At the beginning, there was a fake eunuch, holding a dragon whip and torturing the empress until she

Then, she said excitedly: "Since they are killing each other, does it mean that we only need to hunt them to take the fruit of the ghost tree?"

Lin Chen nodded and said: "That's about it, let's try to hunt them!"

He was confident that he could kill all these snakes, but he was too lazy to waste his energy. After all, he didn't have time to play with these snakes.

As soon as Lin Chen finished speaking, a giant python suddenly rushed out and rushed towards him. In its open mouth, its sharp fangs were ferocious and flashed with a cold light!

The strength of this giant python reached the early stage of Tongtian Realm, and its speed was as fast as thunder. In the blink of an eye, it arrived in front of Lin Chen.

Lin Chen raised his leg and kicked out, kicking the giant python at the seven-inch position.

"Ouch!"

The giant python let out a miserable howl, blood spurted out of its mouth, and smashed into a giant tree as thick as a bowl, directly knocking down the giant tree as thick as a bowl.

It shook its head, struggled for a few seconds, and died completely.

"Junior brother, you are too powerful! Are you in the early stage of Tongtian Realm? I think you are only in your 20s, but your fighting power is so terrifying!"

Ye Caidie was shocked and widened her eyes, looking at Lin Chen with admiration.

She thought she was a martial arts fanatic, but compared with Lin Chen, she didn't know how much worse she was.

She also understood why Lin Chen didn't tell her his strength, because he was afraid that she would be proud and conceited.

Lin Chen smiled and said, "Although the beasts here are not difficult, it takes a lot of effort to defeat them."

"I understand."

Ye Caidie nodded slightly. She was very smart and could understand what Lin Chen meant.

Then, she took out the sword blade and stabbed at another giant python. The giant python coiled up and blocked Ye Caidie's attack.

"Humph! Trivial tricks!"

Seeing this, Ye Caidie shouted coldly, stepped on the tree trunk with her right foot, and took off into the air with the help of the rebound force, and slashed down with the sword blade!

Puff!

The sword blade cut into the giant python, cutting it in half.

Ye Caidie took out a rope from the storage ring and put it around the giant python's neck, tied it up and threw it over.

She took out a few pills and stuffed them into the giant python's throat, then looked at Lin Chen and said, "Shall we go?"

"Yes." Lin Chen nodded, and walked forward with Ye Caidie.

"Hey, there seems to be a cave here."

After walking for a while, Ye Caidie suddenly cried out in surprise. Lin Chen looked in the direction of the sound, and sure enough, he saw a dark cave not far away, which looked a little weird.

"Let's go." Lin Chen said.

"Yes." Ye Caidie responded and followed Lin Chen, but she frowned as she looked at the dark cave, saying, "I always feel that there is danger here, so let's find the 'ghost fruit' first before going in."

She had a cautious look on her face, after all, this valley was too weird.

"Then you stay outside, I'll go in alone." Lin Chen said.

Ye Caidie looked anxious and said, "No, I'm worried if you go in alone."

After that, she pulled Lin Chen's clothes and said coquettishly, "Brother, I really don't like this dark and humid environment. Let's go in! If you don't want to take me with you, then let me protect you outside!"

Lin Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard her words, and said, "I'm not unwilling to take you with me. What I mean is that there are probably a lot of snake beasts in here. If you stay here and encounter any danger, you can't even run away. How can I be at ease?"

Ye Caidie blushed slightly when she heard this, and she let go of Lin Chen's right arm.

She stomped her feet in anger, thinking: This bastard underestimates girls too much. I am at least the peak of Tongtian Realm and the ninth level of Saint. How can I not be able to escape when I encounter a little danger!

However, she did not insist on going in with Lin Chen. After all, she also knew that with her own strength, if she encountered danger alone, she would become a burden to Lin Chen.

So, the two continued to go deeper inside.

At first, they were safe and sound, but the more they walked, Lin Chen frowned and finally realized that something was wrong.

"What...what happened?"

Feeling the change in Lin Chen, Ye Caidie asked. At this moment, her expression was a little uneasy, and she was no longer as relaxed as before.

"There is a smell of blood." Lin Chen said.

Ye Caidie's face changed when she heard it.

She knew that Lin Chen said there was a smell of blood, which meant that there must have been a fierce battle here, and there might even be human corpses!

"Let's go and take a look!"

Ye Caidie urged.

When the two arrived at the cave entrance where they smelled the blood before, they saw that there were many bones piled up at the entrance of the cave.

Those bones were bitten to the point that only the skeletons were left, and some of the bones were torn to pieces and bloodstained.

"This is--" Ye Caidie saw these corpses and her eyes fell on a corpse.

