"Shall we flip a coin to decide?" Wan Yunting joked.
Ye Qianqian immediately rolled her eyes and pointed to the cave on her left. "I'll go this way first!"
"Then I'll go this way!" Zhang Xian'er pointed to the right.
Zhou Ruoxi also chose the right side. Chen Qiuyun said nothing, always following the man's lead.
"Two to one, so this way it is," Wan Yunting said with a smile, also pointing to the right.
"Tch." Ye Qianqian rolled her eyes and could only follow behind Wan Yunting and the others.
"I chose this way because my intuition told me we could find the old site of your Demonic Cult here!" Wan Yunting turned back and explained with a smile, but Ye Qianqian didn't care. She walked ahead with her flashlight and grumbled, "Whatever, you guys have the numbers anyway..."
"That's right, you can't argue with that." Zhang Xian'er seemed to dislike Ye Qianqian and wanted to retort in every sentence.
But Ye Qianqian glanced back at her, not bothering to argue further. She shone her flashlight into the dark cave. Wan Yunting raised an eyebrow; he seemed to smell an unusual danger. "Be careful, everyone, it's not safe in here!"
"What do you mean?" Ye Qianqian immediately turned back, shining her flashlight on Wan Yunting's face and asked with a smile, "Are you saying there are ghosts?"
Wan Yunting took her flashlight and said, "Ghosts? I mean other things..."
Ye Qianqian continued walking and said with a smile, "This is the old site of our Demonic Cult, and it's been so many years. What could possibly be here?"
Wan Yunting shook his head and warned again, "In any case, be careful..."
Zhou Ruoxi and Chen Qiuyun nodded. Although Ye Qianqian said that, she also became more vigilant, holding her flashlight and continuing to explore the mysterious cave...
Outside, it was already late at night. The various sects encamped in the valley were attacked by scouts from the Heaven's Eye Main God Cult, forcing them to press further into the mountains under the cover of darkness. Finally, they also reached Mount Mo!
"Master, hurry! There are tents ahead!" Xian Yun spotted two tents under the leeward rock face. Zhong Yulong and the others hurried over. Liu Bing said, "It looks like Wan Yunting and his group!"
"Everyone, come quickly, there's a crack here!" Soon, they also discovered the entrance to the ice crevice. Zhong Yulong and Abbot Renxin exchanged glances. Needless to say, Wan Yunting and his group must have entered.
"Everyone, descend in an orderly fashion..." The people from the various sects also descended one after another...
About forty minutes later, the people from the Heaven's Eye Main God Cult also arrived and discovered the ice crevice entrance. Without a word, the Main God led his followers down...
"Why isn't it ending yet?" At this moment, Wan Yunting, Zhou Ruoxi, Chen Qiuyun, Zhang Xian'er, and Ye Qianqian were still walking in the dark, original stone cave. Looking at the stone walls, a natural cave, they had been walking for about half an hour. Although their pace was slow, it still hadn't reached the end...
"Hmm, what's that smell?" Suddenly, Ye Qianqian caught a very foul odor.
"It stinks..." Zhang Xian'er and Chen Qiuyun also smelled it and covered their noses...
"Bad, there's something!" Suddenly, Wan Yunting turned around. His keen hearing picked up a scraping sound from the cave behind them, as if some animal's claws were scratching the stone walls...
Ye Qianqian and Zhou Ruoxi immediately tensed up, drawing their long swords and becoming alert. They looked back into the dark cave, shining their flashlights, but saw nothing. They wondered, "Are you sure there's something?"
"Ah...!" Suddenly, Zhang Xian'er cried out. In the dim light of the flashlight, she saw a huge creature appear, resembling a rat, but extremely large, as if it were about to fill the entire cave...
"What... what is this thing?" Zhou Ruoxi and Chen Qiuyun's eyes widened in shock...
Under the illumination of the flashlights, this large, rat-like creature was covered in ice-blue fur. In particular, its pair of round blue eyes emitted a faint glow, and its front paws had long claws...
Wan Yunting looked at the claw marks on the stone wall and instantly understood. It turned out these were the creature's claw marks! "It seems this cave might not be the old site of your Demonic Cult, but a passage for this beast!" Wan Yunting raised an eyebrow and looked at this unnameable creature, realizing that this cave might be its passage...
"Ah, what do we do?" Ye Qianqian became nervous. She looked at this ice-blue creature, but it seemed to fear the light. The flashlight shining on it made it hesitant to approach. It kept sniffing, as if testing something.
"You all retreat, I'll handle it..." Wan Yunting immediately pulled Zhou Ruoxi and Zhang Xian'er back. Although he didn't know what this creature was, they couldn't just wait to die...
