Chronicles of the Green Vine: A Mortal’s Path to Immortality

Time flew by quickly. In the blink of an eye, Zhang Ling had spent two days in Burning Flame Valley, cautiously advancing while suppressing his aura to the extreme.

Along the way, he had slain several low-level demonic beasts that didn't know any better with a single sword strike, without discovering any traces of other cultivators.

Bang, bang...

Just then, he suddenly heard explosive sounds coming from not far ahead, and Zhang Ling quickly stopped.

Following that, there were several more loud noises, and upon closer listening, the sounds seemed to be that of bursting rocks. They were still some distance away from him.

These loud noises were unusual, sounding like a struggle. After pondering for a moment, he quickly headed in another direction.

There seemed to be a fight ahead, perhaps someone had discovered spiritual herbs or treasures, or maybe it was a demonic beast. But since he had just arrived in the secret realm, it was best to avoid it.

He would rather encounter demonic beasts than other cultivators. After detouring in a wide arc, Zhang Ling arrived at the bottom of a cliff.

All around were cliff walls several tens of feet high, the rocks were blackish-red, and it was barren with not a blade of grass.

At this moment, soil and rocks were constantly falling from the cliff above, and there seemed to be some movement.

Looking up, Zhang Ling discovered that there were actually two demonic beasts fighting on the cliff, and not far from the two demonic beasts was a small, crooked tree, bearing many red fruits.

"Oh, that's a Red Spirit Peach." After taking a few more glances, Zhang Ling muttered softly, feeling a little delighted in his heart.

"That's right, it's really a Red Spirit Peach, exactly as described in the records."

Although these spiritual fruits had nothing to do with the spiritual herbs needed to refine Foundation Establishment Pills, they were not easy to obtain.

Red Spirit Peaches were spiritual fruits that could be consumed directly. They could not only be used to increase cultivation, but also to quickly restore consumed spiritual power.

Zhang Ling looked around, and there were no traces of other cultivators nearby, only the two demonic beasts fighting on the cliff face.

One was a giant black snake with a body length of seventy to eighty feet, raising its triangular snake head, revealing a fierce gaze.

The other was a cyan-colored large bird, which was also very strong.

The cyan bird's wingspan was twenty feet wide, and under its wings, balls of wind surged, turning into two sharp cyan arc-shaped wind blades that shot towards the rock snake.

The black snake's long, strip-shaped body twisted on the rocks, forming a layer of earthy-yellow rock armor on its surface.

This was a Rock Snake, an earth-attribute demonic beast that could cast the Rock Armor Technique, forming a layer of defensive rock armor on its body to protect itself.

With two muffled bangs, the cyan bird's wind blade attacks struck the rock snake, only cracking the rock armor on the snake's body, without breaking through the rock snake's defense.

Instead, it angered the rock snake, which twisted its body and swiftly bit towards the cyan bird.

The cyan bird deftly dodged the rock snake's bite, and flew around the giant snake quickly, shooting out wind blades to attack.

While the two demonic beasts were fighting, Zhang Ling decided to steal the Red Spirit Peaches.

He took out a spirit talisman and slapped it on his body, and his figure gradually blurred and disappeared. This was the effect of the Invisibility Talisman.

Then, he used his lightness skill to move quickly on the cliff face, heading towards the location of the spirit peach tree.

Before long, Zhang Ling arrived under the peach tree.

The peach tree grew on a precipitous cliff, as thick as a person, seventy to eighty feet tall, and under some red and yellow leaves grew red and white mottled spirit peaches, each the size of a fist.

With a gentle sniff, he smelled a hint of fragrance, different from the rich medicinal fragrance of spiritual herbs, this was the unique fragrance of spiritual fruits.

He glanced at the two demonic beasts not far away, they were in the midst of a fierce battle, and were twenty to thirty feet away from the peach tree.

Zhang Ling no longer hesitated and quickly picked the spirit peaches.

