The end of the world: mountain and sea disasters

The gods that once slept deep in the caverns disappeared.

The sudden appearance of Zhong Ling's dirty blood containing divine power in the junction area is no coincidence!

What's more important is that Zhong Ling's dirty blood is a contaminated existence in the description of checking for leaks and filling gaps, and it is infecting the ferocious beasts in the junction area.

Although no catastrophic events have occurred yet, recent experiences have made Yu Ke particularly sensitive to such anomalies.

His instinct told him that if he allowed this situation to continue, it would lead to disaster sooner or later.

To figure out what kind of existence Zhong Ling's dirty blood is, the place where the god sleeps deep in the cave is Yu Ke's only clue at the moment.

Using the characteristics of Fubo to control the water flow, Yu Ke's figure continued to rise until he broke out of the water.

Make a habit of turning on the lights and cameras on both sides of the helmet.

The will of the forest spirit turned into dark green fluorescence and flew out carrying the seeds of the lantern flower, preparing to illuminate the area.

Yu Ke looked around and noticed that this should be an underground cave, and it was not small in size. It was at least half the size of the Black Copper Mine. Many jagged stalagmites protruding from the underground river could be seen nearby.

Walking slowly forward on the water, Yu Ke quickly noticed the giant stone pillar soaked in the water in front of him on the left. The overall scale was larger than what he had seen in the black copper vein. It was just broken and scattered in various directions. Stalagmite surroundings.

There is only a small part, and the rest should have sunk into the underground river.

Such an obvious man-made structure made Yu Ke wonder if this was a place similar to the Forest Temple.

Just as he was about to ask the forest spirit whether those people had built other temples deep in the Jinghu Forest back then, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a ferocious beast lurking in the darkness from the corner of his eye!

Yu Ke, who maintained a high degree of vigilance, immediately entered a fighting state. He took the black thorn longbow and bent the bow to kill it first. However, it did not move until the arrow shot out and penetrated the head of the ferocious beast. .

The scattered perceptions confirmed that there was no life in that area.

Lantern flowers take root and sprout on the stalagmites, and the light blue light disperses the shadows.

Only then did Yu Ke realize that the ferocious beast that seemed to be about to launch an attack was staying in place, with a thick layer of dust on its colorful fur. At first glance, it looked like a lifelike statue.

As the lantern flowers bloomed one after another in the surrounding area, bringing light, a large number of similar existences came into Yu Ke's eyes.

There are actually a large number of ferocious beasts gathered in this cave, and without exception, they are all frozen in place. Even if they are of different races and shapes, their bodies are full of lifelessness, which makes people feel chills running down their spines.

Quite a few of them looked very familiar to Yu Ke. He had hunted them himself when he was hunting in the secret realm of the cave not long ago.

After all, this is a burrow cave hundreds of meters above the ground, and the only animals that can appear here are ferocious beasts from the secret realm of the burrow.

Looking back and forth, Yu Ke walked to the nearest corpse of the ferocious beast, originally trying to figure out why they appeared here in a state similar to "specimens."

As a result, as soon as I got closer, I saw the cracks on its back.

Because the distance was close enough, the helmet light was projected on the back of the ferocious beast. Yu Ke was surprised to find a crack about half a finger wide extending from its skull to the tail vertebra. Looking down from a high position, he could see that the flesh and blood in the body was missing. .

Seeing this scene, Yu Ke immediately checked several other ferocious beasts nearby. Without exception, they were all empty shells.

No wonder none of these ferocious beasts can move. It turns out that their bones, flesh, and internal organs have long been hollowed out!

The first thing Yu Ke thought of was the Soul-Eating Insect that had caught his attention.

Although the soul-eating insects target the souls of fierce and ferocious beasts, they are only split parts of the main body.

Through the detection of leakage and filling characteristics and subsequent tracking, it is enough to prove that the body of the soul-eating worm is in this cave.

The forest spirits patrolling nearby have not sent out warning messages yet, and it is obvious that the soul-eating insect has already left.

'If they are just used as food, there is no need to cut their backs open, even the skeleton. This does not look like simple eating.'

