Chapter 748: Into the Hive

Xiao Ziyang descended slowly, and in the middle of the continent, the mountain ridge stopped ten thousand meters above the ridge, and he urged the Reincarnation Heavenly Eye to look below, and immediately found an abnormality.

It stands to reason that with the aura level of this planet, it will definitely give birth to an extremely large number of high-level demon beasts, but in his spiritual eyes, although the spiritual light in the mountains and forests below is dense, most of them are dim, and there is not a single demon beast above level eight.

In the mountains, there were several peaks with extremely dense aura, almost connected, and what was even more strange was that the intensity level of the aura's aura was very uniform, the same as the alien lair he observed on the outer moons of the galaxy.

Just from the color and attributes of these aura, Xiao Ziyang recognized that the creatures that emitted spiritual light from these mountain peaks were the same kind as the alien race that was chasing him, but they were much weaker.

Judging from the strength of the aura, most of these peaks are only at the level of fifth- or sixth-level demon beasts, which is equivalent to the Jindan realm of monks. Only the two peaks on the north side were full of the spiritual light of seventh- or eighth-level demon beasts, warm and condensed.

Xiao Ziyang thought about it, chose a mountain peak to the south, and slowly flew away.

This peak is located on the edge of the mountain range, and is not close to other peaks where spiritual light gathers.

Coming to a kilometer above this mountain peak, Xiao Ziyang stopped and looked at it carefully.

The tall and lush trees on this mountain seem to be very ordinary at first glance, except for the sound of stones rolling down one after another, which is a little strange.

But through the gaps between the branches and leaves of the tall trees, Xiao Ziyang saw that on the mountain, countless two-foot-sized holes were densely packed. Almost the entire mountain peak.

From time to time, aliens crawled out of the cave, turned around, and defecated at the bottom of the mountain. Round stone balls the size of pigeon eggs are discharged.

It's just that the creatures here are very similar to the alien races that have chased Xiao Ziyang, but they are very different, and the similarity is their appearance, whether it is a flat or round head, a huge compound eye, four pairs of limbs and legs, and three pairs of cicada wings. It's all very similar.

The difference is that these aliens are much thinner, only about the size of a child about ten years old.

The most noticeable difference is that the carapace of these creatures is pitch black in color. It glows faintly.

Xiao Ziyang speculated that these creatures should be the larvae of the alien race that chased him.

He watched for a moment, then moved and descended towards the peak.

Although he was afraid of the power of the alien race, Xiao Ziyang did not believe in the alien race of the Jindan realm under his feet. You can see through your own hidden shadow and escape method.

Xiao Ziyang fluttered down on a tree trunk straight up. The branches are luxuriant, the leaves are as large as an umbrella cover, and the branches of giant trees are as high as 100 feet.

On a large flat mountain area under this big tree, dozens of caves are densely distributed.

From time to time, aliens with pitch-black carapaces burrowed out of their burrows, climbed to the edge of the flatland, and turned their tails against the slopes, excluding spherical objects the size of pigeon's eggs, which were very hard. Rolling down the hill makes the sound of stones tumbling down.

Although he didn't believe that these Jindan-level alien races could see through his stealth, Xiao Ziyang was still cautious and tentative. Slowly lowering the height, it took a stick of incense to fall to the ground.

An alien crawled less than three feet past Xiao Ziyang, ignoring Xiao Ziyang who was standing next to him.

Xiao Ziyang gently walked to the edge of the flat land, and looked at the slope, because the slope was not smooth, and there were many weeds and shrubs, although the balls discharged by the alien race were smooth, many of them were still stuck near the hillside.

Xiao Ziyang stretched out his hand and took a round ball.

This round ball is not much different from ordinary pebbles when you feel it, it is the same cold and hard, but the texture is more delicate, smoother to the touch, and it is much heavier than ordinary stones.

Xiao Ziyang probed into the ball, and after a moment, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

Most of the balls are ordinary rocks, and there are many common metal elements such as iron, copper, and silver, in addition to this, the balls also contain about 3% of the black iron.

But these were not what surprised Xiao Ziyang, what surprised him was that the dark iron contained in the ball looked ordinary, but it was actually very different from ordinary dark iron. If someone extracts the dark iron in this ball and makes it into a magic weapon, he will find that the performance of this dark iron is much worse than that of ordinary black iron.

This is because these dark irons have been refined and extracted from the essence of them, which is the essence of dark iron.

In addition to the large proportion of black iron, the ball also contains about one-thousandth of feather copper, and even rarer silver smelting.

Like Xuantie, these feather copper and silver smelters have also been refined, and have lost their essence.

Where the essence is, nature is self-evident.

Xiao Ziyang held the ball and groaned for a moment, then stretched out his hand to throw it off the cliff, his body shook, turned into a cloud of mist that was difficult to detect with his spiritual eyes, followed behind an excreted alien race, and burrowed into the cave.

The cave was dark and narrow, just big enough for the aliens to crawl into, but the aliens were like worms, and they crawled very quickly as if they were instinctive.

