“This… Yu Li, didn't you already have some arrangements!” Ye Feng frowned slightly and asked.
“Mm!” Xue Yu Li nodded, pointing in one direction. “In that direction, I sensed some special water-attribute arcane energy, similar to what I sensed somewhere before. I plan to go and take a look!”
“And you? Are you continuing forward?” Xue Yu Li asked, pointing to the arcane pointer on Ye Feng's wrist.
“Let's go to the place you mentioned first then~!” Ye Feng replied after a brief moment of thought. Although the direction of the arcane pointer was not that way, he didn't want to rush. After all, the scenery along the journey was as important as the destination. Moreover, to be honest, he was quite curious about that mysterious ancient inscription divine monument…
“Si Shan, what about you?” Ye Feng then looked at Jiang Si Shan with a questioning gaze.
“I don't know. This damned place is unfamiliar. I'll follow you guys for now. If I act alone in a strange place, let alone finding people, dealing with danger would be difficult!”
“I don't know what else to say, but I feel like this place is strange, with an inexplicable sense of oppression and darkness!” Jiang Si Shan pondered for a moment before speaking. Actually, there was one thing Jiang Si Shan didn't say, and that was that this darkness felt strangely familiar, a chilling familiarity.
“Big brother, what happened to the monster we just saw? Why is it gone?”
“We were just sucked into the monster's mouth… but now it seems we're in a cave…”
At this moment, Xiao Xiao’s clear voice rang out. “And the terrain we're in is also very strange. Look at those sharp, pointed rocks arranged symmetrically, like big teeth!”
“Monster… teeth?” Following the direction Xiao Xiao pointed, after a careful look, Ye Feng's expression changed, and he quickly ran in one direction.
“Big brother, where are you going?” Seeing this, Xiao Xiao immediately followed. Xue Yu Li and Jiang Si Shan, after a moment of confusion, also looked astonished and quickly ran towards higher ground.
“This… this place is… the skeleton of a giant creature?” After a while, Ye Feng ran a considerable distance and looked down from a high point, his face filled with surprise. It turned out that the place they were in was not a cave, but the mouth of a giant creature’s skull. The large rocks that Xiao Xiao had described as teeth were indeed the monster's teeth. A portion of the giant creature's skull was within the super sandstorm. It seemed they had exited the super sandstorm through the skull of this giant creature…
“No wonder it suddenly went dark around us. It turns out the light was blocked by the skull!” Seeing this, Ye Feng suddenly understood.
“This giant skeleton… three heads… are there three monsters this big…” Xiao Xiao, panting, saw the scene below and couldn’t help but exclaim.
“It’s… it’s a Hellhound!”
“No wonder I felt a familiar sense of darkness just now…” At this moment, Jiang Si Shan’s voice, filled with horror, rang out. Fine beads of sweat had appeared on his forehead, and a trace of fear lingered in the depths of his eyes.
“Hellhound? What is that thing?” Ye Feng looked at Jiang Si Shan, puzzled.
“That giant skeleton with three heads, it's not three monsters, it's one, a monster called a Hellhound!”
“I’ve heard the elders talk about it before… but its size is incomparable to this behemoth before us!” Jiang Si Shan swallowed, looking at the giant skeleton below that was like a small mountain.
“Hellhound? Isn't that a legendary monster… said to be the guard dog of hell…”
“Hell… does such a thing truly exist in this world?” Xue Yu Li’s surprised voice chimed in.
“…The Hellhound is real… it was once the nightmare of countless people…”
“This creature has another name, Cerberus…”
“Honestly, I’ve seen Hellhound skeletons before… but the size… this skeleton is too outrageous…”
“What exactly is this place? Why did such a massive Hellhound exist here, and who killed it…?” Jiang Si Shan seemed to be talking to Ye Feng, or perhaps muttering to himself.
“Killed?” Ye Feng frowned slightly and pointed in one direction. “There’s a large hole in the giant skeleton. Could it be…”
“Hey, Si Shan!” Before Ye Feng could finish speaking, Jiang Si Shan used his wind wings and flew directly in the direction Ye Feng pointed.
“This…” Xue Yu Li looked at Ye Feng inquiringly.
“Let's go, let's go and see!” Ye Feng frowned slightly and made his decision. Something Jiang Si Shan had said earlier had caught Ye Feng’s attention: “Cerberus”! If he remembered correctly, when he met Ling Xi before, the burly dog-headed man who claimed to possess divine power was also called that name…
Following that, Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, and Xue Yu Li jogged towards Jiang Si Shan’s direction.
“This large hole, the cut is extremely smooth. It doesn't look like it was caused by natural decay. It should have been cut or pierced by some sharp weapon!” Xue Yu Li said after the three of them observed it.
“Si Shan, what's wrong? Do you have a grudge against this Hellhound?” Seeing Jiang Si Shan's grim expression and anxious demeanor, Ye Feng couldn't help but ask.
“Hellhounds… more than ten years ago, the City of Arcane was attacked by a few… several areas were turned into ruins… the casualties were heavy…” Jiang Si Shan said as he moved around and observed.
“Huh?” Suddenly, a metallic glint flashed past Ye Feng. He walked over curiously to investigate.
“This… how could…” Sweeping away a pile of dead leaves with his foot, Ye Feng was immediately astonished. The thing that had flashed was an Angel Blade, about a meter long and entirely silver-white. Without hesitation, Ye Feng picked up the Angel Blade.
“What the hell? How could an Angel Blade be discarded in a place like this?”
“Were there angels like Ling Xi here before?” Looking at the pair of familiar silver-white wings on the hilt of the Angel Blade, and the strange runes carved on it, Ye Feng muttered to himself.
“It’s Mei You and Bi Mao!” At this moment, Jiang Si Shan’s surprised voice rang out.
Ye Feng put away the Angel Blade and walked over to Jiang Si Shan, asking with surprise, “Mei You and Bi Mao? Those two guys are here too?”
“Mm!” Jiang Si Shan nodded. “I've checked. There are traces of human habitation here, and they haven't been gone for long~”
“Moreover, the campfire here contains traces of kerosene. This is Mei You's habit. It is said that his awakening of fire-attribute arcane energy is related to kerosene lamps, so wherever he goes, he always carries a kerosene lamp with him~!”
“Combined with the stone pedestal made from earth-attribute arcane energy next to the campfire… we can basically conclude it's the two of them!” Jiang Si Shan quickly explained to Ye Feng.
“Is that so…” Ye Feng nodded, understanding a little. He had always found it strange that Mei You carried a kerosene lamp, but now he knew the reason.
“Ye Feng, how is it? Are you planning to continue operating in this area, or…?” Xue Yu Li walked over at this moment. Although she didn't finish her sentence, Ye Feng understood what she meant. Xue Yu Li wanted to go to the place where there might be regenerating wood.
Ye Feng didn't answer immediately, but turned to look at Jiang Si Shan. “I’ll follow you guys. I don't know how Mei You and Bi Mao got in here~”
“And I don't know where they went now, so searching is out of the question!” Although Jiang Si Shan was anxious, especially about Mei You and Bi Mao's purpose in coming to this place where a giant Hellhound once existed, he chose to travel with Ye Feng and the others. This way, he could better understand the area and have someone to watch his back if danger arose.
Thus, Ye Feng and his companions once again set off in the direction where Xue Yu Li had sensed the special water-attribute arcane energy.
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