At this time, Tian Jihong had no choice but to firmly believe in his instincts and explore along the most spacious main road, in the environment where he could not see his fingers, the wide road at least meant that he could fall a few times less. Thankfully, after half an hour's trek, Tian Jihong could not feel the existence of the violent fire aura in the air at all, and he also took this opportunity to recover the spiritual power in his body.

And it seems that the road is too barren, except for a few fire toads that escaped together at the beginning, the only thing that harassed Tianjihong on the way after that was only a small number of cave bats. Since these bats were born in caves without spiritual energy, they were no different from the same kind they saw in the mortal world, and they did not pose the slightest threat to themselves. In addition, Tian Jihong did not find any signs of other biological activities along the road, which saved him a lot of unnecessary trouble in exploring his way in the dark.

In this way, Tianjihong traveled in the darkness for about half an hour, and finally reached the end of the main road of the passage. He deduced that his party had traveled at least several miles from the magma lake to here; The direction of the path under your feet is mostly spreading towards the depths of the mountains, and now I am afraid that I am already in the core area of Dongyun Mountain. Recalling the previous Master's advice, this is already a forbidden place that the Master has instructed him to be inaccessible.

However, these are still things that he needs to worry about in the future, no matter where he is now, the most important thing for Tian Jihong now is to find an exit from this underground world first. At the end of the passage, after some exploration, Tian Jihong found that the heavy stone wall was still lying in front of him, and there was still no sign of sunlight around.

Unwilling, he still didn't want to give up, so with the help of the dagger in his hand, Tian Jihong struggled to swing his fists and tried to carve an exit between the rocks in front of him. Unfortunately, after nearly ten minutes of hard work, not only did he not dig a new path as Tian Jihong imagined, but the rock wall under his feet began to become harder and harder. Under the continuous collision with the stone wall, there were already scars between Tianjihong's finger bones, and I am afraid that he would not be able to hold on for too long.

Looking at the scarred palm, Tian Jihong had no choice but to stop, and in just ten minutes, he had only advanced a distance of one or two meters. Now he can't determine the specific direction, and he doesn't know where the best path to the outside world is; The increase in the density of the surrounding stone walls can only indicate that the angle of Tianjihong's excavation must have deviated, and it is very likely that he is doing useless work in the direction of the deeper part of the mountain. If you continue to be brainless like this, I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape from this dark underground until the dagger is broken.

Seeing that it was not a way to go on like this, Tian Jihong resolutely decided to give up the current path, and directly turned around and headed towards the few forks in the road that he had just found behind him. In this difficult moment, he knew that the most important thing for him was to keep his mind clear, and he must not be carried away by a momentary failure and lose his mind. After thinking about it, Tianjihong realized that he had not found any signs of creatures in this passage along the way, which meant that this place must be quite a short distance away from the outside world, so it might be a wise decision to choose to give up now.

This time, with the previous experience, Tian Jihong paid more attention when he turned back to explore the fork in the road behind him. Once you can't find a way out at the end of the passage and there is no trace of animal activity in the cave, you don't waste time making a decisive U-turn. In this way, after hitting the wall twice in a row, Tianjihong finally found something unusual at the third path leading to the lower right.

He didn't choose this path at first, firstly, because it went in the opposite direction of what he expected, and seemed to extend deeper into the earth; Second, at the fork of the passage, he can clearly perceive that compared with other passages, the road under his feet is obviously more rugged, not only there are many broken stones along the road, but even the surrounding cliffs are more hideous, and if you are not careful, you will be scratched by the sharp stone wall when you are not careful.

But what I didn't expect was that Tian Jihong, who had little hope for this road, only walked along the road for less than 100 meters, and a strong fishy smell permeated from the deeper part of the passage. He immediately realized that there must have been a large beast in the area, and the smell was mostly the smell of body odor and feces left by the beasts that had lived here for a long time.

Although he was a little jealous of the unknown beast in front of him, this was indeed great news for Tianjihong at the moment. In such a barren cave, it is difficult for even snakes and rats to find resources to survive, let alone a large beast with such a strong aura. This means that the owner of this place must have a way to leave the cave to forage for food, and there is a high probability that there will be an underground exit ahead of this road.

