Lily's sudden cry from up ahead made everyone hurry over. Hao Ren instantly thought of the underground tentacles that the husky and bat had encountered while scouting for information last night, and his heart sank. Sure enough, just as I suspected—the underground cavern beneath the Blood Lake is connected to the roots of the Twisted Woods!
With that thought in mind, he raised his shield with all his might and ran at the front, ready to deal with a Great War at any moment and cover the others' retreat. According to Vivian and Lily, those tentacles would actively attack outside enemies!
But when he reached Lily's side, he discovered that no enemy had attacked them.
"What is this..." Big Beard followed closely behind Hao Ren. Even with the discipline of an ascetic, he was shaken to the core by the magnificent sight before him. "Could this be the underground section of the legendary Twisted Woods? This cavern is actually connected to it?"
At the end of the cave was a gigantic cavern, slightly smaller than the place with the pool they had seen earlier, yet still astonishingly vast. What was most breathtaking inside it, however, were the countless enormous roots probing down from the rock layers above!
The smallest of those massive roots was a meter in diameter, and they twisted endlessly into the distance. Emerging from the rock above the cavern, they grew wildly through the air, crisscrossing and winding into a structure resembling a vast thorny net. This "net" covered nearly three-quarters of the cavern ceiling, leaving them able to glimpse the original rock only faintly through the gaps between the roots. The roots grew without any discernible pattern. Some drooped all the way to the ground, even plunging deep into the cavern floor, while countless others clung