Golden Crow Talisman, Yin Yang Fruit

Zhang Xiaohua slowly made his way along the path inside the cave. The road was level, even easier to walk than the path outside, but it twisted and turned. After several bends, Zhang Xiaohua had completely lost all sense of east, west, north, and south. Moreover, the path kept descending, as though it led straight into the earth.

After rounding several more bends, the passage gradually widened, until even Zhang Xiaohua's divine sense could no longer take in all of it.

Suddenly, after the path had been a single downward route all along, a three-way fork appeared.

This put Zhang Xiaohua on guard. He swept both sides with his divine sense and felt somewhat more at ease with the passage to the left, so without hesitation, he headed left. After walking for a while longer, a flicker of warning suddenly appeared in his divine sense.

Zhang Xiaohua immediately stopped, raising the Luminous Pearl to inspect the way ahead. Then he heard a flurry of fluttering from the front, and countless dark shadows flew toward him. Zhang Xiaohua froze. Are there birds here too?

Looking up, he saw countless black birds much larger than fists. Cough, cough—no, they could not really be called birds. These creatures had no feathers at all. Their wings were nothing but fleshy membranes, and dim red glimmers flashed in their eyes. Like bees that had spotted Xiaohua, they rushed straight at Zhang Xiaohua.

Bats???

Zhang Xiaohua nearly cried out. But weren't these bats far too large? And they were not afraid of people at all. Zhang Xiaohua had never seen bats this fearless before.

He had just been about to release his divine sense when, the instant it left his body, it was struck as though by countless hammers. The impact sent the Danxin within his