With Li Xiaoyu leading the way, their journey became much smoother.
Although grotesque Demonized Beasts still sprang from the darkness now and then, attacking them.
Without exception, however, every beast was crushed into powder by their sword auras before it could come within a hundred zhang of them.
They pressed onward, not knowing how long they had walked.
The scene before them grew ever more expansive—and ever stranger.
It was as though they had entered an underground world made up of countless enormous skeletons.
Each skeleton stretched for hundreds of zhang, some even more than a thousand.
They lay silently across the dark earth, their bones bearing the weight of countless millennia.
Yet the majesty and desolation emanating from them would endure for all time.
"What is this place?"
Staring at the vast, tragic scene before him, Zeng Shushu murmured to himself.
His eyes were filled with shock.
"This must be the burial ground of powerful beasts from ancient times."
Xiao Bai looked at the enormous skeletons around them, her expression grave.
"It seems we're very close to the heart of the Ancient Demon-Suppressing Cave."
A sense of foreboding rose in everyone's heart.
They did not hesitate further, cautiously making their way through the Bone Forest formed by the giant skeletons.
At last, after passing through a maze-like Bone Forest of enormous ribs, they emerged into an open space.
A vast cavern, large enough to hold tens of thousands of people, lay before them.
Countless luminous pearls were embedded in the cavern walls, giving off a gentle light that illuminated the entire cavern as brightly as day.
At the very center of the cavern stood a woman's statue, carved from white jade.
She wore a gorgeous gown steeped in the style of the Southern Border, her figure graceful and her