With the Golden-Scaled Little Snake's Dominating Aura, the King Snake Formation offered no resistance. In barely any time, the two of them had left the area where the Coiled Snake Flower Pillar stood far behind.
When no notification appeared, Lu Bei secretly lamented it. He had passed the King Snake Formation, but the one who cleared it was She Xuan. He had merely been riding on her coattails, and because he had won through trickery rather than defeating it, he had missed out on one hundred thousand experience points.
Just as he was thinking this, who knew whether it was Lu Bei or She Xuan who had stepped on a mechanism? Amid the earth-shaking roar, a huge stone slab collapsed into a slope, revealing a pitch-black, bottomless cavern.
Lu Bei looked at the distant pyramid, then at the cavern that seemed to be a shortcut, and, unable to make up his mind, left the decision to She Xuan.
"Run!"
She Xuan seemed to have sensed something. Her expression changed abruptly, her body refracting into a translucent blur before vanishing in the blink of an eye.
Lu Bei froze. A bone-chilling cold suddenly raised gooseflesh all over him. In the cavern ahead, hazy Gray Mist drifted like flames. A pair of enormous lantern-like eyes glowed, and amid the hiss of a flickering tongue, a giant serpent more than ten meters long slithered out.
The giant serpent was covered in black scales, its metallic sheen cold and heavy. Judging by its appearance alone, it was an enlarged version of the black snake that had blocked their path earlier. Gray Mist cloaked its head, and as it moved, a chain could be seen extending from the Gray Mist into the cavern. At first glance, it looked as though the chain had shackled the