There was a lot of noise and chaos outside. More than ten rockets had landed here. The roof of the building was already on fire, making crackling sounds. There was already a choking smell of smoke in the house, and the curtains on the corridor connecting several rooms were already on fire.
After a group of guards here fell, no one rushed in from outside. Only Yan Liqiang was left wandering here, frowning, looking for Musadi's trace.
"Is there a secret passage here..." Yan Liqiang frowned and muttered to himself, because just now he saw Musadi rushing here, and then after he came in, he never saw him go out again. If there is no secret passage, it is certainly impossible for a person to disappear out of thin air.
Yan Liqiang started searching carefully here again. Musadi was already injured. Now was the best time to get rid of him. If he was allowed to run away, he would be bitten instead of killed. There might be some trouble in the future. So it would be best to kill Musadi this time. This would be the biggest deterrent to the Black Jie people.
All the furnishings in the room were neat and intact, without any disorder. Yan Liqiang searched carefully for a while. Suddenly, when he came to an aisle, his eyes suddenly focused and he saw two drops of blood on the floor of the aisle. The place where he had just killed those Black Jie palace guards was outside, so the blood could not have been left by those palace guards. Not far from the two drops of blood, there was a room. Yan Liqiang walked straight over and pushed open the door of the room with a squeak.
In the flickering firelight outside, everything in the room was flashing with a strange blood-red glow. This room seemed to be where Musadi displayed his collection. There were many ivory, gold and gem products in the room, as well as more than a dozen strange-shaped weapons such as swords and several wine vessels made of human skulls inlaid with gems. These things would definitely be worth a lot of money if taken outside. However, Yan Liqiang had no intention of looking at these things at this time, but was searching for Musadi's trace.
Suddenly, Yan Liqiang saw two drops of blood on the ground again. The blood was next to an ivory throne in the room. Yan Liqiang quickly walked to the side of the ivory throne, and after looking at it carefully, he kicked the base of the ivory throne directly. The whole ivory throne was kicked open by Yan Liqiang with a bang, revealing an entrance and steps below.
Yan Liqiang rushed down with the dragon-back steel spear without thinking.
The passage continued to extend underground. At the beginning, there were stone steps at the bottom of the passage, and there were eternal lamps on both sides of the steps. After going two or three hundred meters underground, the stone steps and the eternal lamps disappeared. Under the entire passage, there was actually a huge natural cave. It was damp, dark, and pitch black. The cave was full of stalactites. Drops of water kept dripping down from the stalactites above the head, and gathered into an underground stream in the cave, flowing forward.
On the way down from the secret passage, Yan Liqiang discovered two bloodstains on the ground. He became more and more certain that Musadi escaped from here. Because there was only one cave entrance to the underground, he simply followed the direction of this underground entrance and the stream to chase him.
There was no light in this underground cave, but Yan Liqiang's eyes were already able to see in the dark, so it was not affected at all.
After chasing along the underground cave for more than ten minutes and almost twenty miles underground, a little light finally came from the dark cave entrance in front. Yan Liqiang rushed out of the cave entrance and suddenly entered an even larger underground cave space. At the same time, he also saw Musadi.
Below this huge underground cave space is an underground lake with a radius of several miles. At the entrance of the cave, there is a stone bridge that extends all the way to the center of the underground lake. In the center of the underground lake, there is a huge nine-headed snake statue several dozen meters high. It is a masterpiece of nature and full of the vicissitudes of history. There is an altar under the statue, with flames flashing on both sides of the altar and several snake-shaped bronze tripods burning. Musadi knelt under the statue of the nine-headed snake, holding a dagger, cut his wrist, and dripped the blood on his wrist into the lake under the altar, seeming to mutter something.
Hearing the footsteps coming from behind, the kneeling Musadi turned his head suddenly and looked at Yan Liqiang who was walking across the stone bridge with a sad and fierce look in his eyes.
"Haha, so you ran here. Why, at this time, are you still praying for someone to come and protect your Snake God Tribe?" Although Yan Liqiang said it casually, he was suddenly on high alert. He was secretly on guard and carefully observing, ready to take action at any time. The temperature in this place was relatively cold for some reason, which gave him an inexplicable sense of weirdness. In the history of the Han Empire, no one had ever conquered the Black Jie tribe, and there were very few Han people who had dealt with the Black Jie people. The Black Jie people have always left the Han Empire with the impression of being barbaric, cruel, backward, and aggressive, but with a hint of mystery. He didn't know much about the Black Jie people, and didn't know what other tricks they had. It was impossible for Musadi to run here at this time because he was crazy.
"Foolish Han people, you will soon know the consequences of invading and blaspheming our Snake God Tribe!" Musadi had already stood up and said to Yan Liqiang. There was no more panic in his expression, but instead a hint of teasing and cruelty. His tone also became superior, full of indomitable confidence, "Your flesh and blood souls will become the best sacrifices for the guardian god of our Snake God Tribe bestowed by the great god Mopo..."
"Oh, really?" Yan Liqiang continued to approach Musadi with a smile on his face. "What did your great god Mopo give you? I want to see it. Since the guardian god given to you by your great god Mopo is so powerful that it can easily destroy tens of thousands of our troops, why don't you use it to conquer the Gulang Grassland and the Han Empire..."
"The will of the great god Mopo is not something that we mortals and slaves can know!" Musadi said coldly, "But you will see it soon. Don't worry, after you die, I will use your skull to make a wine glass, and then lead my men to flatten your Qiyun County, and make your wife and daughter my slaves..."
"I'm afraid you won't see that day!" Yan Liqiang said calmly. Seeing that he was already within fifty meters of Musadi, he was about to make a move, but just as he was about to make a move, the entire underground cave seemed to vibrate slightly, and the calm lake water began to roll.
Such a scene made Yan Liqiang's expression change slightly, while the cruel smile on Musadi's face became more and more intense.
After just over ten seconds of tremor, a huge monster suddenly rose slowly from the lake amid the sound of rushing water and appeared behind Musadi.
A giant snake with a golden body and nine heads rose from under the lake. Only its head and the part below its neck were exposed, but it was already fifty or sixty meters high.
The lake water flowed down from the giant snake like a waterfall.
With the appearance of this giant snake, the temperature of the entire underground cave space dropped rapidly. The calm lake surface in the distance began to slowly solidify and freeze. The flame burning on the altar also began to tremble, as if it was suppressed.
The terrifying aura suddenly filled the entire underground cave.
(End of this chapter)