Soon, they spotted a crack in a mountainside in the Gobi Desert.
The crack was about ten meters high and more than two meters wide, and the inside was pitch black and deep.
Steve looked like he had just come out of the rift, and he was covered in dust and dirt.
He said, "I walked a distance inside, and it seems there's a passage leading down below."
Everyone's eyes lit up.
Ya'en immediately said, "Let's go, let's go down!"
As before, Lu Ning walked at the front.
Because the rift passage was narrow, allowing only one person to pass at a time, the saints were positioned in the center and at the end of the procession.
After walking along the passage for about 100 meters, the internal road began to descend.
The road was rough and uneven, the air below was becoming humid, and the rocks on the ground were wet and slippery.
Fortunately, it didn't affect Lu Ning and his group much.
They descended steadily, and after a short while, they came to an empty passage.
The passageway is surrounded by protruding rocks, with stalactites hanging from the top.
Lu Ning and the others continued deeper into the passage and soon arrived at a spacious cave.
Around the cave, an underground river flows, the groundwater is yellowish, and it emits wisps of dim yellow mist with a putrid smell.
In the center of the cave was a flat area, and the altar was located on this flat area.
The funeral director, who was currently performing the ritual, was emanating a faint yellow light.
Their bodies seemed to be undergoing some kind of strange change.
In Lu Ning's view, their bodies were turning toward death, but their mental state was not weakening.
This process is somewhat similar to the change from the living to the dead.
Lu Ning and his group rushed over and knocked out the group of funeral directors in a few moves.
As the ritual ended, the aura of death emanating from them gradually dissipated.
The process of transforming into the dead seems to have stopped.
The next steps were the same as before. Lu Ning asked a few people, but didn't get any new information.
It was simply to confirm the original identities of these people.
Most of the members of the Returned Brigade come from various base cities; some are Free Awakeners, and some are even ordinary people.
Of course, a very small portion also came from the Bureau of Mystery.
These individuals joined the Return of the Dead Brigade at different times.
The earliest members can be traced back two hundred years, while the latest ones joined more than a decade ago.
It must be said that the secrets of the Return of the Dead Brigade were very well done.
Over the long years, it has grown and developed quietly.
They were even able to refrain from causing trouble in the shadows.
If it weren't for the fact that they happened to enter Fog 233 and discover the anomaly there...
They probably don't even know that such a cult has developed to this extent.
After that, Lu Ning touched the crystal again.
The phantom reappeared.
It was the same pilgrimage group as before, but there seemed to be a few fewer people in the group than before.
The leader, a creature with several golden lines on its face and forehead, led the group into an underground cave.
An underground river runs through the cave, surrounded by mysterious black buildings.
The leading creature and the team members knelt down by the underground river.
The next moment, the river surged, and an enormous snake-like creature emerged from the water.
This serpentine creature had yellowish scales, cold and majestic pupils, and complex and mysterious patterns engraved on its scales.
The pattern looked somewhat familiar to Lu Ning.
He seemed familiar with him somewhere before.
Soon, Lu Ning remembered.
He seemed to have a similar feeling when he met Bai Yuan before.
The outward manifestation of divinity.
This giant yellow serpent is a demigod.
To Lu Ning's surprise, there were traces of decay on the back of this demigod-level giant snake.
These traces bear the aura of death.
The putrid fluids flowed down his back and merged into the underground river.
Through the rotting flesh, Lu Ning saw the stark white bones inside the giant snake's body.
Then Lu Ning suddenly paused.
The size of this giant snake... and the skeleton...
This is somewhat similar to the giant skeletal serpent that Lu Ning encountered in the Yellow Springs of the Death Space.
However, that giant skeletal serpent was only at the Saint level, far less powerful than this dim yellow giant serpent.
Demigods and saints are two different kinds of beings.
Just like Bai Yuan and Qinglan Saint, Qinglan Saint is still a normal human being, but Bai Yuan has inhuman signs.
Just as Lu Ning was pondering, the giant serpent demigod suddenly let out a low roar.
With a roar, the underground river boiled, and a violent force raged.
Beneath this roar, several kneeling beings rotted away, their flesh decaying into bones.
The creature with golden markings on its face suddenly looked up at the giant serpent demigod, its eyes wide.
Lu Ning saw surprise, despair, and other complex emotions in his eyes.
Just as Lu Ning was wondering what would happen next, the phantom collapsed and turned into bubbles.
Lu Ning: "..."
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