Si Qing was about to use her magic to create a clone and enter the demon cave when a tremor suddenly came from beneath it.
Immediately after, a human skeleton was blown up by a demonic wind, then crashed to the ground with a bang, scattering everywhere.
Screams of hysteria erupted from the surrounding people.
Qi Yu reached out to block a skull that was flying towards Si Qing, her brows furrowed. The next moment, she immediately changed her mind and said to Si Qing, "No, I can't let you go alone. We have to go together."
As she said this, her gaze fell upon the ordinary people crying and screaming around them, and she felt a pang in her heart.
These people's loved ones were destined not to return.
And they still didn't know what was inside the demon cave.
Si Qing said no more. After nodding in agreement, he and Qi Yu summoned their clones and jumped into the demon cave.
When Qi Yu jumped in, she was mentally prepared. She activated the power of her magic artifact to its maximum and slowly slid down into the abyss.
However, she never expected the demon cave to be deeper than she had imagined, so deep that it was terrifying.
Qi Yu stood on her magic artifact and calculated the time. It had been about half an hour, and she and Si Qing were still falling.
"How deep is this place?" Si Qing said, trying to pierce the rock wall with his dagger.
The sound of the blade scraping against the rock was piercing.
Qi Yu's brows were tightly furrowed, but she didn't stop him.
Only when Si Qing stopped did Qi Yu ask in a deep voice, "Did your dagger turn black with demonic energy after touching the rock?"
Si Qing shone a spiritual light on it.
The blade of the dagger was already covered in demonic energy, and the entire blade was black.
Si Qing nodded, "Yes, but only a small part of the blade turned black. The area that turned black is not large."
Qi Yu looked down at the abyss that seemed to have no end. "The area of the dagger that turned black is not large, which proves that the demonic energy here is not yet too dense. We'll probably be falling for a while longer."
Because as the intensity of the demonic energy changed, the moment the demonic energy in the rock layer could completely blacken the entire dagger, that would be their destination.
Si Qing nodded, then a hint of doubt arose in his heart. "But I didn't detect any human-related aura while falling. This is very abnormal."
When the demon cave appeared, more than half of the village was swallowed, at least several hundred people. These hundreds of people had fallen into this big pit, and there should have been collisions and the smell of human blood during the fall.
But after falling for so long, he hadn't sensed anything.
"This is indeed a bit strange. We clearly saw human remains being spat out," Qi Yu said, her brows furrowed. As she spoke, her peripheral vision flashed, and she seemed to see something. Her fingernails turned into sharp blades, and she dug fiercely into the rock layer.
The magic artifact that was constantly falling was forced to stop.
Si Qing looked at Qi Yu, a hint of confusion in his eyes. "Sister, did you find something? Why did we stop suddenly?"
"We've reached the bottom," Qi Yu said, looking down at the surging demonic energy. "This is a demon spring barrier. It looks like a dense mist of demons, but in reality, it's all a barrier below. If we break through from here and jump in, we should reach our destination."
As Qi Yu said this, she pulled her hand out of the rock crevice, and with her sharp fingernails stained black by demonic energy, she let out a hiss and tore open the demon spring barrier.
Instantly, the dense demonic energy was split in two.
Qi Yu pulled Si Qing into the barrier.
The strong demonic energy around them was like a pair of large hands covering their eyes, making it impossible for them to see their surroundings.
When their vision cleared, Qi Yu and Si Qing found themselves in a dark place filled with strange demonic eggs.
A person with long black hair reaching their waist, whose appearance and gender were indistinguishable, was lying on top of those demonic eggs, whether dead or alive was unknown.
"...What are these things? They look like cocoons," Si Qing said with a look of disgust, furrowing his brows. To satisfy his curiosity, he used his dagger to cut open one of the cocoons as he spoke.
Qi Yu was prepared for the flow of foul-smelling liquid, but there was none.
When the cocoon-like demonic egg was cut open by the dagger, it was actually empty inside.
There was no demonic energy, nor any demon cubs, just a brittle, empty shell.
Qi Yu pondered and guessed, "Is it possible that these eggs were left behind by the previous alien beasts? Even though they all died, because we didn't clean them up properly, these remnants were left behind."
Si Qing looked at the person lying on the demonic eggs, whose gender was unclear. "These cocoon-like things might have been left behind from last time, but this person is not. If he were just an ordinary human, he would have died long ago. If he were a demon, why wouldn't he be fighting Feng Yun Zui and Feng Si Qian for the demon territory and come here?"
Moreover, the demonic energy in this pit was not pure. It was not ordinary demonic energy; more than half of it was malevolent energy.
The possibility of this person being a pure demon was not high.
With this doubt, Qi Yu and Si Qing created more clones to test.
One of the clones, finding that the person lying on the demonic eggs showed no reaction, confidently picked him up and forcibly brought him before Qi Yu and Si Qing.
Qi Yu bent down and lifted the person's hair, carefully examining his appearance.
Upon seeing his face, she was immediately startled.
"Isn't this... Feng Mian?"
"Why is Feng Mian in a place like this?" Si Qing asked, reaching out to pinch Feng Mian's chin. After carefully testing the temperature of his neck, he couldn't help but become more vigilant. "Feng Mian is not dead. Judging by his condition, he is still alive, but all the demonic energy in his body has been absorbed, which is why he is unconscious."
Hearing this, Qi Yu suddenly looked up as if she had realized something. She quickly ran back to where she had found Feng Mian and tested the demonic eggs that had been placed there.
As expected, the demonic eggs there were all mature, and unlike the empty shells they had found before, these demonic eggs contained very abundant demonic power.
"Put him back," Qi Yu decided immediately. She pulled Si Qing back a few steps, letting the clone put Feng Mian back onto the demonic eggs, then pulled Si Qing and ran towards a corner.
After running over, she immediately withdrew the clone spell, concealed her figure, and hid herself using the surrounding demonic energy.
Si Qing looked at Qi Yu, not yet understanding her intention, when a loud rumbling sound suddenly came from not far away.
Immediately after, a pair of high-heeled feet slowly stepped in.