Ye Qin walked down from the small teleportation array and was immediately shocked by the scene in the cave in front of him. The hundreds of caves around the teleportation array were littered with the bones of miners, at least hundreds, all of which were left over from thousands of years ago. Judging from the posture of these corpses when they died, these miners in the depths of the underground rushed to escape to the teleportation array of this cave, intending to use the teleportation array to get out, but because there were too many people, they did not have time to teleport out, and died in this cave.

On each side of this huge cavern, there is a spiritual stone mine road, which extends deep into the ground. There are also a large number of corpses in these spirit stone mines.

Ye Qin glanced at these corpses a few times, and was slightly shocked in his heart.

However, he soon calmed down and set his eyes on the stone wall. The faint brilliance emitted by the various spirit stones on the cave wall was dazzling.

Ye Qin's heart was suddenly ecstatic, spirit stone, he finally found the spirit stone in the underground mine of this Ten Thousand Dry Mountains. As long as he stayed in this cave for a few months, obtained enough spirit stones to grow spirit grass, and refined the foundation building pill, then his chances of successfully building the foundation would be greatly improved.

Ye Qin held back the excitement in his heart and looked at the twenty or thirty monks around.

After a brief moment of shock, the monks came to their senses, and they rushed towards the corpses, flipping over their bodies, eagerly rummaging for something important. Of course, they didn't forget to take the spirit stones carried by these corpses.

Ye Qin naturally knew that what they were desperately looking for was definitely the scroll of the "Wankuling Mine Road Map".

Most of the trial disciples who first entered the mine path will be explained by their respective masters and find the mine path map scroll. Only by finding the mine map scroll can the sect quickly grasp the distribution of the spirit stone veins, as well as the various conditions of the mine, so as to have an advantage in the battle for the spirit stone of Wankuling.

This kind of map scroll is usually carried on the body of the miner leaders of various sects, and the newly discovered various spirit stone mines, newly dug mines, and abandoned mines are recorded on the scroll at any time.

When all the disciples of the sect searched for the scrolls on the corpses, they were very cautious to walk with their fellow sects, and kept a distance from the monks of other sects, so as not to be attacked by sneak attacks.

After Ye Qin saw the actions of the monks clearly, he also began to search for the scrolls in the pile of corpses. And I was quickly meditating in my heart about what to do next. Whether to leave the team directly and go to the depths of the spirit stone mine to dig up the spirit stone, or stay with the same door of the Qingdanmen all the time.

Now that he had discovered the location of the spirit stone vein, it was more secure and convenient for him to act alone.

This Ten Thousand Dry Ridge has been dug by dozens of immortal cultivation sects, and the underground spirit stone mine must be extremely large and complex. I'm afraid that none of the sects will figure out how big this underground mine is. He just needs to find a small place to hide and dig up spirit stones, it's not too much of a problem. In terms of safety, he has two magic weapons to protect himself, which is enough to compare with the core disciples of any sect, and he still has the power to protect himself.

However, there is no rush in this matter.

Let's find the map scroll first, if he can get the map scroll, he can accurately know the detailed distribution of various spirit stone mines, such as the wood spirit stone, this kind of spirit stone has the greatest demand for cultivating spirit medicine. Other types of spirit stones are much less in demand. The map scroll will bring great convenience to his solo activities in the underground mines, and even if he encounters danger, it will be easy to escape for his life, so as not to burrow into the dead mines.

Ye Qin thought silently.

His calm and restrained gaze swept quickly over the hundreds of corpses in the cave, and he didn't look at the corpses of miners with baskets on their backs and pickaxes in their hands.

He had spent three years in the Beiyingshan Mine and knew very well the difference between an ordinary miner and a miner.

The head miner doesn't mine at all, he always holds spiritual weapons such as spirit whips, and walks around the mine with great power to supervise the work. Moreover, there are often many miners around the miner leader, and a group of people dominate the mine road and suppress ordinary miners. The head of the miner with the highest status is often the highest in cultivation, and he carries the best spiritual weapon to shake the scene and prevent the miners from making trouble. Thousands of years ago and thousands of years later, although the age is far apart, I am afraid that there is not much difference in this point.

After Ye Qin swept over most of the corpses in this cave, he was secretly a little disappointed. Almost all of them here are ordinary miners with baskets on their backs and pickaxes, and they are the kind of miners who are buried in mining, and it is impossible to have a map scroll in their hands.

In the entire cave, only Ye Qin stood alone, frowning and quickly looking at the hundreds of corpses, but did not start to search for them.

