Celestial being

Yuan Ming had no time to think too much at this time and could only swim hard, trying to reach the next place where he could breathe before Chen Wan ran out of breath.

Chen Wan also waved her arms to paddle to help her move forward quickly.

She took the risk to participate in the trial this time just to be able to take a step closer to becoming an inner disciple, and she didn't want to die here.

Time passed bit by bit, and the little breath she had left in her chest and lungs was about to bottom out. The feeling of oppression in her chest at the beginning turned into a pain that felt like it was about to explode.

She was reaching her limit and she couldn't hold on any longer.

Just when Chen Wan's body began to twitch uncontrollably, she discovered that Yuan Ming was taking her up quickly, and suddenly rushed out of the water.

"call……"

The moment Chen Wan surfaced, she exhaled all the turbid air in her chest. Then she felt a needle-like pain in her lungs, which made her let out a soft cry.

But then she took a quick, greedy breath of fresh air.

After she finally recovered a little, she looked around, only to see that she was still in the cave, with a dark dome not far above her head.

"How far is it from the cavity you mentioned?" Chen Wan took a deep breath and asked.

Yuan Ming looked solemnly and replied: "We have arrived."

"Already arrived?" Upon hearing this, Chen Wan was struck by lightning.

"The water in the underground river has risen so fiercely that this side will be completely submerged." Yuan Ming sighed and said.

In the darkness, his eyes fell on Chen Wan. The latter's clothes clung to her exquisite body, and her hair wetted by the river water stuck to her snow-white cheeks. She looked a little embarrassed, but it did not damage her beauty, but made her look a little embarrassed. People feel pity.

But at this moment, Yuan Ming couldn't care less about pity. What he was thinking about was that it was a matter of his own life and death. Should he just abandon her?

After all, if it was just him, he would be able to swim faster, retain his breath longer, and perhaps be able to hold on until he found the exit of the underground river.

At this moment, Chen Wan suddenly raised her palm high, and a ball of fire suddenly lit up in her palm, then flew out and rushed towards the dome of the cave.

Yuan Ming was just about to ask questions, but suddenly he saw the fireball rising higher and higher, all the way into the dome.

The next moment, his eyes flashed, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"There is a vertical hole in the dome." Chen Wan shouted, her tone full of surprise.

At this time, the fireball that had soared seven or eight feet away seemed to have hit something. It burned violently for a while and then extinguished.

"Isn't it a dead end?" When Yuan Ming and the two saw this, their hearts sank.

"I'll go up and take a look." Yuan Ming said.

After saying that, his two toad legs suddenly clamped hard, and a stream of water squeezed out from between his legs. The rising force suddenly pushed his body up, rushed out of the water, and hit the dome above.

When he rushed into the vertical hole, Yuan Ming held his hands to the left and right and got firmly stuck on the wall of the cave.

Then, he climbed up using his hands and feet, and soon reached the end of the vertical hole, where the residual warmth of the fireball technique still remained.

"How is it?" Chen Wan asked anxiously from below.

There was silence in the darkness for a long time before Yuan Ming's voice came out: "There is a diagonal hole leading to it, I don't know where it leads to?"

"Pull me up first, the water level is rising quickly, and the water force is getting stronger." Chen Wan said eagerly.

The water level had risen too much at this time, and she was only three feet away from the dome.

After waiting for a moment, a hand came out of the vertical hole above and pulled her into the hole.

Yuan Ming crawled carefully in front, and when he reached the end, he turned into the inclined cave and continued to move forward. Chen Wan followed him silently, feeling filled with emotions.

She never expected that she would experience this with a furry beast slave whom she had only just met.

I don’t know how long I had been crawling in the dark and cramped cave, but Yuan Ming in front suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" Chen Wan's heart tightened and she asked quickly.

She was afraid of getting an answer that would be a dead end.

"There seems to be a sound in front." Yuan Ming lowered his voice and said.

"There was a sound... isn't it about to go out?" Chen Wan was immediately happy, but soon found that Yuan Ming in front of him was a little tense, and he immediately realized that something was wrong.

Didn't we encounter some danger again?

"What...what's wrong?" Chen Wan couldn't help lowering her voice.

"The sound doesn't sound like it was made by a human being. Something is not right. I'll go to the front to have a look first. Don't follow me in a hurry." Yuan Ming said, took off the toad skin, put it away, and put it on again. Got the white ape skin.

He did not use the fur-covering technique, kept his body low, and continued to crawl forward.

After a while, a glimmer of light finally appeared in the darkness ahead, and the entrance to the cave arrived.

Yuan Ming climbed to the entrance of the cave and was in no hurry to get out.

After checking carefully, he found that the exit was on the wall of another underground cave. There was an inverted stalactite in front of it, covering the entrance of the cave, making his position very hidden.

Yuan Ming quietly stuck his head out, walked around the stalactite and stalagmite hanging upside down, and looked a little further away.

