The dense fog was like thick clouds, and a white haze flowed in the valley.
She Xuan stopped at the place where the boulders were piled up, and after sensing for a moment, she confirmed that Huang He's aura had disappeared here. At the same time, this pile of boulders was also the entrance to the underground palace. It had not been visited for twenty years, and the entrance had already changed dramatically.
Lu Bei jumped down and half-crouched on the ground to feel around.
She Xuan followed and looked for the entrance, frowning and saying, "Someone has set up a trap at the entrance, the method is very sophisticated, no wonder the people from the Huangji Sect stopped for a long time before entering, if it were me..."
Snap!
The mechanism opened, and the dark hole spiraled downward.
"It actually took me ten breaths. I've been sitting at home for too long, so my technique has become rusty."
Lu Bei clapped his hands and stood up, looking at She Xuan innocently: "Sister She, what did you just say? What would happen if it were you?"
She Xuan: “…”
The cave was dark. Lu Bei pressed his hands on the wall and his giant blue claws passed through the wall. After confirming that there were no trigger-type traps, he let She Xuan lead the way.
After walking and stopping for about fifty meters, the damp and gloomy air suddenly became dry.
A winding tunnel replaces the spiral staircase. The stone walls are illuminated by luminous beads, and the traces of time can be seen everywhere.
Lu Bei raised his hand and pressed on the stone wall. After activating the mechanism, two figures in black robes fell from the secret door. They lay motionless, with twisted and broken necks, and their heads looked in a strange direction.
Black with a red bottom, it looks like a pair of high heels.
Glancing at the two black-robed men, Lu Bei nodded in assurance: "No doubt, the Snake Dragon Cult, that's them."
"Lu Bei, are you familiar with the Snake Dragon Cult?" She Xuan was surprised.
"Not really. I heard about it from a friend before."
Lu Bei made up a friend out of nothing and quickly changed the subject, and he and She Yan quietly groped their way through the tunnel.
The two walked one in front and one behind. Relying on her memory, She Xuan ignored several dead ends and led Lu Bei to the ancient stone hall at the end of the underground palace.
Because the Snake Dragon Cult took over the stone hall, the murals originally carved around the hall were completely chiseled away, and replaced with a statue of a coiled python in the center of the hall.
The jade platform at the base is crystal clear, with a soft and pleasing light. A three-meter-long snake is coiled on it, with its head raised to the sky, pearls embedded in the position of its eyes, and fine scales that are like crystal diamonds, looking very majestic.
The light and shadows rise and fall, and the snake appears lifelike, as if it has a soul and can come alive at any time.
"Fate, it's indescribable!"
Lu Bei exclaimed in amazement, raised his hand and took out the straight knife, and put the crystal diamonds into his hand.
She Xuan was different. Although she was also interested in glittering things, her attention was now focused on the strangely shaped long snake.
The lower body is in the shape of an ordinary snake, while the raised snake head in the upper body looks like a dragon. The dragon head is ferocious, with jagged fangs and a reverse scale at the seven-inch point.
She Xuan was watching intently, and the next second, her sight was blocked by Lu Bei's back. The latter jumped onto the long snake sculpture, first pried two pearls, and then pulled out the spirit crystal fangs one by one.
But after a while, the originally majestic snake looked extremely funny because of its missing teeth and eyes, and bald spots on its body.
"Can't you have a little respect for mysterious things?" She Xuan said, unable to bear it any longer.
"It is because of my respect that I brought them home and worshipped them."
Lu Bei said kindly, "There are too many. I can't collect them all by myself. I advise you to act quickly. Once you finish investigating this case, the Xuanyin Sitian Gaosanchi's large army will arrive and not a single cent will be left behind."
“I’m not interested in money.”
She Xuan rolled her eyes at Lu Bei, and after searching around, she found a teleportation array on a stone wall. Recalling her last unpleasant trip to the teleportation array, her face immediately darkened.
