"After all that, you still don't know if this is the tomb of the Ghost Mother."
“I said, the sun is about to set, there’s no point in staying here to discuss it. Let’s go in and see for ourselves. We can see the sky outside, which means we’ve reached the mountainside. Now we just need to keep going and find the way out.”
As he spoke, the man took the lead and walked forward.
The group followed behind, and just as they reached a path paved with white jade in the flower bushes, Jiang Fu stopped.
Zhao Qixing, who was likely following Jiang Fu's lead, immediately stopped as well.
"What's wrong, Brother Jiang!"
"Something is wrong here!"
"Something's not right..."
Before he could finish speaking, smoke suddenly emerged from the colorful flowers, and in a moment, everyone was enveloped in the smoke.
"Get out of here quickly!" Jiang Fu shouted, and quickly retreated.
Zhao Qixing and another quick-thinking person hurriedly followed behind, only to feel something moving back and forth in the fog, pulling out wisps of white lines from the mist.
The other three let out several screams and collapsed limply to the ground.
Jiang Fu and the others turned around and happened to see this scene: a small snake-like thing emerged from the mist.
"Brother Jiang, what the hell is this thing? Should we run?"
"Is it a snake?"
Jiang Fu shook his head, somewhat annoyed. Of the thirteen of them who came in, only three remained besides Shen Lanshang. He was certain that Shen Lanshang was waiting nearby to deliver a fatal blow.
"It's not a snake. This thing looks a lot like a snake, but it has wings and four claws, so it looks more like a dragon. It does resemble the legendary viper."
"Holy crap, will this thing even come out?"
"These flowers are called snake flowers. Vipers can only fly in the mist produced by the snake flowers. Without the mist, they can only crawl like ordinary snakes, and they can't even crawl very fast. The snake flowers can only grow by relying on their venom. This is a very rare symbiotic system between plants and animals. So you don't need to worry. Vipers generally don't leave the area of the mist. Without the mist, they will be trampled to death one by one."
Sure enough, the viper darted through the mist for a while without finding a target. The mist gradually thinned out, and the viper disappeared into the flower bushes, lying in wait. Only three corpses remained on the jade path, their faces bluish-black, clearly having died instantly from poisoning.
Not long after, the flowerbed stirred again. Something dragged the corpse into the flowerbed, and the sound of it gnawing on the corpse reached the ears of the three men, sending chills down their spines.
"Brother Jiang, what... what do we do?" Zhao Qixing couldn't help but shiver. The Ghost Mother's underground palace was even more terrifying than the outside world. The things here were far beyond his comprehension.
Jiang Fu looked around, and a surge of crushed rage welled up inside him once again.
There are two possibilities for opening the Ghost Mother's underground palace: one is to allow the descendants of the Ghost Mother's divine kingdom to enter, and the other is to prevent outsiders from entering.
Therefore, there must be some past methods here.
He walked back to the doorway and looked around. He saw a coiled dragon at the doorway with something in its mouth.
He reached out and pulled it off; a sheepskin bag contained some white powder.
Zhao Qixing asked, "Brother Jiang, what is this?"
Before Jiang Fu could answer, a woman's voice rang out again.
"Four hours and fifty-eight minutes, Jiang Fu, you're really slow!"
Shen Lanshang?
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