Yun Che turned around and said, “Yuan Ba, Xue’er, it’s extremely dangerous in there, you should not go in, just wait outside. Whether there is what I want in there or not, I will come out immediately.”
“No need to say anything, brother-in-law.” Xia Yuanba shook his head. His muscles had already bulged high, and he was surrounded by an overbearing aura of profound energy. “Now that we’re here, how can we not go in and take a look?”
“Brother Yun, if I’m not by your side to protect you, my uncles and aunts will blame me.” Feng Xue’er said softly, with no fear on her face at all.
“Okay.” Yun Che grabbed Feng Xue’er’s little hand and said, “Xue’er, don’t let go of my hand. Yuanba, be careful! If anything unexpected happens, remember to run away first!”
Hiss!!
A sound like thunder and lightning cracked, and the barrier and the Sea Emperor Seal simultaneously flashed a dazzling blue light. The next moment, Zi Ji grabbed the Sea Emperor Seal and quickly retreated, and a six-foot square gap appeared on the barrier in front of him.
A cloud of extremely dark smoke gushed out from it crazily.
This is……
"Only a hundred breaths, hurry in!" Zi Ji quickly put away the Sea Emperor Seal, raised his hand, and rushed into the gap in the barrier first.
“Be careful!” Yun Che did not have time to think about it. He pulled Feng Xue’er up and rushed in quickly, with Xia Yuanba following closely behind.
Stepping into the Moon Slaughter Devil's Cave was like stepping into an ice cave. His body and soul suddenly felt cold, and all the hair on his body stood on end in an instant. Yun Che felt Feng Xue'er's hands suddenly grasping him tightly, and her body pressed tightly against him.
There was plenty of light above the South China Sea, and the light projected into a six-foot square gap should have been enough to illuminate a large area in the cave. However, after they took only three steps forward, it was already pitch black in front of them, with almost no light to be seen.
Turning around and exiting, there was only a blurry gray.
“The light from outside can’t even get in!?” Xia Yuanba exclaimed in shock.
“It’s the power of darkness.” Yun Che frowned. When Fen Juechen fought with him before, he used the same attribute of profound strength: “This kind of dark power will devour light, and at the same time it will also restrict spiritual perception… and even the five senses!”
"That's right!" Zi Ji's voice came from the darkness: "This is just the entrance to the Demon Cave. The deeper you go, the thicker the dark aura will be. Your spiritual sense will be suppressed to even 10% of your usual level! The same goes for your five senses! When you reach the depths, even your profound strength will be suppressed to only the King Profound Realm."
“I’ve begun to feel… the suppression of my profound energy.” Xia Yuanba raised his arm and gritted his teeth slightly: “My profound veins seem to be imprisoned by something, and the circulation of my profound energy is much more difficult than usual.”
“…Senior Zi, we only have a hundred breaths of time. Take us to the location where the Netherworld Udumbara Flower once appeared.” Yun Che said calmly.
"Yeah!" Zi Ji responded.
In the darkness, Feng Xue'er raised her arm, and a ball of scarlet phoenix flames burned in her tender white palm. The phoenix flames she burned were much purer than Yun Che's, and the phoenix flames she released could shine extremely far, but in this Moon Slaughter Devil Cave, it could only illuminate a distance of less than ten steps.
And this is just the entrance.
With the help of the Phoenix flame, Yun Che saw the ground, which was still pitch black under the red flame, but he could not see the walls and ceiling of the devil's cave. Obviously, this cave was much more spacious than he expected.
"Don't worry, there is only one passage in the Moon-Slaying Demon Cave, and there are no forks or branches. If you walk along this passage, you will reach the end of the cave directly. The entire cave is not deep. At the current speed, it will take about thirty breaths to get close to the end." Zi Ji walked in front, his steps not slowing down at all. Although it was his first time entering the Moon-Slaying Demon Cave, he was familiar with all the records about the Moon-Slaying Demon Cave in the Sea Palace.
“In other words, the Netherworld Udumbara flower that was discovered here 1,300 years ago is at the end of the Demon Cave?” Yun Che asked.
