Journey to the head

The corpses of the blind snake clan were exposed in the corridor!
Lu Qian suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

I have been interacting with the Chen clan blind snakes for decades. This stone chamber and the winding passage have always been very secretive, and no other monsters have appeared. Now there are blind snake corpses exposed here, and no tribesman has restrained the blind snake tribe. What happened?
He gently brushed his palm across his eyebrows, and a white light lit up between his eyebrows. An endless stream of mental power surged out, like countless fine, tough, and endless spider silks, spurting out from the spider's belly.

Spell: Trace Net!

As soon as this spell was uttered, Lu Qian was like a spider sitting in a spider web waiting for its prey to come, and would not ignore the slightest movement coming from the web.

This is the first spell in "The Secret of Yin and Yang Magic" that Lu Qian learned the fastest.

Because before this spell, Lu Qian had already figured it out on his own, using the subtle manipulation of his spiritual consciousness to weave it into a dense network and detect the surrounding situation.

Now, this spell, the Tracking Web, is the advanced and mature version of the trick he figured out. It not only doubles the detection range, but can also detect extremely subtle clues within the range.

With Lu Qian’s soul strength approaching that of the late Nascent Soul stage, with the help of this spell, he could even expose some of the Yuanshen Xuanjun’s stealth techniques!

The situation was unclear, and he had to be cautious when he went deep into the cave alone. So Lu Qian continued to detect with his spells and moved forward past the skeletons.

The further I walked, the more frightened I became.

There were more and more blind snake skeletons in the passage, twisting and tangling together. At the same time, large and increasingly dense traces of battle began to appear on the corridors on both sides. Lu Qian carefully identified and explored with his spiritual sense, and found that these traces were surprisingly uniform, with some traces left by corrosion caused by suspected venom and poisonous clouds, and some traces of violent slapping and collision.

Judging from the traces of battle, the enemy that attacked the blind snake clan used a single method and was most likely a certain demon clan.

Could it be a centipede?
However, ever since the Chen family blind snake made a deal with their side, they obtained a large number of human creations, and their strength increased rapidly. It didn't take long before they completely defeated and expelled their old enemy, the centipede clan.

Lu Qian stopped in front of several entangled blind snake skeletons. Looking at the state of the corpses, he found that they were torn into pieces and died together!
Considering that the traces of battle on the cave wall are internal strife among the Chen clan blind snakes?

He did not linger for long and moved quickly among the increasing piles of corpses. After making sure that there were no living creatures in the huge stone chamber ahead, he slipped into it.

What comes into view is a mountain of bones!
The corpses of at least hundreds of blind snakes were piled here, reaching the top of the stone chamber which was dozens of feet high.

These corpses are big and small. The largest one is like a small hill, coiled in the middle of the stone chamber, and you can still vaguely see its hideous appearance back then.

Lu Qian measured its size, compared it with his memory, and murmured in a low voice: "Elder Chen Gu."

In all likelihood, he is the leading elder of the Chen clan's blind snake branch, the Nascent Soul Blind Snake Chen Gu!

At this moment, Lu Qian noticed that there was a series of deep scratches on the side wall of the stone chamber, which was almost buried by the bones of the blind snake.

Lu Qianqing opened a pile of bones and saw several lines of strange, rough and ferocious characters deeply engraved on the stone wall.

This is demon writing, the writing of the underground demon tribe. It is said to have been invented by the fifth Lord of Heaven, the Infinite and Infinite Hou Tu, in order to gather the strength of the hundreds of clans underground and allow the demons of different races and with many internal conflicts to establish a collective identity.

Fortunately, after decades of trading with the blind snake clan, Lu Qian also learned a lot and can now recognize it.

He whispered, "The Chen clan has colluded with the human race, and their crime is unforgivable. The Qing clan wiped out this branch and took away their saint daughter. The corpse is exposed here to show that we, the Qing clan, swear to be loyal to the Fifth Heavenly Monarch and obey the orders of the Demon Master until death!"

"At the same time, warn other ethnic groups that anyone who dares to collude with humans will be killed without mercy!"

"The day when we return to the surface is not far away. The glory of all races is before our eyes. Try your best! Try your best!"

Lu Qian took a deep breath.

It turned out that it was not a civil war among the Chen clan blind snakes, but a war between the Qing clan blind snakes and the Chen clan blind snakes!

During the transaction with the Qing family, Lu Qian also heard of the name of this blind snake.

The blind snake clan has a long history. During the war between true immortals, the Fifth Heavenly Monarch lured some of the snakes under the command of the True Dragon Lord to turn against him and join his side in order to weaken his power. They have been multiplying underground for tens of thousands of years and have been here ever since.

The Blind Snake Clan is a very powerful clan among the hundreds of clans underground, and has several people who have reached the Void Refining stage.