So Tian Jihong immediately raised his spirit, gradually slowed down the pace of progress, and began to tiptoe against the wall and advance into the depths. In the dark, it is difficult for him to rely on his vision to perceive the approach of danger in advance, so other senses such as smell and hearing are even more important. In order not to be affected by the sound of his footsteps, Tianjihong deliberately avoided the gravel between all the gaps, and jumped directly between the broken stones by relying on his flexible body. In this way, even if he can't hide his body under the perception of the spirit beast, at least he won't interfere with his hearing, and he can predict the enemy in front of him one step earlier.

After continuing to move forward for more than 100 meters, the direction of the passage still did not change, but the angle of the downward slope became larger and larger. Unsure of his position, Tian Jihong even thought that he had fallen below the horizon at the foot of the mountain. However, at this moment, the smell emitted by the fierce beast was indeed getting stronger and stronger, and the remaining hairs and paw prints between the stone walls and the road could already be found on the side of Tianjihong. Due to the lack of light, Tianjihong could only roughly tell from the outline of the footprints that this place should be inhabited by fierce beasts similar to brown bears, but he didn't know what his true strength was.

But soon Tian Jihong sensed that something was wrong again, and after a few minutes, the smell that permeated the air seemed to be a faint smell of blood, in addition to the pungent body odor before. This immediately made Tian Jihong nervous, the appearance of blood stains must mean that there had been a killing here, whether it was caused by a fierce beast in the dark or some other existence, it showed that he was not too far away from the other party at this time, and the battle might break out at any time.

To be on the safe side, Tian Jihong decided to pause for a moment to look for traces of the previous battle, and as expected, a few meters to the left of him, he found some blood-stained fur in a corner. In the darkness, Tian Jihong could distinguish the color of the bloodstains, but from the breath, it must have been left by a wild beast, but it was not clear whether the owner of the cave himself or other outsiders left it. However, there seems to be no signs of battle damage here, except for the cracks in the stones under his feet, where the blood he just found extends farther away.

So Tian Jihong explored all the way along the bloodstains between the rocks, and even though he hadn't seen the end of the cave in front of him, he could vaguely feel the flow of breath around him gradually speeding up between the passages, which was indeed very close to the entrance of the cave not far away. Tian Jihong hurriedly suppressed the tension and excitement in his heart, the proximity to the entrance of the cave naturally means that the battle is approaching, and now is the most critical moment for him to escape, since he has come to this point, he must not take it lightly at this moment.

However, to his surprise, two minutes later, the passage made a sharp turn and turned to the left front, and Tian Jihong, who was walking along the bloodstains all the way, hit his head on the stone wall in front of him. The passage in front of him seemed to be another dead end, and after some fumbling around, Tian Jihong was sure that the blood under his feet would end here, but this looked like the place where a fierce battle broke out. Except for a large amount of blood splattered between the stone walls at the end, there are stones damaged by brute force everywhere, and even the stone walls of the ceiling seem to have collapsed, but the only thing that does not appear is that Tianjihong is wary of the owner of the cave along the way.

At present, it is possible to guess that the owner of the cave must have been attacked by foreign invaders, and there was a tragic hand-to-hand combat, which led to the current mess. But this is not enough to explain the many doubts in Tian Jihong's mind, after seeing the scene at the end of the passage, Tian Jihong not only did not feel frustrated that he did not find the exit, but was keenly aware of many strange places.

First of all, he was very sure that there must be a cave for spirit beasts to enter and exit here, but for some reason it was covered up, and he probably didn't find it because it was too dark. But what puzzled him most was that there were no bodies or bones in the area, except for the traces of battle; If it was two fierce beasts fighting, even if the owner of this cave died here, Tian Jihong not only did not see the skeleton remaining, but also did not see any traces of the body after being dragged away, which was really puzzling to him.

Therefore, after making sure that there were no other lurking beings around him that posed a threat to him, Tianjihong hurried to start looking for clues at the end of this cave. In addition to looking for the exit to the cave, he was curious about what had happened here. And after a while, he found the answer in a broken stone left after the battle, and among the dirt under the crack in the stone, Tian Jihong found a vague human footprint after some identification.