Chapter 3571

"Claire, do you really think the underground part is the dark world?"

Megan asked the companion on the side curiously, and Claire nodded:

"The elderly have this concept, but I don't... When my mother told stories when I was a child, she also mentioned similar sayings."

"Then are there large-scale mineral deposits locally? I only knew before that there is high-quality iron ore in the west of Chronos City, which is also the basis for the local development of high-end pocket watch business."

Xia De also asked, and Claire could answer this question:

"Yes, the natural resources under the island are very rich. Not only the open-pit iron ore you mentioned, I also knew when I was in school that there are multiple gemstone veins under the island. But the Fatumunster people will never mine in their hometown, letting this place become like those mining cities with poor environments on the Old Continent."

Xi Wei agreed with her point of view very much. The hometown island of the Aurora family is no longer suitable for living because of excessive development.

In short, this clue provided by the society is indeed worth exploring. So after lunch, Xia De called Claire and Flora who had just arrived locally, and went to the west of the island with them.

The entrance to the cave is in a hidden cave at the foot of the mountain. The cave is not large, but the interior is extremely complex. Normally, you can walk out from the high part of the mountain through the cave, but in the map given by the society, you need to walk to the remote corner of the cave, and seeing a man-made brick wall means you found the right place.

"How on earth did they know about this place? I've never heard of it."

Claire was very surprised by this.

Behind the brick wall was indeed a winding downward passage. The passage looked natural, but you could see traces of human transformation and widening not far inside.

The underground cave was not a single straight road, but branched in different directions in the middle. Xia De's 【Enhanced Spatial Perception】 could explore which cave branch extended the longest to the underground part, but he couldn't distinguish which one was chosen by the ancient Fatumunster people.

So they could only explore one by one when encountering branches, but fortunately, the ancient Fatumunster people obviously didn't want to go too deep underground, so they found the excavated underground living area when they encountered the second branch.

Stone beds were placed in the largest space, and along that cave branch, functional areas such as storage rooms that had been divided could be found. Claire even found a meditation stone room suspected to be used by priests, but because it was too long ago, it was hard to say what value these traces had.

The main purpose of the three's trip was to find the altar, but they didn't see anything like an altar in this branch.

"Is it deeper underground?"

Since they were already here, they didn't have the idea of turning back now. So after returning to the passage leading deeper underground, they continued to look for it downwards.

The three walked and chatted all the way. Flora and Xia De's conversation let Claire know more details about the Vista Woodland incident, so she knew that the current Flora and Danister had a good relationship; and the artist lady probed Claire and Xia De's relationship development, and then understood that the latter's progress was actually not very fast.

Although there was no danger underground, searching for things that didn't know whether they existed in the dark was still not easy. From 1:30 in the afternoon until 4:30, they gained nothing for three full hours.

Just when the three of them guessed whether the Prophet Society's speculation was wrong, Xia De's ears moved, and he heard a sound in this unknown deep underground:

"There is the sound of water."

"Underground river? You said that there are rich underground water systems inside and below the snowy mountain."

"Let's go and see. If there is still no harvest, we will go back. I already miss the sun a little."

Xia De's hearing was very sensitive. The location where he heard the sound of water was actually not very close to the source of the sound. But after deciding to just take a look at the underground river, the three followed the deepest passage downwards and stopped caring about those underground cave branches like a maze. After more than ten minutes, they came to the end of the cave.

The sound of water came from behind the rock wall of the cave. Xia De explored the space and confirmed that the back of the rock wall was not filled with liquid, so he held the two witches with both hands and entered the back of the rock wall by means of spatial movement.

The space here became suddenly open, and the three floating in the air felt that there was an underground lake below them, but in fact, it was not a lake but part of the water vein. Accompanied by the sound of water, the underground water flowed past their feet and flowed to the deeper area of the underground.

"If you continue downwards along this river course, where can you go?"

Flora looked at the darkness on her right:

"I feel that this place is no longer like the world of the living. Some people would believe it if they said that this place connects to the world of the dead."

"We have gone too deep underground, I feel very uncomfortable. If my grandfather knew about our actions today, he would definitely reprimand us."

Claire frowned and said, she leaned her body against Xia De. This Eleventh-Tier Great Witch really had the feeling of wanting to leave here from the bottom of her heart:

"Xia De, let's go, there is nothing here... I even feel that I have some difficulty breathing."

