Chapter 3930 Ancient Suludan Kingdom

After releasing the spirit, I also released the poisonous scorpion that Kassan had given me.

This scorpion can also act as my eyes and ears, helping me to detect what's going on around me.

I heard Chen Shengcai say that there are quite a few sorcerers among the people of the Crimson Shadow Sanctuary. This means that there may be hidden sorcerers in this jungle. With this poisonous scorpion that Kasang gave me, I can be on guard against it.

What I fear most are those harmless echo bugs, a type of curse bug.

These echo insects are harmless, but they can lurk in the shadows of the jungle like invisible cameras, monitoring everything around them. Those who cultivate these echo insects can sense the presence of someone in the jungle through them.

The scorpion that Kassan gave me can sense the presence of these echoing insects and warn us in advance.

With the Phantom and the Poison Scorpion scouting ahead, we can shield ourselves from most dangers, so we don't have to keep using the Invisibility Talisman. After all, that thing is ridiculously expensive, costing a million every half hour. With so many of us, the consumption is too high.

Earning money isn't easy for us either; every time it's a close call, we have to save as much as we can.

With the help of the Phantom and the Scorpion leading the way, our pace quickened considerably. Along the way, every so often we could find the marks left by Kassan, as if we were always heading in the same direction.

The jungle was dense with tall grass and thick forest, making the path very difficult to traverse. Before they knew it, darkness had fallen.

At this point, we had reached the depths of this primeval jungle.

When we reached this place, we made a new discovery: scattered throughout the jungle were some ruins covered with thick moss, so fine that they were almost invisible without careful observation.

We don't know how such broken stones came to be in this jungle. Perhaps a long time ago, this jungle was an ancient kingdom.

On the way, Poison Scorpion did indeed find some echoing insects hiding in the shadows, but those echoing insects were practically dead, like fools, having lost their surveillance function.

It's likely that Kassan tampered with things, using the Blood God Gu to control those echoing worms.

The group had been walking all day and hadn't eaten much, and Little Fatty was starving.

We found a place to lie down, and I took out some food and drinks from the mirror and distributed them to everyone.

Little Fatty said he wanted to eat something hot. He had just seen a small river not far away, and the fish in the river were fat and big. He wanted to catch a few fish to eat, but I refused.

You can't light a fire in this forest; the smoke would easily be spotted.

Little Fatty had no choice but to eat the things I took out of the Dragon Tiger Mirror.

After we had eaten and drunk our fill, we continued on our way. After walking for more than an hour in the old forest, Meiling noticed something unusual and said that she had found seven or eight well-hidden corpses not far away.

Upon hearing what Meiling said, we immediately became alert and hurriedly headed towards the place she had mentioned.

Following the directions given by the spirit, we found two corpses in the deep grass.

There were no obvious wounds on the two corpses, but I quickly found some clues on the back of their necks.

Each of them had a red dot on the back of their neck, as if they had been bitten by a mosquito.

Seeing the wound, I immediately felt relieved.

Needless to say, this must have been the work of Kassan's Blood God Gu.

The reason the wound was on the back of their neck was because the Blood God Gu had circled around to their backs and launched a surprise attack.

The clothes these people were wearing clearly identified them as members of the Crimson Shadow Sanctuary.

They wore a black veil over their clothes, with red underneath.

The people of the Blood Shadow Sanctuary seem to really like wearing red clothes.

Subsequently, Chi Lang and Zhang Qing'an found several more bodies from other places, all of which died in the same manner as the two we found.

This further proves that these people were killed by Qassam.

These people must be hidden in the shadows, keeping watch like sentries.

Since there are people watching us here, it means we are very close to the Crimson Shadow Sanctuary's lair.

These people are no match for Kassan. He doesn't even need to show himself; he can handle them by simply using the Blood God Gu.

Then we found the coded message Kassan left in the book, which was still fresh, indicating that Kassan had not been gone for long either.

I glanced at everyone and immediately said, "Everyone, be on high alert. We're not far from the Crimson Shadow Sanctuary's lair. If you activate your invisibility talismans now, there might be sentries nearby. Let's not get discovered."

Everyone activated the invisibility talisman as I instructed.

Then we continued walking forward.

The further you go, the more ruins you'll find, covered with a thick layer of vines and weeds.

Moreover, it seemed that fog had rolled in ahead at that moment.

I vaguely sensed the aura of a magic array.

The slovenly Taoist priest and I walked at the front, each taking out our magical implements.

When I arrived at this place, I had a vague sense of unease, as if something was about to happen.

Just then, I suddenly felt someone else beside me, and I immediately thrust my sword out in a defensive stance.

“Brother Wu, it’s me, one of our own,” Kassan suddenly whispered.

"Couldn't you have said hello? You scared me half to death," I said, annoyed.

“I’ve always done this before,” Kassan said with a smile.

"So, what did you find?" I asked quickly.

“Brother Wu, did you see the people I killed? Those people were on lookout outside. I was afraid they would discover you, so I took care of them beforehand.”

“Yes, we saw it. The Spirit told us.” I replied.

“Brother Angkor, there’s a magic circle ahead, and it’s a very large one. I saw that group of people from the Crimson Shadow Temple carrying a baby into the magic circle, and I followed them in. I took a few steps and almost couldn’t get out, so I came back to find you,” Kassan said hurriedly.

“Come on, take us to see it.” With that, Kassan led our group forward.

There were huge stones scattered everywhere, as well as sculptures, including cows, sheep, and tigers, most of which were broken and dilapidated.

"What kind of place is this? Why are there so many ancient sculptures?" I asked Kassan in a low voice.

“It should be the historical site of the ancient Sulutan Kingdom. The Philippines is not far from Malaysia. When I was a child, my grandmother told me that there was an ancient kingdom here, but it has long since perished,” Kassan replied softly.

After walking for another twenty minutes or so, white mist rolled in ahead, and the aura of the magic array was unusually strong.