The cheat system is useless, but I have the strongest living dad.

Huo dissected the images of all living beings, but the plain above the underground palace was not an illusion.

He released several talismans and explored the ground for several days, but he couldn't find any other way out.

After tinkering for a few days, Feng Yu made some magical artifacts for digging tunnels: "Father, I made some magical artifacts. Let them dig a tunnel. It should be able to be completed in a day."

Huo Die thought for a moment and said, "Then let's dig."

Feng Yu released some spiritual treasures, which were cone-shaped. These treasures had a drill bit at the front and a storage space at the back, allowing them to dig and clear the soil at the same time.

The tall grass below the animal house had already been cleared away.

Feng Yu controlled the cone-shaped magical artifact and burrowed into the ground.

But he immediately retrieved the magical artifact after that first touch.

Shen Yao asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Can't you dig it out?"

Feng Yu put away the magical treasures that hadn't burrowed into the ground, her expression solemn. She then controlled the magical treasure that had dug into the ground, holding it in the air for everyone to see.

Upon inspection, the cultivators noticed several thin, long streaks of blood attached to the drill bit of the magical artifact.

The same blood streaks that ran from the corpse of the Skin-Tearing Demon.

The blood vessels were still writhing.

Feng Yu used a magic needle to pin down the blood thread. Huo Die observed it carefully for a while and then said to everyone, "This is a blood worm."

Feng Yu: "Blood worms?"

Huo Die frowned: "Bloodline worms, they're demonic insects from the Eighth Realm. How could they be here?"

Shen Yao: "The phantoms in the underground palace, these bloodworms, seem to have all come out of the bodies of the evil cultivators in the underground palace."

"Dad, can we still dig this tunnel? There are definitely still bloodworms in the soil."

Huo Die used divine fire to burn the bloodworms, and Feng Yu's magical treasure was destroyed in the scorching fire.

Feng Yu wasn't bothered at all. He even learned the way Shen Yao praised her father. He looked at his father-in-law with admiration: "Dad is really amazing. Such a small flame, yet so powerful."

Huo Die looked at Feng Yu with an approving gaze and smiled: "That's right, with Daddy here, there's nothing to be afraid of."

"Something's wrong with the soil!" Hu Yawu shouted a warning as he looked down.

The ground beneath the Song'ao Beast House began to tremble, and a deep voice came from the earth: "Who is it?"

When soldiers come, generals will block them; when water comes, earth will dam it. After thinking for a moment, Shen Yao shouted down, "The true god's successor, Shen Yao."

The shaking of the ground stopped, and Hu Yawu looked at her with a shocked expression. Shen Yao coughed fakely and said in a low voice, "Cough, um... Brother Wu, when you're out in the world, you have to give yourself your own identity."

Hu Yawu understood and laughed twice. He had been through many years of training and never changed his name or surname. This was the first time he had ever known that he could give himself an identity.

The deep voice came from the ground again: "Do you want to storm the palace?"

Shen Yao responded loudly, "Senior, is it safe to break into this palace?"

The earth trembled again, splitting open a fissure between the two sides: "If you are not afraid of death, then come on."

Huo Die released his divine sense into the crevice and probed it: "This crevice leads directly to the underground palace."

Shen Yao: "Senior, wait for us, we're here!"

Si Xiu flew out of the beast house, Feng Yu put away the beast house, accelerated to catch up with Shen Yao, and flew with Huo Die towards the underground palace.

Huo Die: "Be careful when you fly, don't touch the ground, there are bloodworms in the soil."

Feng Yu released her fire elemental power, illuminating the crack in the ground, and sure enough, there were some bloodworms in the soil.

They soon arrived at the entrance to the underground palace.

The entrance to the underground palace looks like an ordinary stone door, nothing special.

They hovered in front of the stone gate, and the gate opened automatically.

Upon entering, they discovered that the stone gate was extremely thick, nearly ten feet in diameter.

