Although the little apprentice sister is weak, she can fight

The old man thought for a moment and said, "I have seen it before, but it is something from the secret realm, right? The shadows here cannot touch it."

"What if we use that light against this weird thing?"

"Tsk..." The old man was a little disdainful of Shen Qiao's idea.

"What nonsense are you talking about? How can something hanging in the sky be taken down so easily? Besides, you can't go back now. You can only walk out of this maze-like place."

'We took that thing off.'

"...Is this true?"

Shen Qiao raised his eyebrows, "That's the bead we just illuminated."

The old man was silent for a moment, then he couldn't help but sigh. "Although this thing does have the effect of dispelling these shadows, it still depends on how much power it can exert. This thing has a Yin attribute. You have a water spirit root, right? You definitely can't do it. Besides, the light you just illuminated... I think it's far from enough."

"If I can't do it, others may be able to." Shen Qiao chuckled, "We have a fire spirit root with Yang Fire here."

"...What kind of combination are you guys? One is Yin Water, the other is Yang Fire? Aren't you afraid of a clash of spiritual powers?"

Spiritual power hedging means that it is easy to cause accidental injuries when two mutually restraining attributes are combined, but this problem is actually related to the degree of control over one's own spiritual power. As long as one's spiritual awareness is sufficient to control one's spiritual power, there is no need to worry about accidental injuries.

This kind of control ability has nothing to do with acquired factors. It is purely based on the degree of integration between the spiritual vein and oneself when the spiritual root awakens. It is a kind of innate talent.

The old man seemed to react after saying this, and murmured in a self-deprecating tone, "That's right, you sect disciples don't need to worry about these little problems."

Shen Qiao noticed that his self-esteem was a little hurt, so he didn't say anything else.

From then on, the old man didn't say much unless it was necessary, as if he was autistic.

The road they walked on now was not entirely on the wooden plank road on the ground. Occasionally, there were some places that required them to go underground through mechanisms like before.

In fact, when she used her spiritual sense to investigate the situation before, she had already memorized all the roads here. The road that the old man led them on was almost a straight line. They walked to the end of the upper road and then passed through the mechanism to walk to the lower road. They walked in the dark for about half an incense stick of time. Shen Qiao calculated that they would reach Shang Mian's place by walking through a certain underground passage at most.

"Turn right ahead, go through the underground tunnel and go up. It's not far to the place you mentioned."

"But I must remind you that I only dug the tunnel up to this point. If you want to get out, you still have to go up there."

"That monster is very sneaky. It didn't catch you just now. It's probably lying in ambush near the exit. Take care of yourselves."

"Okay, thank you, senior."

The old man responded casually, then withdrew his spiritual consciousness, probably not intending to talk anymore.

The three of them landed on the ground and walked along the path for a long time. When they found the switch to open the wooden board above, Lou Zhiyu suddenly said, "Wait."

"I smell the stink of that thing."

Stink?

After hearing her words, Shen Qiao did not rush to open the mechanism, but raised his head and looked at the wooden board.

Rustle...

The three of them didn't notice it when they were walking just now, but now that they had quieted down, they heard a very slight friction sound.

"That hair." Li Yue reminded with his spiritual sense.

Shen Qiao frowned and took a step back to avoid being under the wooden board.

After about ten seconds, a black thread-like substance slowly seeped down from the cracks in the wooden board above his head.

Shen Qiao still remembered this thing. It was what she caught a glimpse of when she closed the underground door last time. It was the "hair" that Li Yue mentioned.

Looking at the thing spreading out from the gap, Shen Qiao quickly guessed its purpose.

It was trying one by one. Was it because the three people disappeared from under its nose last time that it noticed the underground space?

The underground passage here was dug very roughly, and was covered with only a piece of wood, so these black hairs could leak out from the gaps, which means that the thing was indeed active in this area.

I wonder how Shang Mian avoided the inspection of this thing?

Swah——

After a rubbing sound, the strand of hair stopped moving.

Is this parked directly on top?

Shen Qiao raised his head and looked upwards along the strand of hair. In fact, in such a dark environment, he couldn't see anything with the naked eye. But when Shen Qiao was about to look away, he saw that the darkness on the wooden board suddenly turned blood red in the blink of an eye.

Wow, she was wondering why there was no movement. It turned out that this thing had been lying here watching them for a long time!

Since we have been discovered from all sides, we might as well go all out.

The board wasn't very strong, so Shen Qiao didn't think it would be impossible to open it. Just as he was about to strike first, he heard a sound of something falling from behind the three of them.

Immediately afterwards, the rustling sound of movement suddenly became louder.

Wait, this thing can move both ways?!

She no longer hesitated, and transformed into a kite, pulled the trigger, and rushed out, piercing the tip of the umbrella through the red, hairy eyes.

Li Yue and Lou Zhiyu paused for a moment. Strong winds mixed with flames swirled and burned the entire tunnel. Before the flames could reach them, the two flew up from below and followed closely, closing the wooden board with a bang.

After a while, a strong smell of burning rotten dried fish came from underground.

The firelight illuminated the surrounding vision, and the three people saw that the wooden board was covered with black hair. The red eyeball that Shen Qiao had just nailed to the wall was twitching and shaking. The spherical eyeball kept changing between red and black. As a black and smelly substance flowed out of the wound, the eyeball gradually stopped spasming and shriveled up like a deflated ball, without a sound.

"He's...dead just now?" Li Yue couldn't help but speak.

This seems to be a little simpler than imagined.

Yes, it's too simple. And...

Shen Qiao frowned.

She just listened carefully, and the thing in front of her didn't make any heartbeat sound at all.

Unless... the thing in front of them is not the monster that followed them before!

"Go away, this thing is not what I said before...!"

Shen Qiao's pupils suddenly shrank in the middle of her words, and she clearly heard the movement in her sea of ​​consciousness...

Bang... Bang... Bang...

It's still exactly the same, the same heartbeat frequency.

"What's wrong?" Li Yue asked anxiously when he saw that she was stunned.

She slowly raised her head and looked at Li Yue, her eyes full of shock.

But...she didn't even spread out her spiritual sense.

Li Yue, who was questioning her, didn't hear her continue speaking, and hurried over to look at her. However, his face turned pale as soon as he met Shen Qiao's eyes.

"Junior sister...your eyes have turned red."