However, she had originally planned to go down anyway.
"I'll go."
What kind of skill is it to hide in the shadows and do dirty tricks?
She's going down now to have a go at that damned Demon Lord.
Is the enemy in the shadows while we are in the light?
No, no, we should all understand together.
She wanted to see what kind of filthy thing this so-called Demon Lord was.
"If my junior sister goes, I want to go too."
Chu Hongluan looked at Liu Jinghong: "Are you sure?"
Even if you know that you died here in your "previous life".
"Of course. Wherever my junior sister is, I will be there too."
Of course, he also feared death, because he still had people he longed to spend thousands or tens of thousands of years with.
But he can't just cower in the dark, can he?
Just as his junior sister said, this mark now exists in his spiritual realm and has begun to interfere with his actions.
That means that even if he doesn't go down today, as the mark's influence on him deepens, one day in the future, the Demon Lord will still use the mark to further control his body and make him jump down on his own.
In that case, it's better to take the initiative.
So, Chu Hongluan and Liu Jinghong both joined the line preparing to enter the Ten Thousand Demon Cave.
Qiao Yue and Li Dazhuang, who had already been assigned to this area, immediately found their backbone when they saw Chu Hongluan coming over. Their hearts stopped racing and their legs stopped trembling. They even had the mood to wink and tease Liu Jinghong: "Husband and wife in harmony."
Upon seeing that Chu Hongluan had switched sides, Ke Tinghe immediately grabbed his knife and rushed over without saying a word.
Based on his past experience, Chu Hongluan never did anything meaningless; her volunteering to go down into the Ten Thousand Demon Cave must mean she had something up her sleeve.
They might have to fight the demons soon.
Wherever there's a fight, there's Kotinghe!
After Ke Tinghe, Gu Chunxiao and Song Nanhe also joined the team.
The factions were quickly redistributed.
The cultivators responsible for infusing the outer array points took their positions. With a command from the Sword Pavilion Sect Master, colorful and dazzling pillars of spiritual energy shot into the sky from the eighty-one array points outside the Wine Demon Cave! They converged and intertwined to form a huge and intricate pattern, containing an ancient and powerful holy aura.
"Elder Chu, please be careful."
Chu Hongluan just smiled, her back to the Ten Thousand Demon Cave, and fell backward into freefall.
Exclamations of surprise echoed from the cliffs on both sides of the river.
Pushed far away by the howling wind.
So this is what it felt like when he fell.
Liu Jinghong leaped down headfirst, using her toes to gain leverage at the edge of the cliff, and caught up with Chu Hongluan even faster, embracing her tightly.
"Really...didn't I tell you not to touch me?"
Liu Jinghong froze and immediately stepped back.
"I'm so sorry. Junior sister's sudden departure startled me—"
No explanation is needed.
Chu Hongluan channeled her spiritual energy, adjusted her posture, and regained control of her descent. A slight smile played on her lips.
“It comes from the heart, I understand.”
Liu Jinghong blushed, and after a long while, she finally mumbled an "Mmm".
The two had been falling for about a minute.
Looking down, it's still a bottomless abyss.
Looking up, a bunch of clueless young people were falling rapidly, screaming and yelling like dumplings being dropped into a pot.
Chu Hongluan sighed.
"It's deep enough."
The Demon Cave was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, becoming increasingly dark as one descended, yet the group showed no sign of landing.
Liu Jinghong took out a fist-sized luminous pearl to see the surrounding scenery clearly.
"hiss--"
Some bizarre-looking creatures clung to the wall, motionless.
Some resemble lumps of flesh with eyes; others are like deformed, half-human creatures with three heads and twelve arms, crawling in a twisted posture; still others are just a head, with hundreds of tentacles growing densely where it should connect to the neck, allowing it to climb so high...
"vomit--"
"What is this?!"
There was chaos and turmoil overhead.
Chu Hongluan's eyes turned slightly cold: "If anyone dares to spit on my head, I'll slam them against the wall and rub them all the way down."
Everyone above immediately fell silent.
Liu Jinghong explained to them with a smile:
"This is a demon spirit, which is the lowest level of the demon race. It has very low intelligence, similar to a fish or an insect. It's just that it looks disgusting. Don't be afraid."
These things themselves don't have much demonic energy, and because of this, the seal doesn't suppress them that much, allowing them to climb up in groups, then fall down due to exhaustion, and then climb up again, in a continuous cycle.
About two minutes later, the group finally landed at the bottom of the Demon Cave. Some of them lost their footing and fell on their bottoms, howling in pain.
Hearing the noise, the others quickly took out their lighting equipment.
The cave was instantly brightened, and everyone was finally able to see their surroundings. The cave was filled with jagged rocks, and there was not a single flat piece of ground underfoot. Instead, there were huge rocks piled up haphazardly. If one were not careful and slipped, it would definitely result in a bloody head injury.
This is the edge of the Demon Cave, where only some demon spirits remain frozen in place.
Someone mustered up their courage and slashed at it with a sword, instantly severing the demon spirit in two, from which green blood flowed out.
"Hey, this could obviously kill them. I think those ancient books are just exaggerating too much, saying things like demons have no physical form and are almost impossible to kill—"
Shh! Look!
The man looked in the direction his companion was pointing and saw that the demon spirit's body, which had been broken in two, was growing back into new individuals at a speed visible to the naked eye! It had become two demon spirits!
Now, he dared not make any more outrageous remarks.
Chu Hongluan's voice was extremely cold: "I know you are all geniuses, one in ten thousand in the outside world, but tens of thousands of years ago, during the war between gods and demons, those who perished in the wilderness were gods. Ignorance is acceptable, but at least maintain the most basic reverence."
"Yes, yes. I know I was wrong."
Liu Jinghong pulled the jade-bone fan from her waist, opened it with a snap, and gently shook it in front of her chest.
"Don't rush. If you haven't finished checking by the time the people at the top run out of spiritual energy, you'll see how powerful these demonic spirits are."
Reminded by Liu Jinghong, everyone immediately snapped to attention and hurriedly headed to their assigned positions as arranged.
The inner formation has a total of eighty-one array points. Chu Hongluan assigned them to the ones on the edge, with two people of lower cultivation level responsible for one point and one person of higher cultivation level responsible for one point.
Because those true demons usually stay away from the demon spirits that climb all over the stone walls and operate in the central area.
Because even the demons found them disgusting to look at...
Chu Hongluan still held twenty-eight array points in her hand, which she hadn't distributed; they were reserved for her own people.
Liu Jinghong, Gu Chunxiao, Song Nanhe, Qiao Yue, Li Dazhuang, and Ke Tinghe.
"Alright, time is of the essence, let's get started."
"Charge! Charge! Charge!"
The group of seven headed straight for the very center of the Demon Cave.
Let's go! Let's go see the monkeys!
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