CHAPTER 319: CHAPTER 250: FORBIDDEN DEMON FAMILY (PART 2)

You Huang glanced around: "Where is this place? Why is the sinister aura so dense? You didn’t run off to the Forbidden Land, Broken Soul Valley, did you? No, the sinister aura here also has a corpse miasma in the mist, different from the Broken Soul Valley."

The little cat floated up, its yellow eyes scanning around, shaking its head.

"Possibly, this is a Demon Cave."

Shen Wang said, "Maybe it will become a forbidden place in the future?"

You Huang walked with feline grace in the air, looking near the cave entrance and sniffing: "It doesn’t qualify as a forbidden place yet, just feels a bit uncanny. Even though it’s a place of sinister aura, there’s a power here that makes me uncomfortable, as if it’s not of this world."

"Aren’t you a Netherworld Spirit Cat? Even this place makes you uncomfortable?"

Shen Wang was puzzled.

"Uncomfortable is uncomfortable; I’m not a creature that grew up in a burial ground."

You Huang glanced at Shen Wang: "If you’re scared, just say so. Don’t project it onto me."

"You’re my pet, so naturally, in such situations, you should be put to use."

Shen Wang wouldn’t admit it, saying, "Let’s go, you scout the way ahead."

"There’s just a Ghost King below; look at how scared you are."

You Huang scoffed and darted inside the cave.

Shen Wang couldn’t let a cat outdo him, so he jumped in too.

Even before reaching the bottom, Shen Wang heard a cat’s meow. Upon closer inspection, in the darkness, You Huang was battling a swirling green wind.

Although You Huang had reverted to its original form, after days of recovery, its strength was already comparable to a Golden Core Cultivator. Its figure flickered, and with a claw, it shredded the black mist, broke through the ghostly wind, making a green-furred creature scream.

The latter suffered a loss, turned into a black mist, and retreated instantly, escaping.

"Ugly thing, if my Primordial Qi weren’t damaged, I’d smash you with a single claw!"

You Huang cursed, pursuing relentlessly, sending several cold glints slicing through the air. The ghostly creature screeched and was cut into pieces, falling to the ground and revealing a mangled corpse.

Shen Wang was astonished.

It seemed like this thing had attacked him before, and now You Huang had killed it.

"Nicely done."

Shen Wang praised, then gazed in surprise at the vast space before him.

He raised his hand, a fireball enlarged, and the black air was swallowed by the firelight, revealing a wide underground space.

"It’s so big down here, like an underground fissure."

Shen Wang walked to the slain monster by You Huang.

He found it was a creature resembling a monkey.

"A ghost monkey?"

Shen Wang was uncertain, tossing out a fireball to destroy the corpse.

"Who would have thought this thing had scared me from going out at night before?"

Shen Wang shook his head, noticing You Huang had run off again, stepping forward to chase.

You Huang targeted another ghostly creature and attacked swiftly, dealing with it promptly.

Shen Wang noticed that after it killed the creature, it found a bead inside the ghost’s body and ate it. He realized and said, "You’re eating their Inner Cores without telling your master?"

You Huang ignored Shen Wang and said, "Do you want to eat? If you do, I’ll give it to you."

"Go ahead, recovering early will be more useful."

Shen Wang was just teasing, not opposing You Huang finding things to restore itself.

He followed along deeper, where many evil spirits gathered, including ghostly creatures and zombies, highly aggressive, and You Huang hadn’t stopped.

Unknowingly, they went deeper, and suddenly Shen Wang saw a light in the darkness. His eyes moved toward the source of the brightness.

In the darkness, there was a faint golden light, Shen Wang’s pupils contracted.

He discovered the golden light came from familiar runes, engraved on the underground rocks.

These rocks formed a platform, over ten feet in diameter, a vast area covered with tens of thousands of dim golden runes, forming an Array Pattern, eventually creating a circular design, like a sun.

Above the pattern, a withered large tree emerged from the ground, peculiarly growing upside down with roots on top, appearing black, extending upward.

