A Mountain Spirit really does exist here. As the terrifying cackling rang out, Qin Fengming murmured inwardly, and both he and Fang Liang came to a halt.
They swiftly released their divine senses, sending them racing forward along the pitch-black passage.
More than a hundred zhang away from them lay an enormous cavern. The terrifying, hair-raising laughter came from within it.
But the passage twisted and turned. Even Qin Fengming's powerful divine sense could only locate the cavern, without discerning what terrifying being lurked inside.
Neither man was ordinary. After a brief pause, they exchanged a glance and nodded to each other, then hurried forward again, though their pace had slowed considerably.
Using secret arts to suppress their auras and energy fluctuations to an extremely low level, Qin Fengming and Fang Liang soon reached the entrance to the enormous cavern.
As his divine sense swept over the cavern before him, Qin Fengming's heart abruptly tightened.
The enormous cavern stretched for dozens of li, and its ceiling soared several thousand zhang above the floor.
Countless openings dotted the towering stone walls on every side. The passage where Qin Fengming and Fang Liang stood was located very high up one of those walls.
The utterly chilling cackling came from a spot at the bottom of the vast cavern.
Neither man had actually reached the mouth of the passage yet, but Qin Fengming's divine sense had already enveloped the entire cavern. Naturally, the source of that terrifying laughter had also come within his perception.
Jagged rocks of varying heights rose from the floor of the vast cavern below.
Among a cluster of tall, strange rocks near the distant wall stood a huge, relatively flat boulder measuring several dozen zhang across. At that moment, a burly monstrous creature nearly two zhang tall stood upon