Chapter 1128: Where is the boss?

"Let's go check it out." Everyone suggested.

Xiao Feng grunted, kicked off the air and flew up, and the group headed toward the cave halfway up the mountain.

That cave wasn't big, only about a person tall, pitch black inside, and you couldn't see how deep it went.

According to the Nine-Tailed Fox True Form's size of over a hundred meters, it was obviously impossible to enter this place.

But powerful bosses can freely change size; if it turned into an ordinary fox, there would be no problem.

Xiao Feng landed at the cave entrance and walked inside.

The cave was a bit rugged and damp; the deeper they went, the dimmer the light became.

After only a dozen steps, it was so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

Mang Mei and Xing Yun Miao followed him in, while the others, finding the cave a bit cramped and inconvenient to enter and exit, just waited at the entrance.

After walking about twenty meters, the cave passage suddenly had a forty‑five‑degree slope extending downward.

Xiao Feng and the two others pressed on, walking down over a hundred meters in one go.

They had expected to find a fox den at the end and then dig up a treasure with a shovel.

Unexpectedly, the depths of the cave held an underground pool!

Ahead appeared a void about one hundred fifty meters wide, with no way forward.

Jumping down led to a deep pool, its depths hiding who knows what.

Above them was just a stone cliff, with nothing else.

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Xiao Feng dug at the end of the cave with the treasure map, but the hint remained the same as before.

"Could it be in the water?" Xing Yun Miao wondered.

"You wait here; I'll go down and see."

Xiao Feng worried there might be monsters in the water, so he didn't let them follow.

He took out his Myriad Dragon Divine Staff, equipped Heavenly Dao Protection, and slowly descended on the wind.

The pool was bottomless; Xing Yun Miao shone her Moonlight Technique, but it did nothing.

Xiao Feng fell into the water and looked down; it was pitch black, and beyond ten meters visibility vanished.

He took out an Azure Water Crystal, held it in his mouth, and slowly sank.

The water here was cool, like a spring, but stagnant—like dead water—with no fish, shrimp, or even aquatic plants.

After sinking about fifty meters, Xiao Feng suddenly felt a bit tense!

His mental will was already quite strong, with an automatic warning ability.

Whatever could make him feel tense certainly wasn't anything ordinary.

He steadied himself and looked around and into the depths.

Thud~

Thud~

Thud~

Gradually, a sound like a heartbeat appeared underwater, which he heard.

"What a heavy heartbeat—could there be a big boss down there?" Xiao Feng frowned.

Hiss!

He couldn't help but break out in goosebumps, as if he saw a massive beast with unsatisfied serrated fangs suddenly emerge from the dark waters below and swallow him whole.

But after a moment's thought……

"I'm a top‑tier player who's even killed an Ancestral God—what's there to fear from a hammer‑wielding monster?"

Thinking that, Xiao Feng steadied his mind and continued diving deeper into the pool.

"Lao Xiao, how's it going over there?"

Li Li's voice came over the team channel.

Xiao Feng replied, "I'm not sure; this doesn't look like a treasure spot, I heard a heartbeat—there might be a boss."

In his livestream, many speculative comments appeared—some guessed a slimy octopus, some a giant toad, and others a naked fox spirit.

Xiao Feng had already descended over a hundred meters, and the heartbeat sound grew clearer, as if right beside his ear.

Suddenly, he saw the bottom!

He'd reached the bottom—there was nothing deeper.

The bottom area was spotless, not a speck of dirt; reaching out, he felt only stone.

Yet that thumping heartbeat seemed to come from even deeper below the bottom, leaving Xiao Feng puzzled.

He took out the treasure map to try, but the system still prompted that he wasn't in the right spot and couldn't dig.

The pool wasn't huge; he'd checked every spot, with the same result—no digging possible.

And that heartbeat hadn't stopped; it kept pulsing slowly.

"Could the underwater rock just be a facade, with another layer beneath?" Xiao Feng muttered to himself.

"Just give it a try and you'll see!"

Xiao Feng took out a Supreme Divine Weapon‑level Wolf Tooth Club.

This is a special‑type weapon for warrior players, with high attack power and especially fierce blunt strikes!

Xiao Feng wasn't bound to any weapon; he simply used over 31,000 points of strength, raised the Wolf Tooth Club, and slammed it hard into the underwater floor.

Bang~~

The floor shuddered a bit, and a string of bubbles bubbled up.

Thud, thud, thud……

In a moment, the heartbeat sound grew louder! Like a drum!

"Sure enough, it's down below!"

Having gotten a response, Xiao Feng's eyes lit up, he raised his wolf-tooth club and continued smashing.

Bang!

Boom!

Boom!

He smashed several times in one breath, but the floor remained steadfast, without cracking.

But that heartbeat sound grew clearer and clearer.

"Ha……"

A breathing sound came from beside his ear, sounding from all directions, with no source to be found.

Xiao Feng swung his wolf-tooth club down again.

Boom~~

The pool trembled, the floor gave a 'ka' sound and cracked, a thin fragment splitting off.

Under the fragment, a smooth rock hue was revealed.

But it seemed… there wasn't much change.

"Ha…… ha……"

That breathing sound grew louder.

Xiao Feng was in the midst of puzzling.

Suddenly, a thunderclap sounded beside his ear.

"Achoo!"

That was a sneeze!

But it was louder than thunder, the sound filling all directions, rumbling like an earthquake.

Xiao Feng only felt his head spin, stars flashing, as if his soul were about to be shaken apart.

Immediately after, the earth began to tremble, the pool shook violently, and the cavern seemed about to collapse!

"Who…… is disturbing…… my…… slumber……"

A low, muffled voice echoed all around, like thunder, shaking people's eardrums painfully.

"Where is the monster?" Xiao Feng covered his head, his heart full of doubt.

The mountain shook more violently, the pool seemed to have been turned upside down, and Xiao Feng's whole body was carried by the water flow, falling toward the 'above'.

Just then, Li Li's voice came over the team channel: "Old Xiao, run fast! This mountain is alive! It's a boss!!!"

Hearing that, Xiao Feng was instantly dazed.

The mountain…… alive?

Then wouldn't he be…… inside the boss's belly?

"Holy shit! Mang Mei, Xing Yun Miao, run fast!!" Xiao Feng exclaimed.

Whoosh~

The water surged violently, flowing back out through the passage they had just entered.

The whole cavern was like a cup laid flat on the ground being tipped over, with clear mountain spring water pouring out in torrents.

Xing Yun Miao and Mang Mei were knocked staggering by the sudden surge of water, tumbling out along the passage.

Xiao Feng also hurriedly swam outward with the current.

Boom~~~

The mountain's shaking grew ever stronger, Xiao Feng's head struck a stone, hurting badly.

The passage, over a hundred meters long, was actually traversed in just a few seconds.

But in his perception, the process felt extraordinarily long, as if several hours had passed.

With great difficulty, he finally drifted out of the cavern with the water flow.

Mang Mei and Xing Yun Miao were also in a sorry state, having fallen into disarray, but thanks to the support of Qingfeng Yanyu and Dun Dun, they did not fall.

Xiao Feng steadied himself with wind technique and looked toward the cavern.

The moment he left the cavern, the cavern swiftly receded from him, climbing upward.

The whole mountain shot up from the ground, originally hidden in the clouds and indistinct, now it broke through the clouds and vanished right before their eyes.