In that bottomless mine shaft, there were large chunks of magic crystals, countless in number.
Inside, there were even several Beastfiends nurtured by the magic crystals, emitting a towering black aura.
As soon as Lu Qi fell in, he fought with them and discovered that these Beastfiends were much stronger than the ordinary ones on the battlefield outside.
Moreover, the mine was full of magic crystals, and the impact on the mental sea was too great, even ten times that of the outside.
Lu Qi's head was throbbing with pain.
This won't do, he can't stay here any longer.
After swimming around the mine and finding nothing else, Lu Qi prepared to fly out.
But his gaze was attracted by some shiny scales in a corner.
He picked up these scales and examined them carefully, discovering that they were the scales of their Singing Snake.
The scales still bore traces of corrosion from Beastfiend body fluids.
Were these his parents' scales? Had they been here before?
Thirty years ago, Lu Qi's parents were surrounded and killed by Beastfiends on the battlefield in the border region, but there were traces of the blood clan around their corpses. Lu Qi had always suspected that his parents' death was related to the blood clan.
Harboring doubts, Lu Qi took the scales back to the surface and ordered some beast soldiers to guard here, while sending some people back to Kashida to fetch weapons, determined to blow up this mine.
He then caught up with Lan Yuxiang's main force to steal the blood clan's headquarters.
Affected by the magic crystals, Lu Qi's entire snake body was now extremely irritable. He gripped the Holy Gold Country King's tail with increasing force: "Speak quickly! I don't have the patience to listen to your nonsense!"
The big bat was quite unyielding, refusing to make a sound even when squeezed breathless by the Singing Snake's strength.
Many blood clan soldiers rushed in with weapons: "Put down our king!"
"Tch."
The Singing Snake unceremoniously used the bat as a shield, blocking the laser guns that were meant to hit him.
The laser guns hit the bat, burning his fur and causing it to smoke.
The Holy Gold Country King howled in pain and was so angry he could vomit blood: "Stop! You fools, look who you're shooting at!"
Lu Qi coiled on the collapsed tent, his tail raising the big bat and shaking it: "See the brains of your blood clan?"
"Still dreaming of attacking our Kashida?"
"Not only are you weak and frail, but you're also not very bright. Could it be that you've become stupid from too much contact with those magic crystals?"
"Oh, no, it's not the fault of the magic crystals. You were already stupid enough to begin with, nonsensically claiming that drinking beast blood can maintain your intelligence, and needing to drink a thousand milliliters a day..."
The Holy Gold Country King could no longer hold back after this barrage of insults: "Shut up! It's all slander!"
"We only need four hundred milliliters a day!"
"You beasts have all the advantages of time and place, and even your physiques are stronger than us blood clan. We were driven from our homeland and still have to endure such slander. How can we bear this!"
"If we hadn't been chased by your parents, why would we hide in these deep mountains and old forests!"
It turns out that thirty years ago, when the blood clan was looking for food near Kashida, they were discovered by Lu Qi's parents on the battlefield and were forced to hide in the primeval forest behind the Yali'ou Mountain Range.
At that time, the Holy Gold Country King, in order to escape their pursuit, devised a plan to make Lu Qi's parents fall into an abandoned cave.
He knew he couldn't trap them for long, so as soon as the two Singing Snakes fell in, he quickly fled with his people.
If nothing else, the blood clan's escape ability was first-class.
Later, they received news of Lu Qi's parents dying on the battlefield.
It wasn't until much later when the blood clan came back to this abandoned cave to mine that they discovered the hidden magic crystals.
The Holy Gold Country King also guessed that the reason such powerful Singing Snakes were so easily surrounded and killed by a group of Beastfiends was probably due to the influence of the magic crystals in the mine shaft.
"What does your parents' death have to do with us? We didn't know about the existence of magic crystals at that time."
The Holy Gold Country King was very righteous: "If they hadn't driven us away, your parents wouldn't have fallen into that mine shaft and had their mental power affected by the magic crystals."
"If you sincerely supplied us with a certain amount of beast blood every day, why would it have come to this point of struggle between both sides?"
"If you were willing to apologize to us blood clan..."
"Crack." Before the Holy Gold Country King could finish his words, there was a light sound, and the big bat's head was twisted off by the Singing Snake.
"Heh. Apologize." It was as if a raging fire had ignited behind the Singing Snake.
Isn't the root cause of everything because you blood clan are arrogant and despicable?
Lu Qi was already restraining his urge to exterminate the blood clan.
He raised his head to the sky and let out a long cry filled with anger and sorrow: "Those who surrender will live, those who resist will die!"
"Boom boom——"
Yun Manman poked her head out from the tent, looking towards the overcast sky.
Was that thunder just now? It seems like it's going to rain again.
While Yan Xi was leading the beast soldiers to guard outside Lingli Town, fighting with the Beastfiends, Yun Manman stayed in the temporarily built medical room, helping the beasts with guidance to improve their mental power purity.
Or she would go to the food storage area and use her mental power to "process" the food, giving it certain guidance effects.
Yun Manman had just handed the medicine to the military doctor when she heard the panicked shouts of beast soldiers outside: "General Lu Qi is here!"
Another soldier scolded him: "Isn't it good that the general is here? Why are you so panicked?"
"The general is fighting with our people!"
Yun Manman came out of the tent: "What?!"
On the hill, Yan Xi stared intently at the crazed Singing Snake on the battlefield, frowning deeply.
The Singing Snake had just descended from the sky, and as soon as he landed, he started fighting indiscriminately with the Beastfiends. Several blood clan members controlling the Beastfiends were instantly killed.
His arrival should have added great military strength to the beasts, but Lu Qi's mental state wasn't quite right.
His movements were agitated and violent, as if venting something.
Even the beast soldiers nearby were knocked down by him.
Yan Xi instructed her deputy: "Tell the soldiers to come back, don't get close to General Lu. His state is not right."
The deputy went to carry out the order.
"Mom!" Yan Xi turned back in surprise: "Manman? Why did you run here?"
"It's dangerous here, go back quickly!"
Yun Manman supported her mother's light orange beast form, anxiously looking towards the flattened forest: "I heard Lu Qi came? Is his mental power in turmoil again?"
Yan Xi was stunned: "Wasn't his mental power already very stable?"
Around the frenzied Singing Snake was already a vacuum, even the Beastfiends retreated fearfully, not daring to approach and attack the Singing Snake.
Crimson blood was slowly seeping out from under the Singing Snake's white jade scales, as he painfully rolled on the ground. This appearance was exactly the same as what Yun Manman had seen before.
"I don't know, but his current state is clearly a mental power outburst." Yun Manman wanted to go to Lu Qi's side to guide him.
But she was caught by Yan Xi's paw: "No, it's too dangerous."
Where Lu Qi was was the center of the battlefield.
And if Lu Qi suddenly turned dark when they approached, even she couldn't beat him.
"But if we don't go, it will be too late..." Yun Manman was about to cry with anxiety.
Her little snake was in too much pain.
Every rolling and biting motion seemed filled with sorrow and anger, his scales and feathers soaked in blood.
Yan Xi caught Yun Manman's clothes in her mouth and nimbly tossed her onto her back, her golden pupils showing determination: "Let's go, I'll take you there."
Oh well, she had to save the one her cub had set her eyes on.
After all, Yan Xi had watched Lu Qi grow up, and she couldn't bear to see him like this.