In the end, no matter what the reason was, everyone still walked into the cave.

Ying Nianling walked in the front, followed closely by everyone.

"This hole is really narrow. Is it really meant for people to walk through?"

Xiao Lingyuan muttered dissatisfiedly.

There is a tunnel inside the cave entrance. The tunnel is short and narrow. Only one person can walk through it at a time, and they have to bend down to move forward.

Yun Xi stared ahead, thinking that if someone blocked this road, it would be very troublesome to retreat.

However, after walking for a full two-quarters of an hour, the obstruction she was worried about did not appear, and this narrow tunnel, winding all the way down, finally reached the end.

The flashlight in Ying Nianling's hand illuminated the exit in front, and she was the first to go out.

As soon as everyone walked out of the tunnel, they immediately looked around.

Yun Xi looked up and couldn't see the moon, but the sky was indeed in her field of vision. They should have reached the inside of the volcano.

After everyone carefully explored it several times, Ye Nianhan came over: "Xiao Xi, this should be the inside of the volcano, and the bottom of the volcano should be below, but there doesn't seem to be magma."

The place where they were located was above the molten field, a several-meter-wide road surrounding the interior of the volcano. Standing on the edge of the road and looking down, they saw the bottom of the volcano, but there was only darkness there and no rolling lava.

"This volcano has been silent for many years, and even green plants have grown in the crater. The magma should have cooled long ago."

Yun Xi sniffed: "There is no smell of rotten eggs."

Volcanoes usually emit a lot of sulfur gas and have an unpleasant smell, but that obviously doesn't exist here.

"Monitor!"

Li Xinyu, who was still searching, shouted: "Come and take a look."

Everyone walked away quickly.

Arriving at the place where Li Xinyu was, everyone saw a few broken dead branches and a medium-sized skeleton.

Nangong Yao glanced at it: "This is not a human skeleton."

"Well, it belongs to a monster."

Yun Xi answered her, looked up, and deduced the scene that happened before in her mind.

The monster jumped down from the top of the volcano, broke the surrounding branches, and fell to the land... This is not right.

The internal structure of the volcano is very simple. It becomes wider as you go down, and the smallest area is exactly at the top of the volcano.

This is like a cone with the tip cut off. The monster falling from the top of the cone should land directly at the bottom of the cone, not halfway up the mountain.

"Xiao Xi, it doesn't look like it jumped from the top."

Seeing Yun Xi deep in thought, Ye Nianhan expressed his opinion first: "It's more like..."

"More like climbing up from the bottom."

Yun Xi's face was a little solemn. She felt that there seemed to be more than one hidden tribulation pill inside the volcano.

She asked: "You said, since the Tianling cultivators sent people to guard this place, it means that they must know that the Tribulation Spirit Pill is here, but why no one took it away?"

"Could it be that they had a dispute with each other?"

Nangong Yao asked.

This is indeed a possibility. Hunyuan State has always emphasized strength, and the weak eat the strong, but when it comes to such important treasures as the Tribulation Spirit Pill, it is not surprising that they would not give in to each other.

Although there is a cultivator in the middle stage of the early spiritual realm among them, if the other six people join forces to exert pressure, he may not dare to take the robbery pill by force.

Yun Xi recalled what You Tingjing had said to herself. What she said at the beginning was "It is difficult for ordinary spirits to obtain it." This should not be a dispute issue, there are other reasons.

"I want to go to the bottom of the volcano."

Yun Xi said this after a moment of silence.

Everyone understood what she meant, and Ye Nianhan said softly: "Go back quickly."

"Well. Xiaoying, take me down."

Ying Nianling tapped her fingers lightly, and a cyan talisman rose up from Yun Xi's feet. Suddenly, a breeze hit her feet, and she flew up.

Yun Xi left Bai Qing and Niu Wenhua here to protect everyone, and followed Ying Nianling down to the bottom of the volcano to investigate.

Ying Nianling took Yunxi and flew to the bottom of the volcano. On the way, Yunxi turned the light of the flashlight to the maximum and paid attention to the surroundings at all times.

"Yun Xi, here we are."

Ying Nianling warned, Yunxi cast the light away, and there was a dark rock beneath their feet.

Yun Xi gathered a slight amount of spiritual energy on her fingertips, and with a flick, the spiritual energy hit the rock, causing some tiny fragments to break out.

These rocks are very strong.

"Let's land."

The two fell on the rocks.

Yun Xi squatted down, broke a piece of gravel with all her strength, put it in front of her nose and smelled it.

"It is indeed volcanic rock."

"Yunxi, look."

Just as she was thinking, Ying Nian Ling's crisp voice came over.

Yun Xi stood up and looked over. The light of the flashlight fell in front of her, illuminating Ying Nian Ling's figure and everything in front of her.

At this moment, Yun Xi's body... instantly stiffened.

In front of Ying Nianling is a bone pile made up of numerous white bones. The huge skeletons overlap to form a small mountain peak. The scene is spectacular and at the same time makes people feel frightened.

Yun Xi took out several pieces of lighting crystals and threw them around. The light shone in every corner of the bottom of the volcano, and piles of white bones one after another came into Yun Xi's sight.

Her face even turned pale due to the reflection.

Yun Xi looked at her feet and realized that where she stood was one of the few places without bones.

"How many monsters have died here?"

There are bones everywhere, piled up into mountains.

Yun Xi had been guessing that those monsters should have jumped down from the top of the volcano. When she saw the giant bones on the corridor halfway up the mountain, she also thought that there should be white bones at the bottom.

But she never imagined that these bones... would reach such an astonishing number!

"Yun Xi, there are so many bones here."

Ying Nianling obviously had a bigger heart. She didn't have the slightest fear of the white bones that appeared, but she had a look of curiosity on her face.

She even picked up a skeleton, waved it, and knocked it on the mountain of bones.

Bang!

Click——

The white bones are broken, the bone mountain is tilted, and the crisp sound echoes at the bottom of the volcano with a long echo.

Ying Nianling was startled.

Yun Xi looked at Ying Nianling, whose face was filled with innocence and grievance. She had frightened him, and she couldn't laugh or cry.

The latter threw away the bones and looked back at her, like a child who had done something wrong and wanted to seek comfort from his mother.

Yun Xi took a few steps forward and gently touched her head with a hand that had never touched volcanic rocks: "It's okay, but there are still many unknown problems here, and we can't move around."

"Hmm."

The latter lowered his head and obediently agreed.

Yun Xi held her little hand and prepared to continue observing the surroundings.

Suddenly, she stopped and looked at the white bone that Ying Nianling had left behind.

Just now, Xiao Yinglian only knocked lightly without using any spiritual power. How could this white bone be broken so easily?

With doubts, Yun Xi let go of Ying Nianling's little hand, bent down to pick up a white bone, and folded it gently.

Snap——

The white bones broke with the sound and were as brittle as branches.

Yun Xi was stunned for a moment. She stared at the bone marrow and carefully examined it, and soon discovered the problem.

The energy and vitality in this white bone has completely disappeared.

"Judging from the length of the regenerated branches of the broken trees on the volcano, these monster beasts should have jumped off the cliff in the past few years. How could the bones of the monster beasts become thicker than wooden branches in such a short period of time?

Is it still crispy?"

Yun Xi looked at the entire bottom of the volcano and felt that even if he placed several crystal stones, the light would still not be able to illuminate the darkness here.

At this time, Ying Nianling spoke again: "Yunxi, there is something."

Yun Xi turned around and saw her pointing in a certain direction. There was a pile of bones.

"Go and have a look."
To be continued...