Chapter 408: More Than Half Lost

Ye Liuyun saw several squads go in, and immediately followed a few lone cultivators and slipped in as well.

The tomb's passage was long and pitch black inside. Everyone used Divine Sense to navigate; Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil, however, saw the people from the Dark Night Demon Hall in the distance, tightly following behind them.

The group moved cautiously, daring not to move or touch anything. They all knew the Poison Dragon was adept at designing traps and using poison.

Ye Liuyun also saw that there were indeed many traps inside, but the passage's traps were relatively simple. As long as one didn't touch them, they wouldn't attack anyone.

Whenever passing a trap, Ye Liuyun would use Divine Sense to remind the people around him.

Not long after, the passage reached its end, and more than ten branching openings appeared ahead. Ye Liuyun watched the three squads ahead each enter different openings. After they went in, the openings closed immediately, and no one else could enter. With no other choice, Ye Liuyun selected another opening and led the group inside.

A few lone cultivators tried to follow Ye Liuyun, but his Golden Pupil swept them away, causing a sudden tremor in their Spiritual Soul; the feet that tried to step forward were instantly withdrawn. Then the cave doors closed, and they could no longer enter.

"Let's go! We should still be able to see those people from the Dark Night Demon Hall."

These caves should all eventually lead to the same place. Different caves likely present different trials.

His Divine Sense can still connect with the Corpse-Eating Worm King. The Worm King has already infiltrated deep underground and discovered two treasure locations, leaving some Corpse-Eating Worms there to guard while it continues searching.

The Worm King also told Ye Liuyun the details of the treasure sites, just waiting for him to retrieve the treasures. It's only that Ye Liuyun hasn't reached there yet, so the numbers don't match.

The cave Ye Liuyun's party entered, after only a few steps, opened into a spacious cavern. On both sides of the cavern stood ten stone statues, each holding various weapons.

Ye Liuyun scanned the statues with his Golden Pupil and understood immediately.

"These aren't statues; they're stone Kuailei. This stage should be a battle with stone Kuailei."

Ye Liuyun explained to everyone, then told them to wait in place. He went ahead to test the Kuailei's strength.

Sure enough, when he approached the statues, they came to life. Moreover, their aura quickly rose, reaching the first tier of Tian Gang.

However, these statues aren't controlled by Divine Sense; their movements are stiff, driven entirely by mechanical triggers. Their attacks are just weapon strikes, with no martial technique.

This also raised the difficulty of clearing the stage; he couldn't use Spiritual Soul Attack. Moreover, he wouldn't need these Kuailei later.

Upon seeing the stone Kuailei's level, Lei Ming, Bai Hu, and others all charged forward together, each taking on a Kuailei to seize the chance for training.

Ye Liuyun relied on his footwork, darting between the stone Kuailei, using his Golden Pupil to observe the internal mechanisms and look for weak points.

"Attack the Kuailei's rear head," Ye Liuyun called out to Lei Ming and Bai Hu.

After observing, he found a relatively thin spot at the Kuailei's rear head, where a central hub controlling all the mechanisms was located.

Lei Ming and Bai Hu had been silently complaining, because the stone Kuailei barely felt their attacks and they couldn't hurt it. After Ye Liuyun's hint, they instantly changed tactics, dodging flexibly with footwork, then when the Kuailei exposed its back, they slipped in to strike its rear head.

One hit worked.

Once the Kuailei's rear head was damaged, it stopped completely, its aura instantly dropped, and it turned back into a stone statue standing there.

Ye Liuyun also activated Lingkong Art, appearing behind the Kuailei, cutting one by one, easily shattering the heads of these stone statues.

Su Miaoyin watched and couldn't help thinking that treasure hunting with Ye Liuyun was truly effortless.

【8】 The others felt nothing; they were already accustomed and promptly continued forward.

The others felt nothing; they were already used to it and promptly kept moving forward.

Soon, they reached the second stage; at the top of the cavern hung iron balls of varying lengths, studded with iron spikes, swinging back and forth, while rows of spears periodically erupted from the ground, and arrows were intermittently shot from the ceiling.

Whether iron spikes, spears, or arrows, they all glowed with a black sheen, clearly coated with deadly poison.

Su Miaoyin glanced and realized that no matter which way they moved, they would be attacked. They had to rely on their Physical Body to harden against spears or arrows. As for the iron balls, they were too heavy, better to avoid them as much as possible.

However, after Ye Liuyun saw this, he nonchalantly told the group, "You all enter the Storage Ring first; I'll take you through."

So he gathered everyone into the Storage Ring, then vanished into the void and passed through directly. He didn't rush to release them, instead swiftly passed through several stages himself. Only upon reaching the tenth stage did he let them out.

In this stage, the cavern was empty; opposite there was a stone gate that should open once they passed through.

Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil only saw a few stone walls behind which a pipe was connected, its purpose unknown.

"It might be poisonous!" Ye Liuyun warned everyone, proceeding cautiously forward.

He was right; it was indeed toxic gas. Moreover, the black toxic gas spewed from the stone walls was very special; their True Essence Body Shield couldn't block it. Only Ye Liuyun's Golden Crow Holy Fire could burn it away.

Therefore, Ye Liuyun released True Essence, enveloping everyone within it, and led the group forward.

When they reached the gate, the toxic gas ceased spewing and gradually dissipated. Then the stone gate automatically opened.

Before the group stood a massive cavern, with a coffin in the center. On three sides of the coffin stood stone tablets, purpose unknown.

Besides the coffin, the three squads also remained locked in a standoff, all now looking toward Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun silently counted the numbers, finding that none of the Dark Night Demon Hall members were missing. The other two squads each had only twenty or thirty members of slightly higher realms left. It seemed those of lower realms had become cannon fodder or were discarded.

He didn't pay much attention to the coffin; when he first saw it, he already knew it contained treasures, and even knew what those treasures were. This was the first treasure site the Corpse-Eating Worm King had found. The treasures lay inside the coffin, which had no traps; inside the coffin lay a corpse, its body poisonous.

He used his Golden Pupil to confirm again; indeed there were no traps inside.

The three squads before him were clearly worried about traps inside the coffin, arguing over who should open it and how to divide the treasures.

"Why are you looking at me? Keep going; I'm just passing by!" Ye Liuyun smiled, leading the group to step back, acting as if he wasn't in any hurry.

His words, however, reminded those three squads. With Ye Liuyun's level, this was just ready-made scouting cannon fodder!

The leaders of the several groups exchanged glances, reached a consensus, and smiled maliciously toward Ye Liuyun's party.