The road is vague

Chapter 492 Underground World
The nine caves in Miao territory are all different.

However, according to the consensus of many Miao Gu masters, the depths of the Nine Caves are an interconnected underground world, an ancient giant insect nest, which is the source of all Gu insect order in the current Mountain and Sea Realm.

Under An Lei's arrangement, Li Mo and the Vampire Demon arrived at the valley outside Lingyun Cave.

This place is shrouded in poisonous fog and miasma year-round, and the spiritual energy here contains an indescribable sense of oppression, which can suppress divine sense to a great extent, making the vampire old demon somewhat uneasy, and he would occasionally look to his left and right.

"what happened?"

Li Mo's question made the old vampire look somewhat helpless.

“We bloodline cultivators have an innate and powerful ability to sense all kinds of alien beings. The order contained in this mist makes me feel very uncomfortable. There must be some alien beings deep in the mist that are enough to threaten me.”

Li Mo had a similar feeling, as if countless eyes were silently watching.

He had experienced the Wild Wolf Valley in Muzhou, and through his eyes, he could almost confirm that an ancient demon clan was hidden there.

Now, this is just a valley above Lingyun Cave, yet it feels similar, and even stronger, demonstrating the terror of the underground world. It is definitely one of the few dangerous places in the Mountain and Sea Realm.

"The Gu Insect Masters of Miao territory once tried to defend themselves using the unique environment here. Shenjizi, as the Great General, ordered that the entire valley be surrounded for over a year using the Heavenly Rift Bottle combined with the power of the great formation. After that, all the Gu Insect Masters disappeared. Some say they became food for the endless worms here, while others say they escaped to the underground world..."

Li Mo nodded and continued forward with the Vampire Demon and Dark Thunder.

Although An Lei had led the Dark Investigators to clear the traps and restrictions along the way in advance, the dangers in the valley were not limited to just restrictions and traps.

Sudden.

A strange cry came from afar.

Li Mo's eyes gleamed with a faint golden and silver hue as he peered through the mist toward the source of the sound.

A silver praying mantis, about ten feet long, was tearing at an ant of similar size, like wild beasts, gnawing at each other's bodies.

When Li Mo looked at them, the two enormous creatures seemed to sense something and instantly transformed into countless tiny Gu worms, quickly dissipating. Everything that had just happened seemed like an illusion.

"This……"

Li Mo was briefly stunned.

"Fellow Daoist Li, is there a problem?"

Faced with the old vampire's question, Li Mo shook his head.

"fine."

As they were talking, the three of them passed by a huge crater.

At the center of the crater was a Qian Kingdom warship, only a small part of which remained, embedded in the soil. Surrounding it were dense craters, with fragments of various sizes at their centers.

Li Mo used his spiritual light to capture a piece of warship fragment. After seeing the teeth marks on the fragment, his eyes narrowed slightly.

The vampire demon noticed Li Mo's actions and couldn't help but sigh.

"I initially thought the war would end quickly, but I never expected these Gu worm masters to be so troublesome."

"What, there are no Gu Masters on the Aolai Continent?"

The vampire old demon shook his head.

He only came into contact with these strange cultivators after arriving in the Central Plains. At first, he didn't take them seriously, but as the war continued, he put away his initial arrogance and realized that the intensity of the war in the Central Plains was far beyond what the Aolai Continent could compare to.

hum!hum!hum!
A swarm of black, leech-like insects, each about three feet long, flew in from afar, flapping their wings. When they gathered together, they emitted a nauseating black mist, clearly indicating that they were highly poisonous.

"It's a brain-eating amoeba!"

An Lei said in a low voice, "Never use your divine sense to contact them, they will lay their eggs in your divine sense."

The old vampire was prepared for this.

Upon hearing An Lei's warning, Li Mo's expression changed slightly.

After the massive swarm of brain-eating worms flew away at low altitude, the three continued onward. Along the way, they encountered several more waves of strange insect swarms before finally arriving at a cave deep in the valley, or rather, the edge of a canyon.

"This is Lingyun Cave."

Dark Thunder said
"Lord of Fate!"

The four undercover agents, who had been waiting there for a long time, all showed excitement and bowed to Li Mo.

"kindness."

After Li Mo nodded in response, he looked at the canyon in front of him.

From the depths of the canyon, visible black smoke continuously billowed out, containing an aura of order that made Li Mo's scalp tingle. It was as if he had entered another world, which was opening its bloody maw, waiting for ignorant aliens to walk into its trap.

Li Mo, who had originally opened his eyes, quickly closed them again, afraid of attracting the attention of unknown high-level creatures.

After taking a deep breath and regaining his senses, Li Mo looked at the four secret agents present.

