Chapter 202: The Cave Behind the Waterfall

After the matters on Jiang Xun's side concluded, the scene naturally switched to the other contestants.

Upon seeing Jiang Xun's strength, Gufang Ninglin also let out a long sigh of relief, and the heart that had been hanging in suspense was finally put to rest.

Three hours passed quickly; some impatient watching disciples simply had their servants lay out mats, sat cross-legged on the ground, and began to cultivate.

Jiang Xun, meanwhile, entered a cave located behind a waterfall.

What attracted Jiang Xun over were the piles of bones beneath the waterfall; most of these bones were human, and a small portion were from Demonic Beasts.

Jiang Xun had originally intended to follow the waterfall upstream to take a look, but discovered this cave behind the waterfall instead.

The interior of the cave was incomparably dim, so dark one could not see their own fingers, and behind him was the rushing sound of the waterfall.

With lighting tools unable to be used, Jiang Xun could only feel his way along the stone wall to move forward slowly, while using his Spirit Power to probe into the depths.

"You are walking on nothing but bones under your feet," Si Yuyan said upon hearing the crunching sounds Jiang Xun made while walking.

"Have you entered some kind of corpse pit?"

Jiang Xun nodded helplessly, but continued to move forward regardless.

"I advise you not to go any further; in a situation like this, there is definitely something inside."

Si Yuyan said.

"There couldn't possibly be a Void Refinement Realm or Integration Realm Demonic Beast in here, could there?"

Jiang Xun laughed, his footsteps not stopping, and seeing this, Si Yuyan said no more.

After walking for about another half an incense stick's time, Jiang Xun arrived at the very back of the cave's depths where there was no more path; after some fumbling, he found a crevice in the stone wall.

After testing it slightly, he figured he should still be able to get through by turning sideways.

Jiang Xun did not hesitate and squeezed inside sideways.

After being squeezed to the point of almost being unable to breathe, he finally squeezed in.

As soon as he entered the crevice, Jiang Xun felt a gust of hot wind.

If Jiang Xun had not blocked his sense of smell and taste at this moment, he would have smelled a foul stench.

Because at this moment, in the pitch-black darkness, ten centimeters in front of Jiang Xun, a giant mouth was right before him, and a pair of black vertical pupils were hidden in the darkness, watching Jiang Xun.

Jiang Xun also had goosebumps rise all over his body; he vaguely felt that something was wrong, and carefully used his ears to listen to the movement around him, seemingly hearing the sound of something surging.

"Run quickly..." Si Yuyan could not help but lower her voice to say.

Jiang Xun listened to the advice this time and slowly retreated; just as he was about to squeeze through the crevice...

"Hiss~~!!"

A sound that made one's hair stand on end—the sound of a snake flicking its tongue—rang out.

"Roar!"

Following that was another roar.

Jiang Xun hurriedly gave up on squeezing back out through the crevice and instead ran toward the interior of the cave, because squeezing any further would only result in being attacked.

The moment the Demonic Beast roared, Jiang Xun had already sensed it; this thing was an Integration Initial Stage Demonic Beast!

No wonder his Spirit Power could not detect its strength when he probed earlier; the gap in strength was simply too great.

The space inside the cave was still very large and continued to lead downward; Jiang Xun jumped straight down, landing on a stone at the edge by intuition, and when his hand felt the side, it was very smooth and icy cold.

It was a giant python.

Jiang Xun's palm could feel its body was extremely massive as he placed it upon it, and at the same time, it was sliding away rapidly.

"Quick, dodge!"

Si Yuyan shouted loudly.

Jiang Xun hurriedly jumped downward.

The next moment, he heard a loud boom, and the position Jiang Xun had just been in was smashed into a giant pit by the massive snake head.

Jiang Xun could not find a landing spot for a moment, so he steeled his heart and simply hugged the giant python's body to slide down.

The giant snake's body was also moving at the same time; before long, Jiang Xun felt his hands go empty, and his body fell from the giant python.

With a splash, Jiang Xun fell into a pool of water.

After struggling for a moment, Jiang Xun bumped into many human bones and had a mouthful of human hair stuffed into his mouth, but he had no time to hesitate and continued to swim outward.

Subsequently, the water in the pool suddenly surged into a giant wave, and the giant python also entered the water, pursuing Jiang Xun from behind at an extremely fast speed.

Unable to see anything, Jiang Xun could only swim around wildly.

The giant python's speed was much faster than Jiang Xun's, and it slammed into him again; Jiang Xun immediately took out the Liu Hong Sword to block while turning sideways.

This collision caused Jiang Xun to tumble in the water, while simultaneously leaving several bloody gashes on the giant python's forehead.

"You go, I will hold it off and come find you later," Si Yuyan shouted upon seeing this.

"Darling Yuyan, you really are the one I rely on at critical moments!" Jiang Xun said, then threw out the Liu Hong Sword, steadied his body, and swam off to the side while feeling his way.

"I told you earlier not to come in, not to come in," Si Yuyan said while meeting the giant python, relying on the Saint Grade ability of the Liu Hong Sword to entangle with the giant python.

Jiang Xun did not reply, focusing now on finding a way out.

After his Spirit Power detected that there was still space below, he swam toward the deeper parts; a moment later, he passed through a narrow crevice, and the surroundings turned into a small pool. Probing upward, Jiang Xun soon poked his head out of the pool.

This was a small cave with a crevice above, and moonlight shone in, allowing Jiang Xun to finally see things clearly.

"Where on earth has this brought me?" Climbing onto the shore following the moonlight, Jiang Xun looked around; in the small cave, over a dozen giant eggs covered in strange patterns were placed in a scattered manner.

These were far larger than ordinary eggs.

"Could these be snake eggs?"

Jiang Xun walked forward a few steps to observe the surroundings, then reached out to touch one of the eggs; the moment his hand touched it, the egg shattered directly.

Jiang Xun, who had expected a snake to rush out, retreated a few steps, only to discover that black-green liquid was flowing out from under the broken eggshell, along with a dead snake.

It looked like it had been dead for a long time.

As this snake egg shattered, the other snake eggs also began to shatter one after another; after the dozen or so snake eggs broke, the corpse of a small snake fell out of each one.

Yet the snake egg with pale blue patterns at the very center of the cave seemed unaffected.

Seeing this, Jiang Xun walked up once more and reached out to touch it; it felt very smooth, did not break upon contact, and he could still sense the presence of Spirit Power within the egg.

It was alive.

"Since I'm already here..."

This thought emerged in Jiang Xun's mind, and with a flick of his intent, the snake egg vanished from before his eyes, directly collected by Jiang Xun into the System Space.

Originally, Jiang Xun had only wanted to test it, as the system could not be used when his soul was previously inside Jun Tianling, but he had not expected it to succeed this time.

Could it be that the system did not exist two thousand years ago, which was why it could not be used?

Boom!

At this very moment, the wall outside was slammed violently by the giant python, causing the entire cave to shake, and Si Yuyan controlled the Liu Hong Sword to fly in from underwater, planting it beside Jiang Xun's feet.

"What are you doing?" Si Yuyan asked upon seeing Jiang Xun standing motionless on the spot.

"Dead end," Jiang Xun shrugged helplessly.

"Well, this is great; we can't run anymore, we can only shout surrender and go out, your Lingerie-Sect is beyond saving," Si Yuyan also said helplessly.