Underground Passage! Blood Demon Pearl!

Rolling waves of bloody energy surged from the ground, filling the entire underground space in mere moments!

Wang Xuan felt the dense bloody energy erupting from below, and his expression instantly changed!

The black human face on his chest, facing the surging bloody energy, actually opened its mouth wide and began to greedily devour it!

The rolling bloody energy poured into his body, all swallowed by the black human face!

Wang Xuan only felt a burning, corrosive pain in his chest!

As if it were being torn apart!

"Ah!!!"

Wang Xuan couldn't help but scream.

"There's a toxic miasma in this bloody energy!"

"Use your breathing technique to resist!"

"Take this!"

As Li Qingyi spoke, it flipped its hand and threw a verdant green pill to Wang Xuan.

Wang Xuan endured the sharp pain in his chest and immediately swallowed the verdant green pill.

As the verdant green pill entered his stomach, a cool sensation instantly spread throughout his body, and the corrosive pain in his chest began to subside.

"What... what the hell is this thing?"

Wang Xuan gasped for breath, looking at the ground with lingering fear.

At that moment, he felt as if the Soul-Devouring Mark on his chest had come to life!

A hollow layer appeared in the ground he had cleaved open with his cleaver, as if there was another passage beneath this altar.

The bloody energy from earlier had been suppressed in the passage for too long, which was why it had erupted so explosively.

A glint flashed in Li Qingyi's eyes as it stared intently at the ground.

"I didn't expect there to be a passage beneath here!"

"No wonder I searched for so long these past few days without finding any clues!"

Li Qingyi muttered to itself.

After helping Wang Xuan kill Zhou Laifu, it had come here to investigate, but to no avail.

But it never expected that a passage like this would be hidden more than ten meters deep beneath the original altar!

As the bloody energy gradually dissipated, the pain in Wang Xuan's body completely disappeared, but the black human face was still twisting violently.

And Wang Xuan had a strong feeling that something underground was attracting him!

To be precise, it was attracting the black human face on his chest!

"There's something else down there!"

Wang Xuan clutched his chest and stood up, looking at the entrance below with a solemn expression.

He thought the matter with Zhou Laifu was resolved, but now it seemed that there was much more to it than that!

"Let's go!"

Without thinking further, Wang Xuan immediately jumped into the underground passage.

Seeing this, Li Qingyi followed.

This was a passage that had been artificially excavated.

The entire passage was a strange, dark red color, and the surrounding rock walls were engraved with various bizarre runes and patterns.

Just a glance was enough to send a chill down Wang Xuan's spine!

Li Qingyi's expression was grave, and its eyes surged with killing intent!

"These are Pity Life Sect Blood Sacrifice patterns!"

"What exactly are these damned bastards trying to do!"

Its face was extremely unsightly.

The passage was of unknown length, and the entire passage was covered in Pity Life Sect patterns!

If it were used for a Blood Sacrifice, how large would the scale be?

Li Qingyi didn't dare to think about it.

After Wang Xuan entered the passage, the movement from the black human face on his chest grew stronger and stronger!

"This way!"

"There's something over there, attracting this Soul-Devouring Mark!"

Wang Xuan said in a low voice, quickly heading in the direction the Soul-Devouring Mark was attracting him.

As the two advanced, forks in the road began to appear.

Relying on the fluctuations of the Soul-Devouring Mark, as well as the enhancement of the Tracking Art, Wang Xuan accurately found the path.

As the bloody scent grew stronger, the two arrived at a carved-out underground space!

This space was more than ten times larger than the one Zhou Laifu had carved out.

At the entrance stood two bizarre demon statues!

And inside the space...

A bloody aura assaulted them, carrying with it rolling demonic energy that filled the space!

Wang Xuan and Li Qingyi walked out of the cave entrance, and their expressions changed drastically when they saw the scene before them!

Li Qingyi's pupils contracted sharply!

Wang Xuan's eyes widened instantly as he stared intently at the scene before him!

"This... this is!"

In the huge space ahead.

Stood a statue more than ten meters tall, with twelve arms and heads, its massive body seated on a lotus pedestal.

It was none other than the Holy Mother of Pity Life!