These four were all commanders at the Golden Core stage, selected by An Lei in advance to carry out a secret mission. Upon learning that this mission would allow them to meet Si Ming, they were all in high spirits and extremely excited.

"Well done."

After praising him in front of the four, Li Mo took out the Golden Gu Token and turned to An Lei, saying, "Record his merits, grant him a three-month paid leave, and give him priority in promotion when evaluating his qualifications."

"Yes!"

An Lei responded.

Upon hearing this, the four of them immediately showed excitement.

However, before the four could say anything, the token in Li Mo's hand, which resembled a cicada, opened its eyes and shot a mysterious golden light into the canyon, leaving the four who were about to speak stunned on the spot.

Li Mo and the Vampire Demon took to the air, following the golden light as they flew deeper into the Lingyun Cave, until they were completely engulfed by black smoke.

After a long time.

Roar!
It wasn't until a strange roar came from the depths of the canyon that the four of them came to their senses.

"Let's go quickly, lest we attract some terrifying creatures."

The four agreed with An Lei's words and followed him, preparing to leave the place as soon as possible.

Li Mo and the Vampire Demon, who had flown more than ten miles along the cliff face, both stopped in their tracks after hearing the mighty roar.

The surrounding cliff walls were riddled with insect nests and strange, enormous claw marks, clearly indicating that they were teeming with dangerous Gu worms. However, due to the Golden Gu Token, these dangerous Gu worms had all gone into hibernation.

Rumble, rumble.

Both of them could clearly sense that an enormous creature was approaching from the depths of the black mist.

After a while.

As the nearby cliff face shook violently and the insects in their nests in the crevices of the rocks stirred restlessly, an astonishingly large stick insect climbed the cliff face and gradually appeared before the two.

Holding the Golden Gu Token, Li Mo was like a grain of rice in front of a giant snake compared to this giant stick insect. Fortunately, Li Mo had experienced the invasion of sea monsters in the Thousand Treasures Islands and had heard of some even more terrifying deep-sea monsters, so he could not be judged by common sense.

Given its enormous size, let alone its combat capabilities.

Their sheer toughness and resilience alone are enough to give Nascent Soul cultivators a headache.

The old vampire demon had clearly never seen such a terrifying behemoth before. After gasping in astonishment, he couldn't help but activate his bloodline aura, forming a visible layer of blood on his body.

Li Mo stopped him in time. "Don't act rashly."

As he spoke, Li Mo raised his hand, using his spiritual light to lift the Golden Gu Token and present it to the giant insect.

It was so enormous that each of its legs was over ten feet long, and its hindquarters were hidden in the black mist, so much so that Li Mo could not see its full appearance at all.

At this time.

A pink, sticky tentacle coiled up the Golden Gu Token.

Only then did Li Mo notice that on the head of this giant worm stood a soft-bodied worm resembling an octopus, its pink body covered with eerie blue patterns.

"If I were to say, since the end of the world is near anyway, you might as well hide underground. If the Queen Mother remembers your past relationship, you might still have a chance to survive and go back to participate in the war. Regardless of victory or defeat, you will all die eventually."

This strange, soft-bodied worm said something that puzzled Li Mo.

After exchanging a glance, Li Mo finally spoke up, "What, there are others who came here before us?"

"Yeah, just a few days ago, I was still with that crazy scorpion."

After signaling Li Mo and the Vampire Demon to come closer, the Soft-bodied Worm continued to drive the giant Stick Worm into the ground. The Stick Worm's speed seemed slow, but in fact, each step covered a large distance, so it was not slow at all.

More importantly, Li Mo peered into the order and discovered that this giant stick insect was actually controlled, or rather parasitized, by this soft-bodied worm, which had completely taken control of his soul.

Various kinds of Gu worms appeared along the way.

Some Gu worms live in groups, some live alone, some Gu worms are like evil spirits, possessing a special order, some Gu worms focus on evolving a powerful body, some Gu worms are extremely huge, and some Gu worms are invisible to the naked eye...

I do not know how long it has been.

The surroundings were completely dark, and countless fluorescent butterflies floated in the sky. Several Gu Immortals, half-human and half-insect in various forms, sensed the arrival of the giant and flew in from the darkness.

"Respected Guardian, why are you personally escorting two humans down here again?"

The leader of the Gu Immortals was a half-human, half-butterfly creature that emitted a pale green glow.

However, what Li Mo was more interested in were the various kinds of mushrooms here.

Some mushrooms look extremely poisonous, while others are shiny and shimmering. Still others resemble giant trees, stretching as far as the eye can see, like a vast forest.

The entire underground exuded a suffocating sense of oppression that made it hard for him to breathe.

“They possess the Golden Gu Tokens, and the Queen Mother needs these ancient Golden Gu Tokens.”

