CHAPTER 275: CAVE OF INIQUITY 1

Looking inside, Shen Xu and the others couldn’t help but be shocked.

At a glance, the inside of the palace was clean, warm, and extremely extravagant.

Most importantly, treasures could be seen on every surface.

"Xue’er, that fire..." Yang Shi muttered and Feng Xue nodded.

"The lamp fire is phoenix fire. How is this possible?" Feng Xue asked in an incredulous voice.

"It’s not just the fire." Shen Xu said and quickly continued.

"Look at that floor..., isn’t it made of divine golden nanmu?"

"The tables and chairs are also precious. If I am not wrong, they are made of spiritual warm jade."

"Lord Zhen, are these treasures real?" Yang Shi asked and everyone turned to Zhen Yuan.

"They..." Zhen Yuan started but suddenly stopped.

At the same time, he pointed inside and the others turned around, just in time to see the Si group disappear from the palace.

"What happened to them? Where did they go?" Li Wenqiang asked.

"They disappeared after touching one of the decorations." Zhen Yuan said with a solemn expression.

Hearing this, the others shuddered and their excitement waned.

"As expected, the treasures are not real. They are traps." Shen Xu said with a disgusted expression.

"What should we do? Are we still going inside?"

"We must." Zhen Yuan said.

Since they received the nine-colour lotus, they couldn’t ignore the debt.

No matter what, they had to enter the palace, uncover the truth about the island and solve the matter.

Otherwise, he, Shen Xu, and Yang Shi would be eternally burdened with a karmic debt.

Soon after, the five entered the palace.

As seen from the outside, the place was filled with treasures.

However, the five didn’t dare to touch anything.

Instead, they walked around, searching for hidden rooms and secret pathways.

Unfortunately, all they found were roomfuls of treasures and nothing else.

"We have been searching for three days but haven’t found anything. Ayuan, I am afraid we will have to rely on touching a treasure to get out of this place." Shen Xu said and Zhen Yuan nodded before speaking.

"Let’s stick together." He said.

A moment later, he touched a jade scroll and a black light enveloped their group.

Barely a breath after, the five disappeared and reappeared in a wide cavern.

"This..." Shen Xu shuddered.

If the palace was heaven, the cavern was hell!

From a casual glance, Shen Xu saw thousands of people in the cavern.

These people had red eyes, greying hair and their bodies were nothing but skin and bones.

Most importantly, some were fighting and killing each other, others were raping and having orgies, ...

"Is this a den of iniquity?" Shen Xu muttered, horrified by what he was seeing.

"What happened to them?" Li Wenqiang asked in a barely audible voice.

"I don’t know if it’s just me but I suddenly feel more agitated than before." Yang Shi stated, his eyes narrowed into slits.

"Me too." Feng Xue said.

"Xiaoxu, how many heart-calming and mind-clearing pills do we have?"

"About seven bottles of mind-clearing pills and twenty bottles of heart-calming pills."

Hearing this, Zhen Yuan nodded and removed a batch of talismans from his storage space.

"These are heart-calming talismans, mind-clearing talismans, and evil-expelling talismans. Paste one of each on yourselves." He instructed and the others immediately did as asked.

After activating the talismans, the five felt calmer and Shen Xu heaved a sigh of relief.

"We have only been here for a few moments but have already been affected by this place. It seems we can’t stay for too long." He said and the others wholeheartedly agreed.

They tempered their state of mind in the demon cave for more than one hundred years.

Considering that, their heart and mind should not have been easily affected by whatever was going on in the cave.

However, they were unknowingly affected and didn’t even realise it until they activated the talismans.

"Ayuan, do we have enough talismans?"

"I will draw more before we run out." Zhen Yuan answered.

At the same time, he waved his hand and his law scripting brush appeared on his palm.

Soon after, he swung the brush and knocked back three cultivators who were rushing towards them.

Unfortunately, a simple knock wasn’t enough.

After regaining their footing, the three cultivators rushed again, their eyes red and their teeth bared.

’They are like zombies.’ Shen Xu thought, his eyes narrowed into slits.

Before Zhen Yuan could act again, the double swung his hammer and smashed the three people.

However, the three only stayed down for a moment.

After recovering, they stood and continued to chase the five.

"Is something controlling their minds? Why are they so eager to die?" Li Wenqiang asked.

"Feng Xue, is there something about this in your inherited memory?" Shen Xu asked but Feng Xue shook her head.

"I have seen corpse puppets and other zombie-type monsters. However, I have never seen or heard of anything like this."

"From these people’s appearance, we can assume that something is not only messing with their minds but also stealing their vitality."

While running, the five looked around.

However, all they saw was iniquity but nothing to indicate why the cultivators had suddenly become morally corrupt.

"Wait..., look over there..., it’s the Si sisters." Li Wenqiang said, pointing to their right.

Turning to the right, several people hissed and Shen Xu exclaimed.

"Damn!" He shouted.

From what he could see, Si Xiaodie had a whip wrapped around a male cultivator’s neck.

At the moment, she was forcing the cultivator to kneel and lick her shoes while she looked down at him with contempt-filled eyes.

Beside them was Si Mingyue with two male cultivators – one in front and the other in the back.

From the looks of it, she seemed to be enjoying herself and didn’t care that she was performing such an act in a public place.

"I didn’t expect these girls to play so hard." Yang Shi muttered.

"Their eyes are only half-red and their vitality is strong." Feng Xue observed.

"They should still be conscious." Zhen Yuan said and subconsciously frowned.