Chapter 721
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A *thud* sounded, and the air was filled with the stench of blood.
Xu Wen’s bald head was splattered with the remains of the creature’s innards.
“Whoa!” Xu Wen spun around, his entire body going cold.
A python, nearly three zhang in length, was staring at him with its neck stretched out. However, its neck was dripping with blood, clearly the result of Ye Wushuang’s earlier sword strike.
“Frost Demon Snake!”
Xu Wen immediately condensed his Tian Gang Qi, and then looked at Ye Wushuang with gratitude, “Brother Ye, thank you for saving me.”
“Don’t thank me yet!” Ye Wushuang, however, was looking at the vast passage.
At this moment, the originally bare stone walls on both sides and above the passage had somehow developed holes the size of a human head. From these holes, Frost Demon Snakes were sticking their heads out, their eyes emitting an eerie green glow as they stared at the two men.
At a glance, there were at least a hundred of them.
“Damn it!” Xu Wen’s body stiffened.
The Frost Demon Snake is a third-stage spiritual beast, albeit one of the weakest in its category. However, these creatures are known for their communal living habits. Even as the weakest of the third-stage spiritual beasts, they are equivalent to the first level of the Tian Gang Realm. With dozens, if not hundreds, of them…
They could tear the two men into shreds.
Xu Wen finally understood how the people from Chi Yu Tian, Du Mingyue, and Feng Chengyu had met their end earlier!
*Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…*
One by one, the three-zhang-long, thick-necked Frost Demon Snakes lunged at them. At the same time, the snakes spewed out ice spikes condensed from spiritual energy from their mouths, carrying a bone-chilling cold as they attacked.
Ye Wushuang swung his sword and struck out. Xu Wen also unleashed a palm strike.
*Boom, boom, boom…*
The passage was filled with the sound of explosions.
Soon, several Frost Demon Snakes were slain by the two men. However, more and more of the snakes were gathering.
“Ye Wushuang, let’s run!” Xu Wen’s body was covered in the blood and innards of the Frost Demon Snakes, his Tian Gang Qi stained with their remains.
A hundred of them!
There was no way the two of them could kill them all.
Ye Wushuang, however, just laughed and said, “Why run?”
“A hundred Frost Demon Snakes mean two hundred thousand spirit points!” Xu Wen was left speechless.
At a time like this, Ye Wushuang was still thinking about spirit points!
“Du Mingxing and Gu Ruochen had a combined total of over two hundred thousand spirit points. You’ve already taken them. Let’s run while we can, or we won’t even know how we died!” Earlier, Ye Wushuang had taken all the spirit points from Du Mingxing and Gu Ruochen. Now, Ye Wushuang’s spirit points had exceeded six hundred thousand!
In less than a month, six hundred thousand spirit points.
This number was astonishing!
“Don’t worry!” Ye Wushuang slashed another Frost Demon Snake with his sword, approached Xu Wen, and tossed a small jade bottle, saying, “The essence blood of the fourth-stage spiritual beast, the Golden-Winged Fire Crane, contains the innate fire attribute spiritual energy of the Golden-Winged Fire Crane. When attached to your attack, it has a miraculous effect!”
Without a word, Xu Wen condensed drops of essence blood in his palm and unleashed a powerful punch.
*Thud…*
The muffled sound echoed through the passage. Several Frost Demon Snakes, stained with the essence blood, immediately began to sizzle and burn. Their bodies twisted in pain.
“It works!” Xu Wen exclaimed excitedly, “Brother Ye, you’re amazing.”
With a hearty laugh, Xu Wen charged forward without any hesitation.
On the other side, Ye Wushuang wiped his Tianya Sword and continued to strike with his sword. The Frost Demon Snakes, facing the essence blood that suppressed them, were severely weakened whenever they were injured by his sword energy.
Soon, dozens of Frost Demon Snake corpses lay on the ground.
