Xiao Man carefully poked her head out of the hidden underground cavern.
With the help of the bright moonlight, she saw countless buildings in the central area of Qingshan Town. They were all wrapped in layers of white, black, blue, and purple.
It was like a huge cocoon.
There seemed to be something inside that was breathing rhythmically.
This was already the third day since Xiao Man entered Qingshan Town.
At first, she only dared to wander around the periphery. After killing an Asura, she immediately escaped.
But slowly, she became more and more daring.
Slowly, she began to go deeper into the core of the ruined city.
Soon, she realized that something was wrong.
This town, which had been abandoned for hundreds of years, was once the most prosperous market in Qingshan County.
There were only some low-level Asuras wandering in the ruins.
At most, it was just a mindless ghost demon.
Until she found this place.
This was where the market of Qingshan Town used to be.
The old man and Xiao Man had talked about the prosperity and liveliness of the market of Qingshan Town.
There were hundreds of taverns, hundreds of shops, and pedestrians coming and going like the clouds, sweating like rain.
Almost everything could be bought here.
Oil, salt, cloth, needles and thread...
Even pills, cultivation techniques, magical artifacts...
Unfortunately, the sky had fallen!
The immortals and gods of the 33rd heaven fell like raindrops.
Countless Asuras and Heavenly Demons swarmed in through the gap in the sky.
Everything was over.
The prosperous city, the powerful sects.
They were all destroyed!
The Human Race and the Demon Race even had to abandon all the cultivation methods they had in the past.
Only the sword cultivators could still exist.
Even so, they had no choice but to hide here and there. They even learned from rats and built underground cities that crisscrossed each other.
Even so, they had to be tense.
They sent out sentries one after another, using the flesh and blood of young people to stall for time.
Thinking of this, Xiao Man slowly returned to the cellar.
She sat cross-legged on the ground.
She had found this cellar in an abandoned inn yesterday.
It covered a large area, almost covering half of the underground of Qingshan Town.
Perhaps, this was once a refuge for the Human Race.
However, the city had long been empty, and there were no clues left.
It was also because of this underground network that Xiao Man could get close to this place.
She could even quietly observe the "cocoon" that covered and wrapped around the entire market.
She recalled what her eyes had just glimpsed.
Dozens of ghosts and demons lay on the ground outside the cocoon.
Hundreds of different kinds of Shura monsters were densely packed around the giant cocoon.
And that was only the part she could see.
In a place she couldn't see, there might be ten times as many Asuras.
This made Xiao Mang very uneasy.
She already knew that the essence of Shura was a group of monsters dominated and distorted by desire.
Even if these things were sentient, their minds would only be filled with killing and madness.
Therefore, it was impossible for them to quietly and obediently surround the cocoon.
"There's only one possibility..." Xiao Man thought, "The thing inside the cocoon is extremely important to these Shura!"
But …
What could that be?
Xiao Man didn't know, but she was very flustered.
Subconsciously, she had a feeling that if the thing inside the cocoon hatched.
Then …
She was about to be in big trouble!
Bang!
At this moment, a huge tremor came from the ground, and it soon became continuous.
Something seemed to be attacking the market.
And the Asuras were fighting!
Xiao Man carefully approached the entrance of the Catacombs and slowly poked her head out.
Thus, she saw a scene that she couldn't believe!
A few black figures were walking through the air.
They were holding magic tools in their hands.
They were making strange noises.
There were even people shouting loudly, "Slaves! How dare you stop the great sacred race?! "
"Die!"
Thus, his long sleeves rolled up countless rubble and smashed it towards the Asuras who were frantically blocking him.
The Asuras were sent flying one by one.
There were even ghosts and demons that were directly smashed into pieces by a magic tool.
Countless ruins of buildings collapsed one by one.
However, the Asuras risked their lives to stop them at all costs.
"That's!" Xiao Man took a deep breath. "Sky Demon!"
There was no doubt that these attackers were all Sky Demons!
And they were Sky Demons that occupied the bodies of those powerful great cultivators.
Only these things dared to swagger in the air after the fall of the sky!
But the problem was …
Xiao Man remembered that the old people had once said that the Sky Demons had the ability to command and even control Asuras.
There was once a Great Sky Demon who controlled and drove hundreds of thousands of Asuras to besiege a large sect of the human race.
In the end, he relied on the flesh and blood of the Asuras to destroy that incomparably powerful sect.
Even the sect leader had his flesh, blood, and soul devoured by the Skyfiends.
What was going on?
