Passing through the invisible barrier of spiritual power, Fang Nuo and his bird friends stepped from the dark forest path into a temple of golden splendor and grandeur.

There was a statue of an orc, both beast-like and human-formed.

The surrounding walls are also carved with orc totems with similar characteristics to those statues.

And if you look closely around, the monsters who rashly break into this temple will find that the raised bricks on the walls, the gaps between the floor tiles on the road, and some parts of those strange "works of art" are actually hidden, entangled, and lying on the stomach of inconspicuous small snakes.

Noticing the trespassers, the snake clans poked their heads out of their hiding places or half-cut their bodies, spitting out letters and hissing that they were not welcome.

"It's terrible." The mourning birds flying in mid-air felt the oppression from the upper layers of the food chain.

"Don't be cowardly." The Bird Queen shouted at the only snow-white beast on the ground, "Witch-sama, they should have passed through here, these guys...... It is likely that it has been hit a long time ago. ”

This means that these palace guards have long been at the end of their crossbows, and even a small beast like Fang Nuo can easily deal with them.

"That's a nice thing to say...... Come pick me up! ”

Fang Nuo didn't want to fight the snakes, so he raised his two forefeet above his head, and the bird queen in the air swooped down cooperatively, carrying him off the ground.

"Do you want me to find a platform to lower you so you can climb on my back?" The Bird Queen asked intimately.

"Just fly on." Fang Nuo allowed his limbs to be grabbed by the big bird, and he thought that this posture was still within his tolerance, "All the way forward!" ”

After all, why did they come to such a temple that did not conform to their own aesthetics?

Fang Nuo, who fell under the mourning bird and was carried deeper into the building, couldn't help but recall the experience along the way, as well as his original thoughts.

After learning that the witch of the mountain village was tricked by the carriage merchant into crusading against the fairy beast "Feathered Serpent", the two mourning birds naturally showed extreme concern.

They were clamoring in his ears to catch up with the witch who had stepped into the dark forest.

In normal times, Fang Nuo, who successfully learned about Mr. Xiao's invitation and satisfied his curiosity, must have gone with them - these two mourning birds can do whatever they like, what does it have to do with him?

However, after he asked the mourning birds to fly around the mountain village on their backs before they set out, and thus observed the streets and alleys of the village and every nook and cranny of the village, but still could not find any trace of the "carriage", he changed his mind.

The carriage merchant took his carriage away?

Without a carriage and no guide, how can I return to the "end of the stone wall"?

So, the distraught Fang Nuo was confused for a moment and agreed to walk with the mourning birds.

They are there to catch up with the witch they care about, and he is there to go home, by the way, to satisfy more curiosity.

Despite wasting a lot of time on their departure, in Fang Nuo's opinion, their human progress was too slow.

They followed the trail of the previous group and finally reached the door of the strange building.

There is a shield miracle set up outside the door of the temple, it is not a demon beast that is congenitally sensitive to spiritual power, and it will not be able to find the entrance to the temple for a lifetime in this vicinity.

But for pure-blooded demon beasts like Fang Nuo and the mourning bird, this little trick was useless.

Then, the demon beasts, who didn't know the details of the building and hadn't discussed the appropriate countermeasures, relied on their youth and recklessness - at least Fang Nuo - to break into it.

And then there's the current situation, with two mourning birds flapping their wings in the air, and the snow-white beast hanging from the paws of one of them, "admiring" the perfect nightmare material beneath them:

A "snake tide" that is constantly wriggling, churning, and has a clear direction of progress.

Looking at them, he thought......

A large serpent with wings.

He closed his eyes, and the image of the statues, murals, and totems that he had just seen in his mind was sketched in his mind.

A large serpent with golden wings.

Feathered Serpent.

Is that the legendary fairy beast, "Feathered Serpent"?

Although they look fierce on the outside, whether it is a sculpture or a mural, the pair of eyes they depict are projected with a gentle light.

How can a dead thing make you feel like that?

"Little one, don't just look below!" Blackie's shout brought his thoughts back to reality, "Don't just be scared silly, help us keep an eye out for a secret door or something like that nearby." ”

"These guys don't have a lot of intelligence, but they seem to be using them well." He glanced at the snakes trying to build a bridge on the wall not far away, "If this continues, whether it is the way forward or the way back, they will be cut off." ”

Fang Nuo took a deep breath.

He followed Xiao Hei's suggestion, and while radiating his spiritual power to scan the surroundings, he was also using the naked eye to find possible secret doors and mechanisms.

As long as you can get rid of this group of guards for a while......

I really hope that these guys don't get into some dark tunnels with their narrow bodies......

He couldn't help but think back to the snake demon beast that escaped from the underground project.

"My luck didn't seem to be very good today."

