CHAPTER 569: CHAPTER 295: ARRIVING AT THE WHITE-HAIRED’S UNDERGROUND MAZE—YILI VILLAGE!_3

"See that lake?"

The white-haired one pointed at the small lake. After seeing two adventurers strolling by the lake, they pulled Shami into the shadows to hide.

The two silently watched the adventurers. As the adventurers slowly moved from the light into the darkness, ripples stirred on the calm lake surface. Two gigantic tentacles swiftly emerged from the water, wrapped around the adventurers’ waists, and directly dragged them into the water.

The lake surface quickly returned to tranquility.

The white-haired one and Shami slowly approached the lake. The white-haired one signaled Shami to submerge her head in the water to see what was happening inside.

The Demon King didn’t need to waste resources to gather information like this.

Shami slowly crouched down, extending her hand into the lake, spreading out magic power, and quickly sensed the giant creature at the lake’s bottom.

A massive octopus, standing five meters tall, resided at the lake’s bottom. Its seven legs, each four to five meters long and as thick as large thighs, sprawled like a spider in the lake’s center, asserting its dominance. The two adventurers were nowhere to be seen.

"This is the fishman I borrowed from the Fishman Race."

"That doesn’t look like a fishman at all, does it?"

Shami quickly withdrew her magic power.

"I heard from Aowu that it’s a friend it made in the Northern Sea. Its father is said to be the Northern Sea Giant Kraken, often pulling ships from the Northern Sea down to the ocean floor. It came to the Demon Clan to train, hoping to surpass its father’s reputation."

"It even has a passionate backstory! Shouldn’t such characters belong to the righteous forces?"

"Yes. When it first went to the Fishman Race, it was defiant and tried to ambush me, probably thinking it could present the head of a Demon Envoy to the Heroic Squad as an act of loyalty. However, after I severed one of its tentacles, it became much more docile. Later, it pledged itself to me as its master without my consent. Since I figured its ambush skills could be useful for the Underground City’s development, I brought it to Yili Village."

The white-haired one nodded, casually altering the fate of the octopus.

"Indeed, this is the [Checkpoint: Terrifying Lake]! The terrifying giant octopus living within the village, silently dragging passing adventurers into the lake water under the cover of night! Regardless of the profession of the adventurer pulled into the water, a complete adventurer team can lose members imperceptibly, thereby affecting the entire team’s combat effectiveness."

"As for those adventurers dragged into the water, they obviously can’t be killed, or the lake would accumulate corpses and make the village stench. After the octopus loots all their possessions, it binds them tightly and hands them over to the Minotaurs, who take them to a chapel to undergo spiritual cleansing."

Hearing the white-haired one’s words, Shami carefully examined the true appearance of the building next to them.

The chapel, familiar to the villages, had somehow turned into the "Bull Chapel - White-haired Branch," with the statue above the entrance quietly replaced by one resembling the white-haired one. The entire chapel exuded the style of the Pure Love Sect.

"Though I’m not sure why, the seven or eight adventurers previously sent inside all exhibited mental instability after the cleansing; I had to exile them elsewhere."

"It’s completely understandable, isn’t it? With a group of Minotaur priests chanting ’Pure Love’ left and right, the adventurers couldn’t possibly embrace that. And since it’s the Pure Love Sect - Lina Branch, Lina must have added some teachings in the scripture that are hard for others to comprehend."

The white-haired one tensed up, clearing their throat.

"Alright, Shami, let me show you around other places. Although the village seems calm now, every corner is filled with danger for adventurers."