This was a tall human corpse, wearing a blue shirt, with knife wounds all over his body. His chest was cut open in half, revealing his bloody internal organs, and the blood had long since drained out.

His eyes were wide open, as if he had endured extreme pain before his death!

Lin Chen walked closer to take a look at the man's appearance and found that he was a young man, about 20 or 30 years old. His cheeks were sunken and his eye sockets were deep, giving people an illusion of extreme paleness.

Obviously, before his death, his body had also been sucked of essence and blood, causing his skin to turn waxy yellow.

Ye Caidi looked carefully for a moment and suddenly said: "He is not a member of the Kunlun Sect. I can see that he is definitely not a member of my Kunlun Holy Sect!"

"Oh? Why do you say that?" Lin Chen looked at Ye Caidi with some surprise.

"Kunlun Holy Sect respects martial arts, and the colors, cuffs, collars and other aspects of each sect's disciples' clothes are clearly distinguished." Ye Caidi explained, "There are dust and weeds on his clothes. This is I have noticed it before when I was in Kunlun Holy Sect."

Lin Chen took a look and found that indeed, although this man's clothes were clean, they were in tatters and had a lot of dirt and weeds on them. It was obvious that the clothes had not been changed for a long time.

Ye Caidi stared at the young man's bones and said: "He died under the claws of a group of snake-like ferocious beasts, but he did not have any monster teeth or scales on his body. Obviously, he was bitten to death with poisonous fangs while alive." !”

Lin Chen nodded in agreement. This method of death was indeed a bit strange. He said, "Then did you see anything on him? For example, a storage ring or something?"

Ye Caidi shook his head: "No, he has nothing on him except a pair of boots and a long knife hanging on his waist."

At this time, Lin Chen discovered that next to the young man's corpse, there was a purple-red fruit exuding rich aura.

The fruit was about the size of a fist, oval in shape, crystal clear, with a light green haze around it, and looked very beautiful.

"There is indeed something!"

When Ye Caidi saw the purple fruit, she quickly ran over, picked it up and looked at it, with an ecstatic expression on her face: "It's the Netherworld Fruit! The juice of the Netherworld Fruit can cure the cold in my body!"

"Eat this fruit, and I will protect you." Lin Chen said.

"Thank you, senior brother!"

Ye Caidi felt warm in her heart, smiled sweetly, then opened her mouth and swallowed.

Lin Chen turned around, leaned against a towering tree, closed his eyes and rested.

"Netherworld fruit... I have heard of this kind of fruit. It is said that it can cure hidden dangers caused by cold air erosion. I didn't expect that a Netherworld fruit would appear here. It is a rare treasure! If Master and the others take this Netherworld fruit, Maybe the strength can be improved again!”

Ye Caidi was ecstatic and immediately sat down cross-legged, running the Ice Flame Lotus Technique to refine the energy of the Netherworld Fruit.

"Hopefully it will be effective."

Ye Caidi has practiced the Ice Flame Lotus Technique to the third level, and her skills are already top-notch spiritual skills. However, she knows that it is still not easy to completely eliminate the coldness in her body, so she also has hopes for the Netherworld Fruit. .

As Ye Caidi operated her skills, the surrounding air surged, and a pale pink chill emerged from her body. The trees that had been blown by the breeze were suddenly covered with a thin layer of frost.

Click——

There were roars in Ye Caidi's mind, as if something was broken, and then, a surge of unparalleled energy rushed out from her dantian.

"Haha! I advanced! I finally advanced to the sixth level of the Golden Body!"

Ye Caidi's face showed excitement and joy, and then she was stunned again, "The peak of the fifth golden body? No, the fourth golden body?"

Her beautiful eyes widened, a little unbelievable. She had sensed the majestic and turbulent energy in her body just now, and thought that she had stepped into the ranks of the seventh-level golden body. Who knew that she had directly broken through to the fourth-level golden body?

"Oh my God! How is this possible? How did I jump directly from the fifth golden body to the fourth golden body?" Ye Caidi looked at Lin Chen, extremely shocked.

Lin Chen was also a little surprised. He didn't expect that after a battle between himself and Ye Caidi, Ye Caidi would use this battle to break through to the fourth level of the golden body.

He glanced at Ye Caidi's charming body and said with a smile: "It seems that you are really a lucky star. This Nether Fruit can not only help you suppress the coldness in your body, but it even has a lot of energy that can improve your qualifications. It’s an unexpected bonus for you to make rapid progress in a short period of time!”

"Yeah! I understand."

Ye Caidi nodded, with a look of joy on her face, but then she became a little worried.

"What's wrong?" Lin Chen asked confused.

Ye Caidi frowned and said, "Have you noticed that something is wrong around here?"

