"Is this his original den?"
Xian Shiyu tiptoed over slowly. Seeing the little wolf sleeping soundly in the den and even making slight snores, she knew that it was already very familiar with the surrounding environment.
This den was made of simple cloth, with some white wolf hairs on it.
The little wolf felt so at ease because it smelled the scent on these hairs.
Chu Lanqiu also walked over and sized up the environment of the cage.
"This is special fir forest ironwood, specifically used to restrain spirit beasts like wolves or tigers."
"It seems that this place was once used to detain wolf - type spirit beasts. Maybe the Nether White Wolves are not extinct. Instead, they were all captured by the Demon Clan."
Chu Lanqiu was still holding some hairs collected from other places. These hairs were as white as snow. She tried to burn them with spiritual fire but found that they remained unscathed.
One of the characteristics of the Nether White Wolves' hairs was that they were not afraid of spiritual fire.
You Lang was sobbing uncontrollably at this moment, with slightly red eyes.
After ten thousand years, he thought he was the only Nether White Wolf left in the world. But unexpectedly, it turned out that his clansmen were still alive, just being detained and unable to meet him.
Shen Qing walked over and patted You Lang on the shoulder. "Your clansmen are still alive. Don't cry. As long as they are alive, we have hope of rescuing them."
You Lang nodded heavily. The haze that had surrounded his heart for a long time was slightly dispelled, allowing him to feel the long - lost pleasure.
He looked up at Shen Qing gratefully. "Thank you for bringing me out. If it weren't for you... I wouldn't have known that my clansmen were still alive."
You Lang's voice was a bit choked, and his throat felt tight.
Shen Qing helped You Lang up from the ground. "It was Luo Ling's guidance that made me bring you out. Now you won't seek death anymore, right?"
After bringing You Lang out of the secret realm, Shen Qing always felt that You Lang didn't care about anything.
Even though he appeared very active in front of others and sometimes could talk and laugh, Shen Qing didn't see a glimmer of yearning for life in his eyes.
It was as if he had no connection with the surrounding world and was游离 outside the hustle and bustle.
As long as there was one thing or one reason for him to die, he might leave this world without any hesitation.
Losing his clansmen and Luo Ling successively had left You Lang's heart full of holes that could never be filled. Now, finding the traces of his clansmen gave him a glimmer of hope.
Li Xian and Chu Lanqiu observed the surroundings together and found that the tooth and claw marks on the cages all came from the same kind of spirit beast.
Moreover, there were quite a few cages here. Li Xian roughly counted and found that there were at least more than twenty cages.
According to the size of the cages, each could hold about two adult Nether White Wolves. So, there should still be many Nether White Wolves alive in the Demon Realm.
You Lang's heart burned with passion. After knowing that so many of his clansmen were still alive, he really wanted to rush directly to the Demon Realm to rescue them.
But reason told him that doing so would only lead to his own death. These things had to be planned step by step.
At this moment, Chu Lanqiu raised a question.
"Ten thousand years ago, the Nether White Wolves disappeared from the world. Now we know that it was the people of the Demon Clan who captured them."
"But... why did they capture the Nether White Wolves? Is there something on them that the people of the Demon Realm covet?"
Everyone looked at You Lang, but You Lang remained silent.
However, You Lang's silence made Chu Lanqiu have a guess in her heart.
The Nether White Wolves were the only spirit beasts in the world besides the Dragon Clan that could transform into human form.
Maybe... this was the reason why the Demon Clan coveted them. Otherwise, Chu Lanqiu really couldn't think of any other reason.
But if this was the reason, what was the Demon Clan's purpose?
The more Chu Lanqiu thought about it, the more something seemed wrong, so she voiced her speculation.
Li Xian and Shen Qing also thought of this problem when they saw You Lang's silence.
The Nether White Wolves were different from other spirit beasts. They could transform into human form from birth. Other spirit beasts would only become spirits after cultivation. If they were lucky enough to obtain great fortune, they could become demon gods.
However, after the Nether White Wolves cultivated, they could ascend to the upper realm like cultivators and directly become gods.
Maybe this was what the people of the Demon Realm wanted.
So they imprisoned the Nether White Wolf clan in the Demon Realm, wanting to know the method by which their clan could directly attain immortality.
"This is strange. As far as I know, the Demon Realm worships demon gods. Different from us, their so - called ascension is to become demon gods. The Nether White Wolf clan relies on spiritual power, while the Demon Clan relies on demonic energy. How can these be confused?"
The question raised by Li Xian was also a puzzling point for everyone.
But then You Lang said slowly, "That's because... our Nether White Wolf clan has a part of the inheritance of the Dragon Clan..."
You Lang slowly stood up, and his facial expression had returned to normal.
"I'm not afraid to tell you that our Nether White Wolf clan can transform into human form like the Dragon Clan precisely because we have obtained the inheritance of the Dragon Clan."
"This is what the Demon Clan wants. I guess what they want is not our clan's ability to transform into human form, but that part of the Dragon Clan's inheritance."
Everyone was shocked but gradually understood why the Nether White Wolf clan had been imprisoned in the Demon Realm for the past ten thousand years.
It was because of the inheritance of the Dragon Clan.
Shen Qing suddenly remembered the chant she had heard. The human race and the Demon Clan joined hands to kill the Dragon Clan, but the result of the Dragon Clan's inheritance was not revealed in that part of the chant.
However, from this, it could be inferred that the Demon Clan's ambition was not small.
"Now that the Nether White Wolf clan has not been killed, it proves that the Demon Clan has not obtained what they want. If so, your clansmen's situation is temporarily safe."
You Lang nodded, but his face was still not relaxed and remained very solemn.
Although his clansmen's lives were not in immediate danger, as long as they were in the Demon Realm for one more day, there would be one more point of danger.
The four of them dispersed and went to search for other information in this demon cave.
But the demons who had once been here had evacuated very cleanly and left no useful information. Instead, there was a pile of blood - stained bandages lying on the ground in the building.
Shen Qing stood in front of the pile of bandages and felt a familiar aura.
"The aura on these bandages is very strong and familiar. Little apprentice, it's an old acquaintance of yours."
Ling Zhou's voice suddenly rang in Shen Qing's mind, and Shen Qing immediately guessed the owner of this pile of bandages.
Lin Yibai.
It turned out that they had once been so close, but ironically, she didn't notice at all.
No wonder after learning the news of Lin Yibai's death, Shen Qing didn't feel that sense of relief. It turned out that her intuition had already told her that things wouldn't end so simply.
Female protagonist, female protagonist, how on earth can I kill you?