Longyi and the others looked over, and sure enough, they saw a ten-meter-wide hole abruptly appearing in the depths of the dense forest ahead. It was pitch-black without a single ray of light.
For some reason, Longyi had an indescribable feeling in his heart. There seemed to be something inside that was attracting him.
"Doesn't everyone feel that this hole looks a little strange?" Yamei asked hesitantly as she sized up the seemingly bottomless hole.
"A little. Don't tell me that the Heaven Slaying Squid is in there?" Sijiate said.
"Absolutely impossible. Didn't you see that the Heaven Slaying Squid's huge tentacle is a hundred meters wide? It's more likely that it's hiding a smaller tentacle in this hole," Karl said.
Longyi raised his hand, and five balls of light emerged from the bottom of the sea. Although the light magical element in the water was very thin, it was more than enough to sustain a few balls of light. With a flick of his finger, the five balls of light imbued with Longyi's mental strength shot into the hole.
The balls of light advanced about a hundred meters in the hole before encountering an obstacle and extinguishing.
"Longyi, do you want to go in and take a look?" Yamei fanned her two purple shells. It seemed that she was rather interested in this hole.
"I want to go in and take a look. Do you have any objections?" Longyi looked at everyone. Actually, it was not very wise to take the risk of entering this hole in such a dangerous underwater forest. However, Longyi's intuition told him that there was something in this hole. Otherwise, he would not have such a strange feeling.
Liuli was the first to shake her head. Of course, she would not leave Longyi's side. The Yamei siblings and Karl also expressed that they had no objection. It could be said that the lives of the three of them had been saved by Long Yi. If Long Yi wanted to enter, they had no reason to shrink back. Moreover, they all had an extreme adventurous nature.
Seeing that everyone agreed, Longyi lit up a few balls of light and enveloped everyone in an isolation barrier. Then, he swam toward the hole.
The hole was sloping at a forty-five-degree angle. Longyi touched the walls of the hole. It did not seem to be made of sand or rock. It felt hard and smooth. After swimming for about a hundred meters, he arrived at the place that blocked Longyi's light ball.
"Hey, we've reached the end. There's nothing in this cave." Everyone looked around with the gentle light from the ball of light. However, the road ahead had already come to an end.
Longyi frowned. That wasn't possible, right? That feeling … How could it be an empty cave?
Longyi increased the brightness of the light ball and illuminated the surroundings. Suddenly, he found some ancient magic runes engraved on the stone wall on the left.
"If I add some lines and circle these magic runes, it will look like a teleportation magic array." Longyi had done some research on magic arrays. He found the magic runes very familiar at first glance, so he came to this conclusion.
"Why don't we give it a try?" Karl said.
Longyi had already planned to do so, so he gathered his magic power at his fingertips. Swish! Swish! He drew lines, and soon, a teleportation magic array was completed. "After inserting two more magic crystals, it should be possible … … eh … …" Before Long Yi could finish speaking, he saw that the magic runes on the magic array seemed to have come to life as they emitted a faint radiance. This magic array was activated in an instant. It unexpectedly didn't need magic crystals to provide energy.
"Should we go in?" Sijiate asked dumbly.
"Of course. I won't be able to sleep or eat in peace if we don't go in. "Karl's eyes lit up. He couldn't wait to know where this teleportation magic array would take them.
After discussing, everyone took a deep breath and entered the teleportation magic array.
Longyi hugged Crystal's slender waist and felt his vision blur. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the wilderness overgrown with weeds. The soles of his feet were solid ground, and he was surrounded by fresh air. However, when he looked up … He saw blue seawater a hundred meters above his head. Strange fish swam by from time to time.
At this moment, the Yamei siblings and Karl stood up from the weeds not far away, bewildered.
"Strange, how did we get teleported to the Land of the Holy Spirit in Undersea City? Let's get out quickly. It would be terrible if we were discovered." Karl looked around and said in a low voice.
"What Land of the Holy Spirit? Isn't this a desolate suburb? "Longyi asked, raising his eyebrows. He had always thought that Undersea City was a city in the sea. He did not expect it to be a place isolated from the sea by a huge barrier. However, this was even better. Although his seventh layer AoTianJue could absorb the oxygen in the sea to survive, humans were humans, after all. It was not so comfortable to soak in the sea every day.
