When they arrived, everyone examined the place closely.
It was indeed an inner city, or rather, a palace city.
But by now it had completely collapsed and been swallowed by dense Lin forest. One could still vaguely make out the scale it had once possessed.
It was not especially large, but for a city of this modest size, it was still considered grand.
"Master, there's a hole over there." Wang Tie Zhu pointed to a pitch-black spot beside the ruins, half-covered by vines.
The vines were entirely black, twisted and coiled, their leaves triangular and scale-like.
At first glance, they looked like countless venomous snakes entwined together, especially terrifying. Under the night wind, those triangular "snake heads" even swayed.
Beneath the vines was indeed a pitch-black cave, seemingly the drainage channel of the inner city. A stream of water was gurgling out from within.
"That seems to be Ghost Snake Vine~" Divine Chariot Pillar said at that moment.
"What the hell is that?" Wang Tie Zhu asked suspiciously.
"This thing often grows alongside nether spirit energy. It is aggressive and highly poisonous. Those injured by it suffer damage to their souls, then die howling in madness, cut off from reincarnation," Divine Chariot Pillar said.
"It's really that dangerous?" Wang Tie Zhu did not quite believe it. He kicked a pebble from the ground, and it happened to strike the Ghost Snake Vine.
In an instant, the Ghost Snake Vine moved.
Countless vines shot out like lightning, hooking and wrapping around the pebble before it even hit the ground, layer upon layer.
Dense vine-thorns rose along the vines, like steel needles.
In just a few breaths, the stone, no larger than a fist, had been wrapped into something as large as a water bucket.
Amid a series of cracking sounds, wisps