Was there an internal strife between the Sky Demons and the Asuras?
This was unprecedented!
While Xiao Man was thinking, the Sky Demons had already quickly cleaned up the Asuras who were blocking their way.
The entire ruins were smashed by them.
The ground was littered with the broken corpses of the Asuras.
The Sky Demons had already landed on the ground one by one.
They slowly approached the 'cocoon'.
Xiao Man watched and held her breath. Her divine soul was completely restrained, and her eyes didn't dare to relax at all.
She wasn't worried that she would be discovered!
Although the divine senses of the Sky Demons were extremely powerful, they had a shortcoming -- it was difficult for them to pry under the soil.
An inch of thin soil was enough to isolate the divine senses of these powerful monsters.
From then on, no one knew why?
But now, Xiao Man knew the reason.
The earth wrapped around a divine mountain!
This divine mountain was brought by Zhulong before the creation of the world.
It was the divine mountain where Zhulong came from.
It was wrapped in the earth and slowly recovered its vitality.
Today, countless years later, the divine mountain slowly recovered.
Its power spread out from the depths of the earth's core, naturally forming a layer of protective film.
The reason why the human race or the demon race could not be obstructed by this protective film was because the living beings in the world were actually the children of the divine mountain.
But...
The Sky Demons and Asuras were different.
They were invaders.
Naturally, they were isolated by the power of the divine mountain.
That was why Xiao Man dared to poke her head out of the underground cave to observe without fear.
As long as her divine sense was well restrained, even the Sky Demons at the immortal level would not be able to discover her.
Under Xiao Man's gaze, the few Sky Demons slowly approached the large cocoon.
Then, they surrounded the large cocoon and began to reach out to touch the cocoon silk.
But as soon as their hands touched the cocoon silk, they seemed to be stuck to the cocoon silk by something.
Then...
A pair of slender white arms suddenly stretched out of the large cocoon.
This arm, as soon as it stretched out of the cocoon silk.
It suddenly turned into an incomparably ferocious huge strange mouth that looked like a petal.
Crack!
The big mouth aimed at a Sky Demon and covered its head.
A powerful force burst forth from the Sky Demon's body.
One magic weapon after another was taken out from the Sky Demon's body.
But it was useless!
The big mouth ignored all of this.
With a snap, it bit the Heavenly Demon and its Dharma Artifact.
Crack, crack...
The sound of bones breaking.
Gurgle... gurgle...
The stinky blood in the Sky Demon's body kept flowing out of the big mouth.
The big mouth swallowed.
The flesh, blood, and bones of the Sky Demon, along with its divine soul and magic weapon, were all swallowed.
Then, the big mouth opened again.
At the edge of the petal-like mouth, there were countless jagged things, azure blue under the moonlight.
That was poison!
Crack!
Crack!
The big mouth bit by bit...
All the Sky Demons were swallowed into its stomach.
Then, it turned back into a fair and slender beautiful arm and slowly retracted into the cocoon.
At the same time.
An incomparably powerful divine sense came out of the cocoon.
Like a hurricane, it swept across the entire Qingshan Town.
The original houses of Qingshan Town collapsed one by one in front of this divine sense.
Xiao Man staggered and hurriedly fell back into the cave from the entrance of the cave.
In her mind, that divine sense was still echoing.
It was an incomparably twisted and evil divine sense.
Just feeling it made Xiao Man's heart skip a beat.
Xiao Man gasped for breath.
"What the hell is that?"
What was certain was that that thing was not a Sky Demon at all, nor was it an Asura.
It was a monster that had never been seen before!
It seemed to be in a certain state now.
"Cocoon..."
"Metamorphosis from a cocoon to a butterfly..."
Xiao Man thought.
"If that's the case, then the thing inside the cocoon is probably an extremely terrifying and terrifying thing!"
"Something that even the Sky Demons are afraid of!"
Obviously...
Those Heavenly Demons were here to eradicate it.
Or rather...
The Sky Demons were deliberately attracted by it.
The development of this monster needed the divine souls of the Sky Demons!
Thinking of this, Xiao Man mustered up her courage and crawled towards the exit of the cave again. She slowly poked her head out.
She saw Asuras getting up from the ground one by one.
They slowly leaned towards the 'cocoon' again.
Like loyal guards, they guarded it.
"What exactly is inside?" Xiao Man didn't know.
But she understood that that thing was definitely not something she could deal with.
Even now, it was still in the cocoon!
She couldn't stay here any longer!
