He Pingsheng made his way down through the cavern.
The surrounding yin baleful energy grew denser, and the darkness deepened until no daylight remained.
Fire spiritual power condensed from within his body, forming a Fire Crow roughly ten feet across.
Flames danced above He Pingsheng's head, following him down and illuminating a hundred-foot radius around him.
He Pingsheng's divine sense was faltering too, growing weaker and weaker.
Now, he could only survey his surroundings within a thousand feet.
It was not that his soul thought was weak, but that the surrounding yin baleful energy was growing ever stronger.
He Pingsheng kept leaping from place to place, descending all the while.
After roughly another half an incense stick's time, he reached the bottom of the cavern.
There was no one around, not a single living creature!
At the bottom of the cavern, however, two smaller openings extended into the surrounding mountainside.
Those passages were also filled with yin baleful energy.
He Pingsheng swept his divine sense over the area and finally located the source of the yin baleful energy.
A massive rock, a full ten feet across, protruded from the sheer wall at the bottom of the cavern.
No, perhaps it was not a rock.
Boom...
Fire spiritual power surged out of He Pingsheng's body again, and six Fire Crows danced around him at once.
Under their fiery light, the rock became much clearer.
The entire rock was azure and gold.
Yin baleful energy continually seeped from its surface.
"Legend has it that yin veins run through the earth..." He Pingsheng circled the rock, unable to help murmuring to himself, "Could this be an exposed earth yin vein?"
He had heard it said that lone yin could not flourish, and solitary yang could not bring forth life.
Where there was black,