Yu Ke, who noticed the abnormality, stretched out his hand to open the crack and let the light shine in for better observation.

The light spread through the empty shell of dark red flesh and blood, and Yu Ke saw some viscous liquid in it, as well as brown carapace fragments that looked out of place scattered among the flesh and blood.

Just as Yu Ke pulled out the dragon tooth dagger, he wanted to take out the fragments for further observation.

The dark environment ahead suddenly bloomed with green light.

The forest spirit that discovered the key clue reminded Yu Ke in this way. When the latter turned his attention to its location, lantern flowers bloomed in large numbers, illuminating the area that was originally shrouded in darkness.

Only then did Yu Ke discover that the cave was not entirely filled with pools of water. There was also a piece of land close to the inside that was nearly the size of a football field.

Looking around, the ground is full of ruins formed by the collapse of buildings. Bricks and tiles are scattered all over the ground. In the center of the ruins, stands a mysterious statue about five meters high with the head of a dragon and the body of a horse.

Its presence was extremely strong, and from the moment he noticed it, Yu Ke could no longer take his eyes away.

This statue gave Yu Ke the same feeling as the bronze statue of the forest spirit in the temple. Coupled with its location and size, it was obviously the core of the entire cave.

Not only that, after returning from Shanqing City, Yu Ke often used the Mirror of Fantasy to visualize the dragon. In the process, his familiarity with the dragon's power continued to increase, and on the statue in front of him, he I sensed a similar dragon power.

"The aura of the god remains in the statue. It was sleeping in this statue before."

The forest spirit returned to Yu Ke and gave out the information he had just obtained.

"I can feel the specialness of this statue. Since they are all gods in Jinghu Forest, do you recognize it?"

Yu Ke stepped onto the land and walked towards the statue of the god with the head of a dragon and a body of a horse. He couldn't help but ask,

"Or is the smell here related to the dirty blood of Zhong Ling we found in the Banyan Tree District?"

"I don't know. In the era I live in, I should be the only god in the Jinghu Forest. Maybe I have forgotten some memories and I have no impression of it. However, I can feel that some of the divine power remains inside the statue, and it has not completely disappeared. It didn’t fall, it was killed.”

The messy word order reveals that the forest spirit is now at a loss. The fragments of divine power have been plundered, making it inevitably weakened in all directions. It can only try its best to perceive, and then pass on the obtained information to Yu Ke.

The gods were killed and some of their energy remained?

Capturing the key information revealed by the forest spirit, Yu Ke hurriedly speeded up his pace and at the same time connected the information obtained at this stage in his mind.

Although it is unclear which god the dragon-headed and horse-body statue represents, based on the situation in the cave and the clues given by the forest spirit, Yu Ke speculated that uninvited guests invaded the cave while the gods were sleeping.

This uninvited guest is most likely the soul-eating insect itself.

With the help of the special environment of the secret realm of the cave, it constantly uses soul-eating insects to plunder the soul energy of ferocious beasts, devouring flesh and blood to accumulate strength.

In the end, he turned against the guest and not only succeeded in killing the sleeping god, but also robbed its divine power, causing Zhong Ling's dirty blood to appear at the junction.

This is the most reasonable explanation that Yu Ke can think of.

The fine cracks all over the surface of the dragon-headed and horse-body statue are the best proof, especially there is a dark hollow between the eyebrows of the statue, as if something has come out of it.

"Can you help me draw out its remaining divine power?"

Yu Ke stood under the statue and asked again. He wanted to use this part of his divine power to obtain more information.

"It's inside the statue. It's integrated with the statue. I can't peel them off."

It was obviously not easy to obtain the divine power that even the Soul-Eating Insects that invaded this place could not take away. Yu Ke could only step forward and reach out to the statue, trying to obtain information by relying on the characteristics of detecting and filling gaps.

What was unexpected was the moment Yu Ke put his palm on the statue.

His whole body seemed to be subject to a restraining spell, and he suddenly froze in place. The forest spirit floating next to him wanted to take a closer look, but was bounced away by an invisible force.

The next second, a low dragon roar began to echo in the cave.

The khaki air flow gathered from the rock walls on all sides of the cave and surrounded Yu Ke.