I became a villain in a book. Why did the heroine turn evil first?

Hanamatsuri held back her tears and nodded firmly.

"Okay, then I'll follow Senior Sister... Hmm? What is this? Ahhh, Senior Sister, help me!"

The first half of the sentence went fine, but Hanatake suddenly felt the sand under her feet begin to flow. Before she could take a closer look, she began to sink into the sand.

He Qingtan and Hua Wushu were standing very close to each other, and now they were also covered by the sand up to their knees. Moreover, the sand was flowing very fast, so they had no strength at all, and could only sink deeper and deeper with the flow of the sand.

Just as Mu Wuyi was about to help, she found that the sand under her feet began to flow. Then she found that a huge vortex formed by sand had sucked the three of them in, and even she couldn't escape now.

The sand swallowed the three people, but what awaited them was not being buried by the sand, but falling into a huge tunnel. The tunnel went all the way down, and because of the sand, the three people slid all the way down like sitting on a slide. But along the way, they were left with the screams of Hanamatsura.

After sliding down in twists and turns for two or three minutes, the three people finally reached the bottom.

"Ouch! Ouch!"

Both of these noises were made by Hua Wushu. The first one was when she fell to the ground, causing her pain. The second one was when He Qingtan landed on her, pressing her down. Mu Wuyi was much more graceful, stepping on the stones in the cave, and after a few jumps, she landed steadily.

The cave under the sand sea was made entirely of stone, and there were some glowing crystals in the cave, which were enough to illuminate the cave. There was also a tunnel leading to the depths of the cave, but it was much smaller than the one in the gray-haired crystal steel ape's cave, only three or four meters high and wide.

It was not realistic to climb up the tunnel, so she could only go deeper to see if there was any other way out. Moreover, Mu Wuyi had seen this situation many times in the book. This was definitely the lair of some monster. If she were the protagonist, she might have picked up a cheat or something. Unfortunately, she was not only not the protagonist, but also the final villain.

Going all the way inside the tunnel, Mu Wuyi found traces of dragging on the ground of the stone tunnel. It seems that her guess was right, this is the lair of something. So, she also warned.

"Qingtan, Wushu, cheer up, we must have fallen into the lair of some monster."

The two girls heard this and immediately summoned their own blood spirit treasures. They were already nervous, and after hearing what Mu Wuyi said, the hair on their bodies stood up.

Mu Wuyi was not that nervous, because judging from the position before the teleportation, they were now on the outskirts of the secret realm. Even if they encountered a demon beast, its cultivation level would not be too high. Her current cultivation level was the seventh level of the True Essence Realm. With the ability value given by Mo Ran, she could fight even a demon beast of the ninth level of the True Essence Realm.

Continuing to go deeper, the three found many forks in the road. However, judging from the direction of the forks, the other end should be similar to where they fell. Even if they went past, they probably wouldn't be able to find a way out, so they simply saved some energy and went directly to the nest deep inside.

It must be said that the structure of this cave is quite complex and large enough. After walking for two quarters of an hour, Mu Wuyi and the other two finally arrived at an open cave. Although the size of the tunnel is not as big as that of the gray-haired crystal steel ape, this cave is about the same size as the gray-haired crystal steel ape's cave.

Deep in the cave, Mu Wuyi finally saw the owner of the cave, a black scorpion as big as a tank. Beside it, there were countless small scorpions half the size of a human, which were surrounding the corpses of several monks and gnawing on them.

Seeing the gnawed corpse, Mu Wuyi and the other two almost vomited. It seemed that these people were also swept into the quicksand like them, and then eaten by the scorpions as prey. The traces of dragging in the tunnel before should have been left by the scorpions when they dragged their prey. And they were not found by the scorpions when they fell, it seemed that they just caught up with their meal time.

At this time, the giant scorpion also discovered the three of them, and after a hissing sound, the small scorpions that were still eating rushed towards the three of them. After all, fresh prey was right in front of them, and there was no taste in chewing a rotten corpse.

Fortunately, the cultivation of these little scorpions was not high, all of them were at the third or fourth level of Qi Condensation, and only a few could reach the seventh or eighth level of Qi Condensation. To deal with these little creatures, Mu Wuyi could kill five or six of them with just one strike of his sword.

The big scorpion also found that Mu Wuyi's cultivation was good, and it didn't want to let its scorpion descendants suffer too much loss, so it rushed towards Mu Wuyi waving its two front claws. At this time, Mu Wuyi found that the cultivation of this big scorpion was actually the eighth level of the True Essence Realm.

Before he could figure out why he encountered such a high-level monster in the outer periphery of the secret realm, the giant scorpion had already arrived in front of Mu Wuyi. Seeing this, He Qingtan hurriedly shouted.

"Senior Sister, you focus on dealing with the big one. The two of us will stop these small ones!"

Mu Wuyi nodded, and rushed to an open area, killing all the small scorpions blocking his way, and also threw a few sword energies at the big scorpion to lead it away.

On the other side, He Qingtan drew his bow towards the little scorpion that had chased him.

"Archery Technique: Raindrops Bring Flowers to Life!"

An arrow flew out, splitting into more than a dozen in midair, and each one exploded into a spiritual flower after landing. This bow technique took the lives of dozens of small scorpions.

Hua Wushu was not to be outdone. He swung the Tang sword in his hand and a sword technique was formed.

"Sword Skill: Falling Wind Kills Ye!"

The spiritual energy in front of her transformed into leaves, which spread forward as if swept by a whirlwind. Wherever the leaves passed, they left behind a field of scorpion corpses.

The techniques they used were all given to them by Wangyue. Although they were only at the Xuan level, their sophistication was far beyond the comparison of those techniques in Qinglin Sect. Moreover, the source blood treasures of the two had been refined, so they were more comfortable in using the techniques.

Seeing that he didn't need to worry about the two of them, Mu Wuyi focused on dealing with the giant scorpion in front of him.

Although the scorpion was large in size, it was not slow in its pursuit of Mu Wuyi. Mu Wuyi did not dare to underestimate it and directly used a sword technique from the Water Sword Technique.

"Sword Skill: Wind Chant!"

Dozens of sword energies were swung out, some of which were blocked by the scorpion's front claws, but the remaining sword energy hit its back and only left a scratch.

Mu Wuyi's pupils shrank. This scorpion had a retractable stinger and powerful front claws, plus a body as hard as a tortoise shell. It seemed a little difficult to deal with.