Mortal Shedding Strange Ghost

"Crack."

"Crack."

As the three continued deeper into the Blood Demon Cave, the cramped passageway, originally only about a zhang in diameter, gradually widened.

The movements of some larger Strange Ghosts had made the passage's diameter even broader than the mountain tunnels on the highways from Xu Yuan's previous life.

The place where the Barbarian King had encountered that Mortal Shedding Strange Ghost should still have been some distance ahead, but even so, the aftershock of their battle had shattered countless rocks from the passage walls here.

The rubble varied in size. The small pieces were no bigger than a palm, while the largest stretched several zhang across, piled haphazardly atop the Black Death Fungal Mat.

Amid the flickering firelight, the sound of boots crunching over stone seemed especially hollow and desolate.

The three advanced several more li before finally reaching the chaotic boulders that completely blocked the passage.

This passage was nearly ten zhang in diameter—large enough to be called a cavern.

The enormous rocks from the collapse had sealed off the vast passage entirely, while boulders blasted outward lay scattered across the ground.

The firelight cast the three of their shadows across them, making them seem particularly small.

At the sight, Li Qingyan folded her arms across her chest and said softly, without the slightest ripple in her expression, "I already told you this place was completely blocked off. What did you insist on coming here to see?"

"..."

Xu Yuan did not answer at once. He paced back and forth through the enormous passage, inspecting something. From time to time, he circulated his Source Qi to move aside a few boulders and examine the fungal mat beneath them.

Under the puzzled gazes of the two women, Xu Yuan wandered about the spacious passage like this.

At last,