After following the alien race, climbing about a few hundred meters, the alien suddenly jumped and disappeared, and the sound of flapping wings came from ahead.

Xiao Ziyang cautiously came to the place where the alien race disappeared, and found that there was a huge cave in the belly of the mountain in front of him.

The cave was pitch black, and Xiao Ziyang urged his spiritual eyes to make sure that there were no high-level aliens in the cave, and then he scattered his divine thoughts.

He soon discovered that this cave did not exist alone, but was intertwined with many other caves, and there were many small caves in between, and the terrain was so complex that it was outrageous.

Xiao Ziyang began to think that this was a natural cave, and only nature would create such a chaotic cave.

But soon, countless aliens lying on the cave and gnawing on the rocks overturned his idea.

However, since this cave was gnawed by aliens, why did they make the cave so complicated and irregular?

Xiao Ziyang quickly found the answer, he found that wherever there are caves that are gnawed by aliens, the rocks contain rare metals such as dark iron, feather copper, and silver smelting, while wherever there are no aliens to gnaw, most of them are ordinary stones, or ores that only contain ordinary metals such as copper and iron.

It turns out that these alien races are gnawing on spirit ore!

The reason why this cave is so complex and irregular is entirely because the spiritual ore veins are so distributed, and the alien races follow the ore veins all the way to eat, and ordinary ores and stones are not touched.

Solving the doubts in his heart, Xiao Ziyang gently flew behind an alien race and carefully observed him gnawing on the spirit mine.

I saw its four sharp mouthparts turned outward, pecked lightly at the ore, and the mouthparts were inserted into the ore like inserting tofu, and then the four mouthparts were clamped in the middle, and the ore was broken like a cake.

This alien race just took a bite after bite, swallowed for half an hour, swallowed more than ten catties of ore, then lay down and didn't understand, the belly kept undulating, there was light and kept circulating, about an hour later, it suddenly jumped down, towards a cave.

Xiao Ziyang followed the alien race out of the cave again.

Out of the cave, the alien climbed up the slope, turned around, put the tail against the slope, and kept excreting, and the round small stone balls were squeezed out of its excretion hole, rolling down the mountain.

Seeing this, Xiao Ziyang naturally understood what these alien races were doing, they were actually devouring the spirit mine, refining the essence of it, and improving their bodies. No wonder this alien body was so hard, far stronger than the magic weapons refined by cultivators of the same rank.

Just as Xiao Ziyang was thinking, this alien race seemed to have finished excreting, Xiao Ziyang thought that it was going to climb the cave and devour the ore again, but saw it suddenly flutter its wings and fly away from the hillside.

Xiao Ziyang was curious, his body moved, and he followed behind it.

This alien flew extremely fast, not much slower than an ordinary Yuan Infant Cultivator. Between the vibrations of its wings, there was a faint aura of spatial rules, although this aura of rules was insignificant, it made Xiao Ziyang secretly frightened.

The alien left the mountain and flew straight towards the edge of the mountain.

With a puff of incense, it flew out of the mountains and onto the plains.

The vegetation on the plains is more abundant than in the mountains, and when you forget it, it is green and vibrant.

Xiao Ziyang secretly urged his spiritual eyes, and saw that there was no spiritual light shining in the spiritual sea below, but although there were many of them, there was not a single high-level demon beast.

After this alien flew out of the mountains, he reduced his speed, and as he flew, a pair of compound eyes couldn't help but shine with streamers, looking towards the spiritual sea below.

After a moment, it seemed to have chosen its target, and with a flick of its wings, it flew down towards the spiritual sea below.

In Xiao Ziyang's spiritual eyes, in the spiritual sea below, there happened to be a spiritual light rising, it was a sixth-level demon beast.

The alien race plunged headlong into the spiritual sea, and the wings that seemed to be as thin as cicada wings shattered the branches that stood in its way.

The loud sound of crushing the branches immediately alarmed the demon beasts in the woods.

Xiao Ziyang also followed this alien race into the forest, and through the canopy, the demon beast fell into Xiao Ziyang's eyes.

It was a very strange-looking monster, its body was slender, there were three pairs of thick claws under its abdomen, its neck was like a snake, long and soft, when it turned around, its neck could be folded nearly one hundred and eighty degrees like a snake, and it had a strange head on its long neck, and its mouth was flat and long, like a goose's beak.

This monster beast also has a pair of wings on its back, with feathers on its wings and often tail, and animal hair on the rest of its body, which looks like a bird and a beast.

When the monster beast heard the movement, it turned around and saw the alien race, and immediately let out a frightened cry, and without hesitation, it ran wildly, picking out the dense branches and foliage of the trees and drilling around.

The alien race chased after him in the air, and when he saw a thin branch, he crashed into it, and the vibrating cicada wings smashed the branch, and when he saw a thick branch, he was flexible to avoid it, and it was extremely flexible between the ups and downs, which was simply against the laws of physics.

Xiao Ziyang knew that it could be so flexible because of the faint, almost imperceptible fluctuations of spatial laws emanating from his wings. (To be continued......)