Xia De also felt uncomfortable. This might have the instinctual fear of humans for underground darkness, but more of it was his inspiration reminding him that the front was absolutely not an area that should be explored.

For so many years, whether it was the Fatumunster people or the Prophet Society, they didn't think about pursuing the secrets of the island's underground, which of course had reasons. Claire was right, it was enough to get here. Even if there was still a road ahead, they shouldn't move forward.

The light illuminated by the silver moon couldn't make them feel safe above the water vein, but instead made them feel exposed to the sight of some unknown existence.

Xia De reached out to hold them and wanted to return to the back of the rock wall together, but at this moment—

Boom!

The pitch-black light pillar rising from below swallowed the position of the three, but fortunately, Xia De moved space in time to dodge this blow.

The black light came from the surging water flow. Accompanied by the whirlpool of the water surface, a figure wearing a black robe and unable to see the face gradually emerged from the whirlpool.

Xia De took a deep breath:

"Black Hand-Tifurong."

Now Xia De understood why he couldn't find the other party's traces in the snowy mountain.

If it were a human enemy, Xia De might talk to the other party for a few words before acting, but facing a demon, there is no need to say any extra words.

The light traces slashed by the greatsword made of brilliant silver moonlight appeared in this underground space like curved moon crescents. And the invisible barrier in front of the demon disappeared with the moonlight, and then the black light it bombarded again was blocked by Flora's Sighing Wall.

This demon is definitely not in a seriously injured state now, although it has not returned to the peak state of the Battle of the Ice and Snow Castle, its injuries have really been greatly alleviated.

The light pillar turned into sunlight rose from the water surface below the demon. The demon disappeared instantly and appeared under the feet of the three, and then directly welcomed the attack of the "Unicorn" swooping down from above.

Although the "Undead Dragon" form displayed by Flora in the Vista Woodland is her strongest transformation form at present, it is obviously more useful to use the unicorn form to deal with the demon.

The black figure in front of it floated out that transparent barrier again, but this time it was shattered directly by the unicorn. It raised its hand and waved forward, and the swooping unicorn was knocked away by invisible force, but behind the unicorn, the moonlight shot forward by Xia De and Claire's sun flame ray came to its front together, and this time it truly hit the demon's main body.

The gold and silver light rays pierced through the demon's body, and the black light surrounding it immediately became dim. But immediately, the flowing water in the underground river was summoned by it and flew into the high sky. Thousands of black water arrows were corrupted by the power of the demon of weapons, and shot towards the three.

The "weapons" directly controlled by the demon of weapons are not easily blocked, but this time Claire frowned and raised her hand, and those thousands of water arrows condensed into ice with her movements, and then fell back into the water together.

"My ability to control ice and snow seems to have been strengthened here... no, it's the holy mountain that can better respond to me here!"

Claire understood this point, and immediately flew back slightly, letting Xia De and Flora in unicorn form stand in front. Dealing with ancient evil spirits, the Great Witch of Death is actually at a disadvantage. The demon has no concept of "death" at all, and most of her death secret techniques have almost no effect on the demon, so maintaining the unicorn form is the best.

Claire closed her eyes behind the two and meditated on the Fatumunster snowy mountain in her mind. Accompanied by the power naturally possessed in her bloodline being awakened, the power of the towering snowy mountain was superimposed on her.

But what was different this time was that she even felt that there was some kind of power in the water vein under her feet responding to her call. The intimacy of that power was even stronger than the snowy mountain. Claire suddenly understood why her power was strengthened here:

"The priests of the past generations who were buried in the water after death, their bodies melted, and their power still circulates in the water vein of the holy mountain that goes back and forth."

Although the souls of the priests and elders have long gone, the power still remains, becoming part of the seal of the snowy mountain on Fatumunster Island. This power resonated with Claire Reinhardt's bloodline, briefly granted to her, and then superimposed with the power of the snowy mountain, she truly felt that she had broken through the Eleventh Tier at this moment and felt the power of a higher level.

While opening her eyes, snowflakes actually drifted in this underground world. Her palms opened forward, and hundreds of ice crystals shot towards the demon. The continuous bombardment shattered its constantly regenerating shield, and then every ice crystal touching its body immediately turned into cold mist instead of directly piercing through.