Another man and a woman working alone in the fields, and another damn teleportation array. Could it be that this time...
No, she has advanced to the Xiantian realm. Her luck has turned and she won't be unlucky all the time.
"Let's go while Boss Huang has just gone in. If he gets captured, we'll have to force our way in." Lu Bei urged, raised his hand to hook the slender waist, and jumped into the teleportation array.
…
Among the mountains and the land, towering smoke columns stand tall and white clouds are like cotton wool.
The primitive wolf forest blocked out the sun and the sky. There should have been the roars of tigers and the howling of monkeys, and the flying and running of birds and beasts. However, for some unknown reason, the entire mountain range was as silent as death, and not even the chirping of insects could be heard.
Lu Bei looked up at the sky, and saw the space distorting and shaking as far as his eyes could see, and he immediately took a breath of cold air.
Secret place.
A real secret realm, not the kind that the Iron Sword Alliance uses to fool people.
There are many secret realms of all sizes scattered throughout the world of Kyushu. The number is unknown, the way to open them is unknown, and where they came from is also unknown. People only know that the secret books contain ancient immortal connections, and obtaining one can bring immortality.
There is a lemon-flavored gossip that the Demon King, who dominated the world in the past, was invincible because he was lucky and accidentally entered a secret realm and obtained the secret of immortality from another world.
My chance has come (×)
I'm going to be unlucky (√)
If he was the first one to enter the secret realm, Lu Bei would wake up laughing in his dreams, but unfortunately he was not. The Snake Dragon Cult came in a few years ago and even built a portal and moved all its members in.
After such a long time, if Lu Bei said that these people did not get the chance to become immortals, then...
"Perhaps it is true."
Lu Bei's face changed and he clapped his hands violently. That's right, when the Snake Dragon Cult reached version 2.0, there was no one who could fight. They relied entirely on underhanded tricks to tease the players. The latecomers gained experience and found the right opportunity to fight them head-on, slaughtering them without leaving a single person alive.
Version 2.0 hasn’t taken off yet, so it can’t be that high right now.
Thinking of this, Lu Bei's heart settled down a little. He raised his elbow and nudged She Xuan beside him: "Let's go to the big chimney. It might be the source of the poisonous smoke in the corridor. Let's blow it up first."
She Xuan was unmoved, staring blankly at the east side where the smoke column was completely opposite: "You go first, there... The blood in my body feels something, as if something is calling me."
“Hiss, hiss, hiss—”
The golden-scaled snake crawled to She Xuan's shoulder, looked toward the east with its master, and hissed, as if urging her to leave quickly.
"Come on, I'll go with you."
Acting separately in someone else's lair was just like sending people to die one by one in a haunted house. Lu Bei decisively followed his heart and followed the sacrificial teammates, flying straight to the east.
The closer they got, the stronger the blood call in She Xuan's body became, as if she was possessed by a demon, and her speed became faster and faster.
Lu Bei called out to her twice, but seeing that she had no intention of stopping, he lowered his head and cursed inwardly, then spread his wind and thunder wings behind him and flew close to the ground, his speed not much slower than that of a Xiantian realm cultivator flying in the air.
Half a minute later, the forest gradually thinned out and the temperature gradually rose. The hot mountain was like a dry riverbed, with dense cracks, the narrowest of which was only as wide as a palm.
After jumping over a mountain, the plain becomes flat and the view suddenly opens up.
She Xuan stopped at the top of the mountain, staring at the plain in amazement, her pupils shrunk into thin lines, and her whole face was full of horror.
Lu Bei spread out his wings, a chill ran down his spine, and he looked at the vast plain in shock.
In the plain, there are thousands of feet long snake bones. On each huge spine, the ribs are neatly aligned and curved upward, and each one is like a towering tree.
The white bones have been there for who knows how many years. The flesh and blood have long disappeared, and the bones are as crystal clear as white jade...
