A Top Scholar in Everything

Two miners have been working here for several years and are familiar with the structures below.

There are traces left by tracking powder.

Lorna wants to find Meng Siyu and the others, which is not a difficult thing; she just needs to follow the trail of tracking powder downward.

The four advanced along the deep mine path.

The area illuminated by the miner's lamp was not very wide, so the advance was very slow, and as a senior sophomore, Lorna wouldn't make the mistake of recklessness.

"This is where we found the bodies of those miners."

After not walking for long.

The two miners pointed to a protruding rocky ground, faces filled with fear.

Dried bloodstains flowed over a large area.

The two miners were actually trembling with fear long ago, if it weren't for Lorna and Baiyu behind them, they would have probably turned and fled by now.

"With this amount of blood loss, it should all be a fatal hit."

Lorna glanced at the traces on the ground and roughly deduced the scene at the time, nodding expressionlessly: "Keep going, Meng Siyu and the others have moved into a deeper area."

The two miners shared a glance and had no choice but to steel themselves to continue.

The deeper they went.

The darker and quieter it became.

Who knows how long passed.

Suddenly, Baiyu caught the foul smell he had detected last night.

It's the unique scent of that monster!

Once someone has smelled that scent, they would certainly never forget it.

Nearby, Lorna also became alert, gripping her dual knives tightly.

"Do we continue? The areas ahead are undeveloped, and we're not familiar with the terrain below," the two miners gloomily commented.

"Go."

Lorna's tone was icy.

The path afterwards was not consistently flat, with many forks and side paths, all unmapped and unexplored regions in the mine tunnel.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, a foul wind surged from the darkness.

The two miners were so frightened their legs went weak, and they fell to the ground as if boneless, frantically crawling back using hands and feet.

The stones on the ground made a rustling noise as they were shoveled away.

In the dark.

Under the spotlight of the miner's lamp.

An ugly creature with a head covered in rotten flesh rushed out of the darkness, its forelimbs as thick as the trunk of a tree striking down in an instant.

The miners' pupils widened as their faces turned ghostly pale in a flash.

Baiyu reacted quickly, kicking the two aside.

But at the front.

Lorna's dual knives clanged as they blocked the monster's forelimbs, her gaze bursting with sharp intensity: "I didn't expect it'd be a demon, and a Tier Nine peak as well!"

Demon.

This wasn't Baiyu's first time hearing this term.

But now was not a good moment to ask.

Lorna's throat emitted a sound resembling a long call, as moonlight suddenly sparkled on her dual knives, with a crescent-shaped beam flashing behind her.

True Martial Intent!

Baiyu was certain that Lorna was now demonstrating not the Martial Intent of a Tier Eight or Tier Nine Martial Artist, but the True Martial Intent only belonging to a Tier Seven Martial Artist.

This is the Martial Intent condensed by Martial Artist Core Technique.

It embodies the Martial Artist Core Martial Dao.

And its power... wasn't like Martial Intent, which needs specific moves to be executed. True Martial Intent can be applied to any move of a martial artist, greatly enhancing its power.

White moonlight scattered down like a waterfall of silver Celestial River.

The dual knives in Lorna's hand transformed into two crescent moons at this moment, blade Qi erupting, landing on the monster's head and exploding instantly.

Crack!

A large chunk of flesh fell off.

An angled "cross" wound appeared on the ugly monster's head, black blood spurted out, as the huge body fell to the ground like a hill.

The stench spread anew.

After twitching for a moment, the body lying on the ground completely lost motion.

The huge corpse actually began to dissolve, turning into waves of black liquid seeping into the ground.

Lorna stepped back two steps, slicing her left hand.

A streak of blade light pierced through the bodies of two miners.

Baiyu raised an eyebrow.

"These two have been infected by demon blood, leaving them would only mean they become mutated bodies."

Lorna withdrew her knives, eyes serious.

The corpses gradually dissolved.

On Baiyu's shoulder, a butterfly kept fluttering its wings as blood worms flew around, probing information from the mine tunnels.

A hundred blood worms flew out.

The entire mine tunnel resembled a complex labyrinth.

Lorna quietly stood aside, not interrupting.

She hadn't cultivated Spirit Technique related to exploration, but to continue on down here would require investigation abilities.

After a moment.

Baiyu opened his eyes, speaking coldly: "The kind of Tier Nine demon you dealt with, in this mine, there are at least dozens more."

Lorna's face slightly changed in color.

This wasn't merely a mine pit, it was clearly a demon den.

But.

How could Zenith City suddenly have so many demons appearing, this below...

Boom.

Just when the two hesitated, a violent shake came from beneath the ground.

Baiyu and Lorna hardly had time to react before the ground underfoot suddenly gave way.

...…

Rubbing dust off his face, standing up.

Baiyu glanced around.

This was a miniature palace built from marble, with the walls full of some kind of fluorescent plants that provided light to the darkened hall.

Above was a large opening.

It was precisely where the two had fallen from.

Lorna shook her head a bit and got up from the ground, her eyes scanning the surroundings.

Ruins!

At this moment, both had the same thought in their minds.

Where there are Martial Artists and Extraordinary.

There naturally are relics left by those predecessors, though such relics are more common within the Spirit Realm.

"Overhead, the vertical distance is at least twenty meters, and..."

Baiyu raised his head.

At the hole where they fell from, it was crowded with the same kind of monsters slain by Lorna; even climbing up would mean instant encirclement.

Under such circumstance.

Even Lorna couldn't guarantee her complete retreat.

"Returning the same way is unrealistic, plus encountering such ruins, I cannot resign to just retreating like this. It seems the appearance of these demons is very likely linked to here."

Lorna gripped her dual knives tighter.

After discussing for a while, the two had no choice but to move toward the frontmost marble palace.

The massive black door was seven or eight meters high, adorned with strange characters and symbols, Baiyu inwardly asked Cang Yan, but even Hamster didn't know what these were.

Pushing open the stone door.

A strong smell of blood rushed forth.

The thick scent made them feel as if standing amidst a sea of blood.