The altar has a rather bizarre design. In addition to the most basic stone platform at the bottom, there is a scarlet blood hand clenched upwards at the very top center.
The bloody hand looked like a demon's claw, in a loose grasping position, its palm empty, but it seemed as if it could hold something before.
In addition, there are four smaller, circular stone pillars around the altar that lead directly to the top of the tunnel. They look like miniature versions of the stone pillars above that contain evil spirits and blood.
At the end of the tunnel was a stone wall, and apart from the altar and stone pillars, there was nothing else to be seen in the tunnel.
"It seems we've found the source of the evil spirits and blood energy on those stone pillars."
Shen Yunhao stepped forward, looked at the strange altar, and remained silent for a long time with his hands in his pockets.
"This place looks like it's enshrining some kind of object, and this object is the source of the evil spirit's blood energy. It's transmitted through this altar and these stone pillars to the large stone pillar above, affecting the demon race."
Nie Qingshuang said indifferently, "I'm not blind!"
"..."
Shen Yunhao paused for a moment, then immediately fell silent.
After a while, Nie Qingshuang saw that Shen Yunhao looked deep in thought and couldn't help but frown and ask, "What are you thinking about?"
"Huh? Me? I'm thinking about how I'm going to get up there. That passage was too slippery, I'm not sure I can climb up."
Nie Qingshuang: "..."
The beautiful woman in palace attire twitched her lips, took a deep breath, and said, "Don't you have any other thoughts on this altar? This broken thing alone can't prove that they have any evil spirits or blood!"
Shen Yunhao shook his head and said, "We arrived too late. The evidence has been completely destroyed. What I'm curious about now is something else."
"What is it?"
Shen Yunhao didn't speak. He walked forward and carefully examined the altar. Then he continued forward until he reached the end of the underground tunnel, where he stared at the wall for a long time.
"I'm wondering... if there's only so much space behind the bronze door, where exactly did they hide that enormous Blood Demon Ape?"
Judging from its demonic body size, it is obviously unrealistic to imprison it in its true form, unless a very, very large underground cave is dug out here.
However, they couldn't find such a place along the way, and the space behind the bronze door was sealed off, so there couldn't possibly be a secret realm there...
Nie Qingshuang also stroked her chin, "Perhaps... they'll be imprisoned in human form, together with those demons from the upper levels..."
After a long silence, Shen Yunhao did not choose to continue the topic. "Lord Palace Master, there shouldn't be any more discoveries here. Let's go."
For some reason, Nie Qingshuang felt that Shen Yunhao had discovered something, but given her status, she couldn't bring herself to ask him directly.
Finally, after a fruitless search, Nie Qingshuang had no choice but to leave the area with Shen Yunhao.
However, the two were unaware that after they left, a blurry shadow seemed to flash by at the very bottom of the altar.
Beneath the shadows, a pair of dull, lifeless eyes gazed silently in the direction the two had departed.
“Nie Qingshuang…hehe…”
A moment later, Nie Qingshuang and Shen Yunhao returned to the bronze gate and were stunned by the scene outside.
The Dragon Blood Sect members were gathered together, seemingly arguing with Zhu Hong on the other side.
At this moment, Shen Yunhao noticed that, apart from the high-ranking members of the Dragon Blood Sect, a young disciple had appeared at some point.
Upon seeing Shen Yunhao emerge from the bronze gate, the disciple's eyes immediately turned red, and he pointed at him angrily, shouting.
"It's him, it's him, it's definitely him!"
Shen Yunhao: "???"
"It was they who released the monsters from the underground, causing the underground palace to collapse and all my fellow disciples to die there! If I hadn't been lucky enough to obtain a teleportation talisman beforehand, I would probably have been torn to pieces by those evil demons long ago!"
Haha, you get attacked as soon as you come out, huh?
Shen Yunhao had some recollection of this disciple. When Shen Yunhao left the Bronze Gate, he used the Lightning-Attracting Talisman to intimidate others, but was exposed by a disciple in the crowd.
It's the person right in front of me!
I can't believe that this guy survived after killing so many teammates!
Shen Yunhao was not afraid at all and stepped forward to ask, "You say I released those monsters? Then let me ask you, the weakest of you disciples are at the Soul Condensation Realm, and there are even Void Soul Realm elders overseeing things. How could I, a mere Profound Soul Realm cultivator, release all those monsters on my own? And how did I escape?"
The disciple's eyes were bloodshot, as if... Shen Yunhao had really killed all of them.
"You may be helpless, but the fox demon beside you is at the Soul Control Realm and carries countless high-level talismans and magical treasures. We ordinary disciples are no match for it and can only be slaughtered by you!"
"..."
"Not only that, the fox demon also used a fox demon puppet to block Elder Wei! And it was that demon puppet that destroyed the mechanism and released those evil demons! The evil demons ran rampant, killing anyone they saw, and even destroyed the supporting structure of the underground palace, causing the underground to collapse... The Blood Demon Ape was released and killed Elder Wei!"
That old man in the red robe is dead?
Upon hearing this, even Shen Yunhao was momentarily stunned and turned to look at Zhu Hong.
Zhu Hong's expression was solemn, but he nodded, "That Void Soul Realm elder did indeed die at the hands of the Blood Demon Ape!"
"If you don't admit it, then let that fox demon come out and confront us!"
While the disciple continued his tirade, Shen Yunhao frowned deeply.
Could it be... that Bai Xiaoruo's puppet went down and released all the monsters, causing the underground palace to collapse?
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