"Stop!"
In the dimness, a hand shot up. The people advancing at full speed immediately came to an orderly halt, without making the slightest sound.
The squad that had originally consisted of only four people when they entered the Dual Cultivation Grotto had now expanded to more than thirty.
The reason they had stopped was that something seemed to be hanging from a huge fallen pipe. At the leader's signal, a warrior cautiously approached.
The warrior nimbly climbed onto the pipe and moved toward the object hanging there. The next moment, he let out a heavy gasp.
Hanging from the pipe was unmistakably a corpse that had been torn to pieces. At the same time, beyond the pipe blocking their path, the murky sewage ahead was filled with countless floating corpses too horrible to look at.
Some of the bodies were even slowly carried deeper underground by the sewage flowing through the channel.
"Is this... a human or a monster!?"
A young voice rose from within the group.
"Of course it's human." An older warrior spoke in a low voice. "They're Earth Dwellers. Because they've lived hidden underground without seeing sunlight and have long absorbed polluted, impure spiritual energy, their bodies have undergone many mutations. Besides that, legend says the Demon Lord also came from underground. During the Demon Lord's most prosperous era, many inheritances were passed down underground. These Earth Dwellers inhaled polluted spiritual energy and cultivated terrifying demonic arts, becoming less and less like humans and ghosts until they turned into what you see now."
"The Demon Lord..." The young voice carried a trace of panic.
The older warrior quickly came before the leader and said gravely, "This massacre was probably caused by Xiao Yan... but he should have been seriously injured."
"Miss Sakura said that Xiao Yan's