There are more than a dozen clans within the tribe, and the Chen clan is the weakest among them, so they have no fixed territory and make a living by hunting. They have been wandering around the outskirts of the underground demon country, collecting spiritual objects along the earth veins in exchange for resources for the development of the tribe.

Apart from accidentally picking up Ji Yunrou, who was a descendant of the Ancestral Snake, and getting a saint, he actually did not have any outstanding performance.

The blind snake of the Qing clan is much stronger than that of the Chen clan. The elder's cultivation has reached the level of Yuanshen, and there are several Yuanying snake monsters.

Lu Qian's gaze lingered on these lines of strange writing for a long time.

To collude with the human race is an unforgivable sin.
The transaction between Blind Snake Chen and himself was discovered? The actual situation was that Blind Snake Chen did not make a big show of this transaction, but it was not particularly secretive either.

Because after Chen Clan obtained various human creations from Lu Qian, except for some for their own use, they took out the rest to trade with other demon clans. Therefore, Chen Clan had channels to trade with the human clan, which was a fact that could not be concealed.

But in the past, the underground tribes didn't care about this! Otherwise, Chen Clan wouldn't easily agree to trade with them. Or in other words, at that time, the underground tribes were allowed to communicate with the human race to a certain extent.

In addition to the Chen clan, there are also some demon tribes that have established private cooperation with the human race to strengthen their own power.

But in recent decades, the wind direction has suddenly changed!
So much so that the Chen family, which had stopped trading due to Lu Qian's disappearance, was actually exterminated by the Qing family on the charge of "colluding with the human race"!

At the same time, the hundreds of underground races, changing their previous practice of low-key reproduction and hiding themselves to the point that most human cultivators had forgotten their existence, began to frequently invade the surface, and even recently directly occupied eight states.

I'm afraid something huge has happened in the underground demon kingdom!
Swear to be loyal to the Fifth Heavenly Lord and obey the orders of the Demon Master.
Is this the action of the Infinite and Infinite Lord Hou Tu? What kind of existence is the so-called demon master?

There is also "The day when we return to the surface of the earth is not far away, and the glory of all races is before our eyes."

I'm afraid that the conquest of Taiyi Paradise this time will not be so easy!

Lu Qian was shocked and kept the matter in mind, preparing to report it to Taiyi Paradise immediately after he got out.

The blind snake of the Chen family was killed because of trading with him, but his relationship with the blind snake of the Chen family had made him meritorious services in the Yunshan Sect many times. Especially after yesterday's banquet, Lu Qian was absolutely sure that he would not be blamed, but would be praised for his unreserved efforts.

Then, these eight words were written: "Destroy this branch and take away its saint girl."

Ji Yunrou, was kidnapped by the Qing clan blind snake? Lu Qian stood among the bones for a moment and sighed.

The deep underground was a completely unfamiliar world. The underground demon kingdom was so huge, and it was completely dark. How could one search for it? Besides, there were so many masters from hundreds of tribes underground, and now they dared to challenge Taiyi Paradise. How could a small Yuanying like me go deep into it?

Even if he could bring the Qing clan's blind snakes to his front now, he wouldn't have the strength to rescue her from the Qing clan.

But why do we need to save him?

Ji Yunrou degenerated the true blood of the True Dragon Lord and achieved the body of a holy snake. She was the descendant of the ancestor snake and stood at the pinnacle of snake bloodline.

If the blind snake of the Qing family kidnapped a saint like this, he would just worship her.

Let’s talk about Ji Yunrou, that enchanting and charming woman.

Even Lu Qian could not resist her scheming and could not tell what was true and what was false. Even those affectionate expressions might just be her tools to navigate the world.

No matter which branch she lives in, she can live a prosperous life.

If the Qing family is similar to the Chen family, with both people being straightforward and simple-minded, and if they snatch the saint Ji Yunrou away, the one to worry about is not Ji Yunrou, but the Qing family.

See you again in five hundred years.
Ji Yunrou, judging from the dynamics of the hundreds of clans underground, perhaps our meeting will be earlier than expected. I hope there will be some surprises by then.

Also, the Chen clan's blind snake clan was exterminated because of me. Decades of trade with the Chen clan has benefited the Yunshan sect a lot, and I have also forged a friendship with Elder Chen Gu and others.

If I have the chance in the future, I will definitely avenge them!
Lu Qian calmed down, thought about it, and decided to go deeper to see if there were any other clues.

Lu Qian followed the winding corridors on the stone wall and moved forward for a while, and suddenly the view in front of him became clear.

An extremely huge space appeared before my eyes, and I couldn't even see the top rock layer at a glance. Of course, there were no sun, moon, or stars in the sky, only strange insect swarms and vegetation attached to the rock walls and the surface, emitting colorful and faint fluorescence, and large areas of exposed minerals, gold and jade flashing with brilliance, adding a dark color to this underground world.

