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Chapter 987 - 1007: The Mantis Stalks the Cicada, Unaware of the Yellow Bird Behind_1

Chapter 987: Chapter 1007: The Mantis Stalks the Cicada, Unaware of the Yellow Bird Behind_1

Lin Chen’s face turned dark, it was really bad luck!

Listening to the conversation between the Red Dragon King and Nalan Wushuang, Lin Chen had already made up his mind to run away after they went down. However, he didn’t expect to be called upon.

The gazes of the Red Dragon King and others fell upon his group, and Xuan Ji’s hand seemed to be missing. It was too risky to escape at this moment.

The Xuanyin Ghost Soldiers were like the Undead Guards in the Valley of Death, but the fact that they made even the Red Dragon King cautious spoke volumes about their power.

Fortunately, Lin Chen had picked up on a critical point: the Profound Ice Ghost Soldiers would attack any living targets, but if they were dead objects, the enemy would not attack.

Wasn’t this the same pattern as the Undead Guards?

Perhaps the Death Mark within the Life and Death Seal could deal with them?

If all else fails, he still had the Cicada Wing Robe. In this pitch-dark underground cavern, he could easily hide anywhere, and neither the Red Dragon King nor the Xuanyin Ghost Soldiers would likely be able to find him.

With that in mind, he decided to go down.

Honestly, Lin Chen was also extremely curious about the things in this cave.

The Demon Ancestor?

What was that?

The Ancestor of the Demon Race?

The fact that the Red Dragon King, the Demon Saintess, and their group went to great lengths to search for it meant that the matter was of great importance.

Lin Chen blended into the crowd, hanging his head as he waited for the overseer to unlock his shackles. Then he obediently lined up in front of the pitch-black cave entrance.

Nalan Wushuang stood to the side, quietly watching. When her gaze fell upon Lin Chen, her eyes slightly widened.

This silhouette looked familiar!

It looked like someone she knew?

"Wait a minute... "

Lin Chen sensed that Nalan Wushuang’s gaze was upon his body. Upon hearing her first word, his heart suddenly tightened.

Had she recognized him?

Lin Chen quickly jumped into the pitch-black hole and swiftly disappeared into the darkness.

After Nalan Wushuang called out those three words, Lin Chen had already jumped down. The people behind her turned around in surprise, and the Red Dragon King and the others looked at her with questioning gazes.

At this point, Nalan Wushuang’s memory had filtered down to her target: Lin Chen, the possessor of the Emperor’s Seal and the son of the new Demon Emperor.

The person’s silhouette certainly resembled Lin Chen’s, but it should be only similar, right?

With Lin Chen’s identity, how could he possibly appear here as a mining slave?

Nalan Wushuang came to her senses and gave an apologetic smile: "I was reminded of something, but it’s nothing. Let’s continue."

All the cultivators entered the darkness, and the Red Dragon King laughed, "Let’s go and follow them."

"Alright!"

The group of people floated down, following the cultivators at a leisurely pace.

Lin Chen landed on the ground in the pit, sinking down a hundred meters. He immediately applied a Death Mark on himself and hid behind a stone, covering himself with the Cicada Wing Robe.

Whether Nalan Wushuang had recognized him or not, Lin Chen had to get away from the group first. Otherwise, with them watching from behind, wouldn’t he be nothing more than cannon fodder up front?

He didn’t want to be the cicada caught by the mantis or the mantis itself; he wanted to be the oriole following behind.

The cultivators cautiously groped their way forward through the cave, with the Red Dragon King and others descending from above and following behind closely.

No one noticed that their group of cultivators was missing one person. Even Nalan Wushuang swept her eyes over the people in front of her, searching for that familiar figure, but she didn’t dwell on it when she couldn’t find him.

In the darkness, many cultivators hid, so it was not uncommon for them to be unseen, right?

The two groups followed the passage one after another. Lin Chen lifted the Cicada Wing Robe and carefully trailed behind the Red Dragon King and his group from a distance.

The cultivators followed the passage for several kilometers before the scene suddenly changed around a bend. There appeared several eerie figures that seemed to be ghosts, their shapes fluctuating.

Xuanyin Ghost Soldiers!

From a distance, they looked no different from humans, but upon closer inspection, their bodies were composed entirely of condensed Xuanyin Qi, giving them an eerie, sinister appearance as if they were evil ghosts that had crawled out of Hell.

Upon discovering the approaching cultivators, they immediately rushed toward them without a word.

The cultivators had been prepared and immediately turned to run as soon as they saw them.

The Xuanyin Ghost Soldiers descended like the Death God, reaping lives.

The cultivators in the front had only managed to run a few steps before their bodies suddenly exploded, turning into blood fog that was instantly absorbed by the Xuanyin Ghost Soldiers.

The Red Dragon King immediately took out the Death Pearl, a bizarre eyeball emitting an eerie aura, like a dead fish’s eye.

Grayish fog radiated from the Death Pearl, instantly enveloping the surrounding people.

The Xuanyin Ghost Soldiers passed by them without a glance, directly pursuing the fleeing cultivators.

"Now’s our chance!"

The Red Dragon King whispered, and the group floated up, wrapped in the fog from the Death Pearl, quickly rushing into the cave.