"Hiss..."
These creatures let out angry hisses upon seeing Wan Yunting and the others standing on the first stone pillar...
"Quick, quickly move..."
Seeing the creatures about to leap over, Wan Yunting quickly beckoned Zhou Ruoxi and the others. He pulled Chen Qiuyun and leaped to the second stone pillar...
Ye Qianqian, Zhou Ruoxi, and Zhang Xian'er followed closely, jumping to the second stone pillar...
Bang!
Immediately after, those blue-furred unknown creatures also leaped onto the first stone pillar. The first one couldn't stand firm and tumbled into the dark abyss. A loud thud echoed from below after a long while...
It's unknown how many of these creatures there were. One after another, one finally managed to stand firm and intended to leap to the second stone pillar...
Boom!
As a result, one creature crashed into the first stone pillar, instantly fracturing the stone, causing it to collapse...
On the cave walls, these creatures, using their long claws, gripped onto the cracks in the stone walls, appearing in dense numbers...
"So many..."
Wan Yunting and Zhou Ruoxi on the second stone pillar stared, looking at these white and blue-furred creatures, as large as cows and resembling rats, these unknown beings.
Just clinging to the stone walls were hundreds, and countless more were continuously pouring out from within the cave...
"Are they going to crawl up from underground?"
Ye Qianqian's eyes widened. The flashlight beam couldn't find the bottom of the abyss. However, judging from the few seconds it took for these creatures to fall, the abyss was likely over a hundred meters deep...
"Let's go..."
Wan Yunting no longer hesitated. He pulled Chen Qiuyun and turned to leap to the third stone pillar. Zhou Ruoxi and the others followed closely, landing on the third stone pillar, then leaped to the opposite stone wall, where a cave entrance appeared. The five of them safely landed at the entrance...
Ye Qianqian and Zhang Xian'er immediately shone their flashlights into the dark cave, saying nervously, "This isn't their nest, is it?"
Wan Yunting ignored the darkness and looked at the cave walls. There were no claw marks from those creatures. Instead, there were traces of artificial excavation. He said, "It shouldn't be. Look, these marks are all artificially carved. This is likely the entrance to your demonic sect's old site!"
"Phew, that's good..."
Ye Qianqian and Zhou Ruoxi breathed a sigh of relief. Zhang Xian'er exclaimed, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go in quickly, those beasts will be chasing us from below soon."
"Yeah, let's go..."
Wan Yunting no longer hesitated, calling out to Zhou Ruoxi and Chen Qiuyun. Ye Qianqian had already taken the lead inside...
This was a manually excavated passage. Its length was unknown, but as they walked, they found many skeletal remains...
"So many bones..."
Seeing the occasional skeletal remains on the ground made Zhou Ruoxi and Chen Qiuyun raise their eyebrows, their hearts involuntarily starting to tense up...
"Normal."
Zhang Xian'er glanced at Ye Qianqian beside her and said, "Back then, your demonic sect committed all sorts of evil deeds; who knows how many people went missing."
"Uh..."
Ye Qianqian rolled her eyes at her, not refuting, because it was the truth.
"Why are there more and more?"
As they walked deeper, the number of skeletal remains increased. There were also many tools used for excavation. Judging by the clothes on the bodies, they were all ancient people...
"Everyone be careful!"
Wan Yunting's brow furrowed more as he saw more and more. He couldn't help but remind Chen Qiuyun and Zhou Ruoxi. They finally emerged from this long corridor, and a spacious cave space appeared. The ground was covered with skeletal remains, countless...
"This..."
Wan Yunting and Zhou Ruoxi were dumbfounded and shocked.
"Is this a mass grave?"
The flashlight couldn't reach the end of these skeletal remains. All they could see were piles of bones...
Only Wan Yunting, with his eyes that ignored the darkness, could see how many bodies were piled up in this vast cave space. This was definitely a mass grave. The entire space exuded an eerie chill, as if countless wronged souls were lingering around them...
Zhou Ruoxi and Chen Qiuyun's faces turned pale. Even Zhang Xian'er, who feared nothing, felt a chill and shivered at the sight of this mass grave...
"Is there an exit?"
Looking at the piled skeletal remains, it was a death pit, and no exit was visible around.
"One o'clock direction!"
Wan Yunting pointed his thumb upwards in the one o'clock direction, where there was a cave entrance in the rock wall.
"Let's get out of here quickly, this place is too creepy..."
Even Ye Qianqian felt a shiver, sensing a chill around her, making her mind constantly conjure images of ghosts surrounding them...
The sound of crunching arose from the bones on the ground, bones that had died countless years ago...
Wan Yunting and the others reached the area below the cave entrance and looked up at the stone wall, seeing handholds.
Wan Yunting didn't say a word. He went up first and quickly landed in this cave, which was over ten meters high. This passage was also artificially excavated.
And it was even neater than the previous one. The floor was paved with stone bricks, and there was an oil lamp every five meters along the stone walls...
Wan Yunting took out a lighter and tried to light one of the lamps. It actually lit up...
"This passage should lead to the demonic sect's old site, right?"