This is the real deep underground, and ordinary human cultivators would never notice this world. Over tens of thousands of years, the erosion of water, the rise and fall of the earth veins, and the shaping of underground creatures have formed high and low, one strange terrain after another.

There are also hillsides, rift valleys, raised earth veins, and turbulent underground rapids.

Only when you get here can you say that you have truly stepped into the underground world.

On the land in front of him, there was a large forest of stalactites, high and low. This was where the Chen clan blind snake and the centipede tribe fought.

Lu Qian maintained the "Tracing Silk Net" and flew forward quickly, close to the ground. There were also some corpses of blind snakes among the stone forest, but they were slowly decreasing. Wherever he passed, many small beasts and strange insects on the ground that had not yet been transformed into demons fled in all directions, and the rustling sounds broke the silence.

In the darkness, many pairs of red and green eyes opened.

But apart from these mindless underground beasts and some old traces of battles, Lu Qian did not find anything special.

He hesitated for a moment and continued forward.

After passing through a large stalactite forest, we found a crack on the cliff. After walking for a hundred miles, the already dim light in front of us suddenly disappeared, leaving only pure darkness.

This is the farthest place Lu Qian has ever been to during his trade with the Chen family. It was once the nest of the centipede clan.

Cold and dark abyss.

It is desolate and cold here, and the bottom of the abyss is unseen. Even the luminous moss that was very common on the way here is basically extinct here.

The only saving grace is that perhaps somewhere in the abyss there is a third-level underground spiritual vein that can be used for the demon clan to practice.

Looking at this pitch-black abyss, it felt like a huge mouth that wanted to devour people.

Lu Qian stopped. He still didn't find anything here. Going deeper into it was a completely unfamiliar area and it was getting more and more dangerous.

Besides, after searching all the way here, Lu Qian didn't have much mental power left, so he decided to give up and turn around and leave.

But at this moment, the tracking net that had already penetrated into the abyss suddenly shook slightly!
Something is rising from the abyss!
Lu Qian dodged and released his invisible incarnation while covering his entire body with mental power, restraining all his breath and spiritual pressure. He then used the earth escape technique and hid himself under a large rock.

His main body closed his eyes and remained motionless, only controlling the invisible cloud incarnation that could gather and disperse at will, be invisible and invisible, and pass through walls and obstacles to blend into the rock wall on the other side, carefully observing the movements in the abyss.

Just as he finished all this, he heard the sound of limbs sliding. Dozens of monsters with long, winding bodies, covered with scales, and densely packed limbs under their bellies climbed up from the abyss!
Their mouths were full of fangs, and a pair of large teeth protruded from their mouths, some of which were gleaming with cold light and making crackling sounds, or were of strange colors and surging with venom. Lu Qian recognized them at a glance, they were centipedes!
Weren't they defeated and driven away by Chen's blind snake a long time ago? Could it be that they knew Chen was dead, so they moved back?

Leading the swarm of insects was the Yuanying centipede that had fought against Chen Gu before. It was a hundred feet long and covered with silver light.

But where it should have had a pair of huge fangs, there was only one fang left, and its aura was weak, as if its origin had been damaged and could not be fully recovered.

This is exactly what was left when Chen Gu defeated it. It almost escaped with its life, but now it has returned with the remaining members of its tribe?
Where are they going?

The cloud incarnation observed carefully and saw the Yuanying centipede turned around and shouted loudly to the tribesmen behind it, whose cultivation levels varied, with the highest being only two Jindan demon insects.

"Speed ​​up, boys!"

"General Banshan has called for a conscription. The military situation is urgent. The army will be assembled and will be dispatched soon. This is a good opportunity for us to revitalize our race!"

The swarm of insects hissed. A golden elixir insect demon also encouraged the morale: "General Banshan still remembers us, that is our honor! As long as we can gain credit in the attack on Cangzhou, we can completely leave this desolate Hanming Abyss!"

The swarm of insects was very excited and gathered around the Yuanying centipede and was about to leave.

The swarm of insects moved their densely packed limbs and rushed forward, but the route they chose was very close to where Lu Qian was hiding.

Such a coincidence?
Lu Qian was still shocked by their statement of attacking Cangzhou, and now he suddenly became nervous, but he still remained hidden. He thought to himself that these insect monsters could not find him with their cultivation level, so he would send out his avatar to follow them and test their strength first.

The Yuanying centipede rushed past him like the wind, and the other insect monsters followed.

But just when Lu Qian was about to relax, dense beams of light suddenly burst out from the centipede, smashing the boulder where Lu Qian was hiding!
"I've caught you, human monk!" (End of this chapter)