"That's right." Zi Ji nodded and said, "Ten thousand years ago, the seven Ocean Palace ancestors who discovered the Moon Slaughter Devil Cave had reached the deepest part. Their profound strength was all above the eighth level of the Sovereign Profound Realm, but at the deepest part of the Devil Cave, their profound strength was suppressed to only the middle stage of the King Profound Realm, and their vitality was rapidly lost. Later, they encountered the Moon Slaughter Devil Lord who was only at the early stage of the Tyrant Profound Realm, and were brutally slaughtered. Only one ancestor managed to escape... After that, the ancestor left a strict order that unless it was confirmed that the Moon Slaughter Devil Lord was dead, no one should step into the depths of the Devil Cave."
Zi Ji's speed was slowly increasing, but the aura of profound energy released from his body was becoming weaker and weaker.
The range illuminated by the Phoenix Flame is also shrinking rapidly.
“Has the Moon-Slaughtering Devil Lord been confirmed dead?” Yun Che asked cautiously.
"It is just a Tyrant Mystic Beast after all. The top-level Junxuan Beast only has a lifespan of a few thousand years. No matter how powerful a Tyrant Mystic Beast is, it is impossible to have a lifespan of more than ten thousand years. Although its corpse has never been seen... it should have turned into dust in the darkness." Zi Ji replied.
“Then do you have any clues about the source of the Yin energy here?” Yun Che frowned and looked forward, while sensing his own profound veins.
Zi Ji in front, Feng Xue'er beside him, and Xia Yuanba behind him, almost every time they took a step forward, the aura of profound energy on their bodies would weaken a little bit, among which Zi Ji was the fastest, Feng Xue'er was the second, and Xia Yuanba was a little slower. Now they had roughly reached the middle of the Moon Killing Devil Cave, and Zi Ji's profound energy aura had dropped to the strength of the eighth level of Tyrant Profound Realm.
Feng Xue'er and Xia Yuanba had both reached the third level of the Sovereign Profound Realm.
The reason why he could clearly sense the changes in their profound strength was because...
His Xuanmai were not affected at all!
Even the operation of the mysterious power did not feel difficult.
Jasmine was right. The Heretic God's Profound Veins could not be suppressed by ordinary forces. The Heavenly Might Soul-Suppressing Formation could not suppress it, nor could the Moon-Slaying Devil Cave!
The suppression Feng Xue'er suffered was weaker than that of Zi Ji, obviously because of her Phoenix bloodline!
As for Xia Yuanba, he has the Overlord Divine Vein!
"This is the biggest unsolved mystery of the Moon Slaughter Demon Cave." Zi Ji let out a long breath, and his breathing became slightly more rapid. "We in the Ocean Palace want to know where this terrifying Yin energy comes from more than anyone else, but we have not been able to find the answer for ten thousand years. Perhaps its source is in the deepest part of this Demon Cave, but the Yin energy in the deep is too terrifying. It will greatly reduce a person's profound strength and blur the five senses. Even if the Sea Emperor himself came, he would not be able to stay for more than twenty breaths. It is as difficult as ascending to heaven to explore it."
My profound strength was decreasing, the range of my spiritual perception was getting smaller and smaller, breathing was becoming more and more difficult, and my five senses were obviously becoming weaker and weaker. I couldn't even hear my own footsteps.
“There are actually places like this in the world. Hiss…” Xia Yuanba gritted his teeth. The feeling of having his profound strength and spiritual perception suppressed made him extremely uncomfortable. His whole body felt like it was soaked in a thick swamp, and even taking a step was much more difficult than usual.
“Jasmine, have you ever thought about the possible source of this Yin energy?” Yun Che asked in his heart. There was one thing that he was very concerned about… Since entering the Moon Slaughter Devil Cave, Jasmine had been silent and had not said a word.
“The dark aura here…” Jasmine’s voice was surprisingly solemn, and it seemed to be filled with disbelief: “What on earth is going on!?”
Yun Che paused for a moment and asked quickly, “Is there anything unusual?”
