"Don't move from the place, Fifth Sister." Yun Lintian said and squatted down, carefully checking every inch of the ground.
While both sides of the passage were made of gold, the ground here was actually filled with soil. Strange enough, there wasn't any footprint here despite the bloodstains on the wall. And not a single drop of blood could be seen as well.
"There's no trace on it, which means there's something wrong with this ground. Counting how many people came here in the past, it is impossible to leave no trace." Yun Lintian began to analyze the situation. "The only possibility is that the ground can erase the trace by itself… But how?"
No matter how Yun Lintian looked at the ground, he didn't find anything strange about it. Not even a single rune could be seen… How did it work?
While Yun Lintian was thinking, Nantian Fengyu was bored and looked around casually. However, she suddenly caught a glimpse of something through the corner of her eyes. And when she looked over, she saw a shadowy figure run away as if it was being caught by her.
"Junior brother." Nantian Fengyu nudged Yun Lintian and pointed at the dark passage ahead. "I saw someone over there."
Yun Lintian was taken aback and quickly threw a fireball ahead.
"Arghhh!"
Suddenly, a shrill scream echoed throughout the passage. It was a scream of a creature they had never heard before. It possessed a very high pitch that human was incapable of doing it.
"What is that?" Nantian Fengyu's hair stood as she subconsciously drew closer to Yun Lintian out of fear.
Yun Lintian frowned deeply. "Could it be a ghost?"
"A ghost?" Nantian Fengyu's face turned pale. Even though she knew a ghost existed, it didn't prevent her from being afraid.
"I don't know. It's just my guess." Yun Lintian said. "There are various strange creatures we don't know in this world. It could be anything."
He turned to Qingqing, who was licking her lollipop on his shoulder and asked. "Do you see anything?"
Surprisingly, Qingqing nodded. "It's a shadow monster."
"Shadow monster?" Yun Lintian was puzzled.
"Mhm! I have seen it in the book that Aunty Qingrou gave me." Qingqing tilted her head slightly, pondering. "It should be something called a hell creature encyclopedia."
Yun Lintian's face twitched slightly. What did Yun Qingrou give a little girl to read?
Without thinking further, he asked in his mind. "Lauya, do you know about this?"
"The Shadow Monster is a creature born from fear and eats fear as its food. Usually, we would find it in a place where countless lives have met their ending." Lauya replied.
"Oh?" Yun Lintian was surprised slightly.
He turned to Nantian Fengyu and explained about it.
"You mean it will get stronger if I am afraid of it?" Nantian Fengyu asked.
"Should be." Yun Lintian nodded.
"Then that's easy." Hearing this, Nantian Fengyu regained her confidence and was no longer afraid of a ghost she initially believed.
While the two were talking, they didn't notice a shadow of long claws gradually approaching them from behind.
Unfortunately, it didn't escape Linlin and Qingqing's perception.
As the claws were about to touch Yun Lintian and Nantian Feng's ankles, Linlin snorted coldly and sent a few lightning arrows onto them.
Boom! Boom!
The claws were immediately scattered under the lightning arrows, accompanied by an ear-piercing scream.
"What's going on?" Yun Lintian quickly asked while looking at the ground behind him.
"They had almost caught Big Brother Yun earlier," Qingqing explained.
Hearing this, Yun Lintian's expression changed slightly. This Shadow Monster could actually avoid his perception.
"Thank you. You two are very powerful." Yun Lintian rubbed Linlin and Qingqing's heads gently. Without them, he would have been caught in trouble by now.
Linlin and Qingqing smiled happily as they were being praised.
"What should we do, junior brother?" Nantian Fengyu asked. She wasn't afraid of the Shadow Monster, but the problem was that it was difficult to find it.
"Let's do this." Yun Lintian thought for a moment and took a bunch of iron arrows out before injecting the lightning power into them.
He then pierced the arrow onto both sides of the wall, the ground, and the ceiling as he moved forward. Once the Shadow Monster appeared, they would be greeted by the residual lightning power within these arrows.
Although it was a manual way to counter the Shadow Monster, it was very effective and cheap as Yun Lintian didn't have to cover himself with the lightning energy all the time.
Moreover, these arrows would become a milestone for him. He could use it to prove the doubt in his heart as he believed something was wrong with the ground.
As the two walked further, the Shadow Monster didn't appear again, as if they were afraid of the arrows Yun Lintian had left behind.
Snap!
"Hmm?" Suddenly, a snapping sound could be heard from behind. Yun Lintian immediately stopped his track and turned around to see the arrow he left on the ground snapped in half.
Furthermore, the snapped arrow's position had obviously changed. It actually moved to the side as if being kicked away.
Snap! Snap! Snap!
The arrows on the ground continued to snap one after another as if something had run past them. At the same time, he could feel the ground shake. Although it was very light, he was certain the ground trembled like someone was jumping on it.
Seeing this, Yun Lintian instinctively stuck his fist out, sending a virtual lightning dragon toward whatever was coming.
Roar—
The lightning dragon let out a deafening cry while rushing through the dark passage.
The next moment, it crashed into something, and a shrill scream instantly echoed throughout the passage.
At this moment, Yun Lintian and Nantian Fengyu finally saw a floor-to-ceiling tall shadowy creature in a human shape being struck by the lightning dragon.
It kept punching the lightning dragon while screaming toward Yun Lintian and Nantian Fengyu as if it couldn't wait to eat them alive.
"Hmph! Dare to sneak on us?" Nantian Fengyu snorted coldly and stuck her palm, sending a Divine Phoenix-shaped flame cluster toward the shadowy creature.
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