"Roar!" At that time, the distant roar of Qin Shang resounded.

Instantly, Ye Yuqiao's eyes shone with sharpness. Having smelled Qin Shang's scent, she swiftly shifted her gaze eastward, only to see Qin Shang's beast-like figure gradually becoming visible and expanding amidst the abruptly changing night sky.

"It's Qin Shang!" Chen Hao also spotted Qin Shang at that moment.

Ye Yuqiao furrowed her brows and grunted, saying, "Tai Shan said Qin Shang wants to take something from this underground temple."

Chen Hao nodded, then turned his head to carefully observe the expression on Ye Yuqiao's face, wanting to know if Ye Yuqiao was very worried about Qin Shang. Now, most of the buildings in the ancient city below had been crushed by the falling land, and were being submerged and corroded bit by bit by the blood of wolves pouring down along with the vortex.

"Bastard!" Ye Yuqiao suddenly erupted in fury, then couldn't help but lift her hand and harshly slap Chen Hao's shoulder twice, right in front of Xie Xiaofeng, Ye Fei, and Tang Jing.

"Doubting me again, you're really petty!"

Chen Hao smirked and shrugged his shoulders, then lifted his right hand to pinch Ye Yuqiao's cheek and said, "That's right, I'm petty. I just don't want to see you worry about him!"

Ye Yuqiao stuck her tongue out at Chen Hao, then leaned her head on his shoulder. She didn't speak out loud, but whispered in her heart to Chen Hao, "Dummy, I just like listening to his music, at most I'm only half a soulmate to him. What I'm really worried about is you, you annoying kid, you're too petty and not cheerful at heart. Your queen only likes you, now you can be at ease, right?"

Chen Hao smiled and nodded his head.

"Are they okay?" Ye Fei softly asked Xie Xiaofeng, having seen Ye Yuqiao "strike" Chen Hao, he was a bit worried that a conflict had arisen between them. Now seeing the two of them intimate again, the huge contrast made him feel a bit confused.

Xie Xiaofeng laughed dismissively and said, "Ignore them, those two are always like that, always liking to show off their affection in disguised ways."

"Exactly!" Tang Jing nodded in agreement.

By then, Qin Shang had already reached the center of the whirlpool above the Wolf Blood Lake. After letting out a roar, he bravely jumped into the vortex.

"That zombie jumped in by himself!" Tang Jing exclaimed in shock, "I thought it was coming for us!"

After Qin Shang went in, Chen Hao once more activated the Nether Vision Technique in his left eye, his gaze following Qin Shang. In just a few short seconds, Qin Shang arrived at the ancient city located more than three hundred meters underground. At that moment, the ancient city had become a sea of wolf blood, with only a few golden temples in the center and several taller pillars still remaining. The rest of the mud houses, city walls, and the fall of the earth had all been corroded away.

Qin Shang first landed on top of a stone pillar about twenty-odd meters high. Having been drenched in wolf blood during the descent and corroded, white smoke was continuously fuming from his body.

"Roar!" Qin Shang roared angrily, boiling his own blood, and the wounds that had been corroded by the wolf blood began to heal. However, soon, the soles of his feet were drenched in wolf blood again, and they began to smoke and corrode.

Ignoring the wounds on his feet, Qin Shang scanned his surroundings as if searching for something.

Seconds later, a smile suddenly appeared on his face that was like that of a beast-man. He then leaped towards a temple on his right-hand side.

Unlike the surrounding temples, the temple in front of Qin Shang was the tallest and the only one with an intact top.

After bellowing to the heavens, Qin Shang used all his strength to smash open the temple's doors and then squeezed through the crack to get inside.

Compared to the top, the bottom of the temple had nearly been eaten away by wolf blood, on the brink of collapse. In front of the northern wall of the temple, Chen Hao discovered six golden statues, each around a dozen meters high.

"These must be the gods worshipped within the temple!" Ye Yuqiao suddenly sent a silent message to Chen Hao.

"Hmm," Chen Hao replied, "I wonder if there are any legends or records about these gods in the world!"

After entering the temple, Qin Shang dashed towards one of the golden statues. Judging by the figure's facial features and body contour, it was likely a female.

"Girlfriend, have you noticed?" Chen Hao suddenly exclaimed, "The statue's right hand is holding a qin, and it's a wooden ancient qin at that, not made of gold!"

Ye Yuqiao nodded faintly, wondering if Qin Shang had come for this ancient qin.

As expected!

At that moment, Qin Shang jumped to the right side of the statue, then grabbed the statue's wrist with his right hand while his left reached to take the ancient qin that was nestled between the statue's right hand and right breast.

Then, as the eastern wall's base was completely corroded by the wolf blood, the entire temple began to tilt eastward. The other three walls also began to corrode at their foundations in quick succession. The temple shook violently, and the six golden statues in front of the northern wall toppled due to the shaking, falling into the pool of wolf blood on the ground.

Qin Shang too, because he was holding onto the statue, sank into the wolf blood as it fell.

"Roar!" Qin Shang let out a painful howl. Suddenly, the skin on half of his body was corroded by the wolf blood.

He struggled to rise, howling in agony while desperately prying at the statue's right arm that held the ancient qin.

After a short struggle, at last, he twisted off the right arm of the statue and obtained the ancient qin. By then, the end of the qin that had been submerged in the wolf blood had been damaged by the corrosion, and two strings were also broken.

"Roar!" Qin Shang howled excitedly to the sky, then clutching the ancient qin, he fled the temple and returned to the top of the pillar he'd been on before. Due to the corrosion from the wolf blood, Qin Shang's lower legs were almost completely gone, while the left side of his body continued to emit white smoke and slowly disintegrate.

He sat atop the stone pillar, placing the ancient qin across his thighs, then closed his eyes and started to pluck the strings.

The moment the music sounded, Qin Shang's beastly face instantly softened of its ferocity, and his body slowly reverted back to a human's form, his face wearing an utterly enraptured expression.

Listening to the music, Ye Yuqiao's heart shook violently. She knew this was a piece Qin Shang often played in the past, a song filled with immense sorrow, invoking a bout of melancholy within her and stirring memories of bygone days.

"This qin must have been the one he used to play in the past," Chen Hao speculated, "This would mean he's even older than these temples. He's truly an enigma."

"Yes," Ye Yuqiao responded.

Just then, the music abruptly ceased! The pillar that Qin Shang was sitting on collapsed, and he fell into the wolf blood below.

"Blood Demon King!" Before being completely corroded by the den of wolves, Qin Shang let out one final earth-shattering cry.

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