Outside the underground palace, the scattered disciples of Gu Poison Peak were attacked by a massive swarm of Venomous Bees. Without a Qi Refining late-stage cultivator as their leader, their combat strength dropped by more than one level.
Their earlier desire to explore the underground palace and seek opportunities was completely extinguished by wave after wave of venomous stingers.
With heavy casualties, they could only retreat toward the passage.
Then a despairing scene occurred: the path was blocked.
Screams and wails rang out without end.
At the sa ti.
Near the abandoned camp between the three mountains of Blackbone Range, the disciples of Five Yin Peak had just been plundered by a certain Wang, yet they had to compose themselves and continue their original plan.
Their sole goal was the opportunity within the underground palace.
They had specifically chosen a thin rock layer to open a new underground passage, and under the combined efforts from both ends, it was being dug through rapidly.
Soon, the ground suddenly sank, and a human head popped up. It was Fang Zhuo, the movent technique expert sent below.
His face was filled with terror as he shouted.
"Disaster, disaster.
"Quick, pull up."
Everyone reached out their hands together, intending to ask what happened, but suddenly felt the ground begin to shake. With a loud rumble, the area of collapse widened.
A Ferocious Bone Lion, nearly ten ters long, leapt out.
Its mouth was still biting Fang Zhuo.
With fangs no weaker than rock pillars, it bit him in half in an instant and swallowed one half whole, letting out a deep roar.
A large number of white bones erged from underground, forming a bone prison encircling everyone. The disciples of Five Yin Peak looked grim.
"A second-rank Ferocious Bone Lion..."
This was almost too much for them to bear. Liu Jinxian and the other two could contend with these second-rank demonic beasts only because they had many thods.
For them, it was not certain they could manage.
The second-rank Bone Lion began its slaughter, with almost no opponent able to last even a single exchange. Wang Yu, observing from the shadows, also felt his scalp tingle.
Too many changes had occurred in Blackbone Mountain.
There were Foundation Establishnt level threats everywhere. If the companion Yin Souls within the Bonewood Forest also hid second-rank Yin Souls, then things would beco even worse.
After much thought, he still did not act.
The more people died the better. This way, Liu Jinxian and the others would be left with ruined identities and without enough manpower. Only then would Wang Yu have the confidence to stand at the peak, even if only briefly.
As for the second-rank Bone Lion, he truly did not wish to deal with it.
He watched as it hunted down the disciples of Five Yin Peak. In just a short ti, nearly a hundred people were reduced to barely more than ten survivors, who finally broke through the bone prison and fled Blackbone Mountain without looking back.
Such an act was equivalent to betraying the sect.
The Bone Lion chased them for a distance before returning, not pursuing further. It entrenched itself in front of that new passage, opening its bloody jaws and waiting for the next fated victim.
By this point, the three mountains of Blackbone Range were emptied.
Wang Yu, seeing this, used the mystical effects of the Night Concealnt to sneak into Blackbone Mountain and sweep away all the resources from the warehouses.
Then he returned to the abandoned camp to loot the storage bags of the disciples killed by the Bone Lion, instantly becoming the "Hundred-Bag Elder," picking up treasures with great delight.
"What a great opportunity, what great luck. It is only right that I, Wang, should profit."
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Inside the underground palace.
With fully controlled subordinates, Liu Jinxian forcefully pressured Gu Zhengshun and Situ Hong to yield.
Using two Qi Refining sixth-layer cultivators as bait, they finally activated the formation core of the Yang pattern, opening the third palace gate of Moon Condensation Palace. Everyone rushed in.
But in less than ten breaths, Liu Jinxian and the other two fled out in a sorry state, with not a single subordinate left.
"Damn it, sothing is wrong with this cursed place."
At this mont.
Liu Jinxian was holding the prematurely erged Bee Gu. Its condition had stabilized greatly, and its aura had grown significantly stronger.
The only pursuer left behind them was a corpse demon.
The fate of the Venomous Bee King was self-evident.
"To hell with this so-called ancient sect ruin. It is probably set up deliberately to harm later generations by so hidden hand."
The three of them rushed out of Moon Condensation Palace and sprinted toward the passage.
The corpse demon at the rear made a motion to chase for a few steps but did not continue. The two flas in its eye sockets had at so point turned into a pair of lively eyeballs.
Its aura also changed greatly. Standing at the highest step overlooking the entire underground palace, it sighed.
"All failed?"
"The cage cannot be broken. I am not willing to accept this."
After a few steps, the corpse demon's figure halted. A wisp of remnant soul floated out from the top of its head and silently turned into ashes.
The air rippled slightly, as if a cold snort had flashed and vanished.
The corpse demon, restored to normal, scratched its bald head, let out a skyward roar, and continued chasing in the direction of human scent.
Three days later.
Covered in dust, Liu Jinxian and the other two crawled out from Blackbone Mountain at the place where Gu Zhengshun had set up the Earth Yin Corpse Puppet Formation, all with expressions of frustration.
Situ Hong said with a grave expression.
"I could not have seen wrong. That magic treasure definitely released a remnant soul. If not for my Yin Ghost Body Protection, I would have been caught in it."
Gu Zhengshun also frowned.
"Since there is a remnant soul, this underground palace is definitely not the ruins of so ancient sect, but a place deliberately arranged by a cultivator for possession. I wonder what happened to that corpse demon."
Taking a Core Formation cultivator’s eight hundred-year lifespan as an example, if one falls at the age of five hundred, the soul will still have three hundred years of yin lifespan left. Even if they seize a body and are reborn, the lifespan will not change.
Breaking through again will not increase lifespan unless one surpasses their original limit and reaches Nascent Soul.
Thus Gu Zhengshun’s judgnt was logical.
The underground palace ruins were not real but man-made, more like a trap.
At this stage, Liu Jinxian was the one who had gained the most benefits. The other two had only gotten so harvest during the grave-digging and no one had expected it to turn out this way.
"Sigh, there is no point saying more. Let us all return ho."
"Indeed. With the Xuan Essence Flower, these five years will not be wasted."
Liu Jinxian remained silent. Though her harvest was great, her losses were also heavy. It was hard for her to be in a good mood.
Then.
The mont the three of them stepped out of the formation's protection, they froze.
In the distant land crouched a gigantic Dire Bone Lion, its Foundation Establishnt-level aura unmistakable. The Blackbone Three Mountains had no trace of human presence, as quiet as a dead land.
"This..."
"No..."
"What happened here?"
In just one year, more than five hundred people were gone. The three felt their scalps tingle and a chill run down their spines.
Wang Yu appeared at the right mont, standing in the shadow of a boulder, and sighed lightly. "The three of you have finally returned."
The three: "???"
After leaving Blackbone Mountain, the four sat around a stone table, quietly listening to Wang Yu recount what had happened during this ti.
There was no need to hide anything. It was just the conflict between Five Yin Peak and Gu Poison Peak, which had allowed these evil creatures to take advantage.
Of course, the part where he had profited from it naturally disappeared.
After finishing, Wang Yu spoke with emotion.
"You all ca too late. The remaining people of Five Yin Peak were scattered by that bone beast. I, relying on a concealnt technique, barely survived."
Liu Jinxian glared coldly at Wang Yu and said, "Then why did you not step in to help?"
Wang Yu looked surprised and confused. "Senior Sister Liu overestimates . I am rely at Qi Refining fifth layer. How could I stop a Foundation Establishnt bone beast?"
Situ Hong quickly tried to smooth things over. "Junior Brother Wang is right. Senior Sister Liu, you are making things difficult. Being able to protect oneself is already good enough."
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