The other twenty or thirty monks present, who had obviously not been in the cave and did not know the difference between the miner and the miner, were very anxious to turn over each corpse, searching all the places on the corpses, trying to find the map scrolls from them.

When Ye Qin had already determined that the corpses here were not carrying map scrolls at all, the other monks had only rummaged through less than a hundred corpses.

The teleportation array continued to emerge with new light, and new monks entered the mine, and they immediately followed and searched for the corpses.

Among the disciples of the Qingdan Sect, Old Man Kong was the first to teleport in, and Ye Qin was the second to come in. Yan Xuan, Shen Bao, and Zhang Yunzi stayed on the first floor of the cave and did not enter the second floor of the cave.

"Click!"

When the monks were rummaging for the scrolls on the corpses, they heard a strange sound of bones grinding, and they were all stunned and turned their heads to look.

In the huge cave, I saw that near a spiritual stone mine, there was a miner's corpse's hand bones that suddenly moved, and then propped it up on the ground, supporting it with a skeleton, standing up on the spot, still holding the mining pickaxe in his hand, and looking around blankly with empty eyes.

"Zombie?!"

One of the monks was the first to notice that something was wrong, and he let out a low cry of horror and hurriedly pulled back.

Dozens of monks looked at the corpse one after another, and almost at the same time, a chill suddenly appeared in their hearts, and they didn't care to search for the corpse again, and hurriedly retreated, away from the corpse that suddenly moved.

Ye Qin was one of the first monks to discover that skeleton was standing up. His heart tightened, and he flew to the edge of the teleportation array as fast as he could, looking back at the corpse, ready to stand on the teleportation array and teleport out.

Is this a ghost monk?

Corpse?

Or a skeleton puppet?

A huge doubt appeared in Ye Qin's heart. He has joined Qingdanmen for so many years, and now he is no longer the kind of rookie monk who doesn't understand anything. Although I spent most of my time in retreat, I occasionally heard a lot of things from other fellow monks, and some of the most basic common sense was still clear.

He quickly combed through what he knew about the ghost monk.

You must know that after the immortal cultivator's physical body dies, the primordial spirit can also escape from the physical body to avoid being destroyed with the physical body. However, the Yuan Shen has a longevity limit, as long as the longevity is exhausted, the Yuan Shen will still disintegrate and disappear. All Qi refining stage cultivators usually have a lifespan of about one hundred years. Ye Qin's own lifespan was eighty-one years, if he hadn't died because of his cultivation of the "Sitting and Forgetting Sutra" and had not been killed by other monks, he would have lived to be eighty-one years old before his longevity was exhausted and he died.

After the Yuan Shen was destroyed in the flesh, there was only one way to prolong his life, and that was to cultivate the ghost and step into the ghost path.

An ordinary immortal cultivator must go from the Qi refining period to the foundation building period, from the foundation building period to the Jindan stage, from the Jindan stage to the Yuan Infant stage, and he needs to constantly break through the bottleneck and cross the tribulation. Every time you survive a calamity and enter a higher level of cultivation, you can greatly increase your longevity.

And ghost cultivation also has to go through a similar stage of cultivation and cross the tribulation in order to increase the longevity, otherwise even if it becomes a "ghost", the longevity of the primordial god is exhausted, and it will die and disintegrate and die.

All living beings in heaven and earth must face the ruthless threshold of Shouyuan.

Heaven is ruthless, and Shouyuan is selfless.

Whether it's an immortal cultivator, or a ghost cultivator, or a rare bird, a demon beast and the like. If you can break through the threshold of that day, you will be born. If you can't break through the threshold of heaven, you will die and be reduced to dirt and dust. As for whether the monk can be reincarnated, it is an ethereal thing that cannot even be determined in the legend, and it is impossible to count at all. Instead of pinning on reincarnation without any basis, it is better to do everything in this life to make yourself live a long life, which is the motivation of almost every immortal cultivator.

It's just that the difficulty of cultivating immortals on the ghost path is even more difficult than cultivating immortals on the human path.

After all, immortal cultivators have a physical body, and it is extremely convenient to practice immortal cultivation techniques, and take elixirs to increase their vitality, so as to quickly make their original gods stronger.

However, the ghost cultivator had lost his physical body, and he could not use his physical body to cultivate, let alone take the elixir to increase his vitality. The Yuan Shen cannot directly absorb the aura of the spirit stone, and the aura of the spirit stone is too strong and irritable, lacking a buffer, which will cause the Yuan Shen to explode and die. In the same way, the ghost monk cannot be active during the day, and the yang qi is too heavy, which will greatly consume the vitality of the original god.

