Cultivation begins with the Shen family

Chapter 43 Sandworm Nest
On the messy sandy ground, a huge sandworm was crawling beside Shen Zhirui, motionless like a hill.

This sandworm is naturally the one that the latter subdued just now, and fortunately, the spiritual intelligence of a monster like sandworm is not high, otherwise the latter would really not be able to subdue it in such a short period of time.

Shen Zhirui quickly tidied up the battlefield, and after finding the stones in the dead sandworm's body, he immediately ordered the sandworm to take him to find the underground place in this area that emits aura.

Monster beasts like sandworms live in the dark underground all year round, so they don't need eyes. All their activities and eating rely on their own keen perception of aura.

I saw that after receiving the simplest order, the sandworm turned its huge body around and burrowed deep into the sand.

Wherever it passed, a passage appeared in the sand, and Shen Zhirui slowly entered this underground world along this passage.

And after they entered the ground, the hole on the ground was quickly buried by the yellow sand rolled up by the strong wind, leaving no trace.

After going deep into the ground for a distance of nearly a hundred feet, Shen Zhirui followed the sandworm to an ancient tunnel, and he was shocked by the sight in front of him.

I saw that this tunnel should have been excavated for a long time. The tunnel is surrounded by very smooth stone walls, and the space is very wide enough to accommodate a number of sandworms moving side by side.

In this way, one person and one worm walked along this tunnel for a certain distance, and soon came to an intersection. There were four holes in total, and behind each hole was a winding rock tunnel.

Suddenly, Shen Zhirui noticed movement coming from a cave, so he quickly hid behind his sandworm, and restrained the breath in his whole body, like a mortal without the slightest spiritual power.

Not long after, a huge sandworm slowly crawled out of the hole. When it passed the sandworm beside Shen Zhirui, it seemed extremely frightened, and immediately turned to other tunnels.

After the wild sandworm left, Shen Zhirui commanded the subdued sandworm to move on.

In the following journey, every time a person and an insect walk a certain distance, they will encounter an intersection, and each intersection has several openings leading to different directions. Five or six are like a huge and extremely complicated underground maze.

At the same time, along the way, they encountered more and more sandworms. Apart from most of the first-level mid- and low-level sandworms, they even encountered first-level top-level sandworms several times.

Shen Zhirui knew that he might have entered the sandworm's lair this time, but right now he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go down.

After finally advancing for several hours in the dark underground labyrinth, Shen Zhirui could feel the faint aura fluctuations around him.

At the same time, the compass in his hand also began to emit a dazzling light, obviously indicating that the secret store was just ahead.

Shen Zhirui quickly put the luminous compass into the storage bag, but there was no expression of joy on his stern face, but a look of deep worry appeared in his eyes.

Although the specific location of that secret stash has been determined now, it happened to be in the sandworm's lair.

You must know that the only ability of this sandworm is to find those things that are rich in spiritual power underground, and then swallow them all in their stomachs. Even those mineral veins will be devoured and destroyed by them bit by bit.

Therefore, what Shen Zhirui was worried about was whether this age-old secret storehouse would have been destroyed by these sandworms. If this was the case, then he would really want to cry without tears.

At that moment, the scene in front of him made his heart half cold in an instant.

I saw that the tunnel in front of me was already different from the previous one. Most of the tunnel could show artificial traces. It was obvious that this place should have been built by humans.

But now it has been occupied by sandworms, and the buildings built by humans have been severely damaged.

If this place used to be the hiding place of the secret treasure, then the things in the secret treasure may have been destroyed long ago.

All of a sudden, the sandworm who took the lead stopped immediately, unwilling to take a step forward.

And through the contractual relationship between the two parties, Shen Zhirui could feel the extreme fear in Sandworm's heart, as if there was something frightening in front of him.

But maybe because the contract formed by the two parties was too rough, or because the sandworm's intelligence was low, he couldn't figure out the source of the fear from the opponent's mind.

After some attempts but with no results, Shen Zhirui could only give up, and chose to let the sandworm stay here, and proceed carefully by himself.

After all, it has already come, and he will never choose to give up until he is sure whether the secret store has been destroyed by the sandworm.

When he walked out of the corridor in front of him, his eyes suddenly opened up, and what he saw was a very huge underground cave, surrounded by tunnels leading to nowhere.

Shen Zhirui carefully looked at this underground cave, and found that there seemed to be no sign of monsters here, and even the little gray pig in his arms did not sense any danger.

Judging from the stone walls and ground around this underground cave, it seems that this place used to be a large stone chamber, but it was destroyed by sandworms later, and there are huge tunnels left by them after they moved.

He came to the bottom of the cave very cautiously, and there were several fragments of jade bottles scattered in the gravel and sand beside him, and there were fragments of other human belongings not far away.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Shen Zhirui finally realized the reality, and the last luck in his heart disappeared.

This is obviously where the secret store is, but the things here have been completely wiped out by the sandworm back then, leaving only a mess.

However, just when he was disappointed, the compass in his storage bag moved, so he immediately took it out.

When the compass appeared, it immediately emitted a strong light, guiding him towards a large pile of ruins in the corner of the cave.

I saw that Shen Zhirui came to the front of the ruins, and then carefully observed the surrounding situation, and only started to search in the ruins after confirming that there was no danger for the time being.

After some careful digging, he finally dug out an ancient stone box from the ruins.

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(End of this chapter)