Gold-Eating Ants

Song Wen extended his spiritual sense toward both ends of the cavern.

At once, the scene within the cavern entered his mind.

A few miles to the right, the cavern gradually narrowed. After only about a mile, it reached its end—a stone wall.

To the left, the cavern stretched onward, with no end in sight.

After ten miles, his spiritual sense could no longer reach any farther.

The cavern here exerted a certain suppressive effect on spiritual sense, mainly because the spiritual energy in this place was excessively dense—the densest Song Wen had ever encountered in his life.

When spiritual energy became too dense, it could also interfere with spiritual sense, though not as severely as corpse qi or ghost qi.

Thus, Blood Brow's claim that this was the "Orchid Realm," a place where the Divine Blood Sect cultivated rare treasures, carried some credibility. It did not seem like baseless talk.

The two did not abandon their search of the cavern to the right based solely on spiritual sense. Some heavenly treasures and earthly wonders emitted peculiar spiritual energy fluctuations that could render spiritual sense ineffective, making them impossible to detect, much like concealment formations.

Therefore, the two decided to search the right side first.

There was nothing to be found on the right. The two returned to their starting point and began searching to the left.

After searching for more than ten miles without finding a single treasure, they suddenly sensed violent spiritual power fluctuations ahead.

Clearly, someone—or some demonic beast—was engaged in battle up ahead.

"Are there other people here? Or are there demonic beasts in this place? Could the spiritual energy fluctuations have been caused by demonic beasts fighting each other?"

The two exchanged a glance, their expressions becoming more guarded.

Keeping their auras as concealed as