The Unorthodox Tomb Raider

His Qilin blood was no match for the puppet life form that lacked both corpse yin energy and intelligence, nor could it contend with the power of the Ghost Cave.

However... after the passage connecting the Ghost Cave to the real world is closed, the objects manifested by the power of the Ghost Cave will remain in the real world forever, that is, become real.

The black snakes before us are now truly living beings, with flesh and blood. Without the influence of the Ghost Cave's power, the Qilin blood will most likely affect those black snakes.

Of course, this group of black snakes will likely behave like the white wolf pack, where when faced with the blood of the Qilin, the larger ones are not afraid of the smaller ones, and the larger ones force the smaller ones to act.

Therefore, we need to make two plans: simply block the doorway.

After making up his mind, Fang Yun directly cut his palm with the Dragon Bone Dagger, squeezed out the Qilin blood, and sprinkled it on the doorway.

Partridge Whistle, Old Foreigner, and Hua also found some large stone slabs and pillars behind the doorway, intending to use them to block the entrance.

When the Qilin blood was spilled from Fang Yun's hand, the black snakes seemed to sense the oppressive force of the Qilin blood, and their crawling speed decreased greatly, unwilling to approach the doorway.

Even the snake king's movements stopped, and it stopped with its swarm of black snakes dozens of meters away from the doorway, constantly flicking its tongue.

The venom of that snake king was terrifying; the saliva dripping from its mouth alone could corrode a pit in the earth.

Seeing this, Fang Yun breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Sure enough, these black snakes had become real life, and through countless years of inheritance, they had also developed intelligence.

Otherwise, so many black snakes would really be a big problem...

If even the blood of the Qilin couldn't subdue these black snakes, he was prepared to take out his Demon Eye, which would definitely be able to suppress them.

Those people from the Samsara Sect can use the Demon Eye to connect with the power of the Ghost Cave, so there's no reason why he can't. Moreover, he not only has the Demon Eye, but also the Serpent God's Eye, the Muchen Pearl.

The three brothers, Partridge Whistle and his companions, acted quickly. In just over ten seconds, they found several large stone slabs and used the surrounding collapsed stone pillars to prop them up, blocking the entire doorway.

After doing all this, the solemn expressions on the three people's faces lessened somewhat.

The black snakes were afraid of Fang Yun's blood, and now that they had blocked the doorway, there shouldn't be any major problems.

The next step is to find a way out of the underground.

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The interior of this black colossus is quite similar to a tenement building, with many stone chambers carved inside, much like the scene in Evil Luo Sea City.

However, the stone chambers here are very small and not connected. Each stone chamber is only five or six square meters in size, which is very oppressive.

Fang Yun knew that this was no good place; it was the Demon Kingdom's secret prison, specifically used to imprison unqualified candidates for the Ghost Mother title.

This is why there are no records of it here, because it was not a glorious thing, and the people of the Demon Kingdom would not allow this history of failure to be passed down.

The prison has several levels, and at the end of each level there is a stone staircase leading to the next level. To call it a stone staircase is a bit of an exaggeration; it's really just a rough little stone slope.

On each level of the passageway, there are many small, hollowed-out stone holes, which are the windows of the prison. Looking down through the stone doors, you can see the scenery in the canyon.

In the canyon, the number of black snakes is immeasurable. Countless black snakes gather together, some lazily coiled up, some devouring each other, like a writhing sea of ​​black snakes, which is quite disgusting.

Moreover, a large number of black snakes emerged from the mountain crevices and joined the black snake army.

However, neither the swarm of black snakes nor the previous black snake king showed any intention of approaching the black giant. Instead, they faced a cliff and stared blankly at it.

At this moment, Partridge Whistle looked at the snakes below and frowned in confusion, saying:

"The snakes have retreated considerably compared to before. Perhaps they are not only afraid of Brother Fang's blood, but also unwilling to get close to this black behemoth."

"Judging from the snakes' behavior, they seem to be waiting for something..."

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The snakes behaved very strangely, as if they weren't their target from the start, and that they just happened to be discovered by the snakes.

Fang Yun didn't speak, but was pondering where the return journey would lead.

This is the downside of not paying attention while reading... He has absolutely no memory of this kind of bland plot.

"Look at the cliff face!"

Suddenly, the old foreigner gave a low shout and pointed towards the cliff face.

"Ok?"

Upon hearing the old foreigner's words, everyone turned their gaze to the cliff face.

A long string of small white fluorescent lights appeared on the cliff face at some unknown time, forming a long dragon that could move.

Because there were few crystal mines on that cliff, the light was very dim, and the distance was very far, even Fang Yun could not see what the fluorescence was.

