Chapter 2425: Enduring Resentment

"It was hacked with a sharp weapon, and repeatedly so." This was the Blood Demon coming out to make the assessment, "but the most numerous are whip marks."

He Lingchuan also saw it: "Whipped?"

From the marks behind the door, it looks like someone has been hacking, chopping, and whipping it for years, so even this solid sunk wood bears mottled scars.

"Such strong resentment!" The Blood Demon's sensitivity to resentment is unmatched by other creatures, "Someone has been venting their anger on this door all day."

"Like a storm of fury, and it's lasted a long time." This whip mark, I feel like I've seen it somewhere before. He Lingchuan casually took out a coil of whip from his bosom, compared it to the marks on the wooden door, then lightly flicked it against the wall.

Both the Gale Army and the Dragon God Army teach steel whip techniques, and He Lingchuan himself has used a whip to carry out executions dozens of times, his force control just right.

Crack, a whip mark appeared.

"Very similar."

Whips come in many styles, this kind of double-twist plaiting is inherently special.

And the whip has fine hard spines; after repeatedly whipping the same spot on the sunk wood for a long time, it leaves tiny pits.

Basically, it can be confirmed that this is the mark left by such a whip.

Zhu Xiuer exclaimed: "This whip, did you get it from the Earth Mother's 'Heart Fire'? That labor supervisor."

Immortal Bai Xue said: "The whips hanging beside the Screen Secret Realm are also of this kind!"

Li Yun's intersecting whip marks, plus the fear that came from his very bones, left a deep impression on observers.

With this clue, Zhu Xiuer sent out the little spider to visit four or five nearby rooms, and the doors behind these cubicle rooms were all spotless, basically no traces.

Then he turned back to that room, facing the wooden door in thought: "It seems, Shangguan Biao often locks himself in to vent his anger."

Someone who idly lashes their own door panel is probably not quite normal.

"Why only hit the door panel inside his own room? Outside there are trees and mountains, where can't he whip?" Immortal Bai Xue also came to reason, "Is he afraid to let others discover his inner hatred?"

But hatred needs to be vented, otherwise it will just keep piling up and thickening.

"In Longfeng Valley, such psychologically twisted people should be quite common. Ah, I like this place." The Blood Demon chimed in, "By the way, the scratch right in the middle of the back of this door is fewer, as if something had been hung there before, blocking the whip from swinging up."

It observed very carefully, the back of the door is covered in scars, but at the center of the door panel it's much less, only a few faint sword marks and several nail holes.

He Lingchuan gently stroked these two sword marks, feeling the force of the sword strike at that time, then said: "He pinned the voodoo doll here."

"Eh?" The Blood Demon thought for a moment, then giggled, "You're right, what's the point of shining on the door panel? Outside there just happens to be a locust tree, or rather a ghost-claw locust!"

Voodoo dolls are also called voodoo puppets, He Lingchuan heard this name for the first time, still from Zhao Man Da Sa Man. The weak cannot take revenge face to face, so they can only put the enemy's name in a locust wood doll or cloth doll, then hammer nails into it to curse.

To make the effect better, it's said that one can also put the enemy's blood, hair, fingernails, and other vital substances into the puppet.

He Lingchuan inferred that the residents of this room often pin the voodoo doll behind the door, repeatedly hacking and whipping it, to vent their inner malice.

Truly, a hatred that has lasted long and endured.

"This kid's mind, already somewhat demonic." The Blood Demon thought, "I always feel he hates quite a few people, voodoo dolls won't only pin one enemy."

Zhu Xiuer asked again: "The master of the Duzhishan Secret Realm, the current Shangguan Biao, where is he hiding? That red monster just now, could it be him transformed? Ah, wait, that kid entered the Earth Mother's old nest."

……

The eyeball spider perched on Shangguan Biao's shoulder, following him into the Earth Mother's nest.

Just as He Lingchuan estimated, the Earth Mother's old nest is located underground behind Duzhishan, in a huge earth fissure. That route is extremely rugged, if one has not even a bit of cultivation, just going up and down once would take four or five hours.

Standing above the earth fissure, one can faintly hear wind and thunder from below. But only when Shangguan Biao jumped into the fissure did the eyeball spider discover, this sound is the Earth Mother emitting……snoring.

Shangguan Biao lit up a bright light ball, this thing resembles glowing spores in appearance, but is condensed divine power, consumes little energy while being very bright, can provide illumination. But it also has no other function, some cultivators refine heart lamps, treasure lamps, and also have the effect of warding off evil, but this is not something Shangguan Biao can possess.

Under the illumination of the bright light ball, the eyeball spider discovered Shangguan Biao was in a limestone cave, everywhere are stalactites. These strange stone formations, illuminated by the bright light ball, look like spring snow.

As everyone knows, caves with stalactites are mostly damp, this place is no exception. However, the stone formations in other caves drip groundwater, but here the stone formations drip out a milky green ointment.

And Shangguan Biao's so-called "cleaning the nest" is to take out a scraper, collect the ointment on the stalactites, and put it all into the small basin at his waist.

This basin is a spatial artifact, its capacity is not as small as it appears on the surface.

Zhu Xiuer seeing this, understood: "The ointment is mostly the Earth Mother's metabolic product, probably has some wonderful uses."

"Milky green ointment?" Immortal Bai Xue immediately said, "We passed through the medicine fields, the soil there all mixed with this."

"It seems, the medicine fields of Duzhishan can be kept so lush, the Earth Mother also contributed indispensably. No wonder Longfeng Valley uses laborers to regularly clean the nest."

Shangguan Biao had just scraped three stone formations when the ground suddenly trembled, the amplitude like a trampoline, making it very hard for him to stand firm.

Crack crack, the stalactites above his head were shattered, falling in pieces to the ground.

Their tips are all very sharp, and heavy in weight, posing a huge threat to the people below. With Shangguan Biao's small frame, being hit a few times would result in serious injury.

A few days ago, those two laborers were probably injured this way.

Fortunately Shangguan Biao is agile, each time he narrowly dodged in the nick of time.

But the stalactites in the cave keep falling more and more, even the cave itself begins to twist, emitting a huge and ominous low rumble.

If he doesn't run out now, there's no chance of survival.

And even if he runs, he might get buried on the way. Before, there were laborers who died this way.

Shangguan Biao didn't run, but instead gritted his teeth and rushed to a piece of white stone nearby, took out a jade bottle from his bosom, and dripped several drops of dew onto the stone!

The eyeball spider smelled the fresh fragrance, and knew this was the dew of the Wind Dew Golden Lotus, which he had personally collected earlier.

And this piece of white stone resembles a pig's kidney, but its surface is covered with radiating net-like cracks. He Lingchuan looked at it, always feeling somewhat familiar.

"Molar!" Without this secretary's hint of a mirror, he thought for a long time before recalling, "Like human molars!"