Lu Bei's eyes followed the snake bones all the way up, and about halfway up, the Snake Bone Mountain Range suddenly broke. It was not a clean break caused by a single cut, and the surrounding white jade bones were either missing or covered with cracks. It was not difficult to imagine that it was torn in half by the brute force of a great master.
Thousands of meters away, another bone mountain with a skull is clearly visible. Compared with normal snake bones, this bone mountain extends out at the seven-inch position, and the wing bones have distinct layers and can be clearly identified with the naked eye.
A white palace is located between two mountain ranges. It is quite far away and only a circular altar can be vaguely seen. Several ant-sized human figures are moving slowly.
[Side quest: destroy the Snake Dragon Cult, and be rewarded according to your contribution]
Lu Bei ignored the message and stared in shock at the Snake Bone Mountain that was broken into two pieces. His mind was in a trance, and his sight penetrated the endless void and saw a set of devastating scenes.
The sky was dark, the sun and the moon lost their radiance, all living things on earth were suffering, the pillars of heaven tilted, and all living things in the world were destroyed by a great war.
On the battlefield, there are demons roaring to the sky, gods and giants who create the world with one punch...
The Snake Bone Mountain in front of him was only the edge of the battlefield. A generation of demon gods were seriously injured and dying, and they manifested their ten thousand feet long body to perish together with the enemy. The sky broke open, and a pair of giant hands with boundless power pressed down, tearing the ten thousand feet long snake body into two pieces.
The snake's body fell from the sky, its hot blood scorched the earth, its tremendous force pierced through the world, and countless fragments collapsed. One of the fragments fell into the void with two pieces of bones.
"Gulp!"
Lu Bei swallowed his saliva, shook his head violently to sober up, and looked at Snake Bone Mountain again, realizing deeply that this was not the power that the cultivation world should have.
In the previous scenes, no matter who it was, even a random passerby, they had the terrifying ability to flatten the world.
"Could it be that the legendary fairyland collapsed due to internal strife, so..."
Lu Bei vaguely remembered that the letter left by his cheap master Mo Buxiu mentioned that the destiny had changed, and that Taoists, demons, and Buddhas could no longer seek immortality in the fairyland. Only demon cultivators still had a glimmer of hope.
Then Mo Buxiu changed his profession to a demon cultivator and died.
Thinking about the illusion that suddenly popped up in his mind just now, Lu Bei couldn't help but feel deeply sad. His cheap master was not good enough. His fairyland was shattered and he couldn't achieve immortality no matter what he practiced.
“Hiss, hiss, hiss—”
The golden-scaled snake looked at the Snake Bone Mountain from afar, wailing incessantly. She Xuan woke up from the shock, grabbed Lu Bei's hand, and said with a flushed face: "There is a blood soul fruit on the Bone Mountain. My chance has come."
"Blood Soul Fruit?"
Lu Bei tilted his head and looked towards Snake Bone Mountain. He vaguely saw leafless vines climbing up the spine and red fruits flickering.
"Sister She, calm down. The fruit is bright red and glows. You can tell it's not a real fruit. I advise you not to eat it carelessly." Lu Bei frowned. In order to prevent the fruit from falling into the human world and endangering people, he had to find a righteous man with trustworthy character to guard it strictly after wiping out the Snake Dragon Cult.
For example, himself.
"Don't push it. I know you're greedy now, but you're not greedy. Have you seen the ants over at Bone Mountain? There are quite a few disciples of the Snake Dragon Sect. To be safe, let's make a plan first..."
Lu Bei pondered for a moment and said, "How about this? You go to the altar and cause some damage, make some noise, and we'll make a feint to the east and attack in the west. After we're done, I'll give you one of the Blood Soul Fruits. What do you think?"
No one responded. Lu Bei turned around and saw that there was no one around. She Xuan had already disappeared.
"Alright, plan B is that I'll cover you and you rush over to attract hatred."