"Ah!"
Xian Shiyu's eerie tone startled Shen Qing. She really hadn't expected that the beast's mouth would be so big.
What was even more chilling was that Xian Shiyu's senior brother had actually lived near and in that beast's mouth for so long.
"How did your senior brother finally find out?"
Xian Shiyu put away her eerie expression and said proudly, "I have to praise my senior brother for being extremely intelligent. He discovered that the stone bed he had been sleeping on was actually the beast's tongue. So he pretended not to know and placed many talismans on the beast's tongue when he left the cave."
"Finally... the beast exploded!"
As Xian Shiyu spoke, she flailed her arms and mimicked the sound of the explosion.
Shen Qing involuntarily took half a step back. Suddenly, she felt that the temperature in the cave had become even colder, sending shivers down her spine.
"Just now when you put your hand on this wall, did you feel anything?"
Xian Shiyu's face became solemn. "It's true that the walls with inscriptions around are real stone walls, but this wall is definitely not an ordinary one."
"If elder sister trusts me, I can use a secret technique of the Beast Taming Sect to solve elder sister's doubts."
Shen Qing and Li Xian nodded and stepped back to give Xian Shiyu enough space to perform.
Xian Shiyu took out many magical artifacts from her storage bag and placed them on the ground one by one.
At this time, Shen Qing had a partial understanding of how favored Xian Shiyu was in the Beast Taming Sect. Although Shen Qing didn't know the functions of these magical artifacts, she could tell their value.
"This little girl is quite favored in the Beast Taming Sect," Li Xian whispered in Shen Qing's ear.
Shen Qing nodded in strong agreement. "Judging from her personality, she must have grown up being doted on. That's so nice..."
Li Xian looked at Shen Qing intently. Seeing that she seemed to be recalling what had happened on Worry-Free Peak before, he clenched his fist and then relaxed it.
"Don't dwell on the past. The past is beyond retrieval. Now you have me, your master, and your friends by your side. That's enough."
Hearing the endless tenderness in Li Xian's voice, Shen Qing couldn't help but look up at him. She almost got lost in his eyes.
In the dark cave, the only light they had was from the fire starters in their hands. But in this faint light, Li Xian's eyes were extremely bright.
In his eyes... there was only Shen Qing's reflection...
"咔嚓" (A sharp cracking sound).
Xian Shiyu's exclamation followed.
Shen Qing seemed to be awakened. She quickly turned her head and didn't dare to look at Li Xian directly anymore.
Looking at Shen Qing's blushing ear tips, Li Xian hooked the corner of his mouth, feeling in a great mood.
Another day of attracting his wife with his good looks...
A thick white mist rose around Xian Shiyu. She was choked and coughed continuously in it.
"Cough, cough, cough... Elder sister... don't come over for now!"
Hearing Xian Shiyu's bad tone, Shen Qing shouted anxiously, "Shiyu, how are you? What's going on?!"
"I'm fine! Elder sister... don't come over for now!"
The more Xian Shiyu told Shen Qing not to come over, the more anxious Shen Qing became. She didn't know what had happened to Xian Shiyu.
In order to see the situation clearly, Shen Qing had no choice but to cast a Gentle Wind Spell to disperse the smoke faster.
After the smoke dispersed, Shen Qing looked at Xian Shiyu in front of her and suddenly felt speechless.
She was holding a blown - up magical artifact in her hand. Her hair was in a complete mess, and her hairstyle was gone. Her face was black, and even her clothes were torn in many places.
"What happened to you..."
Xian Shiyu pouted and said aggrievedly, "Senior brother taught me that if I encounter a stealthy spiritual beast in the wild, I should light a fire in this cauldron. The smoke will automatically turn into the smell that the spiritual beast likes and attract it over..."
Shen Qing's eyebrows twitched. "Then why did your cauldron explode..."
"Senior brother used my cauldron but didn't help me put the secret medicine in it. The cauldron overheated... and then..."
As Xian Shiyu spoke, her eyes were red. Her mouth pouted, and she was on the verge of crying.
Shen Qing didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Just as she was about to comfort this aggrieved little girl, suddenly, the cave shook violently. If it weren't for Li Xian supporting Shen Qing from behind, she would have fallen to the ground.
Xian Shiyu immediately put all the magical artifacts on the ground into her storage bag and nervously hid at the foot of the stone wall.
"Did my cauldron work? Is this cave really the big mouth of a spiritual beast? I'm still young. I don't want to be eaten by a spiritual beast! Aah!!"
Shen Qing summoned Biluo and looked around warily, but nothing happened as she had imagined.
The stone wall didn't grow sharp teeth, and the gravel wasn't the spiritual beast's tongue.
"No, there's something wrong with that smooth stone wall!"
After observing, Shen Qing found that the shaking in the cave all came from that smooth stone wall. She walked forward carefully and placed her hand on the stone wall.
She was surprised to find that the temperature of the stone wall was slowly rising. It used to be cool to the touch, but now it seemed to have a temperature.
What shocked her even more was that the stone wall seemed to be splitting and had become like the scales of something.
Beneath the scales, there seemed to be something moving, as if struggling.
"Shen Qing! Be careful!!"
Shen Qing came back to her senses and found that a huge crack had appeared under the stone wall. A thing like a tongue quickly stretched out and wrapped around Shen Qing's foot.
Before Shen Qing could resist, she was pulled into the crack by the tongue!
"Shen Qing!!"
Li Xian's eyes were blood - shot. He threw himself forward but could only grab Shen Qing's hand.
Suddenly, the area around the stone wall became smooth. Li Xian had nowhere to exert force and was also pulled into the crack.
"Elder sister! Brother - in - law! Don't leave me alone!"
Seeing this, Xian Shiyu quickly stood up and threw herself forward. As a result, she slipped and slid directly into the crack.
After swallowing the three of them, the shaking of the wall suddenly stopped. The crack slowly shrank, and the whole cave returned to normal, as if nothing had happened, only leaving behind the gravel all over the ground.
The thing around Shen Qing's foot was wrapped very tightly. She wanted to use Biluo to cut the thing like a tongue, but when Biluo struck it, it was like hitting some rigid armor, and sparks flew.
"So hard!"
Shen Qing was greatly shocked. The place she was pulled into was extremely smooth all around, and there was sticky mucus.
Before long, Shen Qing, Li Xian, and Xian Shiyu were all covered in that mucus.
"Shen Qing, are you okay?!"
Li Xian's voice came from above. Only then did Shen Qing realize that Li Xian was still tightly holding her sleeve.
"I'm okay! How about you?"
Li Xian replied, "I'm okay too, but the wall is too slippery, and we're still falling!"
Shen Qing said helplessly, "It doesn't matter. Let's fall first to see what the situation is. Maybe this is my chance..."