After transmigrating, I made a name for myself through my culinary skills.

The bats made a piercing "squeak squeak squeak" sound. These sounds were nothing to the cultivators, but what bothered them was that the bats seemed like mindless creatures, crashing into the defensive barrier in front of them.

By the light of the luminous pearl, the group could see the bats clearly. After seeing them, they felt disgusted. These things were so ugly, and there were so many of them. Bats fell to the ground one after another, forming a dark mass.

Before long, a continuous crunching sound came from the ground. Everyone knew what they were doing. They were gnawing the hard crab shells, and the sound was like chewing bones, which made people feel scared.

"I know how to get out of this place, follow me."

Su Bo used his spiritual power to shake off the bats in front of him. This was the place where he and Senior Brother Song had first fallen in, but this time there was an array that had trapped them. Now the array had been broken by these bats by chance, and he only needed to find the way out from his memory.

The bats that weren't stunned continued to swarm towards them. Jiang Ning channeled his spiritual power into his longsword, cleaving a path through them. Many bats were split in two, and the pungent smell of blood excited the remaining bats even more.

"Let's go." The barrier prevents these low-level spirit beasts from harming them, but their blood is foul and stinky, and the smell is strangely nauseating.

The group went outside together, and only after they went outside did they realize how huge the number of bats was. The walls illuminated by the luminous pearl were covered with bats.

"They are poisonous, and some of them have even gained sentience. We should be careful," Su Bo warned.

As he spoke, he used his sword to slash a bat that was trying to ambush him, and then he followed the direction in his memory to find his way out.

"It's a pity to leave like this," Ye Lan suddenly said.

Jiang Ning, who was walking ahead, stopped and turned back to ask him, "What are your thoughts?"

“This cave has no spiritual energy, but these bats can cultivate intelligence. Maybe there’s treasure inside.” He winked at Jiang Ning as he spoke, practically saying, “I know where the treasure is.”

Since Ye Lan wanted to stay and search for treasure, Jiang Ning was naturally happy to accompany her. He cooperated by saying, "Your analysis is correct." He paused for a moment, then added, "We should look for it."

Then he stopped Su Bo, who was walking in front, and expressed his desire to look for opportunities.

Su Bo hesitated before speaking, "I've been in this place with Senior Brother Song and the others for so long, and we haven't had any opportunities. Are you sure you want to look for it now?"

"determine."

Jiang Ning's decisions were never questionable. He took Ye Lan's hand and turned in another direction. Su Bo and the others followed, knowing Jiang Ning as they did not know he would do something he wasn't sure of.

The group walked through a maze of twists and turns. Those who paid close attention would have noticed that Jiang Ning was no longer leading them back to the same spot as before. Every turn led them to a new place. Ye Lan was even slightly surprised because the direction Jiang Ning was leading was exactly the same as the one Xiao Bai had pointed out to him. Clearly, Jiang Ning had known there was treasure here all along, but he hadn't mentioned it for everyone's safety.

A few minutes earlier, Xiaobai reminded him that there were many mid-grade spirit stones in the cave, and that only one bat king was guarding them. If he was worried that he wouldn't be able to afford to raise it in the future, he could destroy the bat king's lair.

Ye Lan chuckled upon hearing this. It was probably because Shen Feng had just used spirit stones to buy food that it learned that these stones could be exchanged for food. It seemed that Xiao Bai was also worried that it was too poor to feed it.

Ye Lan was indeed poor. She hadn't had a chance to pay back the money she owed Su Bo. After paying it back, she would only have two high-grade spirit stones left. Ye Lan couldn't bear to let them go hungry for three days and two meals a day. That's why Ye Lan proposed the idea of ​​treasure hunting to Jiang Ning.

The further they went, the higher the cultivation level of the bats they encountered, and the more piercing their voices became. Shen Feng became very impatient. These people seemed to be crazy, ignoring the exit and searching for treasure in this dark place. Unfortunately, he didn't know the way out, and he couldn't just leave them behind. When he got annoyed, he wanted to take action, and he killed the most bats.

Don't think he didn't know that it was that cultivator who cooked so delicious food who came looking for the treasure, but after going around in circles for so long without finding it, just as he was about to lose his temper, Jiang Ning stopped. He looked up and finally saw the "treasure" that the two of them were looking for.

The so-called "treasures" were just piles of mid-grade spirit stones, with a giant fat bat guarding them in front. Many small bats pounced on them and ate them, which explained why they could cultivate even though there was no spiritual energy here.

But to travel such a long way for these things, Young Master Shen said he had never suffered such humiliation before. So when Jiang Ning took action to deal with the Bat King, he didn't even move. Anyway, the people from the Green Mountain Sect wouldn't give him any. He just stood behind and watched Jiang Ning's every move, occasionally killing a bat that challenged him.

Although the bat king was large, it looked to be at most a third-tier demon beast. It hadn't even cultivated its demon core yet. When it faced Jiang Ning, it could only flap its wings, emitting a foul odor, and make an unpleasant cry. Jiang Ning knew that this cry was its innate skill, an echo attack.

The scent it emitted was poisonous, far more potent than that of the smaller bats before it. Coupled with the fact that its echo attack could cause dizziness and damage to the mind, Jiang Ning didn't intend to waste too long. He went all out with every move. While Ye Lan was attacking it to distract it, Jiang Ning pierced its chest with his sword, pinning the bat king to the wall.

Jiang Ning used his spiritual power to shake off the bats clinging to the spirit stones, revealing the original appearance of the pile of spirit stones. They were blue-veined stones emitting a faint light, and their grade could be considered mid-range. After dividing such a pile of mid-grade spirit stones among themselves, they would be quite wealthy.

Su Bo looked at the spirit stones in front of him and muttered to himself, "I never expected there to be so many spirit stones here."

If they had been able to find this place last time, they wouldn't have had to absorb those poisonous spirit cores.

"We're rich!" Jiang Nan was the happiest among them. After casting a cleansing spell on the spirit stones, he picked up a blue-veined stone and admired it closely. Although his family wasn't poor, these spirit stones were earned by himself; they were his own savings. He could buy as much food as he wanted to cook for Ye Lan in the future. He knew that following Jiang Ning was always the right thing to do!

"Let's split up."

Everyone contributed, and Jiang Ning didn't leave anyone out. He called on everyone to distribute the spirit stones, thinking that he should leave as soon as possible. He glanced at Su Bo and felt that he was in a bad state and should not stay here for long.

No one was left out, including Shen Feng, as Jiang Ning always kept things separate.

"Is this all you need?"

Young Master Shen's arrogant tone was really irritating, but no one could find a reason to refute it, after all, the Heavenly Sword Sect was the richest sect in the entire Southern Continent.

Jiang Ning ignored him and divided the pile of spirit stones into five portions. Gu Yu wanted to refuse, but Jiang Ning stopped him, saying that the Green Mountain Sect never let its friends suffer losses. Gu Yu couldn't refuse, so he accepted, which was considered an unexpected windfall.

After putting the spirit stones into their spatial storage, the group didn't waste any more time and returned the way they came. No one even bothered to deal with the provocative bats. Su Bo led them to the exit based on his memory.

The cave was too dark, and even the luminous pearls were difficult to use. It took them two hours to reach the exit.

The sudden bright light caught everyone off guard, and they all reached out to shield their eyes from it. Just as everyone was adjusting to the light, Su Bo suddenly collapsed.