Only a very small number of Yuan Shen who are extremely talented and whose physical bodies have been destroyed have created a way to cultivate and strengthen Yuan Shen without physical bodies. It's just that there are very few monks who have mastered this kind of ghost cultivation method, and the monks who have successfully stepped into the ghost path are even rarer in the world.

Wankuling has been sealed by more than 30 giant stone pillars for thousands of years, and it is impossible for any monks to come in during this period.

Could it be that thousands of years ago, among the thousands of miner disciples of more than 30 immortal cultivation sects who died in the mines, there were monks who became ghost cultivators and have survived until now?

Ye Qin looked at the skeleton, although his face was as calm as water, he was terrified to the extreme.

According to Shouyuan, if there are monks in this mine who have become ghost cultivators, it is at least a ghost cultivator who has lived for more than 3,000 years. This cultivation skill is at least comparable to that of a monk in the infancy stage. Even if it was a breath, it would be enough to blow them out of the Qi Refining Stage disciples who had entered the mine. The strength of the Yuan Infant Stage cultivator is only afraid that it is enough to sweep through the entire Lingwu Mountain Range.

It was definitely not something that a low-level disciple like them could resist.

It's not just Ye Qin's discoloration. In this mine, almost all the disciples of the sect speculated on this possibility, and their faces were pale and extremely ugly. If this speculation comes true, then their large group of Qi Refining Stage disciples will be tantamount to giving their lives in vain, real cannon fodder.

In addition to the ghost monks, there are two other possibilities, and that is zombies and skeleton golems.

Zombies are far worse than ghost monks, and usually become the shells of ghost monks.

After the ghost monk's physical body was destroyed, only the primordial spirit remained, and it was very inconvenient to move, and it was very easy to be fatally hit. Ghost monks like to refine the corpses of monks shortly after death into zombies and inhabit the original gods, so as to provide maximum protection for the original gods.

Ghost monks and zombies are two completely different things.

The ghost monk has his own primordial spirit, a complete divine consciousness.

Zombies, on the other hand, don't, they're just a physical shell. It has no consciousness, only a very low instinctive response. If it is not controlled by the Oni Monk, it will rely on instinct to carry out its activities.

Ghost monks can cultivate and increase their cultivation of the primordial gods. Zombies, on the other hand, have no primordial spirits and cannot cultivate, but relying on instinctive activities will make their bodies stronger.

The ghost monk can constantly temper the zombies, making the zombies more and more powerful. It may be appropriate to call "zombies" a kind of ghost weapon. A ghost monk in the infancy stage, coupled with a zombie shell that has been tempered for thousands of years, his strength is extremely terrifying.

Skeleton puppets, on the other hand, are only the lowest-level instruments. It's just a tool that was simply tempered by the ghost monk and used to indulge. If no one is indulgent, the skeleton golem will not move on its own.

It's not just ghost monks who can skeleton puppets.

Ordinary immortal cultivators, if they know how to refine and control the magic of skeleton puppets, they can also refine and indulge skeleton puppets. This skeleton puppet is directly related to their cultivation before death, and the higher their cultivation before death, the stronger their power becomes.

The corpse that stood up, and it could be seen at a glance with the spirit eye technique that there was no primordial spirit attached to it in the skeleton. Someone must be indulging in it for it to move. This was what frightened the twenty or thirty monks present the most. A small skeleton is not scary, but what is scary is that there are likely to be ghost monks who have lived for thousands of years in this mine.

The skeletal head of the corpse, crunched and stiffened, turned its eyes on a bald monk, raised the pickaxe, stepped open, crunched, and ran over to the bald man.

The bald man felt weak in his heart, but in front of the monks of various sects, he couldn't be frightened by this little skeleton, he mustered up his courage, roared angrily, held a flaming knife, and slashed at the corpse.

The corpse had barely lifted the pickaxe when it was slashed from head to foot by a frenzied flaming knife, splitting in two, and falling apart with a bang.

"Phew, I thought it was some kind of ghost monk, it turned out to be a skeleton puppet. Such a puppet, I am afraid that it is not yet the strength of the first layer of the Qi refining period, and he can't afford to resist Lao Tzu's sword. ”

The bald man killed the skeleton puppet, spat on it, laughed maniacally, and his confidence began to skyrocket.

However, the other dozens of monks, disciples of the Ancient Weapon Sect, disciples of the Dique Sect, and disciples of the Qingdan Sect, did not smile at all, but instead held the spiritual weapons in their hands, and kept falling backwards, all with solemn expressions.

In this cave, one by one, the skeletons and corpses stood up constantly shaking, and there was a tendency to surround them.

(To be continued)