Today, Chu Nian was by Qi Meili's side because she was worried that something might happen to Qi Meili, but in other people's eyes, it was still because she was being protected by Qi Meili.

The first half of the route had been explored by predecessors, who had maps and marked the possible locations of monsters. In fact, the monsters marked by their predecessors were demonic beasts, different from the enormous monsters mutated by nuclear contamination outside the heavens.

These demonic beasts possess their own consciousness, especially a strong sense of territory. However, they also have an extremely high perception of powerful individuals and a strong sense of fear. Therefore, since the team entered Huai Mountain, they have been keeping as far away from them as possible.

Although they couldn't pinpoint who the strongest member was, they sensed that there was a powerful one in the team.

The team crossed the area that had been explored by their predecessors without any hindrance and has entered a place about a thousand miles deep in Huai Mountain.

The group was puzzled as to why they hadn't encountered any obstacles or attacks so far, something that had never happened before. Even areas explored by predecessors were always fraught with danger.

However, the group didn't have much time to think about this question, because the bottomless abyss in front of them, which was the location of their exploration, had completely captured their attention.

This abyss has been explored by generations of expeditions, but all attempts have ended in failure. When they descended to a depth of nearly a thousand meters, they discovered countless hanging coffins, but none of them contained any corpses, leading them to believe that it was not an ancient burial ground.

According to previous exploration records, the hanging coffins were filled with snakes. Countless exploration team members died from snake bites.

Because so many people died during the exploration, this abyss was named the Abyss of Sinking.

Although the casualties in the abyss were heavy, some people believed that the anti-nuclear radiation device was in the abyss, so the exploration of this place has never stopped.

In the original owner's memory, her team received the mission to explore this abyss for the first time since she started working, more than half a month later.

The original owner of this body perished in this very place.

Of course, this is the first time for the newcomers, but not for the other veteran players.

Chu Nian's time of transmigration was surprisingly earlier than expected: it was said that there had been unusual activity in Shenyuan recently, with drones detecting what appeared to be a phenomenon of thousands of snakes emerging.

The appearance of thousands of snakes is mostly due to being disturbed.

The snakes here are not ordinary snakes.

Leaving aside who erected so many hanging coffins here, providing snake dens for countless snakes, how many people could possibly be the ones to terrify so many snake demons and mobilize them collectively?

There are quite a few powerful snake demons among them! Chu Nian discovered a snake spirit that was thousands of years old deep in the abyss.

Even a snake like that gets startled, huh!

She already guessed who had disturbed the snakes. But who was so addicted to using hanging coffins to raise so many snake spirits?

The drama doesn't really explain this part much; even the male lead, Han Chao, never details the situation of the abyss to the time-traveling female lead, Jing Yue.

When Chu Nian's spiritual power reached a depth of a thousand feet, she discovered another enormous energy that blocked her spiritual power's exploration.

There's a barrier below!

The abyss was bottomless, and because of the great distance and the barrier, Chu Nian was unable to explore the details of its deepest part for the time being.

"Old Li, Wang Chao, you veteran team members come down with me to scout the situation first. Niannian, you new members stay up here for now, so that someone can rescue us if we run into trouble," Jing Yue instructed.

She deliberately said these words to Chu Nian in order to leave a deeper impression on everyone: this Wu Nian is a new rookie who can only serve as backup.

Peng Jian hurriedly said, "Captain Jing, let's go down with you. Just leave two people upstairs to watch the things."

Qi Meili then said, "Then you can go down. Niannian and I will stay here to watch the things." She didn't want to travel with the Peng brothers anyway.

Qi Meili has shown good ability recently, and everyone has recognized her strength. However, Wu Nian, due to her poor performance, has been met with disdain from several veteran team members.

Chu Nian didn't care about such things; she was trying to use her mental power to break through the barrier deep within the abyss. Since it could block her mental probes, she guessed that the broken bird was probably hiding inside.

That said, this barrier should have been there all along. Even local tyrants like the snake demon couldn't get in, so how did that wretched bird get in? Chu Nian couldn't think of any other possibility besides someone helping him.

However, the most powerful demon in this place seems to be the ginkgo tree spirit that's the protagonist's. He's probably the only one who could make that rampaging bird lower itself to ask for help.

His true form was rooted deep in Huai Mountain. By the end of the book, he had already lived happily ever after with the transmigrated heroine Jing Yue, but the location of his true form was never revealed. It is speculated that he protected it very well.

Led by Jing Yue, the group quickly descended to the mountainside using a combination of climbing ropes and their supernatural abilities.

Strangely, although they clearly found snakes in the hanging coffins, none of the snakes came out, as if they were afraid of something.

It is said that snakes are most afraid of flying beasts like eagles and falcons, and that wretched bird can be said to be their nemesis!

Chu Nian and Qi Meili found a clean and tidy spot to sit down, resting and looking at things. After a while, Chu Nian felt it wasn't very interesting and wanted to go find Han Chao's hideout, but she was worried about leaving Qi Meili there alone.

Out of boredom, she took out a pipa and began to play and sing, the same song Lou Qianzong had once sung, "Exchanged for a Thousand Kinds of Hatred".

Qi Meili was very surprised and said, "Niannian, I never knew you could play this!!"

Chu Nian smiled, and the pipa playing and singing continued. She planned to use the sound waves to further investigate the situation of Huai Mountain, especially the barrier at the bottom of the abyss, which was clearly set up by a powerful cultivator.

Based on the fact that she can't even penetrate deeply with her current mental strength, she can tell that the other party has probably already reached the god level.

Having climbed to a cave on the cliff face of Shenyuan, Jingyue and the others, who were temporarily staying there, heard singing coming from the top of the cliff. Peng Kang couldn't help but laugh and said, "Brother, it sounds like Wu Nian is singing."

Old Li chuckled helplessly, "I heard she was a top student with excellent grades at school. She sings well, but she's never been very effective at fighting monsters!"

Wang Chao couldn't help but complain, "Not only is she not good at killing monsters, but she's also a bit disobedient and always disobeys Captain Jing's orders."

Before the original owner, Wu Nian, and Peng Jian broke up, Wu Nian saw Peng Jian trying to please Jing Yue and was very jealous. Indeed, she had a lot of unpleasantness with Jing Yue.

Another veteran player, Feng Heng, said, "She's just young and impetuous; she should be fine after a while."