Swiftly and stealthily, he traversed the mountain forest, his figure flashing by as he covered a distance of over ten zhang. With six years of experience as the leader of the hunting team, Teng Qing Shan was intimately familiar with the terrain of Da Yan Mountain. He could climb mountains, jump off cliffs or dart between giant trees with ease. In theory, there should be at least forty li of mountain roads to cover, but according to Teng Qing Shan's nearly straight-line route, it was less than ten li.

  A cup of tea later, they arrived at the Gourd Valley Gorge.

  Pong!

  A figure fell from the cliff wall of Hulu Valley, as if a meteorite had heavily smashed onto the ground. Only someone with a physique as strong as Teng Qing Shan's would dare to use such a domineering landing method. Even ordinary innate experts, although their innate true yuan was strong, their bodies were far inferior compared to Teng Qing Shan's.

  The innate true yuan can unload the force, and the shocking impact force caused by falling from a hundred-meter-high cliff, even if half of it acts on the body, those innate strong people will be shaken to death!

  "Boom!" A large pit appeared where the body fell.

  With one hand supporting himself on the ground, Teng Qing Shan's body leapt up and immediately shot towards the location of the bottomless pit.

  He had discovered long before he reached the top of the cliff that... there was no one else in the valley of the gourds, and soon came to the place where the bottomless pit was.

  "Father and Yongxiang's elder brother were killed here...” Teng Qing Shan looked around, the dry bloodstains on the ground were everywhere, there were also some minced meat, broken bones, shattered steel and so on. But there was not a single human corpse, "This place has been cleaned up!"

  Teng Qing Shan could tell at a glance.

  The ground is covered with so much blood, and there must be many dead. There are also many iron fragments, and the only visible weapons around are those long guns, some with wooden stocks and others with steel ones.

  "Gun of the Iron Blood!" Teng Qing Shan saw two blood-stained iron guns in the grass thicket in the distance, and immediately rushed over to pick them up. He stared at a knife scar on the lower end of one of the iron guns, and his pupils shrank as his heart trembled. "This... this is Father's iron gun!" He had been watching his father wield this very weapon since he was young.

  Having seen it for many years, of course, I can recognize it at a glance.

  "Father's troops have all fallen, you mongrel of Qinghu Island!" Teng Qing Shan's eyes turned red, the anger in his chest churning.

  "There are quite a few pieces of iron debris here. Judging from the looks, it should be the heavy armor of the Silver Python Army! And there's so much blood... Many people must have died!" Teng Qing Shan judged, "These fragments of heavy armor are too neat, Father's spear couldn't have caused such wounds. It must be a sharp blade that cut through the armor! It's possible to cut through the armor and cut it so thoroughly. If it was an expert, they would directly stab the enemy to death with one sword. They wouldn't bother cutting through the armor... It doesn't seem like a human... Must have encountered a demonic beast!"

  Hong Qing Shan looked at the mangled steel wreckage that didn't seem like it was caused by a human and judged.

  "Huh?" Teng Qing Shan's eyes flickered towards a spot dozens of meters away.

  There were plenty of ashes left after burning.

  Hong Qingshan immediately walked away...

  "A lot of wood was burned! That smell of burning corpses still... It should be a cremation!" Teng Qing Shan easily inferred what had happened.

  Those Silver Python Army soldiers, after killing Father and Eldest Uncle, encountered a ferocious demon beast! And that demon beast killed those Silver Python Army soldiers... Afterwards, when other Silver Python Army soldiers arrived, they couldn't just leave the bodies of their brothers exposed in the wilderness, so they cremated them not far away.

  The hunters' corpses were estimated and those people also cremated them conveniently.

  Some war knives and heavy armor that were undamaged were also taken away by the Silver Anaconda Army.

  "Not true!"

  Teng Qing Shan furrowed his brow, "If they successfully kill Father and leave immediately. Even if they encounter a demonic beast, they shouldn't be fighting here! That means... it should have happened during the fight with Father. These soldiers hadn't even had time to escape when they encountered that demonic beast!"

  "Monster, where did you come from again?"

  Hong Qingshan turned his head and looked towards the bottomless pit.

  "Huh!" Teng Qing Shan rushed to the side of the Bottomless Pit, "Dah Yan Mountain, except for the purple glow dragon I once discovered in the Bi Han Pond, I haven't seen any other demonic beasts! That is to say, in the Dah Yan Mountain forest, demonic beasts don't like to stay! It's likely... this demonic beast is deep within the Bottomless Pit."

  "While Qinghu Island also searches for the underground palace."

  Teng Qing Shan also saw that beside the bottomless pit, there was a hanging vine with fresh blood on it: "Qing Hu Island, someone must have gone down!"

  Hong Qingshan immediately jumped down.

  Hoo! Hoo!

  Rapidly falling underground, a gust of wind was stirred up. Inside the bottomless pit, there was a damp air and a faint smell of blood. Although it was very dark inside the bottomless pit, since Teng Qing Shan had eaten the 'Black Fire Spirit Root' and continuously excavated its energy, he gained night vision.

  "Huh?" Teng Qing Shan's hands suddenly plunged into the rocky and muddy wall of the cave.

  A pair of hands wearing "Tianying Claw" gloves easily inserted, and forcibly pulled down the wall of the cave for more than three feet before stopping.

