, most of them were encountering demon beasts or discovering some spiritual objects

Xu Wei, the young master of the Fire Worship Gate, a Yin Owl Monk, and more than a dozen late-stage Qi cultivation monks walked at the back, and the entire Earth Flame Mountain was now under the control of the Fire Worship Gate, and they were not in a hurry.

"Young master, the second layer of this cave is so big, there must be a lot of spiritual objects, and any fourth- or fifth-order alchemy spirit grass is very valuable. These spiritual objects were divided among the monks, and we suffered a lot of losses!"

The Yin Owl Monk felt a little pity.

"If you don't give them points, you will definitely be resentful, and let the monks of the Heavenly Void Immortal Sect know! When the time comes, the Heavenly Void Immortal Sect will send a large number of people to come, where will we still have our share of the Fire Worship Gate in this Earth Flame Mountain! Now let some of the benefits be given to these scattered monks, they will be as prosperous as us, and they can also block their mouths, saving them from shouting everywhere. For more than a year, we tried our best to block the news, relying on the spiritual objects here, to win over these loose cultivators, and everyone shared the benefits together, so that we could steadily occupy this territory. ”

The pale-faced monk shook his head and said, "Besides, if I want to clean up the demon beasts here, I will definitely have to pay a lot of price." With the help of the power of these scattered cultivations, we can clean up the demon beasts, and we can completely occupy this place! This place is very suitable for my disciples to cultivate, and it is also very convenient to plant fire-based spiritual objects! This place can be used as a large station for my Fire Worship Gate. ”

"Young Master, what my subordinates are worried about is that the Heavenly Void Gate is only afraid that sooner or later they will know that there is an Earth Flame Mountain here. We occupy this place, and the Tianxumen wants us to hand it over in the future, what should we do?"

Yin Owl Monk Dao.

The young master's face was gloomy, and he was also very worried about this matter.

Thousands of scattered monks come and go here, and no matter how well they do to keep it secret, it is impossible to be airtight.

"How's it going to do what I told you to do?"

The young master said in a deep voice.

"Returning to the young master, you have ordered two things before. The first is to use all the power of the Worship Fire Gate to make the Ulan Empire abandon Xingzhou County. The subordinates have sent several groups of people to infiltrate the army of thieves, and then the drought created a large-scale civil rebellion, and infiltrated the county lord's mansion, using all means to lure, force, and encourage the county lord to abandon Xingzhou County. The second thing is to start with Tao Guo, a neighbor of the Ulan Empire, and let Tao Guo send troops to occupy Xingzhou County, as long as the territory of Xingzhou County no longer belongs to the Ulan Empire, Tianxu Xianmen has no excuse for us to hand over Earth Flame Mountain. ”

"Well, that's good, but you have to act quickly, and get these two things done before Tianxumen reacts. Tianxumen is a decent family, and they have always acted fairly, they can't openly rob our small sect!"

The young master said coldly.

"Yes! The subordinates stepped up to do it, and immediately sent a group of additional disciples to the Ulan Empire and the Tao Kingdom. It's just that Tao didn't dare to offend the Ulan Empire, so his subordinates directly sent disciples to assassinate the royal family of Tao State, supported the descendants of the young master Xu to ascend to the Tao throne, and sent troops to occupy Xingzhou County. ”

The Yin Owl Monk nodded immediately.

The Yin Owl Monk gave a few words to the more than ten monks behind him, and then they were ordered to take a group of disciples of the Fire Worship Sect to carry out the mission.

(To be continued)