The Celestial Yu Snakes really did live in the valley of the Violet Peace Mountains.
If the mountain was hollowed out, it would very likely affect the living environment of the Violet Peace Trees. The Celestial Yu Snakes wouldn't do such an unsustainable thing. They had even arranged to live more than three thousand meters underground. Having already lived underground for five thousand years, they were already accustomed to living underground. Even their bodies had changed and adapted to living underground. Of course, these changes were only for their descendants. To the powerful and long-lived Celestial Yu Snakes, they didn't have much of an effect.
Lu An was extremely fast. Given that the average height of the mountain range didn't exceed six thousand meters, it was very easy for him to reach a depth of three thousand meters. As expected, an empty space immediately appeared within Lu An's spatial perception.
This space was very high, nearly three thousand meters in height. After all, Mystical Beasts were very large. Even the Snake Race needed a high enough space to move about. Immediately, many Celestial Yu Snakes entered Lu An's perception. These snakes were of different sizes, but even the largest was only six thousand meters long and had late-stage Eighth Level strength.
These snakes moving about underground gave off a very repulsive feeling even when one used spatial perception, but Lu An didn't feel anything. Instead, he calmly analyzed the situation. He discovered that the structure of this underground space wasn't particularly special. It was only a bit denser than ordinary rock. This meant that this place wasn't very hard. It also meant that even the Celestial Yu Snakes had to be careful when moving about here. Otherwise, they might destroy the Violet Peace Mountains that they loved.
Lu An stuck close to the upper layer of this underground space. Reality proved that there were far more Celestial Yu Snakes than he had imagined. When Yuerong had killed all of the Celestial Yu Snakes in the huge mountain range, Lu An had believed that the number of Celestial Yu Snakes had been greatly reduced. Now, however, it seemed that this wasn't the case. There were still many Celestial Yu Snakes. Was it because they had only killed a small portion of them, or was it because the Celestial Yu Snakes had such powerful reproductive abilities?
In reality, this underground space was even larger than the mountain range. The Celestial Yu Snakes that could live below the mountain range had a relatively high status. It was now ten in the afternoon. The Celestial Yu Snakes didn't like being exposed to sunlight for too long. Thus, when night fell, most of them would leave this underground space and move about in the plains around the mountain range. The size of this mountain range was not suitable for them to move around in their true forms. Therefore, if they wanted to smell the fragrance of the Violet Peace Tree, they had to either circle around the mountain range with their true forms or transform into their human forms to enter the mountain range.
Soon, Lu An arrived at the center of the underground space, which was right below the center of the Zi Ning Mountain Range. As soon as he approached, Lu An, who was in the secondary space, trembled and stopped.
The reason was none other than the fact that right in front of his perception, there was a snake whose body was obviously vastly different from the other strange beasts!
Empyrean Yu Serpent King!
Lu An frowned slightly. He was now less than three thousand feet away from the Snake King. If the Snake King discovered him, there was no way he could escape. However, he wasn't nervous. Instead, he was very calm. He continued to advance in the second space until he was directly above Empyrean Yu Snake King's body. The reason Lu An did this was very simple. He wanted to use his perception to envelop Snake King's entire body.
When Lu An's Spatial Perception completely covered the Coiling Snake King, he couldn't help but feel shocked.
The Snake King's injuries were much more serious than Lu An had imagined.
The Snake King had shocking wounds in the middle and tail of its body. Each wound was more than seven hundred feet deep. It was as if a large piece of its body had been cut off. These were completely closed wounds that could no longer be healed. Not only that, but there were also many wounds on the Snake King's internal organs. These wounds even made Lu An think that it was a miracle that the Snake King was still alive. This was enough to show how badly Yuerong had injured Empyrean Yu Snake King.
Lu An stood in the secondary space and fell into deep thought. In fact, a thought had already appeared in his mind. That was … he actually had the ability to kill Empyrean Yu Snake King now.
That's right, he was more than ninety percent confident.
The reason was very simple. The Snake King couldn't sense him in the secondary space at all. Moreover, the Snake King was lying on the ground, resting, motionless. He could move into the Empyrean Yu Snake King's head in the secondary space. As long as he suddenly lit a fire in the Snake King's head or even used Breaking Dawn, the flames burning in the head wouldn't be extinguished. The Snake King would die without a doubt.
However, the risk was that if he couldn't instantly destroy the Snake King's Spiritual Sea and make the Snake King react for even a moment, even if the Snake King would die in the end, it was very likely that it would erupt with a powerful force before dying. Lu An couldn't possibly withstand the power of a rank nine mystical beast. Even if he was in the Snake King's head and the force was very likely to not affect him, he still didn't dare to take this risk.
He didn't have to kill the Empyrean Yu Snake King. It wouldn't be beneficial for this operation.
Lu An turned his attention to the giant snakes around the Snake King. These giant snakes were huge and their strength was at the peak of rank eight. Being able to surround the Snake King was enough to show their high status. It was impossible for the Snake King to appear every time they cooperated with the sect. Therefore, these giant snakes were more likely to be in contact with the sect for a long time.
Lu An quietly waited in the secondary space. Maintaining the space didn't consume much of his energy. From afternoon until night, the sky gradually darkened. Sure enough, the Empyrean Yu Snakes began to move. They went through the underground passage to the surface. Even the Empyrean Yu Snake King did the same.
Just as Lu An thought, in order to avoid harming the mountain range, the Snake King's movements were very light and slow. Its aura was restrained, so it didn't cause any spatial fluctuations. Lu An was very safe in the secondary space. He didn't follow the Snake King's movements. Instead, he followed the giant snakes.
The Snake King and the giant snakes directly went through the central passage to the surface. This passage was very narrow, less than fifteen meters wide. In other words, they had to transform into human form to pass through. After the Snake King and the giant snakes transformed, they came to the mountain range and enjoyed the influence of the violet peace tree's fragrance. Lu An had also arrived at the mountain range and was quietly observing the changes.
Time passed little by little. The waiting was very boring. But reality proved that Lu An's waiting was effective. After about three hours, when the bright moon was already above his head, Lu An's body suddenly trembled and his eyes focused.
A figure was rapidly descending from the sky and quickly standing in front of the Snake King and the giant snakes.
It was a human.
There were many differences in the internal organs of a human transformed from an exotic beast and a real human. This was definitely a real human!
However, although Lu An could analyze this person's appearance, he didn't seem to have seen this person before. The two sides were clearly talking about something, but Lu An couldn't hear anything in the secondary space. This could be considered a weakness of this kind of scouting method.
The two sides talked very quickly and it didn't take long for this person to leave. The Empyrean Yu Snakes weren't Lu An's target. Lu An immediately did his best to catch up to this flying figure.
However, this person's strength was around the late eighth rank. Even if he didn't deliberately use his speed, Lu An couldn't catch up to him.
But even if he couldn't catch up, Lu An wasn't completely without gains. The reason was very simple: this person's teleportation array wasn't far from the Violet Peace Mountain Range. Lu An hurried in the direction this person had flown. Not long after leaving the range of the mountain range, he sensed a teleportation array. And from the spatial fluctuations of this teleportation array, it clearly hadn't been used for long.
This was the place.
Lu An's eyes were deep. This teleportation array was very likely to lead to a certain sect's hiding place. However, he couldn't activate it right now. After all, there were many Empyrean Yu Snakes on the plains below. The Snake King in the center of the mountain range was also very close. No matter what, he had to wait until dawn.
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