After running away like this for an unknown amount of time, the corpse-eating beetle gradually lost its target. Coupled with the temptation of flesh and blood from the steel-toothed crocodile king, it finally gave up the pursuit and turned around to leave.
Seeing that the terrifying swarm of beetles that were chasing them like covering the sky finally retreated, Ye Feng breathed a sigh of relief and called for everyone to stop.
Everyone gasped for breath and immediately began to meditate to restore the severely depleted energy.
"It was so dangerous just now. Why did those beetles react only slightly when we passed by, but they were alarmed when you passed by?" Ye Feng wondered.
"I don't know, I just looked at them a few more times when I passed by them." Zong Nan was also extremely guilty at the moment, and explained with a blushing face.
Ye Feng was even more puzzled, "They have no vision. You just looked at them a few more times, so they shouldn't notice you."
"It was just the three corpse-eating beetles that found him. Maybe they were a different species among those beetles. Junior Brother Zhou had caused a slight reaction from them when he passed by them before. I remember that Brother Zong didn't do anything drastic when he passed by them. Why did he just do it? Can cause them to attack." Cheng Ze also wondered.
Zong Nan was silent. He had already made a rough guess, but it was still a bit hard to accept that he should tell the truth in front of everyone.
The three corpse-eating beetles chasing him obviously had the ability to sense fear.
"Forget it, there's no need to think too much about what happened in the past." Cheng Ze waved his hand and said with heavy breaths.
He had just used the Red Flame Ring, and then slashed dozens of times at the pursuing corpse-eating beetle. His energy was greatly consumed, and his breathing was a little short.
"Brother Cheng, if it weren't for you this time, I would have..."
"Between brothers, don't say such disrespectful things." Cheng Ze said with a hearty smile, "If we really want to thank you, we should thank Brother Zhou. If he hadn't come forward, we would have been..."
The two of them thanked Ye Feng, but Ye Feng didn't take it seriously. Instead, he suddenly asked: "Did you notice anything unusual when you ran away just now?"
"What's abnormal?" Huang Yao, who had been silent all this time, asked with emotion.
"There is a wall that seems a little different from the other walls!" Ye Feng looked back and stared behind him, saying in a solemn tone.
Under the leadership of Ye Feng, everyone slowly returned along the original road. Every time they passed a wall, they always looked at it carefully for a moment.
Huang Yao was very surprised, because just now under the pursuit of the corpse-eating beetle, everyone was running away with all their strength, but Ye Feng still had time to observe the abnormalities on the wall.
Ye Feng couldn't explain this. In fact, he just had a strange illusion when he passed the wall. This illusion was erratic and came from the intuition of the immortal cultivator.
Ye Feng has always believed in his intuition.
Everyone just ran all the way, and they didn't know how many miles they escaped. They came back all the way to search, but they didn't find anything unusual.
"All the walls are almost the same. They are dusty and there is no difference. Junior Brother Zhou, have you seen it wrong?" After half an hour, Huang Ge said impatiently.
"Probably not. Instead of searching endlessly forward, facing dangers that may appear ahead at any time, it is better to pay close attention to the changes on the wall. Maybe we can find a breakthrough." Huang Ge's impatience made Ye Feng feel a little disgusted. However, his tone remained extremely calm.
Along the way, he can slowly recover his damaged soul. Without the help of spiritual thoughts, Ye Feng is very uncomfortable, not to mention the ruins of the ancient underground palace where dangers may exist everywhere.
Exploring any ruins will not be smooth sailing. As Yuanwu realm warriors, they have taken a huge risk by rashly exploring without any information. If they are not more careful, they may not die by then. Don't even know.
Huang Yao made a gesture towards his younger brother and said through a message: "His identity is very mysterious. He may have some abilities that ordinary people don't have. Put away your princely temper and don't embarrass me!"
Huang Ge paused, a stern look flashed in his eyes, and he felt a little dissatisfied. However, he had always respected his elder brother, and at this moment, he could only follow Ye Feng in silence, not daring to raise any objections.
Walking in the cold and dark open space, the atmosphere became more and more depressing. No one took the initiative to speak. They just followed Ye Feng's instructions and carefully observed every passing wall.
Finally, Ye Feng, who had been leading the way, stopped, turned to look at everyone, and said with a slightly excited tone: "Found it."
Everyone quickly followed and looked up at the wall beside Ye Feng.
It was still no different from other walls, a large area covered with dust.
Ye Feng stretched out his hand and lightly touched the wall.
Dust rustled down, and a broken relief sculpture appeared in front of everyone.
Because the damage was so severe, it was difficult to distinguish what was painted on the relief. Only a large group of humanoid creatures with wings could be vaguely seen, seemingly fighting each other.
"Could there be reliefs on other murals?!" Huang Yao was startled. He walked quickly to the other wall, reached out and brushed the dust off the wall, and found that there was still only bare gray stone in the dust.
Wipe down a wall again, still no mural!
Huang Yao was shocked and stunned. Almost every wall was covered with thick dust. How did Ye Feng find this relief hidden under the dust
"When I passed by just now, this wall seemed to have a faint glow!" Ye Feng explained.
Then, his right hand covered the surface of the relief, and a silver light flashed and disappeared into the relief.