  "There's a deep hole here." Teng Qing Shan discovered that on the upper wall of the cave, there was a slanted and deep cave entrance. In front of the entrance, half of a corpse was embedded in the wall. The upper body of the corpse still wore heavy armor, severed from the chest down. "There must have been a fierce beast that suddenly burst out of the ground, instantly snapping in two a Silver Python Army soldier who was climbing up with vines. The powerful impact also caused the upper half of the soldier's corpse to become embedded in the rocky mud of the cave wall."

  That nightmare-like scene can be clearly inferred.

  Hong Qing Shan pulled out both hands!

  Wow!

  Again, he fell down in the dark of night, and his vision was almost as good as it was during the day. Although the walls of the bottomless pit were somewhat uneven, after falling more than ten zhang, he could see the bottom of the wall at a glance - there was foam!

  *******

  "Hah!" Just one zhang away from the bottom of the Bottomless Pit, Teng Qing Shan came to a sudden stop.

  "So many corpses..." Teng Qing Shan approached the bottom of the cave, only to discover that the entire floor was now water, and in this water, there were still several broken corpses floating, each wearing heavy armor. The corpses were torn apart, and naturally, the armor was also badly damaged.

  "This water doesn't have any bloodstains at all. It seems that it's connected to other bodies of water, and the blood has all flowed away."

  The water is relatively clear, although it's pitch black, the green mountains can still see the stony bottom.

  "Is the water deep?" Teng Qing Shan lightly jumped down.

  As expected——

  Teng Qing Shan was only waist-deep in the water, and his feet were firmly planted on the ground.

  "There is a passage ahead." Teng Qing Shan proceeded slowly along the wide waterway on one side, the water only reaching his waist, very shallow.

  The waterway is as high as three or four zhang, and the tunnel walls are all rocky. However, the rocky tunnel walls seem to be like honeycombs, and you can often see individual caves. The width of the waterway varies, with some places being very wide and others being very narrow.

  "Monster's lair?" Teng Qing Shan said in a low voice.

  As he moved forward, Teng Qing Shan felt the water getting deeper and deeper... It was already up to his neck now.

  "Huh?" Teng Qing Shan's pupils constricted as he stared at a small black creature in a cave over ten zhang away.

  "Hei Tie Wu Gong?" Teng Qing Shan instantly identified it.

  This black iron centipede's pair of gigantic pupils stared at Teng Qing Shan in the completely dark environment of the underground waterway, where even a naturally gifted strongman would have an extremely short range of vision.

  That black iron centipede thought that Teng Qing Shan couldn't see it... so it quietly slipped into the water, and slowly swam towards Teng Qing Shan from beneath the surface.

  "Bastard!" A cold glint flashed in Teng Qing Shan's eyes as he pretended not to see, continuing on his way.

  Finally, Teng Qing Shan's entire body had completely submerged into the water, and with his internal organs' capabilities, even staying underwater for several hours was no problem. In terms of physical quality, he was already comparable to some powerful demonic beasts.

  In the water, it's pitch black.

  The black iron centipede, with its dense and numerous legs, like sharp blades, slowly paddled through the water, its iron-like body twisting and turning, quietly swimming towards Mount Tengqin.

  Teng Qing Shan stepped forward on the water floor. Wearing heavy armor and carrying the Wheel of Reincarnation and other items, Teng Qing Shan naturally sank to the bottom of the water.

  "Whoosh!"

  Dozens of sharp claws suddenly swung at the same time, and the black iron centipede shot towards Teng Qing Shan like a sharp arrow. The two saber-like fangs on its big mouth were open, ready to give Teng Qing Shan a "saber cut". Many Silver Python Army soldiers were cut in half just like that.

  "Hmm..."

  The water at the bottom of the river suddenly shook, and Teng Qing Shan's hands shot out like lightning, grabbing two fangs on the black iron centipede's mouth. A shrill scream immediately came from the black iron centipede's throat.

  Hong Qing Shan's eyes turned cold, and his hands exerted force!

  "Ah~~" Two sharp fangs were directly torn apart, even the roots of the two fangs were torn apart, causing the entire head of the black iron centipede to split open. The green blood stained the lake water, and this black iron centipede suddenly became motionless.

  "In the absolute darkness, those strongmen on Qinghu Island were suddenly ambushed by the demonic beast. Even if they were congenital strongmen, one or two of them might have been killed." Teng Qingshan was very clear that if he didn't have night vision, and had been ambushed by this Black Iron Centipede, it would not have been so easy to deal with.

  "Wow!"

  Hong Qingshan began to move underwater.

  With the help of Qing Shan's muscle control and the assistance of his innate true yuan, he was able to swim perfectly in the water. He seemed like a fish swimming quickly through the water. He also discovered that the underground lake was very vast, and after swimming through the waterway, he entered a vast expanse, even his night vision couldn't see the edge of the underground lake.

  "Absolutely pitch black... underwater... perfect."

  This environment is most suitable for slaughter!

  ……

  The waterway that had just passed through the Tengqing Mountain was like a beehive wall with dense and numerous holes, all of which were bottomless. In one of these holes, nearly a hundred feet deep.

  "Drip!"

  A drop of milky white water seeps down from a crack above and occasionally falls.

  A body covered in blood was curled up here, its lips barely open to catch the white water droplets falling from above. Although the whole person had been motionless and seemed lifeless, with even their eyes closed. But those lips that were struggling to stay open indicated that... he was still alive!

  "Alan, wait for me at home!"

  A firm conviction echoed repeatedly in his mind.

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