This creature, as large as an adult bull, stared at Wan Yunting with its big blue eyes. It sniffed with its long nose, then suddenly opened its mouth, revealing two long teeth similar to a rat's incisors, and let out a hoarse sound...
"Be careful...!" Seeing the creature suddenly attack, Zhou Ruoxi and Chen Qiuyun cried out in alarm...
*Shua!*
Wan Yunting drew his Gentleman Sword without hesitation and sent a blast of sword energy towards it...
*Hiss...!*
The creature let out a pained scream as Wan Yunting's sword energy struck its face. Blood sprayed out instantly, causing it to cry out and roll around in place. It then turned its head, roared at Wan Yunting, its blue fur bristling. The claws on its front legs scratched rapidly on the ground, kicking up sparks...
Instantly, the creature attacked again, its speed incredibly fast...
"You retreat quickly!" With a shout from Wan Yunting, he met the creature with his sword. The Gentleman Sword, forged from meteorite and infused with internal energy, unleashed another "River Bank Slash"...
*Pfft!*
One of the creature's front legs was hit by the sword aura, spurting blood. It screamed and swung its other claw at Wan Yunting...
*Clang!*
The hard, white claw collided with Wan Yunting's Gentleman Sword, actually flashing sparks and making a metallic clang. It was clear how hard the creature's claws were...
"Yunting..." Seeing Wan Yunting slide under the creature with a slip, Zhou Ruoxi, worried, immediately drew her Lady Sword and actively attacked the creature, drawing its attention...
"Be careful, Ruoxi..." Wan Yunting, getting back up, shouted. While Zhou Ruoxi was directly confronting the creature, he leaped onto its back from behind and plunged his sword down fiercely...
*Hiss...!*
The creature screamed...
In front, Zhou Ruoxi struck steadily, slashing her Lady Sword fiercely towards its nose...
In pain, the creature began to roll. Wan Yunting pulled his sword out and flew away, grabbing Zhou Ruoxi and retreating as they landed...
Knowing it was no match, the creature got up, glared ferociously at Wan Yunting and Zhou Ruoxi, and then turned and hobbled away quickly...
"Phew, what on earth was that?" Zhang Xian'er breathed a sigh of relief and asked after it escaped.
"I don't know, I've never seen anything like it." Wan Yunting and Zhou Ruoxi shook their heads; even Ye Qianqian was clueless.
"It's injured, it shouldn't attack us again, right?" Chen Qiuyun said.
But Wan Yunting frowned. The next moment, his eyes widened, and he pulled Zhou Ruoxi and Chen Qiuyun, immediately saying to Ye Qianqian and Zhang Xian'er, "Run, it's calling for its companions!"
"Ah..." Zhang Xian'er and Ye Qianqian were shocked and immediately followed Wan Yunting and Zhou Ruoxi, continuing to run down the cave passage...
The next second, the sound of claws scratching stone walls grew louder. It turned out there was more than one of these creatures, but many...
"Quick..." Wan Yunting was anxious. He heard the commotion and knew this was the creatures' nest, so he grabbed Zhou Ruoxi and Chen Qiuyun, shouting for Zhang Xian'er and Ye Qianqian to run at full speed...
After running for an unknown distance, a bottomless abyss suddenly appeared ahead. Wan Yunting immediately braked, and everyone stopped precariously, almost falling into the abyss...
"There's a path on the other side!" Ye Qianqian shone her flashlight into the abyss and found three pillars standing over it, each about twenty meters apart...
"Can you do it?" Wan Yunting turned to Ye Qianqian and Zhou Ruoxi.
"No problem, I'll go first..." Saying that, Ye Qianqian took a few steps back, then sprinted with all her might, flying through the air...
In the vast space, Ye Qianqian, holding her flashlight, leaped through the air and finally landed steadily on the first stone pillar. However, the pillar was only three meters in diameter, and she had used a bit too much force, slipping and almost falling off...
"Careful...!" Seeing this, Wan Yunting and the others' hearts tightened. Fortunately, Ye Qianqian grabbed the stone wall and managed to climb back up with a leap. She couldn't help but sigh in relief and shouted, "You guys hurry up and come over..."
Zhou Ruoxi and Zhang Xian'er nodded, leaping over at the same time and being caught by Ye Qianqian and landing steadily...
"Sister Qiuyun, I've got you..." Wan Yunting grabbed Chen Qiuyun, pushed off with his foot, and the two of them flew over. Without needing Zhou Ruoxi and the others to catch them, they landed steadily on the first stone pillar...
The next moment, they saw several blue-furred creatures pouring out from the cave entrance. They couldn't stop and several of them fell directly into the abyss, hitting the ground with a thud after a few seconds...