Puppets and guards dressed in Devil Cult attire stood at the archways. The guards and puppets were utterly motionless, having already been subdued by Yu Qingchen.
Li Qingxian looked toward an archway. The layout inside looked very much like a prison, with doors lining both sides of the passage.
"Wait here for now."
With that, Yu Qingchen flickered, turning into three azure shadows that entered the passages through three separate archways. He returned shortly afterward.
"There's no danger here. A few devil spawn, but they've been subdued. This place... is indeed a Devil Chamber." Yu Qingchen strove to remain calm, but his voice wavered slightly.
Their faces darkened. Yan Shixiao directed the others to split up and inspect the place, while he and Zhou Chunfeng headed toward the archway directly ahead.
Li Qingxian followed them through the archway and down the passage, arriving at the first door.
Twelve yellow talismans were pasted onto the black wooden door, with a peephole left in the middle.
Li Qingxian narrowed his eyes and peered inside. People with disheveled hair had been nailed to the walls in a circle.
Thin streams of blood trickled down their bodies and the walls, following strange paths into a blood pool in the center of the room.
The blood pool bubbled and gurgled.
The source of the bubbles was, unmistakably, a human nose.
Someone lay faceup in the blood pool.
Beneath its surface, a pair of deathly white eyes slowly turned to look at him.
Li Qingxian hastily pulled away from the peephole.
He continued forward to the second door and looked through its peephole. One glance sent numbness through his entire body, and he hurriedly looked away.
Countless snakes, rats, insects, and other vermin filled the room, burrowing frantically everywhere. People huddled in the corners as innumerable