Zhou Ruoxi, who had climbed up, surveyed the passage. It was pitch black inside, and nothing could be seen.
"I don't know, let's go in first, those beasts are about to come."
Wan Yunting glanced back at the bottom. He saw a blue and white-furred unknown creature had already entered and immediately spotted Wan Yunting and his group. It was quickly moving towards them, its footsteps crunching on the bones on the ground...
"Go..."
Ye Qianqian, holding her flashlight, immediately entered. Wan Yunting pulled Zhou Ruoxi, leading Chen Qiuyun and Zhang Xian'er to follow quickly...
And the unknown creatures behind them were closely pursuing...
On the other side, the members of various sects had also passed through the underground ice crevice and saw the ice wall that Wan Yunting had broken through and entered the passage...
"It's blood!"
Xian Yun and the others immediately discovered bloodstains on the ground. They touched it and sniffed it, and immediately he frowned. He looked up at his master, Zhong Yulong, and said, "It's not human blood!"
"Hmm, then what blood is it?" Liu Bing and others also examined the bloodstains on the ground. Xian Yun shook his head, "I don't know..."
"Look at the marks on the stone wall!"
Everyone also noticed the complex scratch marks on the stone walls of this raw stone passage, which immediately put everyone on high alert...
"It should be the claw marks of some creature. Everyone be careful...!" Zhong Yulong immediately shouted.
Instantly, the members of the various sects present became nervous. Holding their weapons, they began to look around. Looking at the passages on both sides, Shi Yizhen asked, "I wonder which way Wan Yunting and the others went!"
"It should be this way!"
Xian Yun pointed to the passage on the left and said, "The bloodstains are heading this way!"
Abbot Ren Xin nodded and said, "Then we will go this way."
"Okay..."
Everyone nodded. Just as they were about to leave, there was a sudden commotion in the cave. Zhong Yulong's old face tensed, and he told everyone to stop first...
Suddenly, under the beam of everyone's flashlights, a huge unknown creature appeared, startling Liu Bing and others who shouted, "What is that?"
"I don't know, quickly stop it...!"
"Ah...!"
A disciple couldn't dodge in time and was directly bitten on the head by this charging unknown creature. In the next second, its neck was bitten off, and its corpse was thrown towards Hu Fei and the others. Elder Zhang Qing and the others' faces instantly changed...
"There are more!"
However, it wasn't just one. Many more were continuously emerging from the left-side cave...
"We'll hold them off first. Everyone, quickly run this way, quickly...!"
Zhong Yulong shouted. He drew his sect leader's sword, and he, Abbot Ren Xin, Shi Yizhen, and others began to fend off these unknown creatures, allowing the elders to lead the disciples to run towards the right-side cave...
For a moment, everyone was terrified, not knowing what these blue and white-furred creatures resembling rats were, and they all ran towards the right-side cave...
"Let's go...!"
Zhong Yulong and the others killed a few of them, blocking this cave passage, which was over three meters high and two meters wide. The creatures bared their teeth and roared. Liu Bing and the others' hearts tensed, and they quickly retreated...
Later, the people from the Tianyan Lord God Cult also entered and found a few unknown creatures lying in the passage. The new priest observed them for a while and said, "Lord God, these might be Snow Sloths!"
"Hmm, and evolved Snow Sloths..."
The Lord God observed these few Snow Sloths that were not yet dead and narrowed his eyes under the mask, smiling, "It seems that this demonic sect's old site is indeed not simple. The Demon Pool must be within this mountain peak. Let's go..."
Saying that, the Lord God led the priest and a group of followers towards the raw stone cave on the right...
On the other side, Wan Yunting, with Zhou Ruoxi and Chen Qiuyun, followed Zhang Xian'er and Ye Qianqian through this passage. After about eight minutes, a very large space suddenly appeared.
There was also a giant stone door, built like a city wall gate. This large door was carved from stone and was a double-leaf door, with the demonic sect's totem in the middle!
"It really is the demonic sect's old site!"
Seeing this, Wan Yunting finally found it.
Ye Qianqian beside him was even more excited. She went forward and exerted all her strength, trying to push open this heavy stone door, but it didn't budge at all...
"There must be a mechanism!"
Wan Yunting also tried to push it, but he couldn't move it either, guessing that there was a mechanism...
"Those beasts are coming, what should we do?"
Zhang Xian'er looked into the passage and heard movement, knowing that those beasts would be chasing them soon...
"Everyone, quickly search for the mechanism to trigger the gate..." Wan Yunting quickly shouted.
Ye Qianqian and Zhou Ruoxi began to search the area. Looking at this city gate built on the raw stone wall, it was just a large door. There was nothing in front of the door, and there were no mechanisms on the raw stone walls either...
"There's no device to trigger the mechanism..."
Zhang Xian'er and Zhou Ruoxi became anxious.
"Hmm, look at the totem in the middle of the large door. Is the center of the blazing flame missing a piece?"
Wan Yunting saw it immediately and noticed that in the center of the demonic sect's blazing flame totem on the front of the door, there seemed to be a piece missing...