Just as in the illusory image of the talisman, there were many chains in the room, each chain binding a huge strange beast.

The beast turned around, and Shen Yao's eyes widened in astonishment: "Father...it is..."

Huo Die: "It's an Earth Spirit Beast, a Xuanlan Peak-Piercing Turtle."

Shen Yao: "The Xuanlan Piercing Peak Turtle, how did it end up locked up here?"

Before me was a giant tortoise chained up, yet able to move freely within a room.

The giant tortoise stands on two legs. On each of the shell bones, there are raised spikes. The head also has raised skull bones and spikes.

However, the giant tortoise's shell was cracked, and there were blood streaks in the cracks.

Xuanlan Piercing Peak Turtle looked at the cultivators, with black energy occasionally emanating from its eyes.

This black aura... is the same as the black aura that Shen Yao generated when she was full of resentment.

Feng Yu: "Do spirit beasts also have inner demons?"

Shen Yao began forming hand seals, preparing to use the Divine-level Mind-Cleansing Technique on the Xuanlan Peak-Piercing Turtle.

Xuanlan Piercing Peak Turtle spoke up to stop him: "No need, I have no inner demons."

Shen Yao: "Then why is there black mist coming from your eyes?"

Xuanlan Piercing Peak Turtle: "It is I who am suppressing the evil energy of the Blood Demon."

The Xuanlan Peak-Piercing Turtle stretched out its neck, which was covered with rings of runes, just like the Puppet Heart. It was unknown how many years it had lived.

Shen Yao: "What's your name?"

Xuanlan Piercing Peak Turtle: "My name is Lanjia. Are you ready to storm the palace?"

Shen Yao glanced at Feng Yu and Hu Yawu, and seeing that they both nodded, she replied to Lan Jia, "Ready."

Lan Jia dragged the chains to the entrance of the passage: "Go in yourselves."

Shen Yao didn't move: "Why are you locked up?"

Lan Jia’s voice was slow and heavy: “In the fifth room, the Blood Demon is imprisoned. I guard this place to prevent the blood worms in his body from escaping, but I will also be corrupted by the blood worms. These chains can help me suppress the evil energy of the blood worms.”

Shen Yao: "Who told you to guard this place?"

Lan Jia: "True God."

After a long silence, Shen Yao finally spoke up and asked, "If a true god can imprison it, why not just kill it?"

Lan Jia: "It is of the same lineage as the True God, and the True God cannot kill it."

They were from the same lineage, so why couldn't they be killed? Shen Yaofengyu and Hu Yawu couldn't understand it.

Huo Die guessed most of it: "Did that Blood Demon use the Ten Spirits Array to directly attack the Evil Emperor and reach the half-step Nascent Soul stage?"

Lan Jia did not deny it: "It seems that you have already passed the Ten Spirits Formation."

"Go in. If you can come out alive, I will be free."

Si Xiu, without further delay, bid farewell to Lan Jia and entered the passage.

The underground palace was brightly lit, as were the passageways.

The walls on both sides of the passageway are adorned with exquisite murals.

The plants depicted in the murals are the same ones found in Chongcheng.

"Come and see, this is the True God Sect!" Hu Yawu stopped at one of the murals and called everyone over to take a look.

The cultivators gathered around. The sect depicted in the painting had a plaque at the entrance gate that read "True God Sect".

The entire sect looks the same as the Mingshan Sect, with the same shape and location of the residences.

The colors and some decorations are different, probably because the Mingshan Sect relocated there and underwent renovations.

At the entrance of the True God Sect depicted in the painting, four ornately dressed cultivators carried four coffins forward, followed by a long procession of disciples.

Shen Yao: "These four coffins...could they be the four from the second room?"

Feng Yu: "Possibly. Judging from the way they're carrying the coffin, it doesn't look like they're going to a funeral; it looks more like..."

"It's like carrying your own coffin to your death."

Shen Yao: "Could it be that the murals on these two sides record the story of the underground palace?"