Ruan Caocao frowned and drew her foot back a little. The rock walls on either side of the passage were covered with thumb-thick gray-black soft-bodied creatures.
Their bodies were coated in thick mucus, and they squirmed slowly along, leaving slippery trails behind them. Alongside the sweet, bloody smell, a sour stench of decay now hung in the air.
Sensing someone approaching, the creatures raised their front ends, revealing pinprick-sized eyes and letting out faint hisses that made one's scalp crawl.
Yun Che casually grabbed a handful and obtained some rare corrosion-resistance attributes. That was quite a decent haul.
"This mucus is corrosive. Be careful."
After giving her a warning, Yun Che stirred the divine power around him slightly and flew forward at low speed, silently harvesting rare resistances from the slugs as he went.
Before long, the two reached the depths of the cave, where countless branching paths appeared. But this posed no difficulty for Yun Che, who possessed the Firmament Divine Eye.
His divine eye worked with his divine sense as it spread outward, producing moving, high-definition images. A few breaths later, Yun Che turned his gaze toward the third passage on the left.
"This way."
This passage was relatively narrow, and dark red mucus seeped from the rock walls on either side, as thick as congealed blood.
The farther they went, the more bone-chilling the air became. They could faintly hear water dripping ahead. "Drip, drip." The sound was especially clear in the silent cave.
Suddenly, a teeth-grating sound of bones scraping together came from the darkness ahead. Then several eerie green lights lit up at the end of the passage, staring fixedly at them like the eyes of wild beasts.
"Caocao, go straight for your strongest attacks. Don't hold back."
"Yes, mentor."
Ruan Caocao's gaze sharpened. She