And beneath the lotus pedestal was a massive altar, with terrifying Demons hanging upside down all around it, fresh blood dripping continuously from the corpses of these Demons.

Following the altar's patterns on the ground, the blood gathered in one of the Holy Mother of Pity Life's hands, forming a blood-colored pearl the size of a dragon's eye.

An extremely dense demonic aura was released from the blood-colored pearl.

Wang Xuan was startled by this sight.

"So many... Demons!"

Wang Xuan took a deep breath.

Around the statue of the Holy Mother of Pity Life hung nine demon corpses upside down. These Demons were bizarrely shaped.

Some had bull heads and snake bodies, others had human faces and tiger bodies, and still others had three heads but human bodies. Just a single glance was enough to make one's heart and liver split!

This was the first time in Wang Xuan's life that he had seen real Demons!

But these man-eating Demons of the past were now hanging upside down like livestock, being bled.

"Young Master Li, do you know what this is?"

Wang Xuan took a deep breath and turned to look at Li Qingyi, asking.

The latter's expression was solemn.

"This is a Blood Demon Pearl, condensed from the blood of Demons. In the Pity Life Sect, it is revered as a Holy Pearl, capable of cleansing the five internal organs!"

"It can greatly increase one's cultivation!"

Li Qingyi said slowly.

"Blood Demon Pearl?"

Wang Xuan frowned upon hearing this.

Condensed from the blood of Demons!

This Pity Life Sect truly had grand ambitions!

Li Qingyi looked at the nine demon corpses before them, their expression solemn and complex, and said, "This Blood Demon Pearl has another use besides enhancing cultivation!"

"That is, it is used for sacrifice!"

"Which is what the Pity Life Sect calls the Banquet of Ten Thousand Demons!"

The three words "Banquet of Ten Thousand Demons" entered Wang Xuan's ears, and their pupils suddenly contracted!

Although he didn't know what this "Banquet of Ten Thousand Demons" was, it sounded extremely terrifying!

"But fortunately, this Blood Demon Pearl hasn't taken shape yet. We must destroy this place immediately!"

A murderous intent surged in Li Qingyi's eyes, and they were about to destroy the statue of the Holy Mother of Pity Life!

Seeing this, Wang Xuan quickly stopped them!

"Young Master Li, you mustn't!"

"If you act now, you will surely alert the people of the Pity Life Sect!"

Wang Xuan quickly said.

Li Qingyi's murderous intent was boiling: "It would be even better if they knew, so that maybe they would come to stop us, and we can kill them all at once!"

Hearing this, Wang Xuan was speechless for a while.

"Young Master Li, our top priority is to find their lair. If you alert them, what if they hide?"

"If we can't find their lair, they can make another altar like this at any time. What good will it do you even if you destroy it?"

As soon as these words came out, Li Qingyi instantly calmed down a lot.

"Then what do you say we should do!"

Wang Xuan looked at the altar, pondered slightly, and said, "The altar must not be destroyed, otherwise it will definitely stir up a hornet's nest!"

"We can wait here!"

"Look at those Demons; all the blood has been drained from their bodies!"

"If I'm not mistaken, the Pity Life Sect will definitely come to replace them with new Demons to condense the Blood Demon Pearl!"

"We just need to wait here!"

Li Qingyi's eyes lit up upon hearing this!

The Blood Demon Pearl requires a constant supply of fresh blood from Demons. The nine Demons before them have already been drained dry, so the Pity Life Sect will definitely send people to replace them.

Just as Li Qingyi was about to agree, Wang Xuan's expression suddenly changed.

"Someone's coming!"

He sensed someone approaching.

Seeing this, Li Qingyi grabbed Wang Xuan and went to a hole above the entrance, which was just big enough to hide both of them.

However, the hole was quite narrow, and the two of them could only stand face to face, less than half a foot apart!

Wang Xuan could clearly smell the gardenia scent emanating from Li Qingyi.

Li Qingyi didn't seem to notice how close they were, their gaze fixed on the area below.

Soon.

Footsteps approached, growing closer and closer.

"Hurry up and drag these beasts' corpses over here and hang them up for me!"

"If you delay the Holy Envoy's important affairs, none of you can expect to receive the Holy Mother of Pity Life's blessing at the Holy Assembly!"