Who Fused with Whom?

Beyond the steel door lay a winding tunnel, seemingly a natural cavity formed within the mountain. The only illumination came from strings of mining lamps overhead, each lighting only a small patch of the surroundings.

The treasury's heating did not extend here, yet the tunnel remained at a fairly comfortable temperature, standing in sharp contrast to the howling cold winds outside the Snow Mountain.

There was even moss and some green leafy plants by their feet.

"How much time is left?" Chen Xuan asked.

"Three minutes and forty-five seconds," Lin Qing reported.

"That's enough."

Sure enough, before they had gone far, the tunnel suddenly opened up into a natural cavern.

"Watch your step." Lin Qing grabbed Chen Xuan's arm.

The cave was indeed not very large, but its vertical depth was astonishing, practically like a shaft. Beneath their feet was a sheer cliff, its bottom pitch-black and impossible to see. One wrong step would mean falling to their deaths.

"Is there no path?" Chen Xuan frowned. What kind of storeroom was this? It was clearly just a deep pit. If someone said this was the Temple Treasury's garbage dump for disposing of employee trash, he would have found that far more believable.

No matter how he looked at it, it did not resemble a normal treasure vault.

"Wait, there's a switch here."

Lin Qing pulled down a breaker on the wall. Amid a series of crackling electrical sounds, high-powered lights flickered on one after another, illuminating the cave as brightly as day.

And at that very moment, they saw Mother Body Lucy.

It resembled an enormous cocoon of flesh, suspended in the center of the cave by blood vessels and veins. The rocky walls were also covered in a layer of fleshy membrane, colored a vivid red. The cocoon was