The ruins of the palace in the Dragon Flame Secret Realm are so silent and eerie.
As soon as Ning Qingyan landed on the steps outside the palace, she noticed something was wrong.
However, before she could retreat, the palace seemed to come alive. The deep palace door was like the open mouth of a giant beast, and there was a huge suction force, sucking her in.
Everything happened so fast that Ning Qingyan had no time to react and was sucked into the palace.
When the suction disappeared, Ning Qingyan appeared in a closed space, like a room in a palace.
'What does it smell like?'
Ning Qingyan sniffed.
There was nothing in the empty room, only torches burning for unknown ages on the walls.
However, in this empty room, Ning Qingyan smelled a very strong smell of blood.
The increasingly obvious smell made Ning Qingyan sure that this was not an illusion.
Ning Qingyan quickly walked to the wall and put her hand against it.
The cold touch entered her body through her fingertips. Ning Qingyan quickly searched for the exit of this sealed space.
"There should be restrictions here." Ning Qingyan lowered her eyes and muttered to herself.
An empty room was not unfamiliar to Ning Qingyan.
This kind of room, in sects thousands of years ago, was usually a solitary room used to punish erring disciples.
There are no doors or windows, and there are prohibitions and blockades to prevent the punished disciples from escaping.
Therefore, if Ning Qingyan's judgment was not wrong, she should have been sucked into the palace's confinement room.
'Found it!'
Suddenly, Ning Qingyan's eyes lit up.
She found the forbidden formation, and as long as she broke the restriction, she could get out.
Ning Qingyan did not hesitate to transfer the profound energy into her hands, and the spiritual energy from the foundation-building stage was condensed and directly blasted towards the formation eye.
Boom——!
When the spiritual power hit the formation eye, formation patterns appeared in the closed room.
Ning Qingyan looked up, trying to find some clues from the formation patterns.
Unfortunately, the formation patterns disappeared too quickly. Before she could identify which formation was customarily used by which sect, the formation patterns had already disappeared.
As the array patterns disappeared, a door appeared in the originally doorless and windowless confinement room.
Squeak——!
The door opened without any wind, revealing a deep and dark corridor.
Ning Qingyan did not hesitate and quickly walked out of the confinement room and came to the dark corridor.
When we came here, the smell of blood became even stronger.
Ning Qingyan became wary and released her spiritual consciousness to explore the surrounding situation.
…
The ruins of this palace are very large. If you can look down from the air, you can find that this palace occupies almost one-fifth of the entire secret realm.
The palace door where Ning Qingyan was sucked into was just one of them.
She didn't know that she was not the only one who was sucked into this strange palace.
Her spiritual consciousness seemed to be limited to a very small range, and could only detect a radius of a hundred meters around her.
This made her feel very strange, and she became more cautious about the palace.
In another part of the palace, several people were running away in panic with spiritual weapons in their hands, their bodies covered in embarrassment and their faces covered with blood, as if they were followed by some ferocious beast.
Xiao Rulian was also among them, but her luck was better than the others. Although she was in a mess, there was very little blood on her body.
Her expression was tense, her lips were pursed tightly, she held a sharp sword tightly, and ran forward with the others.
"Quick, hurry up! That thing is coming!"
In the panic, someone shouted in terror.
Xiao Rulian's heart became heavier.
She had just entered the Mysterious Realm, and was going out to practice for the first time. Was she going to die because of this?
Not willing to give in! She is so unwilling to give in!
It is even more unacceptable that when faced with the dangers of the mysterious world, my only ability is to escape.
roar--!
In the dark corridor behind these people, something suddenly rushed out.
When the faint light fell on it, it was discovered that it was a fleshy but extremely flexible tongue!
The tongue is so big that it directly occupies the entire corridor space. Its surface is covered with sharp barbs, and green venom is constantly dripping. Everything it passes is corroded by the venom dripping from the tongue.
The tongue is extremely fast and nimbly goes around the corridor, chasing the escapees in front of it.
It seemed to have eyes and intelligence, clearly knowing their escape route, and it was moving faster and slower at times, as if it was playing with its prey.
"careful--!"
"ah--!"
The reminders and screams reached the ears of the remaining people almost at the same time.
Xiao Rulian's face suddenly turned pale and he glanced back subconsciously.
At this glance, she only saw that the last practitioner was unfortunately caught up by the tongue. He didn't even have a chance to resist, and was swept away by the tongue. He was only pulled out with a thick blood mark on the ground.
Run away! Run away!!
Xiao Rulian withdrew his gaze and tried his best to ignore the stiffness in his neck. He could only grit his teeth and speed up.
Orange spiritual power surged through her body, making her body lighter.
However, this was still not fast enough for her.
'What on earth is that tongue?'
The survivors who were still alive all had this question in their minds.
They tried attacking the tongue, but to no avail.
After sacrificing many people, they came to their senses. Faced with the tongue, they could only escape!
…
The consciousness released by Ning Qingyan quickly sent feedback.
Although it was pitch black in front of her eyes, Ning Qingyan still relied on the feedback from her spiritual consciousness to 'see' everything in the corridor clearly.
The corridors extend before and after, but I don't know where they lead.
There were drag marks on the walls and floor of the corridor.
The smell of blood that Ning Qingyan smelled came from these traces.
"Blood?" Ning Qingyan walked closer to the wall at hand and confirmed the source of the traces.
These blood stains obviously did not appear at the same time.
Instead, there are new ones and old ones, layered one on top of another. No wonder the smell of blood is so strong.
Through these blood marks, Ning Qingyan could only roughly judge what kind of attack it was.
Moreover, that thing is very powerful and very arrogant.
Because these bloodstains were formed by dragging, it can be seen that the thing dragged the body away after killing someone.
‘What exactly is it?’ Ning Qingyan couldn’t tell for a while.
She was inexplicably sucked into the palace and appeared in a place similar to a solitary room. When she came out, she saw these traces... There were too few clues, and she didn't know the answer for the time being.
Ning Qingyan shook her head and decided to walk forward along the corridor.
…
There were fewer and fewer people behind Xiao Rulian, and she could feel the tongue getting closer and closer to her, but it didn't seem to be eager to kill her immediately, it was just teasing her.
"ah--!"
Another scream sounded.
This time, Xiao Rulian didn't even dare to look back.
There was no longer any breath of her companion behind her, and even if she didn't look back, she could still tell that the only person her tongue was chasing now was herself.