The monument should have stood towering and majestic between heaven and earth.
But now, that solemn monument had split in two.
One half remained aboveground, while the other had become a heap of rubble.
Before that heap of rubble, a large hole had appeared.
A jumble of tracks surrounded the hole.
A closer look revealed that they were the wheelchair tracks Yin Xian had left earlier.
He had actually maneuvered his wheelchair straight into the underground opening.
The Dream Demon Snake flew into a rage at the chaos before it.
As the guardian beast, it had guarded this place for centuries, yet it had never expected a despicable human to exploit a gap in its defenses.
A raging fire burned within it, and its lantern-sized eyes stared at the opening for a full half-incense stick's time.
Then its body gave a violent shudder, and it rammed its basket-sized head straight into the half of the stone monument still standing.
"Has the Dream Demon Snake gone mad?" Bu Er could not help exclaiming as he watched its head hurtle wildly toward the monument.
Was it planning to perish together with Yin Xian beneath the ground?
Yang Qing shook his head. "Not necessarily."
Since the Dream Demon Snake had become the guardian beast of the Four-Square Land, it naturally possessed extraordinary abilities.
And it surely had a reason for doing this.
While Yang Qing and the others were still marveling, they heard a crash, and the Dream Demon Snake knocked the remaining half of the stone monument to the ground.
As the monument fell, the opening, which had originally allowed only one person through, suddenly widened.
In the blink of an eye, a passage broad enough for several horses abreast appeared before them.
The moment the passage opened, the Dream Demon Snake