The two looked at each other and exchanged smiles.
For the first time, they were pulling in the same direction.
"Let's go. We'll find the Golden Bell right now."
Seeing this, Uchiha Chisato smiled knowingly and called for the Shandians and Skypieans to set off together.
The group arrived beneath an enormous vine in the heart of Upper Yard.
She tilted her head back to study the vine and said, "Actually, the Golden Bell is at the top of this vine, hidden in a cloud."
"Huh?"
The Shandians froze when they heard that.
The Chieftain stared for a moment, then slapped his forehead. "So that's it? No wonder we couldn't find it back then, even after searching everywhere on the ground."
"Did this vine lift it higher up?"
"All these years, and we never once thought to look higher. Honestly..."
At that, both the Chieftain and the Shandian warriors could only smile bitterly.
They felt they had been fools all this time, failing to think of something so simple.
All they had needed to do was look up!
"ROAR!!!"
An earth-shaking roar suddenly erupted.
Immediately afterward, an enormous snake head shot out from beneath the clouds and lunged straight at Uchiha Chisato.
"That's one huge snake!"
Uchiha Chisato's pupils contracted. The snake's head alone was over ten meters across.
She reacted instantly, activating the fourth form of Susanoo.
With one slap, she sent the lunging snake head flying hundreds of meters away.
The giant serpent was knocked unconscious on the spot.
She could actually have killed it with a single slash.
But Xunjing had mentioned that this snake was a descendant of the snake god the Shandians had once worshipped.
More importantly, it was fully intelligent and could easily be tamed as a summoning beast.
"It's the descendant of the