He twisted his body as hard as he could, avoiding a small snake that swooped down from the wall, and then jerked his waist again, increasing the distance between himself and the ground so that the guards below him could not attack him.

The malevolent value increase sound that echoes in the ears is already comparable to the alarm bell when the mountain village faces the attack of demon beasts.

Just when he wanted to take advantage of the fact that the mourning birds didn't have time to care about their actions, he casually turned into some heavy objects and smashed all the threat targets below into pulp, "hope" appeared-

"Hey, what's that up front?"

A stone door appeared in front of them.

The door itself is grayish-white, with a large coat of arms made of gold scales.

And even though the stone gate is crawling with the gospel of dense phobias on the left and right - its body is clean and not coveted by any snake.

"Get in!" Fang Nuo, who didn't do anything because he was taken away, and was currently the calmest and had the best vision, hurriedly commanded, "The guys in front of us left a crack in the door, get in quickly!" ”

But it was clear that the gap between the stone gate and the surrounding snake wall was not wide, and the group in front did not think about their successors at all.

If you approach the crack in the door at will, there is a great chance that you will be attacked by a small snake lying on the wall, and if you are not careful, you will be entangled by the snake and end up with no corpse.

"I should have done this a long time ago......," Fang Nuo thought to himself, "I can use my ability to construct a snake-repellent herb - it may not be useful for the large group of snakes in front of me, but if it is only for snakes near the stone gate, it should not be a problem......"

The surface of his body was gradually shrouded in a layer of white light, looming, and it was difficult for others to detect it against the backdrop of the black pressing snakes in all directions.

[Target-Composition: Horse chestnut lotus; Malicious Value Required: 10]

【Horse chestnut lotus

Uses: snake repellent, detoxification, treatment;

Legend: Legend has it that there is a young human who chops wood for a living, and was attacked by snake monsters in the mountains, and was rescued by a passing fairy beast, and the spiritual power he left behind turned into the first "seven-leaf lotus" in this world, and its existence was known by more people in the mouth of human youth, and people shared and spread its seeds, so that it could take root all over the world.

Seven green leaves hold a wild grass in the shape of a golden flower, which is common all over the world, and it emits a pungent smell that snakes are disgusting, and has the effect of repelling snakes.

Contraindications: 1- Pregnant women are forbidden to take it; 2- Contains slightly toxic and should not be taken in large quantities. 】

"How can only one small flower be enough...... Isn't it just a moment to be drowned out by the smell of snakes? ”

Fang Nuo gritted his teeth, and the pale brilliance on his body was even stronger, which inevitably attracted the attention of the mourning birds above his head and beside him.

However, before he could truly perform a miracle that surprised his companions, a powerful spiritual power shot out from behind the door.

In an instant, the little snake that had been hovering near it before fled into the distance, and soon cleared the way for them.

"What did you do?" Little Black was dumbfounded.

"How is that possible?" Fang Nuo silently withdrew his spiritual power, and at the same time stopped the activation of his ability in his heart.

"Maybe the team in front of you is fighting inside." Infected by Fang Promise's words and deeds, the Bird Queen did not mention their "witch-sama" this time.

"It's also possible that the guy in charge of this temple wants to show favor to us and doesn't want to be our enemy." Fang Nuo whispered his guess, but neither of the mourning birds could hear what he was muttering.

Without waiting for the imaginary ridicule and ridicule, Fang Nuo sighed wordlessly, and was carried into the door by the Queen of the Funeral Birds.

Behind the stone door was a hall that was more spacious than they had ever imagined.

Directly opposite them was a staircase made of first-class golden scales, and on the platform at the top of the staircase, there was a throne that was obviously not for humans to sit on, giving them an extremely ostentatious feeling.

On the back of the throne, the coat of arms on the stone door was also carved, and the contents of the badge were exactly the same as the totems they had seen when they first entered.

Around the throne, from the dome of the hall hung a number of stone pillars as thick as the redwood trees outside—still gilded on the outside, shining in the ambient light.

"The snake will be wrapped around those stone pillars." For unknown reasons, at the first glance of seeing the layout of such a scene, Fang Nuo had such a thought in his heart.

Then, the imagination in his mind was automatically replenished, turning into a picture of a group of snakes circling the pillars.

And I have to admit that the picture in his mind is a little funny, not solemn or majestic at all, in line with the style of the dazzling scene in reality.

"The demon beast that emitted spiritual power just now...... Or the human beings who have the power, where is it? Fang Nuo, who had come to his senses, looked around, but neither he nor the mourning birds could find a single figure that did not belong to them.

The serpent guards who had embarrassed them before were all like they would never cross the thunder pool of the "Gray and White Stone Gate", and they had never appeared in their field of vision since they entered this hall.