Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 182 Forked Road
The Three Stone Cave had been cracked open by Hu Zijun's magic weapon, and scattered rays of dim sunlight pierced into the cave, staining the gray sand on the ground with mottled patterns.

The group carefully passed through the three huge rocks at the entrance of the cave and walked into the cave.

After walking for a short while, a faint fishy stench wafted towards us.

"What's that smell?!"

Bai Chenxue, who was used to not having her sense of smell turned off, bent over and gagged. She grabbed Shen Yuncai and barely managed to regain her balance before frantically adjusting her five senses.

The corals, with their more acute sense of smell, kept their brows furrowed.

After walking a short distance, they finally saw the source of the stench—a pile of bones and excrement mixed together, scattered in a stone pit.

Some of the bones still had some rotten flesh attached to them, but most of them were mixed with black filaments twisted together, emitting an unbearable stench.

"Disgusting!"

Bai Chenxue couldn't stand it after just one glance and quickly turned to look at Shanhu to cleanse her eyes, but when she saw Shanhu's silver-gray armor, she felt something was off and had no choice but to turn back to look at Shen Yun.

Shen Yun: "?"

After examining the bone closely, Zhongzhou Jinli deduced, "This bone is so big, it must be a human bone, right?"

Jia Xiaoren nodded and said, "It must be human bones! These monsters eat people!"

Bai Chenxue crossed her arms, touched the goosebumps on her arms, and said, "But I remember she always swallowed them whole, so where did the bones come from?"

Jia Xiaoren casually remarked, "Maybe it'll be digested before it vomits!"

Bai Chenxue pinched her nose and said, "Let's keep looking ahead. I remember there are several stone chambers ahead, and a kitchen too!"

The others naturally had no objections, since no one wanted to stay in this place that looked like a cesspool any longer.

As they walked, Lin Muning asked curiously, "Cai Cai, how do you know so much detail?"

"Her? Hey! She's a sucker for good looks! And a total slut! When we were captured, she actually became a lackey of the fox demon by relying on her licking skills, even giving him massages and grooming him. Tsk tsk tsk, the way she licked that fox demon was even more outrageous than Shen Gongbao licking Lady Shiji!"

As Jia Xiaoren spoke, she even imitated in a high-pitched voice, "Please, dear sister, let me touch your tail!"

Apart from Zhen Junzi, the others were completely unaware of this, and they all stared at Bai Chenxue in disbelief.

Bai Chenxue blushed instantly and retorted, "It's all fluffy! Who doesn't like fluffy things? Such a big tail! Over a meter long! Has anyone ever seen one like that? Besides, can you call that licking of Fu Rui fans licking? That's pursuing a dream! And what I did was infiltrate the enemy to preserve our strength! I was deliberately acting as an undercover agent! Just an undercover agent!"

Then it started with things like tails and fluffy things that were hard to understand.

Jia Xiaoren said disdainfully, "Then they'll eat you up when they're supposed to!"

Bai Chenxue's face turned pale instantly, clearly recalling the terrifying scene from that time. She quickly begged for mercy, "I've been honest! Please let me go!"

Amidst laughter and banter, the group arrived at a fork in the road.

In the center of the fork in the road is a huge rock, several tens of centimeters high. A small pit has been dug out of the rock by the claws of some unknown thing. Inside the pit is a pile of carbonized firewood and some charcoal, which looks like it used to be a "campfire".

Beyond the boulder are three dark, forked paths.

Zhen Junzi assigned tasks: "Let's split up and increase efficiency! Sister Cockroach and Brother Koi, one of you. Old Jia, take your apprentice. I'll take my apprentice. Then Yun Canghai and I will go together. As for Fellow Daoist Coral... pick whoever you like! Anyway, Fellow Daoist Coral has high cultivation, so there's no need to worry about danger!" Bai Chenxue pouted and protested: "I don't want to go with my master! He's ruthless! Going with him will definitely lead to trouble! When I first entered the game, I encountered him and was killed by Huang Gong's Black Wind!"

Jia Xiaoren said unhappily, "Hey, hey, hey? Can't you be reasonable? Is that called black? That's called red, okay? Just tell me if you've had any extraordinary encounters!"

Shen Yun interrupted the two, saying, "Alright, alright, how about this? Bai Chenxue, Lin Muning, and I will go together, Master and Zhongzhou Jinli will go together, and we'll trouble Fellow Daoist Coral and Zhen Junzi to go together, since Zhen Junzi needs to take care of his child... That way, our combat strength will be basically balanced, how about that?"

"agree!"

Upon hearing that she was with Lin Muning, Bai Chenxue's face lit up with a smile. She reached out and pulled Lin Muning up, whispering in her ear, "Little Ning! Let's go together! I'll let you pick some golden cabbage later!"

Lin Muning nodded vigorously with delight: "Great! Great!"

Coral added, "I will do my best to take care of the cubs."

Bian Yuanzhi, nicknamed "Little Brat": "..."

Bai Chenxue, full of energy, announced, "Then it's decided! Let's go!"

After the teams were assigned, everyone chose a side path to proceed.

After walking a few steps, Bai Chenxue took out the golden vegetable that she had been holding for a while from the Pot Heaven Space.

The golden cabbage, which had finally emerged, immediately climbed onto Bai Chenxue's shoulder, its beady eyes darting around, looking her up and down.

Wow! It's so cute!

Lin Muning's eyes were practically glued to the golden cabbage when she saw it. She carefully reached out her hand and touched the cabbage, intending to let it get used to her scent first.

Unexpectedly, after hearing Lin Muning's words, Jin Cai skillfully climbed onto Bai Chenxue's shoulder—with its two paws in front and its two paws dragging behind, arching its furry back into a semi-circle.

The entire golden bamboo rat was hanging on Bai Chenxue's shoulder, posing as if it were ready to be picked!

Bai Chenxue seemed unsurprised and explained, "Oh, it's used to this. It knows you want to pet it, so pet it! By the way, it understands human speech, so if you praise it more, it will become closer to you!"

"Zun Du Jia Du!"

Lin Muning excitedly reached out her mischievous hand and vigorously stroked Jin Cai's back, which was almost curled up into a ball. As she stroked it, she said in a high-pitched voice, "Whose little furball is so cute! Oh my! So cute! Jin Cai is simply the cutest and most beautiful little furball I have ever seen!"

After waiting for quite a while, Shen Yun couldn't bear to watch the two women so engrossed in Jin Cai any longer. He asked helplessly, "Hey, are you two coming or not?"

"Let's go! Let's go now!"

Lin Muning responded and reluctantly withdrew her paw.

Bai Chenxue comforted them, "It's okay! We'll pet them at my place later! Jin Cai and Bai Cai both love it when someone pets them!"

Then, she consulted with Jin Cai on her shoulder, "Jin Cai, can you sense the evil aura from the well we were in before? If you can, could you lead us to find it?"

Upon hearing this, Jin Cai immediately jumped off Bai Chenxue's shoulder, shook its golden fur, whimpered twice, and ran towards the depths of the cave.

(End of this chapter)