“No, they’re on guard,” Chen Qi replied from the side.
"Why would you set up a cordon here?" Zhang Liang turned to ask Chen Qi.
Chen Qi looked at him and shook his head.
"There's something behind us that we don't want to be discovered," Liu Heng said gruffly.
After considering it, the group realized that Liu Heng's words did make sense. However, the territory of the Jiu tribe was not a small place. There were many places where secrets could be hidden, so why move them to the border with the Zhanghuang tribe? And even risking invading the Zhanghuang tribe by setting up the border guard line, this was indeed quite unusual.
“We need to investigate. If anything is wrong, we must notify Master Lang immediately,” Chen Qi said in a low voice.
"How do we investigate?" Zhang Liang asked.
"Old Pang, how about going underground?" Chen Qi turned to look at Pang Zhen.
“The Jiu Clan can also burrow underground.” Pang Zhen hesitated.
“I’ve sensed it. There’s no Jiu Clan underground here. If we dig deeper, we shouldn’t disturb them. Once we reach the border, we’ll check. If it’s not related to the Zhang Huang Clan, we can cross directly to the Western Desert. What do you think, Lord Yue Lao?” Chen Qi turned to ask Wang Yao.
Wang Yao nodded. Although he still wanted to see the Jiu Clan Chief, the other party was already keeping him at arm's length, so he couldn't force him. He would have to wait until he had investigated before making any further plans.
“Alright, I’ll find a secluded spot.” Seeing that Wang Yao had agreed, Pang Zhen stopped refusing. He came down from Wangshan Pavilion, looked at Beifeng Pavilion across the way, glanced at the route they had just taken, and then disappeared into the dense forest next to Wangshan Pavilion.
Wang Yao and the others followed Pang Zhen, walking with him through the woods until they reached a place where the sun was out and the trees provided ample shade. There, Pang Zhen collapsed to the ground, transforming into a giant earthworm that plunged headfirst into the thick layer of fallen leaves.
Chen Qi gently pulled Wang Yao to one side, and Wang Yao saw that the other end of the earthworm that was sticking out was gushing out mud.
"The mud seed will be a bit messy when it first burrows into the ground, so please be careful, Old Man of the Moon," Zhang Liang said softly.
"It's alright, I don't care about that." Wang Yao smiled slightly. He had "self-cleaning" abilities, so he wasn't afraid of getting his clothes dirty with mud.
Pang Zhen burrowed through the tunnel at an extremely fast speed, and in no time he had piled up a huge mound of mud in the dense forest. His demonic body was completely submerged underground. After his earthworm demonic body disappeared, the mud also disappeared and no longer emerged from the ground.
Wang Yao peeked into the cave and saw Pang Zhen's body spinning rapidly up and down inside. He crawled in a little, then quickly retreated, squeezing the mud he spat out behind him evenly into the cave walls on both sides.
“We have to wait an hour before going in. The mud and dung will keep the tree roots locked for some time,” Chen Qi said to Wang Yao.
"Muddy shit? That's a novel term, but it just sounds kind of disgusting." Wang Yao thought to himself, but he couldn't help but marvel at it. This muddy creature was indeed a master at burrowing. According to Chen Qi, Pang Zhen not only had to dig a hole, but also had to subdue the tree roots underground.
That makes sense, the ground here is covered with dense forest, and if the problem of tree roots isn't solved, it won't be easy to walk down there.
An hour passed in the blink of an eye. Wang Yao could no longer see Pang Zhen from the cave entrance. At this moment, Chen Qi ordered Liu Heng to go down first, followed by himself, then Wang Yao, Jian You, and Zhang Liang at the very back.
The cave wasn't large, just big enough for one person to pass through. There was slight friction between the top of his head and the cave wall, and a strong, muddy smell filled his nostrils. Wang Yao reached out and touched the cave wall, finding it quite smooth. The mud was only a thin layer, and the strong roots of the trees could still be felt by touch.
Pang Zhen's tunnel first went down about a hundred meters, then forward for a while, and then down and forward again, slowly moving down the mountain along the path they had walked on the ground. They didn't walk very fast in the dark cave.
After about half a day, the road ahead suddenly came to a stop.
"Lord of the Moon, we've reached the border," Pang Zhen's voice came from ahead.
“There’s no movement. Lao Pang, keep digging a little further ahead,” Chen Qi said.
After waiting in the darkness for a while, they continued forward, feeling the road slowly begin to rise.
"Stop! Stop now!" After walking for a while, Chen Qi's voice suddenly rang out urgently, and the group stopped again. Wang Yao activated his "sensor," and a cacophony of noises rushed into his ears. He looked up and peered over the dark cave wall.
The "sensory" process peeled away layer by layer from the soil, stones, and grass roots. As his spiritual energy level jumped, the dark shadows of the trees and the stars among the branches and leaves suddenly appeared before his eyes.
The clamor of the monsters rose and fell all around. He extended his "sensing" in all directions, and white tents immediately appeared. These tents stretched one after another in the dense forest, reaching the very end of Wang Yao's "sensing" range.
A pair of large, hairy feet wearing flip-flops suddenly appeared in Wang Yao's field of vision. The flip-flops stepped forward a few steps on the grass, and Wang Yao discovered that its owner was a male lion standing upright in human form. He shook his fluffy mane and splashed a basin of water heavily out of the ground.
"Damn it, you aristocratic clans think you're so great? Splashing your foot bath water around like that, believe me or not, I'll make you swallow it back!" A guy with a long bird beak immediately popped out of a tent across the way and started cursing.
"Try barking again?" the lion said coldly, standing there.
"Swallow it back, eat it back, lick it back...!" The big bird glared and shouted repeatedly, its voice extremely rough, making one's head ache.
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