Xiao Man thought. She arched her body and slowly and carefully walked into the distance through the long and narrow underground passage.
When she was halfway there.
Her heart skipped a beat.
"Maybe... I can go inside the cocoon and take a look..."
The underground passage here did not lead to the inside of the cocoon.
But...
Xiao Man remembered that the underground shelter of the human race usually had multiple floors.
This was designed to take advantage of the fact that Asura and the Sky Demons could not pry into the underground.
And the interface and design between each floor were all different.
This depended on the concept of different designers.
Moreover, because the Sky Demons would invade the souls and memories of the human race and the demon race.
So...
The design of most shelters would be constantly updated.
In the beginning, the underground passage of the shelter was a mechanism.
Later, it became a magic array. Now, it was a mixture of magic array and mechanism.
Sometimes the magic array was the key to open the mechanism, and sometimes the mechanism was the door to the magic array.
Legend had it that some truly outstanding shelter designers would even make secret keys out of the heavenly stems and earthly branches and the Qimen Dunjia.
The positions of the passageways and entrances on every floor were constantly changing.
But, that was the current design.
Moreover, it was a design that only large shelters with the protection of Nascent Soul realm powerhouses had.
For an abandoned refuge like this, the design of the entrance and passageway shouldn't be too complicated.
After all, this place was no longer a shelter.
Those precious spell formations and mechanisms should have been removed as well.
Thus, Xiao Man immediately turned back.
She returned to the underground cavern and began to search inside.
But after searching every corner, there was no entrance.
So...
"Is this a password-style entrance?" Xiao Man thought.
If that was the case, then it would be very difficult for her to find the entrance in a short period of time.
But...
Xiao Man looked at the underground cavern. She knew that it was impossible for this place to be password-style.
Because the password-style entrance required an extremely complicated set of magic arrays and precious spirit stones as energy.
Moreover...
This place had been abandoned for a long time.
It had been so long that there were no traces of human existence in the passages and corridors here.
Thus, Xiao Man stood on her tiptoes and reached out to touch the wall.
Finally, she touched something that seemed to be words.
"As expected!" Xiao Man laughed. She slowly twisted the words.
Crack crack crack...
A faint sound came from a corner of the underground cavern.
Xiao Man walked over and saw an entrance about a foot wide.
She carefully reached out to touch it and touched a rotten rope.
Thus, she knew that she had found it.
She jumped down from here.
Plop!
She landed steadily on the ground.
The ground was very soft. It should be soil.
Xiao Man opened her eyes and looked at the pitch-black surroundings.
The vision of a swordsman allowed her to see every detail here clearly.
This was a very old shelter design.
The surrounding walls were mostly separated by wooden boards.
Lamps were lined up on both sides of the walls.
But Xiao Man did not need to light the lamps. She looked in the direction and walked towards the direction of the cocoon.
Soon, she walked along the entrance corridor to the living area of the underground shelter.
There were many scattered living utensils here.
In the walls on both sides, there were man-made caves.
Most of the shelters in the sanctuary were built with holes in them.
Xiao Man did not care about these. She continued forward, passed through the living area, and walked into another corridor.
She walked to the end, and a wooden staircase appeared in front of her.
Xiao Man climbed up the staircase and touched the hard stone slab.
She gently pressed a mechanism beside her.
The stone slab above slowly moved, and countless dust fell down.
There was still an underground cavern above.
"This is the shelter design from seventy or eighty years ago..." Xiao Man thought about what she saw.
Now, even the simplest temporary shelter was much more complicated than such a shelter.
As long as the Sky Demon could not find the entrance, then people would be safe.
At least they could take the opportunity to escape from other exits.
And with such a shelter design, once discovered, it was almost impossible to escape!
But...
Xiao Man was just about to climb out.
She immediately stopped.
Because, she sensed velvet that was like silk and spider silk.
That monster...
Did it spit out its silk into this cave?
It knew about this cave?
Were these silk used by it as an early warning?
Thinking of this, Xiao Man immediately flew back.
But...
It was too late!
Those silk seemed to have sensed her existence.
They immediately followed the entrance of the cave and rolled towards her.
Xiao Man had no choice but to pull out her short sword and ignite her soul fire.
Then, she slashed towards the entrance of the cave in midair.
The soul fire slashed towards the silk that was rolling towards Xiao Man.
These silk were fearless and directly faced the soul fire.
Bang!
The soul fire and the silk met and immediately let out a muffled sound.
Then, it burned.
Ah!
A shrill scream screamed in her eardrums, causing Xiao Man's head to hurt.
