Alien Science Cultivation

The black-robed captain frowned, deep in thought. His gaze fixed on the flames, he saw the boy's form slowly recovering within them. Seeing he hadn't lost control and transformed into a beast, he felt relieved and told everyone to apply bat blood. After all, in this darkness, most creatures relied on smell to identify other species.

Not daring to delay, everyone quickly smeared the blood on their bodies. Then, they quickly left, heading towards their target. Along the way, they encountered many strange creatures, including giant crimson centipedes, blood-red earthworms resembling giant snakes, and giant, pitch-black scorpions. However, due to the scent of bat blood on their bodies, they did not intervene.

As they neared their destination, several even larger bat beasts appeared. These bat beasts spread their wings and soared, obscuring the sky and the sun, a terrifying sight. The captain then led everyone to carefully circumvent the route.

After many twists and turns, everyone finally reached their destination. However, the scene before them shocked everyone. A giant blue light curtain array stood before them, hundreds of feet long, emitting a mysterious and powerful aura, many times more powerful than the Qingshan Sect array. In the center of the array, a giant golden eagle stood quietly, though it no longer had any life, but the powerful majesty it once had remained.

The golden eagle stands with its head held high, majestic and awe-inspiring, exuding an innate aura of kingship.

Its sharp beak, like a hook, gleamed with a cold light, as if it could easily rip through the strongest armor; its claws, sharp as steel, could crush rock into dust in its grip. The majesty of the golden eagle lies not only in its immense strength, but also in its noble and inviolable aura, which inspires both fear and awe. "Golden Eagle Ancestor..." The black-robed captain couldn't help but exclaim, his voice filled with excitement and sorrow, a complex emotion that was difficult to express in words. His body trembled slightly, his eyes filled with awe and nostalgia. The other black-robed team members also knelt, three times and nine times, their expressions solemn and pious, as if paying the highest respect and mourning to this great being who had passed away.

Ni Fang soothed him, "Don't be so sad, everyone. Since my master has sent us here, he certainly won't leave us guarding this formation forever. I believe there must be a way to get in. That scabbard is likely what my master brought out from inside. Study it carefully." The black-robed men, perked up by Ni Fang's words, quickly pulled out their scabbards and began examining them. The scabbard seemed truly spiritual. Once rusty and unremarkable, it now glowed faintly. "As we approached this place, I sensed a flickering glow from the scabbard, but we were in such a hurry that we didn't get a closer look..." the black-robed captain said. Zhang Qiang scanned the formation with his spiritual sense and felt that it seemed to be transforming powerful spiritual energy into an energy body, much like the flow of water through a generator to generate electricity. However, without understanding the secrets, anyone who touched it would inevitably be attacked by its power. Confused by the formation, they split into two teams, circling it from left to right. As the captain walked, the light of the scabbard began to gradually brighten. It seemed that the closer they got to a certain location, the brighter the light on the scabbard became. Everyone walked around in a circle, circled the formation in the air for a few more times, and finally stopped in an inconspicuous place! This was where the scabbard's light was the brightest. The closer the scabbard got to the light curtain, the more a groove in the same shape as the scabbard slowly appeared on the light curtain. The captain grabbed the scabbard in mid-air and put it in. As expected, the formation silently opened a hole, a square entrance only about half a meter in size! Everyone looked at each other and got in!

Everyone filed in, and the entrance automatically closed. The black-robed captain sheathed his sword and cautiously walked toward the golden eagle. The legendary formations set by those in the Mahayana realm were far beyond anyone's imagination. The black-robed captain's unwavering courage moved everyone. After approaching the golden eagle's corpse and kowtowed three times and nine times, signaling that there was no danger, everyone slowly began to approach the body. An unknown number of years had passed, but the body of the Golden Eagle ancestor remained essentially the same as it had been in life, save for the lack of life! This was perhaps the power of the Mahayana realm; even after countless years of death, it remained immortal and incorruptible!

Everyone marveled at the power of the Golden Eagle Ancestor, and felt the strange phenomenon inside the magic circle. It seemed that there had not even been a single beast or reptile. On the contrary, the flowers, plants, and trees here were much thicker than those in the outside world. Zhang Qiang pondered the reason for this difference between the inside and the outside: "There are no beasts or reptiles. Perhaps they were killed by the Golden Eagle Ancestor before he passed away, or they were destroyed by the energy of the formation when the formation was set up, or perhaps it was the work of the leader of the Qingshan Sect. After all, it was he who gave Ni Fang the coordinates here, and even the scabbard for entering the formation was on him. Faced with the temptation of the place where the seniors of the Mahayana cultivation passed away, no one could resist. Wealth, magic tools, inheritance, etc., even if you only get a little bit, it is more than enough to change your destiny! What can the leader of the Qingshan Sect get if he comes in? Wealth? How much money can a small sect in a remote area have? Secret books or magic tools? It seems that apart from the Qingfeng Sword, the treasure of the sect, there is nothing else to take. Something to be obtained! Inheritance is even less likely, and he hasn't even reached the state of transformation! Is it possible that the harvest is very little? This space of a hundred feet is not big, but it is not easy to explore every place from the ground to the trees! The methods of a Mahayana cultivator are simply beyond the reach of ordinary cultivators! Judging from the current situation, it is estimated that it will take at least three to five years, and at most ten to twenty years! Forget it, don't think about it! Finding a place to stay is the most important thing at the moment... "After all, there are too many unsafe factors in the unfamiliar environment. Zhang Qiang opened his spiritual sense, wanting to find an ideal resting place, but was surprised to find that his spiritual sense, which could originally reach 20 feet, could only reach a few feet here! "Why is this? While I haven't had time to practice along the way, the blessing of the spirit stones has enhanced my cultivation and spiritual awareness. According to Ni Fang, my cultivation has reached perfection, and I can establish my foundation at any time. Even when I entered the Dark Forest to fight the giant bats, I still had twenty or so feet to go. There must be something wrong with the space of this formation; it seems compressed! If even cultivation can be compressed, then what about spiritual energy, time, space... Let's find a foothold first, and then slowly explore." He gave up thinking and scanned the treetops with his spiritual awareness and eyes. Honestly, spiritual awareness of several feet is not as good as eyes. But spiritual awareness is like an X-ray, able to see through obstacles and penetrate the internal structure. "The higher you stand, the farther you can see! To learn more about the Dark Forest, let's climb to the highest point we can reach!" Zhang Qiang thought. He arrived at the center of the formation's semicircle, politely paid homage to the Golden Eagle Ancestor, located the tallest tree a few feet behind the ancestor, and climbed to the top. His spiritual awareness unexpectedly revealed a human cave atop the tree. After careful exploration, Zhang Qiang found nothing unusual.