Seeing this, Zhou Wen hurriedly picked up the Companion Egg on the ground. As for the large number of Essence Energy Crystals, they were useless to Zhou Wen. He didn't even bother picking them up.
The crack in the mountain wall widened and soon, a bottomless, pitch-black cave appeared. Zhou Wen probed the insides using the Teacher Domain, but he realized that the Essence Energy inside seemed to have dried up. He couldn't sense any Essence Energy fluctuations.
Nothing happened even when the mountain wall came to a complete standstill.
He summoned the Fiend-Armored Tiger Soul General and let him scout ahead as he entered the cave.
The Essence Energy appeared drained. He couldn't sense any aura, nor did any creatures appear.
The winding cave meandered for several kilometers before it opened up. Zhou Wen and the Fiend-Armored Tiger Soul General arrived at a huge natural cave.