However, the other Frost Demon Snakes did not retreat; instead, they attacked the two men even more fiercely.
After a full incense stick’s worth of time had passed, a *thud* sounded.
Xu Wen collapsed to the ground, panting heavily. The corpses of over a hundred Frost Demon Snakes lay piled up like a small mountain on the ground.
On the other side, Ye Wushuang was also leaning on his Tianya Sword, gasping for breath.
“Damn it, I’m exhausted!” Xu Wen swallowed a spiritual pill to restore his energy and then said, “Brother Ye, even with the essence blood suppressing them, killing them is still tiring.”
The two men sat cross-legged on the ground and recovered for a while before getting up again. Ye Wushuang had killed sixty of the Frost Demon Snakes, and Xu Wen had slain forty.
After getting up again, Ye Wushuang finally said, “A low-level third-stage spiritual beast is worth two thousand spirit points each. We were lucky this time to encounter the weakest Frost Demon Snakes!”
“We should have killed them all; it would have been more profitable!”
Lucky?
Xu Wen gave a bitter smile.
“I’ve figured it out. You’re aiming for the top seven!”
Xu Wen stood up and continued to follow Ye Wushuang deeper into the passage. The passage became wider and wider.
When they reached the end of the passage, the two men looked at the scene before them and were stunned.
The passage had given way to a vast underground world. At a glance, there were endless forests and mountains stretching into the distance. Moreover, from within the mountains and forests, fierce roars of spiritual beasts could be heard from time to time.
This place was a hundred zhang deep underground. Yet, when they looked up, there was a vast expanse of a thousand zhang in height, and moonlight was shining down!
What on earth was this?
Could moonlight really shine down in a place a hundred zhang deep underground?
Xu Wen patted Ye Wushuang and said, “Ye Wushuang, there’s a moon up there…”
“It’s probably the effect of an array, reflecting the sky above and the starry sky onto this place,” Ye Wushuang said, looking at the dimness ahead and then said, “Let’s set off tomorrow!”
The ancient tomb of Li Yun!
This Li Yun, who had defected from the Li clan, was truly extraordinary! The starry sky seen above was definitely not something a Wan Fa Realm martial practitioner could achieve. Li Yun was likely an invincible figure at the Gui Yuan Realm.
And for an invincible person at the Gui Yuan Realm to go to such great lengths to build a tomb for himself, what on earth was that sacred object of the Li clan?
The two men stayed dozens of meters deep inside the cave entrance, where they built a bonfire. Ye Wushuang took out some dried meat, boiled it into porridge, and the two sat down to drink it.
“Where are you from?” Ye Wushuang asked.
“Like you, a small empire that’s not worth mentioning,” Xu Wen said with a grin as he drank the meat soup.
Ye Wushuang hinted, “The spiritual technique you used is not something a small empire could possess…”
“Your control, condensation, and explosion of spiritual energy are unmatched even by the top geniuses of the ten great empires.”
Xu Wen chuckled and said, “Everyone has a bit of fortune, right?”
Ye Wushuang didn’t ask further. If Xu Wen didn’t want to talk about it, that was fine. He had already decided to find an opportunity to leave Xu Wen behind. In such a trial place, the only person he could trust was himself.
The bonfire crackled. The two men sat cross-legged and began to cultivate.
Suddenly.
In the middle of the night, there seemed to be some movement.
Ye Wushuang clenched his palm, and the Tianya Sword beside him emitted a faint glow. Xu Wen also opened his eyes and looked outside the passage.
Footsteps could be heard, and after a few breaths, a *thud* sounded.
The two men looked at each other.
When they reached a few meters from the cave entrance, they saw a figure lying motionless on the ground.
“It’s a woman,” Xu Wen said cautiously.
Ye Wushuang approached and turned the woman over.
“Huh! She’s quite pretty,” Xu Wen remarked.
“Chu Qingcheng!” Ye Wushuang’s eyes widened slightly in surprise.