As the silver light flashed, the relief suddenly changed, and a silver-white light group began to spread around the surface of the relief, until it finally completely covered the entire relief.
The large relief, about fifty feet wide and a hundred feet high, was instantly covered with a layer of faint silver light.
"Boom!"
As the silver light covered the entire relief wall, a series of huge sounds finally began to emit from behind the wall. A straight crack opened in the center of the relief. Along this crack, the relief was divided into two, slowly moving towards The outside is closed, gradually forming a secret passage for entry and exit.
It turns out that this relief is actually a gate hidden in the wall.
When the door opened, a desolate and simple ancient atmosphere came to the nostrils, and large tracts of dust and sand fell like raindrops.
Everyone stepped back dozens of steps, looking at the underground palace door that suddenly appeared in front of them, unable to hide their excitement.
"It is indeed the entrance, Junior Brother Zhou, you are so amazing, you can find it like this." Cheng Ze said in surprise.
"When I was escaping from the corpse-eating beetle just now, this wall once flashed a little silver light. You may not have paid much attention to it." Ye Feng smiled, "I am sensitive to light and have been observing the surrounding situation, so I discovered it. This is an anomaly."
Huang Yao was slightly stunned. He felt that this seemed to be an excuse made by Ye Feng at random. Although he had tried his best to escape just now, if a bright light suddenly flashed in the dark environment, he should be able to detect it anyway.
"Okay, let's go in first." Ye Feng glanced at the dark entrance and forced himself to calm down.
After finally finding the entrance to the underground palace, everyone naturally had no objections and followed Ye Feng into the relief gate.
As soon as he entered the wall, Ye Feng immediately felt that the temperature around him seemed to have dropped significantly, becoming cold and humid. Fortunately, apart from the significant changes in temperature and environment, Ye Feng did not find many abnormalities.
After passing through the gate of the wall, just when Ye Feng and others stepped into this large underground palace complex, a black shadow flew from above and let out a shrill roar.
The cold light flickered, and the sharp light from the black shadow's pupils made people feel like falling into an ice cellar.
Sonorous!
Ye Feng drew his sword very fast. Almost at the same time as the black shadow passed by, he quickly thrust out three sword lights. The sword light went from top to bottom, completely blocking the black shadow's movement route.
Unable to avoid it, the black shadow paused, showed a pair of sharp claws, and grabbed directly towards the sword light.
Ye Feng used almost 50% of his strength with these three sword lights. Even a fifth-level monster would be killed in an instant, but the pair of sharp claws shining with metallic luster only trembled. , leaving a shallow sword mark, which was not cut off directly by the sword light.
The moment the black shadow paused, its true form was finally revealed.
It is a bat-like monster. The pair of sharp claws shining with metallic luster are just on a huge fleshy wing. After spreading the fleshy wings, the body of this bat-like monster is about three feet long. , blocking a large area of view.
"It turned out to be a Shadow Blood Bat, how could it appear in a place like this!!" Huang Yao exclaimed with a look of disbelief on his face.
The Shadow Blood Bat failed to hit a single blow, and immediately flew out with a roar and disappeared into the darkness.
"If you want to leave, use the red flame to grab the hand!" Cheng Ze immediately took action, grabbing the air with both hands, and a huge flaming palm flashed out. The shadow blood bat couldn't dodge, and was pulled back directly in the air.
Because the shadow on the palm was covered with a layer of fire elemental energy, the temperature was extremely high, burning the hair on the Shadow Blood Bat's body into fly ash, and even the huge fleshy wings were instantly burned with several black holes.
The Shadow Blood Bat instantly lost its ability to resist and was tightly restrained by Cheng Ze's giant palm.
"This move is so powerful, it kills him instantly?" Ye Feng said in surprise.
"The pair of sharp claws on the Shadow Blood Bat's body are the strongest, and its defense is not strong. Moreover, it just focused on escaping and ignored my attack." Cheng Ze explained quickly.
"That's it!" Ye Feng nodded suddenly.
The Shadow Blood Bat struggled, but was still unable to escape from the palm of the flames. Instead, his whole body was burned black, and finally he let out a scream and fell to the ground.
Looking at the corpse of the Shadow Blood Bat on the ground, Huang Yao's expression became more solemn.
He looked at Cheng Ze: "Do you also know about the Shadow Blood Bat?"
"Three years ago, I went to Jiangzhou. I heard that shadow blood bats only grow in Zhenxue Cliff in Jiangzhou. I even went to see them."
"The Shadow Blood Bat is just an extremely weak second-level monster that can be easily dealt with by even a warrior in the martial arts realm. This Shadow Blood Bat is obviously more powerful than that!" Huang Yao glanced at Ye Feng and smiled bitterly, "And it actually blocked it. Junior Brother Zhou’s sword light.”
Ye Feng glanced at the two people with worried faces and said: "There is mystery everywhere here. I always feel that the reason why these monster beasts and insects have mutated is probably related to this underground palace. We have just entered the underground palace now. Now It’s not too late to quit!”
Ahead is the underground palace. The outlines of a large group of buildings are vaguely visible. There could be anything hidden in the buildings.
Maybe it's a treasure, maybe it's some extremely powerful being.
Ye Feng wanted them to reconsider whether to continue taking risks.