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West of the Twin Emperors Mountain Range, in a deep mountain cave. Some unknown stones in the cave shone with a light blue light, illuminating the entire interior of the cave. Under the weak light, a group of people surrounded a man in blood-red clothes could be vaguely seen. The man looked extremely thin and frail. His face was also somewhat pale.

"That traitor... It should be settled now! " The corners of the man's mouth moved slightly as he spoke with a slightly hoarse voice.

Immediately, the bodies of the surrounding people all trembled, and then a man in a grey robe stood out and replied, "Unravel …" "The traps have been set up."

Hearing this, the man in blood-red clothes had a sly smile on his face. "Since the traitor has already left a trail behind, if I don't seize this opportunity to properly scheme against him, then wouldn't I have wasted their 'efforts?'"

"Alright, you guys go down first, go inside the relic and help." The man continued.

"..."

At this moment, Dugu Yifeng and his group had passed through a crack in the mountain and arrived at the western part of the Crosscut Mountain Range. The Crosscut Mountain Range was very large, but with the pace of their martial artists, it wasn't too far.

"Yifeng, the secret message was not found in the first part. We had the guards scout the surroundings for a while, so we didn't find the secret message!" After Dugu Yifeng left the valley, he handed the guards over to Ling Wuchen. From time to time, he would run around alone to inspect the surrounding terrain.

"Okay." Dugu Yifeng responded and then raised his head to look at the cliff in front of him. The cliff was very high, about a hundred zhang in height, but it was very neat and tidy, as if it had been hacked by a sword and was very smooth. However, the innumerable holes on the cliff made the originally bright and clean cliff appear very rough.

"These caves …" Dugu Yifeng let out a puzzled sound.

"Oh, this mountain is called Thousand Caves Mountain. It is a famous mountain in the Crosscut Mountain Range. "Legend has it that there are a thousand caves in this mountain. Furthermore, it is said that there are some strange things within each cave." Ling Wu Chen explained for Dugu Yi Feng.

Ling Wuchen was able to know about this mountain range, but Dugu Yifeng was not. This was quite normal. Usually, the smaller sized dojos would collect more information about the various mountain ranges, which would be used for the dojo's martial artists to go out and train.

"What kind of strange thing?" Dugu Yifeng asked with a glint of light flashing across his eyes.

Ling Wuchen smiled and answered, "Very rarely, there will be some rare treasures or relics left behind by our senior. Most of the time …"

"Strange beast!"

Ling Wuchen slowly said those words, and the smile on his face became serious.

"Young master, eighth senior brother, something bad has happened! There is blood!" From afar, a guard suddenly shouted. In an instant, Dugu Yifeng and the other two immediately ran towards the guard who had shouted.

"Where?" The three of them arrived at the guards' area in the blink of an eye. Ling Wuchen was the first to speak, but before the guard could reply, Dugu Yifeng had already rushed out.

He had already seen the trail of blood. A line of blood was dripping onto the edge of the Five Leaves Grass' teeth, but it was not obvious.

"Let's go!" Ling Jianjue and Ling Wuchen also found the bloodstains and ran out.

"Yifeng, where is the blood trail going to? It seems a bit strange!" Ling Wuchen, who was behind Dugu Yifeng, said. Ling Jianjue followed beside him. As for the guards of the dojo, they followed behind them.

Dugu Yifeng did not reply. He followed the trail of blood closely, having a bad feeling about this.

Finally, the blood trail disappeared. At this moment, Dugu Yifeng also raised his head to look around. This is the edge of a forest...

Suddenly, a divine light flashed in Dugu Yifeng's eyes, "Then!" Ling Jianjue had the same expression, as he let out a scream before being suppressed.

From the edge of the forest, to their left, a circular space had been cleared. All the trees in the circular space were cut down, leaving only one tree.

Above the tree, a dead man's eyes were wide open!

"It's Zhong Ling!" Ling Wuchen shouted in anger. This person was the martial practitioner who was sent to the Fierce Demon Stronghold to act as a spy — Zhong Ling!

"..."

A moment later, the two guards put down Zhong Ling, Dugu Yifeng, and the other two who were hanging on the tree and surrounded the corpse.

"Judging from the appearance of the corpse, he must have been tortured extremely cruelly before he died!" Ling Wuchen said with a trembling voice.

Dugu Yifeng looked at the sorrowful expressions on his and Ling Jianjue's faces. The expression on his face also did not look too good. The news of us entering the Hengduan Mountains and preparing to secretly clean up the Fierce Demon Stronghold should have already been leaked out! " He tried to keep his tone as calm as possible.

This spy had already died. Naturally, his identity must have been revealed. Then, their actions should have been exposed long ago!

This way, it was very possible that there was a trap here!

Ah!" A blood-curdling screech came out from behind Dugu Yifeng, followed by a series of blood-curdling screeches.

"Be careful!" A series of warning sounds rang out. Dugu Yifeng also turned around and explosively retreated.

The moment he left the ground, a huge tentacle shot out from the ground, lifting up a large amount of dirt …

As he landed on the ground, Dugu Yifeng noticed that Ling Wuchen, Ling Jianjue, and the others were attacked. Many of the guards were injured. This sudden attack from below had greatly reduced the fighting strength of Dugu Yifeng's group. The person who had let out the miserable cries earlier had completely disappeared, leaving behind a pool of blood on the ground!

"Be careful, it's a Thousand Legged Green Scorpion!" Dugu Yifeng instantly deduced that this underground beast was one of the most famous beasts on the beast rankings – the Thousand Feet Green Scorpion.

"Hiss ~" Those who had dodged to the side all sucked in a breath of cold air when they heard this name.

The beast rankings were a list of strange beasts that the top powers of the continent had invited some of the continent's top experts to work together to create. Afterwards, they had asked all of the top powers of the continent to help amend it. The description of the strange beasts on this list was very detailed. This Thousand Feet Green Scorpion was one of them.

Unlike most of the other beasts, the Thousand-Legged Jade Scorpion didn't rely on its combat power to make it to the top of the list. Generally speaking, only the most powerful beasts of the continent would be able to make it onto this list. Some of them were even comparable to major powers of the human race.

In addition to this, there were also some strange beasts that could be ranked on this ranking list. Generally speaking, they all had some special abilities. For example, the crowd fighting ability of a Thousand Feet Green Scorpion. A Thousand Feet Green Scorpion was usually a destructive existence to a party, even though its combat strength was only at the beginning.

For example, there were flying beasts with mutated cauldrons, or lecherous beasts like the Jadefrost Toad. Their special ability would cause the entire continent, including some major powers, to feel fear.

There was a saying in the world: When encountering a Thousand Legged Green Scorpion, even if it had a thousand legs, it would still be hard to escape!