The SSSSSSSS-level Mad Dragon is released from prison!

The chill has subsided.

The chilling cold that seeped into the bones seemed to be burned away by an invisible fire after stepping over the corpse of the two-headed serpent.

Instead, there is heat.

It wasn't the explosive heat of flames, but a dry, stifling, baking sensation, as if even the moisture in the alveoli was being evaporated.

Xiao Ruoye wiped her face.

The back of my hand was covered in hardened, dried blood crusts. Before I could wipe them off, they cracked under the heat, and a layer of dark red scabs fell off.

"The stones here..."

Shen Suxin walked at the very back, her voice hoarse.

She wasn't wearing shoes, and her bare feet, which had previously felt the slippery dampness of the moss, now sent waves of stinging pain through the soles of her feet.

Xiao Ruoye lowered her head.

The road beneath my feet has changed.

It was no longer the damp, moss-covered black rock, but a pale white stone.

The stone's surface is as smooth as a mirror, as if it has been polished a thousand times with the finest sandpaper, leaving not a speck of dust behind.

"It was illuminated by light."

Jiang Chen lay on Xiao Ruoye's back, his breathing so light it was almost inaudible, but his burning body temperature seeped through Xiao Ruoye's spine, making her heart race.

"It's just ahead."

Xiao Ruoye tightened her grip on Jiang Chen's thigh and stepped over the last stone step.

Suddenly, everything became clear.

The tunnel had come to an end, and ahead lay a huge underground cavity.

There is no top.

Or rather, the top is too high, hidden in the darkness and invisible.

There used to be an underground lake below, but now the water has dried up, leaving only a bottomless pit.

At the center of the pit stood an altar.

Cast entirely in white jade, it stood out starkly clean in this stinking and dark underground world.

"That is..."

Xiao Ruoye's pupils suddenly contracted.

In the very center of the altar, a person was kneeling.

She is a young girl.

Her silver hair cascaded down her back, reaching the ground, and the strands floated gently in the air, each emitting a faint glow.

She wore a thin white gauze dress, her eyes were closed, and her hands were folded on her knees, as quiet as a lifeless porcelain doll.

But Xiao Ruoye's gaze couldn't linger on her for long.

Because there are nine chains.

Each one was as thick as an adult's thigh, completely black, and covered with dense, blood-red runes.

These chains extended from the towering stone pillars around them, like nine ferocious black dragons, tightly gripping the girl's wrists, ankles, and neck, even piercing through her collarbones.

The chains were taut.

Whenever the white light emanating from the girl brightened slightly, the crimson runes on the chains would flash wildly, emitting a crackling sound of electricity, forcibly suppressing the light.

"This is Narancia?"

Xiao Ruoye felt her throat was dry.

Is this the "demoness" who turned the Ten Thousand Poison Cave into a forbidden area and made the Black Miao tribe tremble with fear?

She looked so holy.

So pure and holy that they seemed out of place in this sinful world.

"No...don't go there..."

Shen Suxin, who had been quietly following beside her, suddenly clutched her chest and began to tremble violently.

Her long, snow-white hair was now starting to smoke.

It didn't catch fire, it vaporized.

A burnt smell filled the air.

"Pure Heart!"

Xiao Ruoye caught her and then noticed that the purplish-black poisonous patterns on Shen Suxin's exposed skin were receding rapidly, replaced by large patches of red spots.

That's a burn.

Just standing here, a hundred meters away from the girl, Shen Suxin's Hundred Herbs Poison Body had already begun to collapse.

"It's...too pure..."

Shen Suxin's teeth chattered, her nails digging deep into Xiao Ruoye's flesh: "She is the source of light... my poison... will be burned away by her..."

"jingle……"

The bell on Junyao's wrist suddenly rang.

She didn't shake it.

It's the bell that's shaking.

Jun Yao tilted her head, looking at the girl on the altar. For the first time, a look of wariness appeared in her eyes, which always held a hint of innocence and cruelty.

Several colorful beetles crawled out of her sleeve.

That was the king of poisonous insects she caught in Miao territory. It was usually very fierce, but now it had just poked its head out and hadn't even had a chance to spread its wings yet.

"puff."

A soft sound.

Several beetles turned into wisps of smoke in the air, leaving not even a trace of their bodies.

Purification.

Absolute purification.

There are no toxins, no germs, and not even dust here.

Anything impure will be erased here.

"She's draining my life."

Xiao Ruoye stared at the nine chains.

She understood.

Those chains weren't meant to bind Narancia, but to drain her dry.

The runes on the chains were continuously drawing some kind of power from the girl's body, transmitting it along the chains to the surrounding stone pillars, and then dissipating into the ground through the pillars.

She was using her life to suppress the poisonous miasma of the entire Ten Thousand Poison Cave.

"Jiang Chen said that the key is in my hands."

Xiao Ruoye took a deep breath and raised her right hand.

In his palm, the dragon-shaped rune that Jiang Chen had drawn with his blood essence was still burning hot, and a dark golden light flowed under his skin, as if it were alive.

"I'll go."

Xiao Ruoye lifted Jiang Chen up and drew the broken sword from her waist.

"You all step back."

Before Shen Suxin and Jun Yao could react, she strode toward the altar.

step.

Two steps.

The heat wave in the air is rising exponentially.

Xiao Ruoye's clothes began to brittle, her hair became curly, and she felt a stinging pain on her skin.

That's not because the temperature is high.

That's light breaking down her skin cells.

When Xiao Ruoye was fifty meters away from the altar, she stopped.

Because the people on the altar moved.

"Splash..."

The sound of iron chains scraping against the white jade floor was exceptionally clear in the empty cave.

The silver-haired girl, who had been keeping her head down as if she were dead, trembled slightly.

An indescribable wave of terror instantly swept across the entire area.

The once peaceful space suddenly became distorted.

Xiao Ruoye felt as if she had been thrown into a washing machine, and her internal organs were about to shift.

"Buzz—"

The nine chains tightened simultaneously, emitting a mournful cry of unbearable strain.

The runes on the stone pillar glowed bright red, attempting to suppress the fluctuations.

But it didn't work.

A small woman walks away.

That face was breathtakingly beautiful, yet it was completely expressionless.

She opened her eyes.

No pupils.

There is no white in the eye.

There were only two blinding white lights in his eye sockets, as if two miniature stars had been stuffed into his eyes.

Xiao Ruoye only glanced at it, and two lines of bloody tears streamed down her face.

That was caused by the retina being burned by strong light.

"Intruders".

Before the girl could even move her lips, a cold voice exploded in Xiao Ruoye's mind.

There was no emotion, no fluctuation, as if it were announcing a predetermined fact.

Xiao Ruoye hadn't had a chance to explain.

The girl's mouth was slightly open.

It's not about speaking.

A ball of light, about the size of a thumb, condensed at the corner of her lips.

The ball of light was small and didn't make any earth-shattering noise.

But the moment it appeared, the space around the altar collapsed, revealing black void rifts.

Xiao Ruoye's hair stood on end instantly.

That's the smell of death.

The aura of death was ten thousand times stronger than that of the two-headed serpent from before, and than that of all the Dragon Guard assassins we had encountered.

"run!!"

Xiao Ruoye roared, completely disregarding her composure, and turned to hug Jiang Chen on her back, ready to pounce back.

late.

The girl parted her red lips slightly and gently blew a breath.

"call."

The ball of light blurted out.

It flew very slowly, so slowly that it seemed to be floating.

But wherever it goes, everything disappears—air, light, rocks, dust.

It was erased directly from the material level.

It plowed a deep, bottomless black trench in the ground and crashed straight into Xiao Ruoye's back.