Earthworms?

They are elemental crystals, more specifically light elemental crystals, the crystals are not used for cultivation unlike spiritual stones, but they are useful for practicing the type of Qi and increasing the understanding of the same element, they are also relatively used in blacksmithing to create all types of utility or combat artifacts, for example in the mansion there is an artifact that is like a stove and one of its elements is a fire crystal.

And the reason I was surprised is that light, dark and thunder crystals are relatively quite rare to normal elemental crystals, plus due to their rarity they become expensive to buy.

That's why I decided to collect some and save it either as a source of income in the future or to understand the element/dao and other uses.

I collected a few more and continued walking…

However, as I walked I heard a noise like something breaking like a stone.

And impressively worms of different sizes came out of there, more specifically 3 worms with a length of up to 3 m. honestly a rather disgusting sight.. especially when observing the mucus.

They clearly had no vision, but they seem to have identified me as the enemy…

Since earth spikes quickly shot out from near my feet trying to hurt me, I quickly retreated and took out my sword.

They are of the earth element and two are in the 5th realm of Qi condensation and one is in the 6th realm.

I looked lightly with the sword in my hand and of course I plan to use the elemental weakness to earth it has weakness to thunder and water.

I raised my hand and used one of my techniques, I manipulated thunder and a bluish thunder appeared above me in the form of 3 spears with a good density of Qi, two shot out quickly and moving at high speed they hit two of them, killing one directly at another survived and another created 2 stone barriers and defended herself from the spear, but the walls were still destroyed, I put wind Qi on my feet and quickly approached and with thunder Qi on the sword I moved on the wound, she used part of her tail to hit me but I turned sideways and with a horizontal movement cut it in half.

Of course the other one, who was in the 6th realm, wouldn't let this happen the way I wanted, he touched the ground, this time she seemed to have identified the danger as I felt a high amount of Qi coming out of her and feeling the danger around me, I quickly used even more wind Qi and jumped quickly and in the place where I was standing, stone spears shot out from the floor and ceiling surrounded by thorns in a strike that definitely had the intention to kill quickly….

"Fighting in a cave with a monster natural for earth Qi is really troublesome…" I whispered, and didn't let it stop, I used wind element on my feet and added some thunder to the already present wind, using double element in one place It is difficult, the same goes for the thunder element as an unstable element, to use it for movements despite being powerful, it requires greater control and care to not hurt myself or spend excess Qi, but this seems like a good time.

Approaching her without giving her time to react, I moved my sword with the first movement of the various movements in the sword manual that was left by my master… with an X movement in the shape of a cross.

"Court of the Crux"

And with a bluish, slightly shining glow, on my sword the worm was directly cut into 4.

And I lay down on the ground...in addition to the previous Qi usage, especially wind and thunder, the special master's manual has several moves and each one costs a lot either due to my proficiency or is difficult to achieve with my current Qi base.

I took some juice and drank some to recover from my tiredness and Qi…

And after a few minutes I moved again…

…

A light? Will it be the outside?

In the distance I could see a considerable light ahead, which made me particularly curious… if it was the outside and when I arrived a very beautiful view showed itself ahead.

A cave area with a radius of 250 meters and a height of up to 6 m. A more open region with beautiful vegetation, including large flowers of light pink and bluish colors, and some plants with fruits that seemed to be made of light and came from the ceiling to the floor.

In the middle of this cave a small stretch of underground water was found like a well.

"It doesn't seem like a way out…but it looks like a good place to rest…I can enjoy it and make some food here…although in space it's also a good idea, it's good to eat outside…"

With this idea in mind I moved to the center of the cave.

And I removed some cooking equipment without noticing small eyes of some kind of animal looking at me hiddenly, neither me nor Artemix ended up noticing…