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"": "There was no point overthinking it. After coming so far, he couldn't go back empty-handed, could he?
Without stopping, Luo Bin kept following him deeper inside.
The path sloped downward into a depression that looked utterly desolate.
There was something else strange about it. Nothing had been visible from outside, but once inside, he could see countless burial mounds scattered haphazardly around.
Many of the mounds had been dug open, their coffins tossed about nearby.
Fourth Master Gray crawled straight toward one of the excavated graves.
Luo Bin followed him to the mound and stopped. Inside was an unearthed coffin containing a corpse. Its kneecaps and elbow cartilage had also been gouged out, and its chin had been sliced off.
Fourth Master Gray suddenly burrowed into the corpse's mouth. After wriggling his fat body a couple of times, he backed out and jerked his head, forcibly dragging out a patterned snake as long as a forearm.
With a faint crack, the Snake Body snapped in two. Fourth Master Gray sucked on one section and chewed it raw. The head on the other section was still flicking its tongue in agony, but he ate with relish.
"So that's how it is?" Luo Bin surveyed his surroundings.
Could any dark, damp, decaying place be darker than this valley? Could it have more rot? Could it be damper than the inside of a corpse or beneath a coffin?
Fourth Master Gray really did have some tricks up his sleeve.
Still, Luo Bin couldn't understand how he had found this place.
Then another thought occurred to him: what about the corpse core?
He had gone straight into the Underground Palace and found the corpse core just like that.
Even earlier, when they had entered Lord Mo Di's tomb beneath