At this sight, his eyes widened instantly.

In one corner of the cave, a bit of skylight was projected from the loophole above, illuminating a fairly bright area inside.

In that area, there was a large group of monsters covered with long white hair, with skinny arms and black claws, that looked like humans but not humans.

"Mandrill!" These two words popped into Yuan Ming's mind almost instantly.

He silently counted them and found that there were seventeen in number.

However, what puzzled him was that these mandrills were all gathered together at this moment, standing with their hands hanging down, their bodies swaying slightly, like a group of drunken men, looking very strange.

He knew very little about this thing, so he didn't dare to act rashly, so he could only retreat and call Chen Wan over again.

The two of them were huddled at the entrance of the cave, looking out.

When seeing this scene, Chen Wan's face clearly flashed with shock, followed by confusion.

"Impossible, this is impossible..." she murmured softly.

"What's impossible?" Yuan Ming asked immediately.

"Judging from their appearance, these guys are definitely mandrills, but... mandrills have no intelligence and no sense of pain. They only know how to kill and devour monsters, even when dealing with their own kind. They are simply impossible. They gathered together so peacefully." Chen Wan couldn't figure it out.

"They are all gathered here, how can we get out?" Yuan Ming was worried about this.

At this moment, Chen Wan's expression changed again, as if she had thought of something terrible, and she couldn't help but open her mouth slightly.

"What's wrong?" Yuan Ming frowned.

"There is only one reason why mandrills can gather together and not fight each other..." Chen Wan said with a trembling voice.

When Yuan Ming heard this, his eyes narrowed and he guessed an answer: "What controlled them?"

"It's the king. The king was born from the crowd of mandrills. Only the mandrill king can control these monsters." Chen Wan said.

"The Mandrill King..." Yuan Ming muttered.

"Oh no, no, no, I have to report back to the sect immediately." Chen Wan said with an anxious look on her face.

With that said, she was about to rush out of the cave.

Yuan Ming quickly stopped her and scolded her in a low voice: "I won't stop you if you want to die, but don't get me involved. Are you rushing out like this to feed those monsters?"

"You don't understand. If a king is born from a mandrill, then there will be a problem with this trial. Maybe many people will die." Chen Wan said with a pale face as she struggled.

"Tell me clearly, what's going on?" Yuan Ming grabbed her shoulders and scolded.

The registered disciple of Biluo Cave in front of him obviously rarely faced danger directly. The chaotic and panicked behavior at this moment undoubtedly showed her lack of experience, and Yuan Ming couldn't help but feel contempt in his heart.

"This trial is an entrance examination for our registered disciples. The content is to investigate and kill mandrills. Disciples who perform well may be selected by the elders of each hall to be accepted as inner disciples." Chen Wan was accepted by Yuan Ming. With such a grasp, he calmed down and explained.

"You said that if there is a mandrill king, there will be problems. What's going on?" Yuan Ming asked.

"The King of Mandrills has soul beads born in his body, so he can control the mandrills to move together. His strength is far beyond that of ordinary mandrills. All the registered disciples who participated in the trial are at most six or seven levels of Qi refining, and most of them act separately. , once you encounter the Mandrill King and a large number of Mandrills, you will be dead." Chen Wan spoke urgently, with a trace of uncontrollable trembling.

When Yuan Ming heard this, he also frowned.

No wonder Chen Wan was so panicked. Maybe this trial of their registered disciples would cause massive casualties due to the appearance of the Mandrill King.

"If a single mandrill appears sporadically, the sect will not care at all. As long as it does not engage in out-of-range activities, it will not deal with it. If multiple mandrills appear in out-of-range activities, the sect will intervene in a timely manner and organize something like this Trial. But if the Mandrill King appears, the hazard level will double, which is already beyond the risk of the trial. If we don't let everyone know in time, the consequences will be disastrous. The best way to deal with it is to let the elders of the sect handle it." Chen Wanyu Su quickly continued.

Yuan Ming was about to speak when he suddenly heard a "hula" sound.

He quickly stretched out his hand and pressed softly to silence Chen Wan, then quietly looked towards the mandrill, and saw a tall white-haired mandrill jumping down from where the skylight leaked from above the cave.

It can be seen that its body shape and appearance are not much different from other human mandrills, but the hair on its face is sparser and shorter, and the outline of its facial features can be vaguely seen, and it is actually 70% similar to ordinary human beings.

The difference is that there is a white bone protrusion on each of his two forehead corners, less than half an inch, and it looks like two raised sharp horns.

Although his appearance is ugly, his body is tall and straight, and he has an indescribable air of a heroic and domineering person.

And in his hand, he was actually carrying a young man wearing a red short robe.

There was a flame pattern embroidered on the chest of the man's clothing, which seemed to come from the same Huolian Hall as Chen Wan.