After examining their surroundings, everyone discovered that it no longer seemed so cold, and the stone cave appeared to stretch downward.
"Could this lead underground again?" Zhang Xiaofan muttered.
The speaker had meant nothing by it, but the listener took it to heart.
"Have you encountered this kind of terrain before?" Old Ancestor Fengyue couldn't help asking, looking toward Zhang Xiaofan.
Zhang Xiaofan thought of the magma lake in Black Stone Cave and nodded.
It wasn't as if nothing had happened along the way. Strange things, never before seen in the Central Plains, appeared before them from time to time.
There were vines that looked like snakes but were actually plants. There were strange beasts shaped like stones that were indeed stones—the stone was merely their shell. There was grass that glowed, trees made up of clustered insects, and boot-shaped things that specialized in eating snakes and insects, though no one could tell whether they were plants or animals, among other things.
All of this greatly broadened the horizons of Ghost King and the others.
Old Ancestor Fengyue, however, wore a sour expression the entire way. His brows remained furrowed, and whenever they encountered some unusual creature, panic and confusion would surface on his face.
"Why have you been frowning ever since we entered the cave?" Ghost King had noticed Old Ancestor Fengyue's odd behavior long ago. When an opportunity arose, he went to his side and quietly asked him.
"These things... I didn't see a single one of them the last time I came here!" After saying this, Old Ancestor Fengyue paid no mind to the surprise on Ghost King's face. He hurried a few steps to catch up with Tian Buyi and told him what was going on.
After hearing him out, Tian Buyi thought of the worries