In the blink of an eye, there were more than a dozen spirit peaches in his arms. At this moment, he couldn't use his spiritual power to open his storage bag, so he could only put them in his clothes first.

Hiss, hiss...

Just as Zhang Ling was excitedly picking the spirit peaches, the two demonic beasts fighting over there hissed, and at the same time, there was a burst of ear-piercing buzzing.

Zhang Ling raised his eyes and saw a shocking scene.

In the place where the two beasts were fighting, a large dirt hole was broken in a location on the cliff, and many dense small insects flew out of it.

These insects were like ladybugs, only the size of a fingernail, their carapaces were blackish-yellow, with red stripes on them, like streaks of flame cracks.

The ear-piercing buzzing sound made people's heads dizzy.

At this moment, the rock snake, which was seventy to eighty feet long, was covered with insects. The rock armor on its body was breaking at a speed visible to the naked eye, and most of its body was exposed.

A group of insects swarmed up, and in an instant, the rock snake's body had many wounds. The rock snake was extremely miserable, and didn't seem to have any resistance.

The cyan-colored large bird, seemed to know the power of the insect swarm and chirped softly, flapping its wings and fleeing into the distance.

In the buzzing strange sound, a large group of insects flew out of the rock wall cave, turning into a red cloud and chasing after the cyan-colored large bird.

This strange insect seemed to be a kind of spirit insect, and with so many of them, there were already thousands.

Zhang Ling, who was hiding in the spirit peach tree, also felt his scalp tingle, and for a time, he didn't dare to make the slightest movement, for fear of provoking these fierce strange insects.

With a shrill hiss, the rock snake finally couldn't hold on, and fell from the cliff covered in wounds. With a loud bang, it smashed onto the ground.

Its body was still being bitten by a large number of strange insects, with no intention of letting go, and in a few breaths, the rock snake turned into dry bones.

Buzz, buzz...

Suddenly, Zhang Ling discovered that a swarm of dozens of insects was heading in his direction.

He didn't know if the insects had discovered him, or if their target was these spirit peaches.

Not having time to consider, Zhang Ling didn't dare to gamble. If he was surrounded by the insect swarm, the outcome would definitely not be better than the rock snake's.

He no longer hid his figure and revealed himself, put the spirit peaches in his arms into his storage bag. With another wave of his hand, he grabbed more than a dozen spirit peaches and put them into his storage bag, then quickly fled into the distance.

The insect swarm behind him swarmed and chased after him.

......

In the blink of an eye, a quarter of an hour had passed, and Zhang Ling had been using the Wind Control Technique to escape, but even with his speed, he couldn't shake off the spirit insects behind him.

At this time, a lot of spiritual power in his body had been consumed, and his heart was full of bitterness. The insect swarm behind him was like a red cloud, chasing closely. Roughly estimated, there were hundreds of them, and continuing to escape was not a solution.

Zhang Ling gritted his teeth, took out a cyan stone, and cast several spells on it, and the cyan stone flashed with cyan-gray light.

Thin, dense lines flew out of it, gathered in front of him, and quickly weaved together, turning into a cyan large net in the blink of an eye.

He glanced at the strange insects chasing behind him, urged the hand tactics, and the cyan silk net shrouded down towards the back.

The insect swarm was very fast, and just plunged into it. Zhang Ling quickly controlled the cyan large net, wrapped the insect swarm, and fell to the ground.

He himself had already fallen to the ground, and stomped hard on the ground with one foot, and a yellow spiritual light rushed into the ground.

The insect swarm in the cyan silk net made an ear-piercing strange cry, constantly tearing the large net.

Zhang Ling almost couldn't control the cyan large net, but fortunately, his backhand was already prepared.

With a muffled bang.

The cyan large net trapped the insect swarm and smashed on the ground, and a piece of soil on the ground also loosened at the same time, turning into a quicksand pit.

The insect swarm was dragged by the quicksand all of a sudden.