“It’s more than unusual!” Jasmine’s voice was terrifyingly low. “In terms of intensity alone, the dark aura here is not strong. It can even be said to be very weak. But… but its level is terrifyingly high!!”
The four words “terribly high” made Yun Che’s heart tremble suddenly. Because these four words were spoken from Jasmine’s mouth.
"The level of its dark laws is so high that even I cannot understand it!"
Inside the Sky Poison Pearl, Jasmine’s face was heavier than ever before. Her pupils, which were slightly glowing red, were filled with strong disbelief. “The aura of darkness at this level, let alone this plane, I have never seen it even in the plane where I was born! What on earth could have released this!!”
“…” Jasmine’s few brief words had a shock to Yun Che that was a million times stronger than Zi Ji’s entire description of the Moon Slaughter Devil Cave.
“Yun Che! Leave here immediately!” Jasmine suddenly shouted, “The situation here is completely beyond my expectations! To be able to release such a negative energy, there must be an extremely terrifying thing hidden in it! Leave immediately and don’t worry about the Netherworld Udumbara Flower anymore! Because even if…”
“Chichichichi…hehehehaha…chichichichichi…oooooooo…”
At this moment, an extremely eerie laugh suddenly came from the darkness ahead. As they went deeper, their five senses were greatly restricted, but this terrifying voice, as if coming from the devil, was heard very clearly in their ears, like crying and laughing, penetrating their hearts and souls.
“Ah!!” The four of them stopped at the same time. Feng Xue’er screamed in shock and threw herself on Yun Che’s chest: “What…what sound…so scary!”
“Is there… is there someone inside!?” Xia Yuanba took a step forward and stood in front of Yun Che and Feng Xue’er, his entire body’s profound energy surging without reservation… However, even though he was Xia Yuanba, he was uncontrollably terrified at this moment.
Xia Yuanba released his profound energy with all his strength, which shocked Zi Ji. At this point, his profound energy had been suppressed to the late stage of the King Profound Realm, but what Xia Yuanba released was still the huge pressure of the late stage of the Tyrant Profound Realm!
Zi Ji was filled with horror… This place was already close to the depths of the Moon-Slaying Devil Cave. His own profound strength had been suppressed by nearly two realms, while Xia Yuanba’s seemed to have been suppressed by only one realm!
Although it was only a difference of one major realm, it was undoubtedly a world of difference! Under normal circumstances, Xia Yuanba's profound strength was weaker than Zi Ji's, but in this state, it was easy for Xia Yuanba to kill him.
Could this be the power of the Overlord Divine Vein?
“Wait! That sound…” After a brief moment of shock and alertness, Yun Che’s facial expression suddenly relaxed, and even a glow of ecstasy appeared in his pupils. He let go of Feng Xue’er, took a quick step forward, and turned his body around a stone wall.
Suddenly, the world in front of me was no longer pitch black, but a bright purple light appeared.
In the terrifying dark aura, Feng Xue'er's Phoenix Flame could only barely illuminate a distance of ten feet. However, the purple light in his sight was thirty feet away, but it was reflected in Yun Che's pupils with great clarity, as if no matter how dark the world was, it could not swallow up this purple light.
The purple light was swaying, and the creepy devil's crying and laughing sounds came from that purple light.
Yun Che’s heart began to beat violently, and his eyes widened: That is…that is…
“Netherworld Udumbara Flower!!” Zi Ji’s exclamation came from behind Yun Che.
“Ah? That… is what Brother Yun wants to find!?” Feng Xue’er’s voice was filled with surprise and joy.
“That’s right! That’s it… The bright purple demonic light makes a ghostly sound when it flickers. It’s exactly the same as Master described!!” Yun Che clenched his fists and said excitedly.
For seven whole years, I had not found any trace of the Netherworld Udumbara Flower. Now, I entered the Moon Killing Demon Cave with the hope of finding a needle in a haystack... and actually saw a miracle happen!!
"Jasmine, we found it... We found it!!" Yun Che was so overwhelmed with surprise and excitement that he could not control himself. At this moment, he suddenly felt something strange, because there was no sound behind him, and even the sound of breathing completely disappeared.
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