Chapter 721
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A **squish** sound rang out, and the stench of blood exploded into the air.
On Xu Wen’s bald head, fragments of internal organs splattered down.
“**Damn it!**”
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, this creature’s neck was dripping with blood, clearly from the sword slash Ye Wushuang had delivered earlier.
“**Frost-Fanged Serpent!**”
Xu Wen immediately condensed his Tiangang energy on his body, and then looked at Ye Wushuang, expressing his 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 numerous holes the size of a human head.
From within those holes, Frost-Fanged Serpents 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-Fanged Serpent was a third-stage spiritual beast, albeit one of the weakest in its category.
But these creatures were known for their communal living habits.
Even as the weakest of the third-stage spiritual beasts, they were equivalent to a first-tier Tiangang realm cultivator, and with dozens or even 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 after another, the three-zhang-long, thick-necked Frost-Fanged Serpents lunged at them.
Simultaneously, the serpents spat out ice spikes condensed from spiritual energy, carrying a bone-chilling coldness as they attacked.
Ye Wushuang swung his sword and struck.
Xu Wen also unleashed a palm strike to fight back.
**Boom… Boom… Boom…**
The passage was filled with the continuous sound of explosions.
Soon, several Frost-Fanged Serpents were slain by the two men.
But more and more serpents gathered around.
“**Ye Wushuang, let’s run!**” Xu Wen’s body was covered in the blood and internal organs of the Frost-Fanged Serpents, his Tiangang energy stained red.
There were hundreds of them!
The two men simply couldn’t kill them all.
Ye Wushuang, however, just laughed and said, “**Why run?**”
“**A hundred Frost-Fanged Serpents 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 over two hundred thousand spirit points combined, and you’re still greedy. We should run first, or we won’t even know how we died!**”
Earlier, Ye Wushuang had taken all the spirit points from Du Mingxing and Gu Ruochen.
And 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 panic!**”
Ye Wushuang slashed another Frost-Fanged Serpent with his sword, approached Xu Wen, and tossed a small jade bottle, saying, “The essence blood of a fourth-stage spiritual beast, the Golden-Winged Fire Crane, contains the innate fire attribute spiritual energy of the Golden-Winged Fire Crane. Attach it to your attack, and it will have a miraculous effect!”
Without a word, Xu Wen condensed drops of essence blood in his palm and unleashed a powerful punch.
**Thud…**
The dull sound echoed through the passage.
Several Frost-Fanged Serpents that were splashed with the essence blood immediately began to sizzle and burn. Their bodies twisted in agony.
“**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 fight.
The Frost-Fanged Serpents, facing the Golden-Winged Fire Crane’s essence blood that restrained them, were severely injured whenever they were struck by the sword energy.
Soon, dozens of Frost-Fanged Serpent corpses lay on the ground.
But the other serpents 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.
Hundreds of Frost-Fanged Serpent corpses lay on the ground, piled up like a small mountain.
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 said, “Brother Ye, even with the essence blood suppressing them, killing them is still tiring.”
The two men sat cross-legged on the ground, recovering for a while before getting up.
Out of the hundreds of Frost-Fanged Serpents, Ye Wushuang had killed sixty, and Xu Wen had slain forty.
After getting up again, Ye Wushuang said, “A low-tier third-stage spiritual beast is worth two thousand spirit points each. We were lucky this time to encounter the weakest Frost-Fanged Serpents!”
“**We should have killed them all; it would have been more profitable!**”
Lucky?
Xu Wen gave a bitter smile.
“I’ve figured it out now. You’re aiming for the top seven!”
Xu Wen stood up and continued to move deeper with Ye Wushuang.
The passage became wider and wider.
When they reached the end of the passage, the two men looked at the scene in front of them and were stunned.
The passage ahead had turned into a vast underground world.
At a glance, there were endless forests and mountains, with no end in sight.
And from time to time, fierce roars of spiritual beasts could be heard from within the mountains and forests.
This place was a hundred zhang deep underground.
Yet, when they looked up, there was a thousand-zhang-high space above, and moonlight was shining down!
What on earth was this?
Moonlight could shine down at a hundred-zhang depth 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 starry sky above the dome of this place down here.”
Ye Wushuang looked ahead, where it was dim, 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!
Just the starry sky they had seen above was something a Wanfa realm martial artist could never achieve.
Li Yun was likely an invincible figure at the Guiyuan realm.
And for an invincible Guiyuan realm cultivator to go to such great lengths to build a tomb for himself, what exactly was that sacred object of the Li clan?
The two men stayed dozens of meters deep inside the cave entrance, where they built a campfire.
Ye Wushuang took out some dried meat, boiled it into porridge, and the two sat down to drink it.
“Where do you come from?” Ye Wushuang asked.
“From a small empire, just like you. Nothing to brag about,” Xu Wen said with a grin as he drank the meat soup.
Ye Wushuang hinted, “The spiritual technique you used isn’t 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, “Who doesn’t have a bit of good fortune?”
Ye Wushuang didn’t ask further.
If he didn’t want to say, 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 campfire crackled.
The two men sat cross-legged and began to cultivate.
Suddenly.
In the darkness of the night, there seemed to be some movement.
Ye Wushuang clenched his hand, 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 on the ground, motionless.
“**It’s a woman.**”
Xu Wen was cautious.
Ye Wushuang approached and turned the woman over.
“**Huh! She’s quite pretty.**”
“**Chu Qingcheng!**”
Ye Wushuang looked at her and was slightly stunned.
