I didn't expect there would be such a big cave under the Black Iron Desert, with so many stone steps, and many of them were broken, obviously someone had stepped on them just now.
The cave is very old and some parts of the stone steps have weathered into gravel. The stone steps appear to be intact on the surface, but they turn into powder when stepped on.
When Jiang Yixiu stepped onto the stone steps, they suddenly turned into fine sand and gravel. She lost her balance and was about to fall down.
Ye Feng quickly grabbed Jiang Yixue's soft waist.
"Be careful. If you fall down, you will probably keep rolling down. I don't know what's at the end of the stone steps. It would be terrible if it's a bottomless abyss."
Jiang Yixue stuck out her tongue and shrank behind Ye Feng in fear. Even if she missed a step and fell again, she would only roll to Ye Feng's feet. With Ye Feng like a big tree blocking her way, there was no need to worry even if the end of the stone steps was really an endless abyss.
Ye Feng and Jiang Yixue walked down the stone steps carefully and saw many broken stone steps.
"Nangong Wei and his men must have been here. These are their footprints. These stone steps were crushed by them."
"They're right in front of us? I don't want to run into them."
"No risk, no gain. Even if I run into Elder Bing, I will still come in."
"Let's hope we don't run into them."
After walking up nearly a thousand stone steps, Ye Feng and Jiang Yixue realized that there were no more stone steps under their feet.
Jiang Yixue was already a little tired. Seeing that there were no more stone steps under her feet, she smiled happily: "Haha, we're done. I think we walked more than a thousand stone steps. I was counting just now, but you interrupted me, so I think I counted wrong."
Ye Feng felt that the terrain under his feet was relatively flat. The light ahead was dim and there was no magic crystal emitting light. He could only use Jiang Yixue's flashlight to illuminate the way.
The light from Jiang Yixue's flashlight could extend very far, as if it was illuminating some huge stone pillars.
"The terrain here is flat. It feels like an open square. Our flashlights don't illuminate the stone walls, only some large stone pillars."
Jiang Yixue smiled and said, "Luckily I prepared a flashlight, it really works, but I don't have any batteries to replace it."
"I still have some spare batteries, but in the demon world, every time you use a battery, you have one less. We have to use them as sparingly as possible. We can use magic crystals to illuminate nearby areas, and flashlights for those far away."
Knowing that Jiang Yixue was afraid of the dark, Ye Feng gave Jiang Yixue a palm-sized, top-grade white jade crystal. The soft white light was like a desk lamp, illuminating the area within a radius of two or three meters around it.
"This light is so dim, I don't like it very much."
Although Jiang Yixue didn't like it very much because the light of the white jade crystal could not reach as far as a flashlight, she had to use the white jade crystal for lighting in order to save electricity.
Ye Feng smiled: "You are so ungrateful. Do you know how much this palm-sized top-grade white jade crystal is worth here? At least 500,000 gold coins. If those demons knew that you used the white jade crystal to illuminate, they would probably be so angry that they would vomit blood."
After hearing what Ye Feng said, Jiang Yixue smiled happily, raised the white jade crystal in her hand and said proudly: "It's what they deserve. They are so angry that they die. Who doesn't have it?"
Ye Feng came to the foot of a stone pillar, shone the flashlight upwards, trying to find the top of the stone pillar, but unexpectedly discovered that when the flashlight beam shone to the end, it did not reach the top of the cave.
The surrounding darkness seemed to swallow up the light of the flashlight, and the light of the flashlight could not reach very far.
Although the top was not photographed, Ye Feng made a new discovery.
These stone pillars are not real stone pillars, but huge stone statues.
"These are not stone pillars, but stone statues, tall stone statues."
"Who is carving stone statues here? Is it fun? The taste of the demons is really unique."
"These stone statues are estimated to be tens of thousands of years old. Look at the feet of the statues. Some of the stones have been weathered, but they are still very solid. There seems to be black iron and black sand mixed in them."
The light from the flashlight only illuminated the outline of the stone statue's legs, not even the waist. It can be seen that these stone statues are at least seven or eight meters tall, or even taller.
Since the light from the flashlight could not reach the top of the stone statue, Ye Feng simply turned off the flashlight and slowly extended his divine eyes to the surroundings.
The Divine Eye of Destiny is completely an eye of thought. It can penetrate darkness, pass through fog, bypass boulders, and drill through cracks. With Ye Feng's willpower, he can now extend his thoughts to a thousand miles away.
Ye Feng's eye of consciousness slowly stretched upwards. He wanted to first calculate the height of the stone statue, the outline of the stone statue, and the height of the cave ceiling. He was surprised to find that this underground stone cave was at least several hundred meters high and more like it was in the belly of a mountain.
Most of those stone statues were about eight meters tall, and there were quite a few of them, with one every few meters. They were all statues of demons with the outline of horns on their heads.
Jiang Yixue saw that Ye Feng had his eyes closed and knew that he was using his divine eyes to find a way out. She didn't want to disturb him, so only the light of the white jade crystal shone on his handsome face.
Although the light from the white jade crystal is not very strong, it makes the skin on the face seem to be crystal clear and smooth, making Ye Feng's facial contours clearer and firmer.
The more she looked at him, the more she liked him. She held her chin with her hand and said to herself, "Brother Ye, you are so handsome. I like to see you when you are focused. You are so handsome."
Ye Feng's divine eyes kept looking for nearly an hour before he slowly opened his eyes with a look of surprise on his face.
"This cave is so high. I estimate it is more than 100 meters high, as high as a 30-story building. No wonder the flashlight can't reach the top."
"What do those statues look like?"
"They should look like demons, with horns on their heads."
“How many stone statues are there here?”
"You may not believe it, but this cave is endless. I just roughly counted the statues, but I couldn't count them all. I only counted more than 5,000. There are too many. I don't want to count anymore."
"Oh my god, there are so many stone statues. The demons really have a lot of taste. They carved stone statues in this dark cave. I really don't know how they carved them."
"Let's keep going forward. There's no end to either side, so there's no need to waste energy on both sides. There's a stone gate more than a thousand meters ahead of me. Let's go there and take a look."
"Oh, there is a stone gate. What's behind the stone gate? Can you feel it?"
"No, the stone door is closed. There is a magic symbol on it, which contains some powerful energy. It is too far away to identify. Only when we get close and break the magic symbol array on the stone door can we know what is behind the stone door."
Jiang Yixue walked forward with a curious look on her face: "Then let's go and see what the stone gate looks like."