Lin Chen looked around, but found nothing unusual at all.

Before Lin Chen could ask, Ye Caidi explained: "There are many dead branches and leaves and some insect and ant corpses around here, which shows that there have been fierce fightings here! Moreover, there are almost no scars on these corpses, which shows that They were killed almost instantly!"

"hiss--"

After listening to Ye Caidi's description, Lin Chen couldn't help but gasp. It was too terrifying that so many people were killed in an instant.

You must know that ordinary early-stage cultivators in the Tongtian Realm, no matter how powerful they are, cannot kill several sixth-level Golden Body beings with one move.

Although Ye Caidi's father and grandfather are at the peak of Muxu, they probably won't be able to last long in the face of the existence of the eighth-level golden body.

Moreover, even beings at the peak of Destruction of Xu can't easily kill hundreds of beings in the early stages of Tongtian Realm.

This was beyond Lin Chen's imagination.

Lin Chen guessed that this should be the death of a certain powerful person who had reached the Ninth Level of Sainthood, leaving behind a powerful force that destroyed everything around him.

And this powerful man who has entered the Ninth Level of Sainthood is probably the person they are looking for.

But Lin Chen didn't know if he was really his grandfather.

After all, he had never seen this person before.

"Netherworld Fruit?"

Just as Lin Chen was thinking about it, he suddenly let out a cry of surprise, and his eyes fell on a small tree.

The small tree was more than two meters tall, with lush branches and leaves, and a dark golden luster on its surface. It looked very ordinary, but it exuded a dangerous aura, as if it were a dormant poisonous snake.

"Netherworld tree?"

Lin Chen's heart beat faster, and he felt a little excited when he looked at the Netherworld Tree.

It is recorded in the Holy Demon Xiaoyao Dian that the Netherworld Fruit is one of the medicinal materials needed to refine the Wanshou Qiankun Pill.

The Wanshou Qiankun Pill is a heaven-defying elixir. Although Lin Chen's soul realm has reached the third level of the Golden Body, it is still far away from the fourth level. The gap is still too big. He only dares to try to refine the third level elixir, let alone A heaven-defying elixir like the Wanshou Qiankun Pill.

Now, when he met the Netherworld Tree, he was naturally a little surprised.

"What is this?" Ye Caidi walked to the Netherworld tree curiously and looked at it.

"Netherworld Fruit, an extremely rare elixir." Lin Chen said.

When Ye Caidi heard this, her expression was ecstatic. She knew that this Netherworld Fruit was absolutely valuable.

At this time, there was a popping sound in her body, followed by a small sound, as if some shackles were being broken.

The next moment.

The aura on her body surged, and her whole temperament changed. She was no longer as weak as before, but instead gave people a sharp edge, like a peerless magic weapon!

She opened her eyes, which were frighteningly bright.

"Senior sister, congratulations on becoming a strong person with a golden body of level 4!" Lin Chen said with a smile.

Only now did Ye Caidi realize that she was no longer in the cave, and she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

"How did you find this place? I clearly remember that you didn't follow me before I passed out."

Ye Caidi thought of something and looked at Lin Chen with some suspicion.

Lin Chen smiled sheepishly and thought to himself how could he say that his spiritual thoughts were far better than hers, so he made up a random saying: "I passed by here occasionally before and happened to hear the sound of the Netherworld Fruit Tree, so I followed the sound I came here and picked the Nether Fruit!"

Ye Caidi was dubious when she heard what Lin Chen said, but she didn't think much about it. After all, Lin Chen was indeed capable of doing it.

She looked at the small tree next to her and said, "Since this Netherworld tree has no effect on you, why not give it to me."

Lin Chen said: "You can take it if you want. However, I advise you not to use it, otherwise you will die miserably!"

He was a little speechless in his heart. This Netherworld Fruit had a huge effect on him, but it ended up taking advantage of this woman.

"I believe you!" Ye Caidi smiled.

"..." Lin Chen was speechless. Why do you believe me? I didn't do anything to you.

He murmured in his heart, and immediately looked at the Netherworld Fruit, his eyes full of greed.

He devoured the blood demon, white python, blood bat king and black dragon. Now he has reached the perfection of the third golden body and is only one step away from the fourth golden body.

The energy contained in this Netherworld Fruit is astonishingly huge, which is just right for him to absorb.

"This Netherworld Fruit should be about three thousand years old. It is a rare treasure for me." Lin Chen looked at the Netherworld Fruit, his eyes filled with strong desire.

"If we eat this Nether Fruit quickly, it may help us regain our strength as soon as possible!" Ye Caidi said.

"Well, let's start now." Lin Chen nodded with a smile.