After the Soft-bodied Worm finished speaking, it indicated to Li Mo and the Vampire Demon that they had arrived in the underground world. Then it continued to drive the giant worm toward the canyon. It seemed to be one of the guardians of Lingyun Cave, or one of the leaders of the Nine Caves, to prevent humans on the surface from entering the underground world.

"So many Gu Immortals?"

As a bloodline master, the Blood Demon's eyes instantly turned red when he saw these alien races, revealing an undisguised desire.

Li Mo was equally moved!

This place is perfect for him to spread the multiverse chaotic thunder order and draw upon the power of heaven and earth.

However, with the important matter at hand, he immediately took out the Golden Gu Token and said to the Gu Immortals in front of him, "When I received this Golden Gu Token, I was told that if I were to suffer a catastrophic disaster, I could come here for help."

These Gu Immortals are not very strong; they probably haven't reached the Nascent Soul stage yet.

It was only because the cultivation systems of the two sides were so different that Li Mo could not tell them apart accurately, but his intuition, which allowed him to see the order, was never wrong.

The half-human, half-butterfly Gu Immortal nodded upon seeing this.

“I’ve heard that your surface world is currently in the midst of a fierce war, and it seems that a vast empire is rapidly rising and wants to unify this continent.”

She flew ahead, signaling Li Mo and the Vampire Demon to follow.

"Don't worry, word has already spread throughout the underground world that the power of the natural order on this continent is nearing its end. Once everything here falls into death, the Queen Mother can try to open the window to the Mother Nest Realm..."

The old vampire was stunned and kept glancing at Li Mo.

Li Mo narrowed his eyes slightly.

For him, if the day of the end of the Central Plains really came, there would be at least several routes to choose from. One was to go to the Seven Star World through the Heavenly Realm, another was to find a way to go to the Aolai Continent, another was the route of the treasure map of the True Demon Avatar, and the third was to go to the Sky-Supporting World that Lingzhao Mountain had migrated to, but that would require the Lingzhao Sword Sheath as a medium and the support of the late-stage Nascent Soul cultivation.

of course.

There are also wishes made to the nine-tailed fox.

Just as Li Mo was lost in thought, a uniquely shaped giant altar on the ground caught his attention. It seemed to be a special kind of super mushroom, a hundred feet tall, covered with all sorts of small mushrooms.

When he turned around and looked closely, he was shocked to discover that it seemed to be a super huge time-tracking device.

"This is?"

The Demon Butterfly Gu Immortal smiled proudly and paused slightly as well.

"After thousands of years of operation, the Mother Nest Realm has gradually separated from the Mountain and Sea Realm. Only by forming a matrix through this special super altar can we calculate the corresponding coordinates of the Mother Realm. This will put our Mother Nest World in a relatively safe position, and we don't have to worry about being polluted here for the time being."

Li Mo could tell that the Gu Immortals in the underground world were extremely excited about this.

This is probably why they didn't want to participate in the war in the Miao region; no one wanted to fall on the eve of victory.

"That's good."

Li Mo nodded calmly and continued flying forward.

The ecosystem of the underground world is almost entirely composed of all kinds of insects. The so-called Gu Immortal is less an insect that has gained sentience and more an insect nest that has gained sentience. The so-called Gu Immortal is a whole composed of countless individual insects.

Besides these insects, the underground world is filled with all sorts of mushrooms.

A few hours later.

A group of people arrived at a city deep in the Mushroom Forest, where mushroom houses were everywhere, inhabited by Gu Immortals of various shapes and sizes. This was also the only city in the underground world.

An artificial sun floats in the sky.

It looked like an enormous crystal, or an enormous insect nest. Before Li Mo even got close, he felt uneasy all over, as if he were being eaten by thousands of insects. The Bloodsucking Demon was even paler.

"That is the Queen Mother's palace."

The fairy butterfly pointed to a huge mushroom house in the distance and said, while she sighed and smiled.

"But if I may be so bold, unless you can gain the approval of the Sunborn, even the Golden Gu Token will likely be unable to change the Queen Mother's will, and the surface will ultimately perish... Wait! What is she going to do!"

Following the gaze of the Demon Butterfly Immortal, a female cultivator from Miao territory soared into the sky, heading straight for the artificial sun.

"That seems to be the Holy Maiden of a Thousand Streams?"

The old vampire demon couldn't help but transmit his thoughts telepathically.

Another Gu Immortal who escorted Li Mo here couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"She wants the approval of the Sunborn, she's insane!!"

As everyone watched, the Holy Maiden Qianliu drew ever closer to the sun of the underground world, and suddenly vanished into thin air with a whoosh.

Seeing this, the surrounding Gu Immortals couldn't help but feel a pang of regret, while Li Mo gave a cold smile.

(End of this chapter)