Before long.
An officer hurried back.
His expression was somewhat strange.
"My lord, you should come and take a look."
"We found something strange in the deepest part of the mine."
The Blood Shadow Immortal Emperor's gaze stirred.
"Lead the way."
The officer led the way, with the Blood Shadow Immortal Emperor close behind.
They followed a narrow passage deeper into the mine.
The farther they went, the stronger the sickly sweet scent in the air became.
Unlike the bloody stench in the hall, this scent was cloying, imbued with an eerie vitality.
They walked a little over a hundred zhang.
The passage suddenly opened up ahead, revealing an underground cavern even larger than the hall.
A huge stone trough stood in the center of the cavern.
It was filled with thick, dark green liquid that bubbled away.
Countless tiny black worms crawled across its surface.
They burrowed back and forth through the liquid.
Every so often, worms crawled elsewhere through pipes along the edges of the trough.
"What are these things?"
The Blood Shadow Immortal Emperor frowned and stepped closer.
Despite spending so many years in the Weird Faction, he had never seen worms like these.
"I don't know either, my lord."
The officer beside him shook his head.
"When we searched this area, we found this pool full of worms."
"There are plenty of empty crystal boxes nearby, too. They look like they were used to hold these worms."
The Blood Shadow Immortal Emperor looked in the direction he indicated.
Sure enough, over a hundred empty crystal boxes were piled in a corner of the cavern.
Patterns identical to those on the worms still lingered on the boxes' inner walls.
They were clearly containers specially made to hold these worms.
The Blood Shadow Immortal Emperor crouched, condensing a