The silk that came into contact with the soul fire immediately broke and fell to the ground.
The soul fire immediately shot back towards Xiao Man.
The remaining silk crawled back to the entrance of the cave like snakes.
Obviously, they were afraid of the soul fire!
The returning soul fire drilled into Xiao Man's eyes.
They seemed a little weak!
This was the first time Xiao Man realized that the soul fire would be weak.
Obviously, burning those silk just now had consumed their energy.
This made Xiao Man extremely shocked. She knew that it was not good to stay here for long, so she immediately turned around and left.
The facts also proved her judgment.
On the ground, the Asuras stood up one by one.
They felt something.
They immediately rushed to the entire town.
They began to rummage through the ruins.
The invaders were underground.
They had to find the entrance!
.....
It was already night time.
Ling Ping'an had just finished dinner and was holding his phone, watching a short video.
This was a clip from a documentary.
It was about an insect called a parasitic bee.
Ling Ping'an clicked his tongue in wonder.
"The boundless world is really full of wonders!"
In the video, the parasitic bee laid its eggs in the caterpillar's body.
Not one, but more than a dozen.
These eggs actually carried a special virus that interfered with and paralyzed the caterpillar's immune system.
Thus, the eggs hatched safely in the host's body.
The caterpillar became the bodyguard, nanny, and nurse of these things.
The larvae of the parasitic bee sucked the caterpillar's blood and grew up relying on the caterpillar's supply.
Finally, they grew up.
They bit through the caterpillar's skin and burrowed out of its body.
At this moment, the main point came!
The caterpillar was not dead yet!
The caterpillar, which had been the slave of these parasitic bees for its entire life, had now become the bodyguard of these larvae.
Not only did it use everything to protect these parasitic bees that were extremely vulnerable.
It also spun silk and spun cocoons for them.
In the end, the caterpillar died of exhaustion on the cocoon of the parasitic bee.
And a brand new parasitic bee broke out of the cocoon.
Next, they would embark on a journey to reproduce and find the caterpillar.
Ling Ping'an watched this video several times.
"How amazing!" After watching it again, he sighed.
This parasitic bee's strategy was simply too amazing.
Parasitic hosts, making the hosts work like cows and horses, even serving them loyally in life and death.
This was a material that could be written in a book and become a swarm of insects.
Hmm!
Ling Ping'an nodded!
He knew that as long as such a strategy was changed, the swarm of insects would be very violent.
Parasitism, growth, plunder, reproduction...
Then, everything of a race would be digested.
He felt that such a swarm of insects might be liked by the readers!
Thinking of this, he clicked on the 'Legend of Nightmare Clan Tribe Manager' on his phone.
He hadn't read it for a few days.
It was time to take a look!
At the same time, he should consider the magical modification of the parasitic bee.
… …
Outside Qingshan Town.
Xiao Man's figure appeared from the drainage canal on the side of the river.
This was the emergency escape route of the shelter.
She turned around and looked at Qingshan Town in the night.
Suddenly...
She felt the earth trembling!
The direction of the trembling was in the market of Qingshan Town.
Under the moonlight, countless smoke and dust were rising.
In the smoke and dust, the figure of a woman with dragonfly-like wings had already risen into the air.
Xiao Man looked at it.
She knew that it was the thing inside the cocoon.
It had already broken out of the cocoon!
Facing the moonlight, the woman-like thing spread its wings.
The moonlight flowed into her body like water.
She was cultivating!
Xiao Man's hands began to tremble.
She was cultivating!
And as everyone knew, whether it was the Sky Demon or Asura, they didn't know how to cultivate!
These monsters only had crazy paranoia and a desire for flesh and blood!
But now...
A monster, a monster born from Shura, was actually cultivating!
Xiao Man's body trembled because of this discovery.
What did this mean?
She couldn't be more clear.
A brand-new kind of living being!
A new living being had appeared between heaven and earth!
In other words, if in the future, the human race and the demon race were extinct.
Then, this kind of living being would become the true master of this world.
Similarly...
Xiao Man knew...
The human race and the demon race between heaven and earth had reached the most dangerous moment!
As long as this brand-new living being existed, the human race and the demon race would not be able to take back the world!
What people used to fantasize about.
They relied on the underground shelter to avoid the Sky Demon and Asura.
They lasted until these monsters exhausted their strength, dried up their flesh and blood, and rolled back into the void.
Everyone's beautiful dream of coming out from underground and reclaiming the world was shattered in front of this new living being!
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