"The Sea Race was also involved in the Great War of Gods and Demons 100,000 years ago. Back then, the greatest Sea Emperor and his millions of people died in battle here. Later, this place was named the Land of the Holy Spirit and belonged to the Sea Race. No one was allowed to disturb the late Sea Emperor's rest. Once discovered, they would be executed," Karl explained.
So many corpses? Longyi spread out his spiritual power and didn't detect any resentment. He muttered a few incantations and cast the Undead Summon. Several grotesque skeletons of the Sea Race crawled out of the ground and staggered to stand in front of Longyi.
"Ah …" The Yamei siblings and Karl simultaneously cried out in alarm, staring at Longyi as if they were looking at a monster. There were also magicians among the Sea Race, but there were not many of them. Most of them were proficient in water or mental magic. Necromancers only existed in legends as devil emissaries.
Longyi didn't feel like paying attention to them. He examined the skeletons of the Sea Race and shook his head. "Looking at the appearance of these bones, they are definitely not 100,000 years old. At most, they are 100 years old."
Their attention was diverted by Longyi's words. Karl cried out involuntarily, "That's impossible! No one has ever set foot here. Apart from the Sea Emperor who comes every year to offer sacrifices, no one is allowed to enter."
"I have no need to lie to you … However, do you know what this is?" Longyi took a small token made of sea essence from the neck of an eight-limbed skeleton.
"Isn't this the identity token of the Sea Scorpion Race's elite scorpion guard?" Karl asked in shock as he took a look.
"Are you sure? Karl, the elite scorpion guard was only established 200 years ago. How could it appear here? "Yamei said.
With that said, everyone felt that the matter was a little strange. This was a place where the Sea Race had sacrificed their lives during the War of Gods and Demons a hundred thousand years ago, but skeletons that were less than a hundred years old had appeared. Moreover, this place was never a place that people were allowed to enter.
Longyi sized up the skeletons beside him. There were no scars on the bones, and he couldn't tell how they had died. He thought for a moment and twisted off one of the pincers of the sea scorpion skeleton in front of him. After examining it, he said with a doubtful expression, "It seems that all the blood essence in its body was sucked dry. There is no trace of earth marrow powder in these bones."
"Then isn't it like they were killed by the Heaven Slaying Squid? Didn't that Frank die like that? "Sijiate said.
Karl's expression changed, and the image of his good brother Frank's tragic death appeared in his mind. He gritted his teeth and said, "Investigate. I must get to the bottom of this matter."
At that moment, Longyi's ears twitched, and he said softly, "Someone is coming. Retract your aura and hide first."
Everyone retracted their aura upon hearing that and hid in the invisible isolation barrier that Longyi had set up. They then crouched down and hid in the bushes at the side.
Not long after, snapping sounds came from afar. A group of fifty or so tall men clad in armor and wielding spears with cold gleams in their hands walked over. They were still far away, but the bloody aura of slaughter could already be felt.
Among this group of fifty or so people, there were a few people carrying rectangular rattan sacks as they walked past Longyi's group of five.
"What race's army is this?" Longyi asked softly.
"I don't know. I can't see their real faces." Karl shook his head. The Yamei siblings also indicated that they had never seen this kind of army before.
Perhaps they were training a secret army here, and they were just using the Land of the Holy Spirit as a cover, Longyi thought.
"Let's follow them and see where they're going," Longyi said.
The five of them trailed far behind this group. With Longyi's strength, it was very easy for him to follow such a group.
After walking for about an hour, this group stopped in front of an inconspicuous rock. The leader took out a triangular badge and placed it on the rock. With a flash of white light, this group actually disappeared into thin air.
Longyi and the others rushed to the rock, but they did not find any grooves or anything like that on the rock. They wanted to move this rock, but they were afraid of alerting the enemy. That would not be worth it.
"Longyi, what do we do now?" Yamei habitually asked Longyi. She always felt that there was nothing in this world that he couldn't do.
Longyi closed his eyes and released his mental power to see if there was any barrier. He was sure that the white light that had just been emitted did not have the mana waves of a teleportation magic array. It was just pure mana waves. Could it be that there was an invisible magic door here?
After a long time, Longyi shook his head helplessly and said, "I didn't find anything. We can only use the stupidest method and wait. I don't believe they won't come out."
Everyone thought about it and felt that this was the only way.
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