The winding cave was silent, and they had been walking for a while without reaching the bottom yet. Maybe there was no bottom at all.

Fortunately, the cave grew larger as they descended, and it was no longer as oppressive as it was when they first entered.

"Wait, stop." Li Huowang spoke up and knelt down to examine the footprints on the ground with a furrowed brow.

"These footprints belong to an adult, not a child. It seems that someone besides Sun Baolu has been here before."

"It's nothing, let's keep going." Li Huowang stood up and continued to descend into the cave. In fact, he was more afraid of encountering people than evil spirits.

If someone could freely enter and exit the cave full of evil spirits, it meant that their strength was definitely not weak.

The cave began to turn, but Sun Baolu stopped at the bend and said nervously, "One of my playmates disappeared after we turned this corner."

Sun Baolu's fear infected everyone's hearts, and everyone was on high alert.

Li Huowang put his hand on Sun Baolu's shoulder and pulled him back before walking ahead with his sword at the ready. But he didn't encounter any attacks.

"Are you sure this is the place? There's nothing here except for two dead sheep."

"Dead sheep?" Sun Baolu and the others cautiously approached Li Huowang and looked inside with their torches raised.

There were only two dead sheep in the darkness ahead, with shriveled faces and dusty but intact bodies. They must have been trapped and died in the cave.

With a snap, Li Huowang's sword tore the two dry sheep carcasses in half, and their black, coal-like entrails spilled out.

Li Huowang didn't leave the corpses behind, as it was too dangerous. He didn't want to be attacked if they suddenly got up.

Although it was overly cautious, Li Huowang felt that he couldn't be too careful in this environment.

After completely destroying the two sheep, Li Huowang sheathed his sword and continued to walk deeper into the cave. The cave grew deeper and more spacious, but Li Huowang couldn't see anything in the pitch-black distance.

The darkness here was even darker than elsewhere, and their fluorescent lights could only illuminate the nearby area. Even with Li Huowang's vision, they could only see a little further ahead.Not long after they left, there were more sheep corpses on the ground. This time, Li Huowang couldn't chop them up because there were too many of them, densely packed like sardines.

"Maybe one or two got lost, but there are too many for it to be a coincidence. Someone must have driven them here to their deaths. Who did this?" Li Huowang pondered as he looked at the sheep.

Moreover, the sheep corpses were intact, without any bite or chew marks. From this, it could be inferred that the Black Tai Sui was not nearby, or else it would not have let go of such a feast.

Li Huowang pondered for a while and took out the skin of the Black Tai Sui from his pocket, placing it in front of Mantou once again.

"Mantou, sniff around and see if you can find this scent nearby."

"Moo~" Mantou licked the skin and hesitantly walked forward.

As Li Huowang waved his hand, the others quickly followed. "Stay close, don't get separated in this place."

"There's a short path ahead, and in the time it takes to burn half an incense stick, we'll reach the place where I encountered the brushes last time. That's where I ended up." Sun Baolu continued to remind them nervously.

The dead sheep on the ground still hadn't disappeared, spreading densely inside.

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Finally, after walking for two cups of tea, it was no longer sheep in front of them. A new thing appeared, a huge bronze cauldron, which looked as tall as a building.

The bronze cauldron was covered in green rust and dust, indicating that it had been around for a long time. "I didn't see this thing when I came here before." Sun Baolu's words made Li Huowang frown.

He looked at the cauldron, then turned his head to look at the densely packed dead sheep behind him, feeling that they were somehow connected. As far as he knew, cauldrons like this were an important ceremonial object used for worshipping deities.

Li Huowang slowly circled around the huge cauldron and when he saw the white jade plates and the remains of the three animals behind it, he confirmed his judgment. Someone was really worshipping here.

"But isn't this supposed to be the territory of evil spirits? How can there be such a solemn ceremony? Could it be that the evil spirits themselves are doing this? If that's the case, what are they worshipping?" Li Huowang cautiously approached the cauldron and looked inside. Besides some ashes, there was nothing else.

"Ah!" A woman's scream made Li Huowang's scalp tingle. He quickly turned his head and saw Bai Lingmiao, who was in a panic, hugging Twin Soul, who was covered with a red cloth.

"What's wrong? What did you see?" Li Huowang rushed over and asked anxiously.

"Sheep! Sheep!" Bai Lingmiao trembled as she pointed to the darkness on the left, holding Twin Soul tighter.As Li Huowang cautiously walked towards the other side, the fluorescent stone in his hand illuminated some things in the darkness. Some sheep corpses.

But the sheep corpses here were completely different from the ones before. The mummies here were all half-human and half-sheep deformities!

An old man fell at Li Huowang's feet, and spiral-shaped sheep horns protruded from his cheeks. In his dying moments, he desperately tried to touch his face with his two hooves, but in the end, he died in his last struggle.

Beside him was another sheep corpse, or perhaps a human corpse. The upper body was a skinned lamb, but the lower body was a twisted deformity, with bent hooves and twisted knee bones stretching forward and backward like tree branches.

And this was just the beginning. As the fluorescence shone on, more disgusting and terrifying bodies were everywhere. Such a bizarre scene was no wonder why Bai Lingmiao was so scared before.

As the light illuminated these half-human and half-sheep creatures, Li Huowang subconsciously thought of the previous sheep corpses.

"No! Those are not sheep corpses, those are all human! They were transformed into sheep by someone else, and they were all sacrifices!"

Li Huowang quickly rushed to the cauldron, staring at the rows of sheep corpses in shock.

When he realized that these sheep were all human, the nature of the situation completely changed. Someone had killed thousands of people here, just to offer sacrifices to something!