Moments later, Bai Zihe arrived here.
"Hmm?"
With a sweep of his divine sense, Bai Zihe discovered the Tenth Elder dead in the secret chamber.
He then flashed directly into the secret chamber.
"This is..."
Looking at the corpse, Bai Zihe frowned slightly.
"No wounds, no traces of injury, yet all his true essence has vanished. It's exactly like when Elder Tianjian devoured the true essence of those elders at Tenglong Bay."
Bai Zihe quickly reached a conclusion.
It seemed that a powerful cultivator, who had been infiltrated by the dark and eerie energy, had come here and devoured this cultivator's true essence.
Bai Zihe immediately felt a sense of tension.
In fact...
While the Ten Thousand Year Willow Heart had been corrupted, it couldn't move and its intelligence was very limited, far inferior to humans.
But this, a powerful cultivator originally, infected by the dark and eerie energy without being exposed, made it impossible to pursue.
The only good news was that...
The True Spirit Pearl, brought by the Eighth Senior Sister, could sense the range of the dark and eerie energy, making it impossible to escape within a certain radius.
"Buzz..."
The next moment, the True Spirit Pearl appeared in Bai Zihe's hand.
The dark energy on it flashed and quickly disappeared.
As expected, after absorbing the cultivator's true essence, the perpetrator had long since fled elsewhere, giving the cultivators no chance to investigate.
"Forget it..."
Bai Zihe gave up and, with a few leaps, appeared within the boundaries of the Heavenly Mountain Medicine Garden from that day.
"This is it..."
Last time, Bai Zihe's strength was far from what it was now.
With his current Tribulation Crossing Realm divine sense, once released, he immediately detected a dense metallic aura deep underground.
However...
Although this aura was powerful, it was very subtle, as if intentionally disguised to avoid detection.
"Heh..."
Bai Zihe's gaze sharpened, and he appeared in the soil, heading deeper underground.
At the same time, he communicated with the little tower in his mind: "Little Tower, what is this thing down here? Can I handle it with my current strength?"
He still remembered.
The little tower had said that the thing below was very powerful and he was no match for it.
"No big problem."
The little tower said casually and then fell silent.
Bai Zihe was speechless and could only continue to burrow deeper, hoping to reach this location as quickly as possible.
"Swish..."
Moments later, a giant rock appeared in Bai Zihe's sight.
A giant rock?
Bai Zihe sneered.
Although this thing was well disguised, its aura was too strong. It was not a giant rock at all, but an illusion formation.
"Break..."
Without hesitation, Bai Zihe directly raised the Xuanyuan Sword and slashed down.
"Rumble..."
The next moment, the giant rock exploded, scattering into countless light spots and revealing its true form.
My goodness.
It was actually a palace underground. Bai Zihe was astonished.
How could there be a palace deep underground? This defied logic.
"Whoosh..."
Bai Zihe directly entered the palace.
"Buzz..."
His divine sense was like a brilliant light, omnipresent and all-pervasive.
Unfortunately, as soon as he reached the edge of the grand hall, it was blocked and he could not probe for more information.
Bai Zihe was also helpless.
There was no choice. His divine sense had reached a bottleneck and was difficult to break through in a short time, making him prone to suffer losses when probing.
"Here..."
Bai Zihe looked around.
Besides a white tiger phantom carved on the main gate at the far end of the grand hall, there were no other clues.
White Tiger, West, Metal dominant.
Bai Zihe understood and was even more certain that he had come to the right place.
However, after observing for a moment, Bai Zihe found nothing worth exploring, which puzzled him greatly.
"Swish..."
So, Bai Zihe decisively unleashed a sword energy.
"Rumble..."
The sword energy slashed onto the wall at the far end, instantly leaving a deep沟壑.
Bai Zihe was surprised.
Could it be that what he saw here was all real, and there were no hidden mechanisms as he imagined?
With this thought.
Bai Zihe walked around the grand hall.
As he wandered, he tested it with sword energy.
After walking around, he found no valuable discoveries, except for the faint phantom at the end.
"It should be here."
Bai Zihe, without hesitation, directly slashed with his sword.
"Roar..."
As Bai Zihe's sword energy was still flying, the phantom let out a deafening roar, making one's heart tremble with fear.
"As expected, the mechanism is here!"
Bai Zihe inwardly noted, then began to observe carefully.
While observing closely, he also tried to blast open this place with sword energy.
"There!"
Bai Zihe discovered that the eyes of the white tiger phantom were two empty sockets, which were impossible to notice without careful inspection.
"Swish..."
"Whoosh..."
The next moment, Bai Zihe's hand trembled, and two beams of sword light shot towards the two empty sockets, reaching them in the blink of an eye.
"Roar..."
The phantom immediately erupted with fierce roars.
At the same time, the phantom parted to the sides, revealing an extremely deep and somewhat eerie cave within.
"Buzz..."
This time, Bai Zihe's divine sense easily probed it.
The cave was not deep.
Along the way, there were scattered bones of various ferocious beasts, and at the end of the cave, there was a bronze coffin. As for what was inside the bronze coffin, he could not probe.
However, Bai Zihe was certain that the metallic treasure was within.
"Swish..."
With a few leaps, Bai Zihe arrived before the bronze coffin.
The bronze coffin was made of bronze, with several nameless ferocious beast skeletons coiled around it.
It could be imagined that the existence inside the bronze coffin held some status.
"Clang..."
Bai Zihe, too impatient to dawdle, directly used the Xuanyuan Sword to pry open the coffin lid.
As a cloud of bronze rust, dust, and debris rose into the air and gradually dissipated, Bai Zihe saw what was inside the bronze coffin.
A...
A golden, glowing tiger skeleton.
Besides this, there were a few scraps of unrotted fur, and a shining demon core!
"Buzz..."
With a sweep of his divine sense, Bai Zihe knew that this demon core was what he had been desperately searching for – the ultimate treasure of the metal element!
"Excellent!"
Bai Zihe had not expected to find this thing so easily.
He then moved his divine sense, intending to envelop the golden core and fly it into his hand.
"Rumble..."
However, the moment his divine sense touched the golden core, Bai Zihe's expression changed drastically.
A tiger's roar, arriving with world-ending might, boomed in his ears, like thunder, like a tsunami!
Bai Zihe's mind was shaken, and a trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
The next moment.
A remnant soul condensed in mid-air, revealing itself to be a white tiger!