At that moment, the Giant Wolf that Wang Ping had created with his "Illusory Body Technique" suddenly charged out of the forest and pounced toward the Black-Scaled Crocodile that was chasing Gu Feng.
This scene truly frightened the Black-Scaled Crocodile. It immediately opened its crocodile mouth, spitting out more than ten sharp crocodile teeth toward the Giant Wolf.
This innate spell that Gu Feng and the others had named "Crocodile Fang Thrust" was one of the Black-Scaled Crocodile's killer moves—it was extremely powerful.
The destructive power of each and every crocodile's teeth that were shot out together was comparable to that of a low-grade tier-1 spell, the "Water Arrow Technique." Even a late-stage Qi Refinement cultivator would not be able to resist them all, even with their own defensive spells.
Last time, Gu Feng and the others were caught off guard and were injured by this move. There was even a teammate at the sixth level of Qi Refinement who had died here, on Heaven Heart Island because of it.
However, after using this move, a Black-Scaled Crocodile would need at least a few months to regrow new teeth. Therefore, they would not use this move easily, unless under the direst and most critical situation.
At this moment, seeing the mighty and powerful Giant Wolf turn into water vapor upon being hit by his spell, despite it not being intelligent, the Black-Scaled Crocodile realized that it had been tricked.
Unfortunately, it only realized a little too late.
While it was furiously searching for the real culprit that was playing with it, Gu Feng, who had not used his full strength previously, attacked it with all his might, forcing it to be unable to divert its attention.
At this moment, Wang Ping had already cast his second "Illusory Body Technique," creating a Water Illusion Avatar that resembled Gu Feng hiding behind a large tree.
Gu Feng received Wang Ping's signal and immediately moved toward where the Water Illusion Avatar was hiding.
Then, he quickly crawled into a nearby bush. Wang Ping controlled the Water Illusory Avatar to move forward, attracting the Water Arrow spells cast by the Black-Scaled Crocodile.
After a few seconds, Gu Feng made a hand seal, preparing to unleash a mid-grade tier 1 fire-type spell, the "Chain Fireball Technique," which he then threw at the Black-Scaled Crocodile.
At the same time, the blue-black long awl Dharma artifact that he had used to attack the Black-Scaled Crocodile also shot out, following closely behind the three scarlet fireballs flying towards the crocodile.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
First, there was an explosion from the forest, which ignited large amounts of dead branches and leaves and left several charred wounds on the Black-Scaled Crocodile's back.
Then, under the cover of the flames, Gu Feng's long awl Dharma artifact pierced into the Black-Scaled Crocodile's body from one of the wounds. The freezing power contained within the Dharma artifact instantly froze a portion of the Black-Scaled Crocodile's internal organs.
With the combined damage of fire and ice, the Black-Scaled Crocodile was severely injured. Not long after, Gu Feng's long awl Dharma artifact pierced into its heart.
After killing this Black-Scaled Crocodile, Gu Feng could not be bothered to deal with the spoils of war. He put his Dharma artifact away before charging towards another mid-grade tier-1 Black Scaled Crocodile.
When Wang Ping saw this, he could only follow.
After an hour of intense battle, the seven cultivators finally killed all of the five Black-Scaled Crocodiles on land, eliminating the hidden danger that was interfering with their exploration of the cave abode.
It was just that after such a long battle, the cultivators had more or less sustained some injuries. Their Dharma power and energy had also been greatly depleted.
Thus, after killing the demon beasts, the first thing that everyone did was to meditate and recover their Dharma power and energy instead of dealing with the corpses.
After two to four hours, they finally recovered their Dharma power and spirit. Everyone then began to deal with the demon beast corpses.
There were many goodies on the Black-Scaled Crocodiles' bodies. The scales on their backs were all materials that contained spiritual force, and so were their teeth. Even the skin of two high-grade tier-1 Black-Scaled Crocodiles were high-grade demon beast materials.
During the battle, many of the cultivators' Dharma artifacts were unable to cause much damage to the two high-grade tier-1 Black-Scaled Crocodiles. Only Meng Changyou, a late-stage Qi Refinement cultivator, was able to inflict serious damage on them.
In the end, everyone held the two high-grade tier-1 Black-Scaled Crocodiles back to allow Meng Changyou to do the killing.
However, these good materials had nothing to do with Wang Ping.
Participating in this operation, he would basically only be able to obtain one piece of low-grade tier-1 demon beast material that Gu Feng had agreed to give to him beforehand.
Not only him but even Wang Jun and Du Ming would also only be given four of the mid-grade tier-1 Black-Scaled Crocodiles' sharp teeth and some spiritual blood that came from the Black-Scaled Crocodiles' hearts.
The blood in the heart of a demon beast also contained a relatively dense amount of spiritual force. If it was stored in a special jade bottle in time, it could be used to concoct spiritual ink used in making spiritual talismans.
However, among the itinerant cultivators on Golden Pearl Island, only Granny He knew talisman-crafting techniques, and she could at best create spiritual talismans that could seal mid-grade tier-1 spells. Thus, to Wang Ping and the other cultivators, this spiritual blood was like a pitiful and tasteless chicken to them.
Most of the time, cultivators would cook the preserved spiritual blood into a blood pill to eat it instead of making spiritual ink.
After the useful materials were taken away, there wasn't anything much they could do with the skinned and teeth-extracted corpses anymore. Thus, the corpses of the Black Scaled Crocodiles were abandoned in the forest.
Then, Meng Changyou and the others, basking in their achievements, walked toward that senior cultivator's cave-dwelling, full of expectations.
In the cultivation world, exploring the cave residences left behind by the seniors was something worth looking forward to. It was also the opportunity that could most likely change the fate of a cultivator.
Even a Qi Refinement cultivator with mediocre aptitude could change their fate by finding spiritual pills and powerful Dharma artifacts in the cave abode of a senior cultivator.
Although the cave abode on Heaven Heart Island didn't seem to be left behind by a high-grade Core Formation cultivator, the fact that an array formation was set up and a few Black Scaled Crocodiles were raised to guard the cave abode, was enough to prove that the owner of the cave abode wasn't an ordinary Qi Condensation cultivator when he was alive.
Even if they had only left a few Dharma artifacts or some elixirs behind, such a figure was enough to satisfy itinerant cultivators like Meng Changyou and the crew.
At this moment, after the group arrived outside the cave abode on the peninsula covered by a thick fog, the leader, Meng Changyou, used the "Heaven's Eye" technique to observe the area of thick fog for a while. Then, he turned around, speaking to the other six.
"I once heard from Wanderer Turtle that any formation with no one controlling it will attack indiscriminately, according to the number of people that entered the formation. So, as long as we enter the formation from different places, even if the base strength of the formation is enough to instantly kill any one of us, with everyone sharing the burden, there's nothing to fear."
"I don't think this formation is some sort of powerful formation. Everyone, find a spot and enter the formation together."
The Wanderer Turtle could be said to be the most powerful itinerant cultivator on Golden Pearl Island. His cultivation level had already reached the twelfth layer of the Qi Refinement realm, a true cultivator at the peak of the Qi Refinement realm. At the same time, he was already more than a hundred years old.
Thus, after hearing Meng Changyou say this, the others hesitated for a moment before agreeing to his decision.