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I could only vaguely sense that the fluorescent light was alive, and it looked like little people dressed in white, with a large white mass on their bodies.

The little white figures lined up in a long queue, walked to a slightly flat crystal layer on the cliff, and then threw the white thing in their arms down the cliff.

As the countless white clumps fell, the swarm of black snakes below the cliff went berserk, rushing towards the white objects as if vying for them.

Upon seeing this, the three brothers, Partridge Whistle and his companions, were even more puzzled.

Although they didn't know what was going on, they all understood that the black snakes weren't targeting them, but were waiting for those white things.

"Fang Yun, do you know what those things are?"

At this moment, Hua noticed that Fang Yun looked thoughtful and asked him a question out of curiosity.

"Um..."

Hearing Hua's words, Fang Yun rested his chin on his hand and said softly:

"Those little white shadows must be snow serpents. What they dropped must have been food, and it was that food that caused the black snakes to fight over it."

“Those black snakes weren’t coming for us; they were waiting for Xuehu to feed them.”

"But this Snow Serpent is cunning and greedy by nature, and it has plans to store food... I don't know why it's being fed to these black snakes."

This scene is truly bizarre.

That snow serpent is as cunning as a fox; how could it bear to give its food to those black snake farms?

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Xueju threw down the food, and the black snakes were thrown into chaos.

However, just as the black snakes were about to touch the white mass of food, they stopped moving and simply surrounded it.

At the same time, the giant black snake king swam around, pushing aside all the other black snakes, and crawled toward the white balls of food.

The smaller black snakes around them sensed their leader's arrival and quickly retreated, making way for the Black Snake King.

The black snake king didn't stand on ceremony. It crawled up to the white clumps and swallowed them all. Then, it raised its head in satisfaction, climbed onto a fossil skeleton embedded in the rock, and coiled up as if to rest.

After the snake king rested, the group of black snakes also quieted down, all coiling up on the spot and resting at the foot of the cliff.

“Brother Fang, it seems that these snakes are only here to hunt for food. The reason they don’t come close to this place is probably because this is a forbidden area of ​​the Demon Kingdom. The black snake ‘500’ dares not approach.”

"Let's investigate this place; perhaps we can find something."

Seeing that the black snakes stayed at the foot of the cliff and did not approach the black stone statue again, Partridge Whistle's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, was finally put at ease.

Upon hearing Partridge Whistle's words, Fang Yun pondered for a moment and then nodded.

"Then let's go upstairs and take another look."

With that, Fang Yun led the three brothers, Partridge Whistle and his fellow disciples, to continue upstairs.

The lower floors were completely empty; there was nothing of value there.

This is the prison where candidates for the Ghost Mother are held. According to the hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, those candidates for Ghost Mother should have been imprisoned from the top down. Perhaps there weren't many candidates for Ghost Mother, not enough to fill the entire prison.

After going up five or six more floors, the group of four finally found the stone chamber that had once been inhabited.

There are no candles in these stone chambers, only an ancient jade mask without eye holes, and there is one in each stone chamber.

"This must be where the Demon Mother lives, right?"

At this moment, the old foreigner picked up an ancient jade mask and examined it with suspicion.

The Demon Queen of the Demon Kingdom cannot show her true face, and since she has demon eyes, this mask is perfect for her.

"impossible!"

Fang Yun took the ancient jade mask from the old foreigner and explained:

"The Ghost Mother only appears once every few generations, and there are ancient jade masks in every stone chamber here, so the numbers don't match up."

"Moreover, the Ghost Mother's status in the Demon Kingdom is second only to the Serpent God. How could she possibly live in a place like this? The scale and terrain don't match up at all. Don't you think... this place looks a lot like a prison?"

“I suspect this place is used to imprison candidates for the Demon Mother. Candidates who haven’t awakened their Demon Eyes will be imprisoned here. The stone pillars we saw at the bottom were used for executions… all the candidates for the Demon Mother were tied to the stone pillars and left to be devoured by the black snake.”

Upon hearing Fang Yun's words, the three brothers, Partridge Whistle and his fellow disciples, were all taken aback.

To select a demon mother... naturally, she must be selected from within one's own country.

Doesn't this mean that the people of the Demon Kingdom are so eager to sacrifice the serpent god and obtain the power of the Demon Eye that they don't even spare the common people in their own country?

Seeing the three people's changing expressions, Fang Yun shook his head.

That's why the Demon Kingdom is so unstable.

No nation's citizens could accept such a thing. Using foreigners as sacrifices was bad enough, but to start killing their own people was even worse.

He had just taken a closer look and noticed that there were numerous marks on the walls of these stone chambers.

Those marks are all symbols, the curses left behind by the candidates for the Ghost Mother in their resentment and despair.