"Such incredible speed!" Even with Wei He's eyesight, he had only seen a black shadow flash past.
It was far faster than he was now, and clearly faster than Nine Shadows as well.
"Kid, wealth and honor were sought amid danger. Dare to go in?" Nine Shadows goaded coldly from the side.
"Do you have a good plan, Senior?" Wei He asked.
Since he had called Wei He here, and so many people had clearly died here before, Nine Shadows surely had a plan in mind.
"Of course. This place was an underground chamber of Nine Yuan Temple, where they secretly raised many exotic beasts. But one of them was infected by an aberrant species and mutated. It ate all the other exotic beasts and became the only one. Its rank rose as a result."
Nine Shadows continued, "But whether its rank rose or not, its original form was only a Lesser Yang Bat. So I lured in many greedy people and fed it plenty of blood food. Among that food, I put sixteen different mixed poisons—all sedatives.
"By now, its strength and reactions have greatly declined. But I tried it last time, and I still couldn't hold up a lone tree. That was why I invited you along."
Nine Shadows was not lying about that. He had indeed invited Wei He with that intention.
"Then what do we do now?" Wei He nodded in understanding.
"Force our way in." Nine Shadows said no more. With a flying leap, he rushed into the stone hall, flicking several sparks from his hand to light the four torches around it with flint.
Light flared up.
The stone hall was immediately revealed.
It was neither large nor small, a space only as long and wide as a basketball court.
In one corner of