Chapter 571: 409
In the blink of an eye, the serpent’s body that occupied the entire passage was split in two by the powerful Sword Qi. As the Flying Swords severed the serpent, the half of its body that was connected to the depths of the cave suddenly retracted, leaving only the front half, which carried the serpent’s head and continued to move towards the cave entrance due to inertia.
After watching the latter half of the serpent’s body withdraw into the depths of the cave, and confirming with his Divine Sense that it had indeed retracted, Dong Tianyu then emerged from the Cave, chasing after the area where the front half of the serpent lay.
By then, the front half of the serpent’s body had lost its original force, and dark green blood was splattered all over the cave passage.
Looking at the cleanly cut cross-section of the serpent’s body, Dong Tianyu waved his hand to collect it into the Cave, and immediately began to decompose it.
Watching the progress within the Cave jump by one percent, Dong Tianyu’s smile grew even wider.
Having confirmed the uses of the serpent’s corpse, Dong Tianyu was not satisfied with just the gains at hand, and so he once again delved deeper into the cave for further exploration.
Unlike his cautious steps before, this time, whether it was the energy crystals partially exposed on the ground or those hidden in the soil, all had been activated during Dong Tianyu’s previous exploration, transforming into crystal shoes or little snakes, meaning they would not ambush him as they had done before on his return trip.
As Dong Tianyu approached the deeper regions of the cave once again, he did not rush forward but first used his Divine Sense to survey the situation inside.
It was unclear whether there were items deep in the cave that interfered with Divine Sense or if the creature itself possessed the ability to shield against Spiritual Sense Scanning, but in any case, the monster deep in the cave was nothing but garbled noise in Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense.
Dong Tianyu, finding his Divine Sense ineffective once again, could only cautiously approach the edge of the passage, preparing to take a closer look inside with his own eyes.
When Dong Tianyu cautiously peered inside, the sight at the deepest part of the cave was somewhat shocking to him.
He saw a massive Multi-Headed Serpent dwelling deep within, its body firmly bound by dozens of chains. The seemingly flawed seal was actually keeping the serpent immobilized there.
If that were all, Dong Tianyu would have maintained his surprise without being truly shocked.
What surprised Dong Tianyu the most was that there was more than one underground passage leading to the deep parts of the cave beyond the one he was in.
If creatures could shield themselves from Divine Sense, then other than special terrain formations, ordinary terrain could not evade observation by Divine Sense.
The deepest part of the cave was a huge pit, in which the Multi-Headed Serpent was sealed by someone unknown.
Around the pit, there were many passageways leading to other areas; however, apart from the passage Dong Tianyu was in, Crystal Scorpions and little snakes hatched from energy crystals ceaselessly tumbled from these channels into the pit below.
At this point, the Multi-Headed Serpent, bound at the bottom of the pit, left two of its heads on guard while the others began to devour the little snakes and Crystal Scorpions that had delivered themselves to its doorstep.
While the other heads were busy feeding, the place originally severed by Dong Tianyu’s Flying Swords slowly began to regenerate. As the serpent’s feeding pace accelerated, the speed of the wound’s recovery also increased.
It didn’t take long for the cut originally made by Dong Tianyu to completely disappear, replaced by a new serpent head slightly smaller than the other heads of the Multi-Headed Serpent.
Watching the Multi-Headed Serpent’s recovery, Dong Tianyu was quite happy; after all, he now saw those serpent heads as chives in a bowl, to be cut and sold for money whenever he was short on funds.
Just as Dong Tianyu was contemplating his future plans, his Divine Sense detected other human survivors in the different passages.
Through Dong Tianyu’s observations, a dispute had arisen within their squad. Some members were unwilling to continue venturing forward, while others believed that fortune favored the bold.
As is typically the case for their line of work, whether before or after the catastrophe, they had encountered such situations before. However, the captain of their squad had never expected his team to face the same scenario.
Ever since Dong Tianyu learned that Divine Sense could not detect sound, he had spent some Survival Points at the Scripture Hall to specifically learn lip-reading.
At this moment, through the skill of lip-reading, Dong Tianyu roughly understood the situation on the other side.
Since the other party had also reached the end of the passage, they naturally saw the Multi-Headed Serpent feasting at the bottom of the pit, which is what led to the current circumstances.
Some saw the chained Multi-Headed Serpent as a stroke of fortune, believing that their turn had finally come to experience wealth unimagined.
Others, upon seeing the chains on the Multi-Headed Serpent, immediately sensed the danger and promptly urged the rest to leave the area.
It was because of these divergent views that the atmosphere within the Hunting Team became somewhat awkward.
The leader of the Hunting Team looked at the two distinct factions within his group, feeling somewhat helpless.
Conventionally, a team should only have one voice, but the squad’s previous captain had just been sacrificed, and the team was nearing disbandment when he took over.
