"Yo!"

Are you leaving?

Su Yuan felt the little figure struggling in his hand, so he let go and released her. After gaining her freedom, the little elf did not leave, but instead stuck to his face.

A delicate, moist touch pressed against his face... Then the little sprite seemed a bit curious and flew around him for a while, making a questioning sound. After confirming that Su Yuan was alright, it immediately left.

Arriving at another spot, she kissed Xin Ke and the others, who were fast asleep on the ground, on their cheeks again. The eyes of the sleeping group stirred slightly.

"Su Yuan, my butt hurts so much, don't pull my tail, I really want to rest."

"......"

Fortunately, the others hadn't woken up yet. Su Yuan followed the sound and found Xin Ke, grabbing her ear and lifting her up.

"Ouch! Why didn't you turn on the light? It's pitch black... Oh no, are you all alright?!"

"It's alright, Lion, Flame Hunter, are you awake?"

"Hmm, what just happened? I heard a voice and immediately fainted." Shouyan's face showed a hint of vigilance. He wanted to light the flame in his hand, but then he remembered Anlian's panicked and frightened voice.

So he calmed down, put his hands down, and carefully used his other senses to perceive the movements around him.

"Oh?"

"That's the voice! Cover your ears, I'll take care of her first!"

Su Yuan put his arm around Xin Ke's waist to stop her and quickly explained, "Okay, she's not a bad person. Let's ask An Lian what happened here when she wakes up."

"I'm awake..."

An Lian's voice rang out in front of Su Yuan, her tone tinged with helplessness and anger: "Why have you come back again? Didn't you already leave?"

"Wanxing and the others couldn't bear to part with you, so I came back to investigate what you've been up to."

"I wanted to come along, Chief. Why did you bring everyone underground? And weren't Qing Si and the others already...?"

"Alright, thankfully they haven't woken up yet. Come with me, and stop releasing that fire."

Anlian interrupted Wanxing's words. More and more yelping sounds came from around them, indicating that there was more than one little elf living here. After everyone woke up, they continued to walk forward together.

He finally stopped when he found a cave. He heard the voices of other people around him. It seemed that, just as he had guessed, the people who had been sacrificed underground had not died.

"Now that you've all come down here, there's no need for me to keep it from you any longer."

The group found a place to sit down at random. Su Yuan was currently using his fingers to sense the figures around him. They were mostly beast girls, some with horns and others with dirty beast ears.

His body smelled unpleasant, even worse than when Shouyan first arrived, but his attention was drawn back to Anlian's words.

"Do you still remember the struggle between the ancestors of the Lightbringers and the Shadowbringers many years ago?"

"......"

Su Yuan actually wanted to say that he didn't remember, after all, he wasn't a member of the People of Light, and at that time he was probably just born on Earth, and had never heard of any conflict between the People of Light and the People of Shadow.

"Back then, our ancestors discovered a tree underground, along with countless curses slumbering there... that is the Akashi Beast."

"Could that tree be the Mother of the Abyss, whom the Shadow People worship in legend?"