Serpent Ancestor

From their appearance, they all looked somewhat disheveled. Wang Dashan had even lost an arm, which was slowly regrowing.

”What bad luck! I had to sacrifice an arm just to drag that corpse into the spatial rift,” Wang Dashan cursed.

”These corpses only possess cultivation, without any Divine Abilities. Given some time, they’re not hard to deal with,” Qing Xuan said calmly.

After a brief exchange, everyone realized they had managed to escape by luring the corpses into the spatial rift, though the process was rather arduous.

At this moment, the Flame Demon Ancestor snorted coldly, ”Let me remind you, the one tracking me isn’t dead yet. That person is quite troublesome and couldn’t be lured into the spatial rift. I had to use a sealing formation to suppress them.”

Everyone immediately thought of the human cultivator from the outside world who was pursuing the Flame Demon Ancestor.

Human intelligence is among the highest of all beings, and it’s not surprising they could speak even after death.

”No worries, there’s only one left. Even if they come back, we can join forces to eliminate them,” Qing Xuan said.

The Night Sky remained hidden in the shadows, silent, but he revealed half of his body to indicate his presence.

”Since everyone has escaped, shall we all proceed inside? Any objections?” Qing Shuang asked, glancing around.No one objected.

As for the warning from the deceased cultivator earlier, it seemed no one took it to heart. At their level, how could they be frightened by such things?

However, everyone remained cautious.

After all, those cultivators were not weak, yet they died in such a place, which was rather strange.

Next, everyone focused and entered the cave one by one.

Inside the cave, it was dark, exuding an eerie atmosphere.

Qing Shuang waved her hand, casting a white light to illuminate the cave.

Xu Hei focused his attention and saw seven wooden boxes arranged on the ground ahead, along with three storage bags lined up beside them.

The style of the storage bags was clearly left by human cultivators from the outside world.

In the Dark Star, Xu Hei had never seen anyone use storage bags.

As for the seven wooden boxes, they should be the handiwork of the Wood Spirit Clan, as Divine Sense couldn’t penetrate them, indicating they were also storage tools.

”They’re Spirit Sealing Boxes, left by the Wood Spirit Clan ancestors!”

Qing Shuang’s eyes lit up, and she reached out to grab the boxes.

”Hold on!”

Suddenly, Qing Xuan interrupted her, saying, ”Qing Shuang, according to our prior agreement, any treasures found here should be shared equally. What do you think?”

Hearing this, Qing Shuang withdrew her hand and looked at the others.

The rest also looked at Qing Shuang.

Xu Hei showed a puzzled expression.

Share equally? He didn’t recall such an agreement.

Without an agreement, weren’t treasures usually claimed by one’s own abilities? However, given the current situation, sharing might be the best option.

”Hehe, I almost forgot,” Qing Shuang laughed.

”There are seven Spirit Sealing Boxes and three storage bags here, and we have seven people. Perfect, each person can choose a box, and as for the three storage bags, we can open them and divide their contents based on value. How about that?” Qing Shuang suggested.

”I have no objections.”

”I agree as well.”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Xu Hei also agreed.

No wonder the Flame Demon Ancestor was the first to rush in; it turns out this place was hiding a trove of treasures.

”Since you, Qing Shuang, are the inviter, you should choose first,” Qing Xuan said.

”Alright!” Qing Shuang nodded and without hesitation, grabbed one of the Spirit Sealing Boxes engraved with a lotus pattern.

With the wooden box in hand, nothing unusual happened, which relieved the others.

Next, it was Qing Xuan’s turn, and he picked up a box engraved with thorns.

Then it was Night Sky, Wang Dashan, Flame Demon Ancestor, and Xu Hei’s turns.

No one fought over the boxes, as they all looked similar in appearance, and no one could guess what was inside.

Perhaps only the two from the Wood Spirit Clan could discern some clues.

”Friend Qing, I don’t want this box. Can you give me its value in spirit sand?” Han Te asked.

”Sure, I’ll give you eight hundred spirit sand. You won’t lose out,” Qing Shuang replied.

”Haha, thank you very much,” Han Te laughed.

Thus, the last wooden box also ended up in Qing Shuang’s hands.

Next was the distribution of the three storage bags.

Judging by their placement, it was clear that the human cultivator had left them intentionally.

Xu Hei suspected that they might contain secrets about this place.

”Let me open them.”

Qing Shuang stepped forward and waved her hand gently.

The storage bag shattered, revealing a pile of jade slips.

These jade slips were clearly the common recording jade slips from the outside world, but they had all lost their luster and showed no spiritual essence fluctuations.

Qing Shuang picked up a jade slip, probed it with her Divine Sense, and shook her head, sighing, ”There’s no information at all.”

”How could this be?”

Xu Hei’s face darkened. He picked up a slip and found it was indeed inactive.

He had hoped that this senior would have left some information about this place, but it seemed to be a failure.

However, there were still two storage bags left, so there was hope.

Just as Qing Shuang was about to open the second storage bag.

Suddenly, a cold gleam struck from behind, like a gust of wind and lightning, hitting Qing Shuang’s back.

It was a thorn.

Qing Shuang’s back automatically raised vine whips, forming a vine armor that blocked the thorn’s attack. But what followed was a streak of black light.

”Slash!”

Qing Shuang’s protective armor was cut open, and countless thorns pierced her body, leaving large wounds.

Green sap flowed out, which was the blood of the Wood Spirit Clan.

Everything happened so quickly, the joint attack of the two was like lightning, leaving no time to defend, and in such a narrow environment, there was no room to dodge.

”Thorny Sea of Flowers!”

Qing Xuan clapped his hands, and countless thorny thickets rose from the ground, sealing Qing Shuang from all directions. Night Sky’s attack followed closely, two black blade lights forming a cross slash, shattering Qing Shuang’s protective vines into pieces.

Han Te was about to assist but was punched by Wang Dashan, sending him flying into the cave wall, embedding a human-shaped dent.

”This...”

Xu Hei’s mind went blank.

The Flame Demon Ancestor raised his hand, shooting a flame whip into the thorny sea, hitting Qing Shuang’s body accurately.

Qing Shuang spat out another mouthful of green blood, her body ignited by flames, but under the shroud of green light, all the flames were suppressed, and even the nearby thorny thickets couldn’t get close.

”Jianmu Overlord Body!”

Qing Shuang coldly shouted, half of her body transforming into a tree, with all the vines wrapping around her, binding herself for the strongest defense.