System: Infinite Evolution into Qilin Bloodline

"Young Master Hao, it's me, Pan Zi!"

Everyone drew their weapons and aimed them at the suddenly appearing figure. Just then, Panzi's voice came over.

"Pan Zi, it's you?"

"We came in with Third Master. We were attacked by the Man-Faced Owl and hid in a crack in the wall. We barely managed to save our lives."

As Pan Zi spoke, he walked towards Zhang Hao and the others.

There were four people in their group. Apart from Panzi, they didn't know the other four. Panzi introduced a man named Shunzi as their guide, and the other two were servants of the Wu family.

Originally, it was a team of more than a dozen people, but after encountering several dangers along the way, only five people remained. Uncle San was also scattered and no one knew where he had gone.

"Panzi, have you seen your third uncle?"

"Yes, Third Master came back a while ago, but he got separated from us just now while we were avoiding the attack of the Human-Faced Owl."

"Then let's hurry and find Uncle Three, lest he be attacked and killed by the Man-Faced Owl."

Wu Tianzhen didn't hear anything else, but when he heard Pan Zi say that he came with Uncle Wu, he immediately became concerned.

Since returning from the Lu Palace, Uncle Wu has disappeared. During this time, Wu Tianzhen has been searching for Uncle Wu's whereabouts. If Zhang Hao hadn't persuaded him that he would come out when the time was right, Wu Tianzhen probably wouldn't have had the mind to do anything else and would have been focused on investigating Uncle Wu's whereabouts.

Hearing news of Uncle Wu is exciting, but he is also very worried when he learns that he has been separated from the team.

Just then, the sound of birdsong came again from outside the main hall.

Everyone was familiar with that sound; it was the cry of the human-faced owl.

Following the sound, everyone left the main hall and went outside, where they found a group of mercenaries fighting a human-faced owl in the riverbed to one side of the hall.

"Aren't those Ah Ning's men? They have the best weapons and equipment, yet they still can't beat these human-faced owls."

The fat man recognized the mercenaries as Ah Ning's men at a glance from their clothes, but Ah Ning was not among the dozen or so mercenaries.

Each of these mercenaries carried a machine gun and seemingly an endless supply of bullets.

They pointed their guns at the sky and kept pulling the triggers. The human-faced owl dodged the machine gun fire with ease and flew into the middle of the crowd.

With a few swift movements of its razor-sharp claws, the human-faced owl peeled a human face off the mercenary's head, held it in its mouth, and swallowed it with a flick of its head.

In an instant, screams echoed among the dozen or so mercenaries in the river. Each of them had their heads covered in blood and flesh, and their faces were completely gone.

The mercenaries struggled for a while before fainting from the pain, and soon died as they bled out.

"Holy crap, this is disgusting! This attack method is even more unbearable than the Ten Great Tortures."

The fat man has always had an outstanding tolerance for cruelty, and even the most gruesome scenes wouldn't disgust him. But at this moment, the sight of the human-faced owl peeling off a person's face was unbearable for him, which shows how cruel the scene was.

After killing the mercenaries, the Man-Faced Owl turned and charged towards Zhang Hao and his group.

Zhang Hao used the seed shot again, firing dozens of seeds simultaneously, causing the human-faced owls in the sky to all turn into blood mist and disappear.

“Since they’ve appeared in the river, there must be something in it, otherwise they wouldn’t have gone down there. Let’s go down and take a look.”

Fourth Grandfather pointed to the river beside the main hall and said.

The riverbed had long since dried up, so Zhang Hao and his group jumped in and headed towards the mercenaries.

"Look, there's a marker here!"

Suddenly, the fat man pointed at a rock by the river and shouted.

Zhang Hao looked at the stone and saw several English letters carved on it, but they were very blurry due to their age, and he could not accurately identify their meaning.

Zhang Qilin walked quickly to the stone, bent down, and reached out to touch the letters on it.

"These are the marks I left behind; there should be many more like them."

Zhang Qilin said something and continued walking forward. After walking a few hundred meters along the river, he bent down again and touched a stone.

The group quickly caught up and saw that there were indeed several English letters on the stone that were similar to those on the previous stone, but they still couldn't figure out what they meant.

And so Zhang Qilin continued along the river, where a marked stone would appear every few hundred meters.

After finding about seven or eight such stones, Zhang Qilin stopped in front of a boulder that was three or four meters high.

"The entrance is right here!"

Zhang Qilin pointed to his feet and said something.

"The entrance to the Heavenly Palace on the Clouds is actually in the river! Without the guy's directions, who could find it!"

"Ah Ning's group arrived at the river first. Could they have already gotten in first?"

"Don't worry, Fatty. There's no sign of this area being disturbed. They definitely won't be able to find the entrance. Besides, they were attacked by the human-faced owl and are probably all dead by now."

The fat man looked around and found that, just as Xie Xiaohua had said, there were no signs of disturbance in the soil around the boulder, nor any signs that anyone had been there.

He immediately became excited: "A huge tomb built inside a volcano, such a large scale, there must be a lot of treasures inside. You mean the entrance is here, right? Then I'll start digging!"

"Ok!"

Zhang Qilin nodded.

Upon receiving the response, the fat man immediately took out his entrenching tool and started digging at the spot Zhang Qilin had pointed to.

Seeing this, the others also took out their entrenching tools and started digging together.

In no time, they dug out a pit that was more than one meter long and wide and more than three meters deep.

"boom!"

Suddenly, a metallic clanging sound came from the bottom of the pit, followed by the fat man's exclamation.

"We found it! We found it!"

"Fatty, what did you dig up?"

Zhang Hao stood at the edge of the pit and looked down into it, asking a question.

"We've dug up a stone slab; the entrance should be underneath!"

After discovering the stone slab, everyone worked together to clear it out and then lifted it up. Sure enough, a downward step appeared below it.

Everyone got excited when they saw the entrance. After searching for so long, they were finally going to enter the Heavenly Palace.

Just then, the fat man suddenly exclaimed, "Why do I feel like there are fewer people in the group?"

Upon hearing this, Wu Tianzhen looked around and asked, "Where is Fourth Grandfather? Where did he go?"

"His two henchmen are also missing. Could they have been carried off by the Man-Faced Owl?"

Fourth Grandfather has studied the Heavenly Palace on the Clouds for many years and must know some unknown secrets. His disappearance now must mean that he left the group on his own initiative.

Zhang Hao thought for a moment and said, "Never mind him, let's continue exploring."