Below, at the center of the golden rune array, there was a crack, inside was nothingness, but with purple-black energy swirling, the upside-down growing trunk extended into it, unclear from the view.

Around the runes, the space was visibly distorted, with Magical Treasures placed, numbering four, all broken, clearly forming a whole with the runes.

From a distance, it looked like a Sealing Array, Shen Wang showed a solemn expression, quickly closing the distance.

Once he saw clearly, he found the surface where the runes were engraved was jade stones, now filled with cobweb-like cracks.

This Array was obviously broken, and as he looked at the center crack, even though still far away, it gave him a constant sense of danger.

"Indeed a Demon-Banning Array, is this the Demon Cave?"

Shen Wang felt his scalp tingle.

For some reason, he just felt the spatial crack was highly dangerous.

You Huang also landed beside with a grave look, saying, "The source of my discomfort is here; turns out it truly is a Demon Cave."

You Huang showed a wary expression.

Shen Wang turned, "Do you know what’s going on?"

"Hmph, you’re from a Forbidden Demon Family, are you not aware of the situation?"

You Huang was dissatisfied.

"Our family is almost extinct, the legacy is practically severed; of course, I don’t know."

Shen Wang shook his head.

"I don’t know much either, only heard that tens of thousands of years ago, true demons appeared in this world causing chaos. Fortunately, a Great Power from the Upper Realm descended to save it, sealing the Demon Cave, and then the remaining families were called Forbidden Demon Families. Later, as the Demon Cave calmed, these Forbidden Demon Families gradually faded from mention."

You Huang glanced at Shen Wang: "You should be a descendant of a Forbidden Demon Family. The power inside this Demon Cave should be Demonic Qi, and it seems to be strengthening."

"It’s getting stronger." Shen Wang nodded, a few years ago it wasn’t this severe, at least not outside.

"That’s trouble; it’s possible this Demon Cave might have another demon emergence."

You Huang’s gaze focused, "You’d better repair this array or contact the Great Power from the Upper Realm."

"Do you think I can do either?"

Shen Wang rolled his eyes: "This array is a Spirit Array, its materials are rare, plus this strange tree is not simple, especially the four broken items outside, each is a Spiritual Artifact, and there are four of them."

You Huang glanced, nodding: "Indeed, it’s not something you can restore, let others worry about it."

"Of course, my Shen Family has been guarding this for generations, and there’s no sight of those Noble Families and Major Sects taking charge. If a demon emerges, let them handle the trouble!"

Shen Wang sneered, knowing how much the family sacrificed because of this place.

Because of this Demon Cave, strange occurrences frequently happened.

Previously, he didn’t understand why there were strange events, but now seeing the Demon Cave, with such a thing present, it’s no wonder strange things didn’t happen.

Once, the Shen Family suffered significant casualties due to this, forced to relocate, and he guessed the previous Shen Family also declined due to guarding here.

It’s definitely not just because of some Longevity Bloodline.

The main reason for the Shen Family’s decline over the years was primarily to seal this place.

Thinking of the bones on the Grave Mountain outside, Shen Wang suddenly understood.

The Shen Family’s deceased were buried here because of the Longevity Bloodline.

This withered tree root must also be part of the array, able to absorb the flesh essence of deceased Shen Family members to sustain life, thus cooperating with the array to seal this place.

As he stared at the purple-black energy in the crack, he thought, this strange tree likely digests the leaked Demonic Qi!

After realizing everything, Shen Wang suddenly felt a bit outraged.

Why do the ancestors, even in death, still provide power for this array?

Why is it that others in this world don’t do such things?

You Huang chuckled: "Right, when something happens, it’ll be other people’s problem."

Shen Wang snorted, walked over, and cast a Mana: "Sealing be damned, if there are demons, let them come and remind some what my Shen Family once did."

He directly broke the almost-collapsing array, collected all the broken Spiritual Artifacts around, and took the jade stones on the ground as well.

Crack.

The upside-down growing ancient tree lost its support and broke apart, cracking open immediately, and the roots spreading upwards began to split and fall.