When the crowd entered the cave, the Nazca monsters seemed unwilling to go inside, merely crowding the outside to the brim.
Their numbers were still increasing; after reaching the tens of millions, the growth rate finally slowed down, but the base number was already enormous, with each increase adding hundreds of thousands.
Centered around the Nazca Forbidden Zone, the entire Peru was occupied by the world's Nazca monsters, then rapidly expanded to cover half of South America.
Such a vast area was something no one could ignore.
The South America Magic Association, unable to handle it, immediately reported it.
At the same time, a hunter bounty was issued internationally.
However, hunters were also helpless against the continuously increasing Nazca monsters.
As the Nazca monsters grew in number, eventually covering the entire South America, Forbidden Spellcasterss finally made their move.
The power of each of their spells was enough to annihilate a large group of Nazca monsters, and with the cooperation of Super-Order Mages, the growth rate of the Nazca monsters was finally brought under control.
But they also had no way to completely eradicate them.
They merely prevented the hundreds of millions of Nazca monsters from invading areas outside of South America, to avoid greater losses.
Internationally, there was endless discussion about the situation in South America, but no solution was found.
It was also not a viable solution to have those Forbidden Curse and Super-Order Mages permanently stationed in South America to protect its people.
Even the Archangel of the Holy City began to pay attention to South America.
Hundreds of millions of Nazca monsters, and still increasing.
If it could be resolved, it would be a monumental achievement recorded in history!
The world began to speculate whether the Nazca incident would become an opportunity for a certain Archangel to return to the Holy City.
When the international community was in an uproar.
Jiang Yuan and the others were still underground in Nazca.
The underground tunnel was brightly illuminated by Zhao Manyan's Light Magic, and the long red tunnel led to an unknown destination.
The group had been walking along the passage for a long time. During this time, there were only red walls all around.
Finally, a large door carved with Nazca monsters appeared ahead.
There was a groove on the door, and Mo Fan measured it, finding it to be about the same size as the Nazca crystal ball.
"Are they playing with us? We finally made it here, and opening the door requires that crystal ball again?!" Mo Fan angrily punched the hard stone door, causing some dust to fall.
"Why don't we just blow this door open?" Zhao Manyan said.
"You idiot! This is a tunnel. If we blow it up, won't we all be buried underground?" Mo Fan pouted.
"I'll go out and get it; I'll be right back," Jiang Yuan said.
"Outside are all Nazca monsters; it might be difficult for you to get it alone. I'll go with you," Ai Jiangtu said with a frown.
"It's fine, small problem."
Jiang Yuan waved his hand, smiling, "They just have a lot of numbers; they pose no threat to me. Plus, I can use Space Magic to travel back and forth; I'll be back very soon."
The group was confident in Jiang Yuan's strength; he wasn't one to boast.
So, Jiang Yuan temporarily left the team, and after getting far away, he used space coordinates to teleport next to the Nazca crystal ball.
As soon as he emerged, he was startled by the sight before him.
Overwhelmingly, there were Nazca monsters everywhere, as if the entire world was made up of Nazca monsters.
As soon as Jiang Yuan appeared, countless pairs of lifeless eyes stared straight at him, almost instantly surging towards him.
Jiang Yuan frowned, did not use magic to respond, picked up the Nazca crystal ball, and teleported away.
Back inside the tunnel, Jiang Yuan instinctively took a deep breath.
His mind couldn't help but recall the scene he had just witnessed.
Although he was only out for a moment, his Electromagnetic Domain perception was filled with Nazca monsters.
It seemed that not long after they entered, the number of Nazca monsters outside had already grown significantly.
He knew how to deal with Nazca monsters, but if there were too many, it would certainly be a very tedious process.
Jiang Yuan shook his head, no longer thinking about the matter.
He stayed a little longer, then got up and walked towards the stone door.
"Old Jiang, you're so fast? You worked hard, you worked hard!" Mo Fan came forward, subtly taking the Nazca crystal ball from Jiang Yuan's hand.
He placed it into the groove.
The stone door vibrated with a "hum" and automatically opened to both sides.
After walking a few steps inside, the space suddenly expanded.
The surroundings were still red stone walls, with unknown crystal stones embedded in them, emitting a faint blue-white glow, and seemingly with tiny specks of starlight falling.
On the surrounding walls, there were also several stone doors.
However, what was most striking was that in the center of the spacious stone chamber, there were many kneeling stone statues.
At the center, guarded by the statues, was a faceless human statue, with a small six-petaled flower lying in its right hand, painted light red with pigment.
Jiang Yuan always had a strange feeling that the faceless person on it was himself.
The group came before the stone statues, finding nothing unusual; outwardly, they appeared to be ordinary stone statues.
"These should be some kind of ritual scene," Nan Jue speculated.
"Who cares about rituals, it has nothing to do with us. Let's go check those stone doors and see if there's anything good," Mo Fan said impatiently.
"Holy crap, we're rich!!!" Zhao Manyan's scream echoed.
Everyone looked over; Zhao Manyan had already opened a stone door at some point, and he was looking into the room with a shocked expression.
"What's wrong, what's wrong, what did you get rich from?" Mo Fan rushed over.
"Holy crap, we really are rich!!!!!!!"
Mo Fan also screamed.
Behind this stone door was a room full of Earth Element Essence Crystals!
Zhao Manyan was the first to run in, with Mo Fan close behind.
"They're not even afraid of traps or dangers here, they just rushed in so easily," Guan Yu grumbled.
"Let's go take a look too," Jiang Yuan said.
At this moment, Zhao Manyan and Mo Fan were inside, constantly rummaging through the Essence Crystals.
"One, two, three, four... Hmm? No!" Zhao Manyan was counting when his movements suddenly stopped.
After carefully sensing the Essence Crystals, Zhao Manyan cursed, "Damn it, there's only a little energy left in these Essence Crystals!"
"Only a little left?" Jiang Yuan and the others walked over.
After a simple investigation, it was confirmed that the vast majority of the Essence Crystals in this room indeed had very little energy left, but accumulating them all could still fetch over a billion.
However, Essence Crystals that could have sold for hundreds of billions could now only sell for a little over a billion; the disparity was truly too great.
Everyone couldn't help but sigh.
Next, they went to look at the other stone doors, which also contained some very valuable elemental treasures, the kind that could sell for one or two hundred million individually.
Unfortunately, the energy of these elemental treasures had mostly dissipated, just like the Essence Crystals, greatly reducing their value.
Roughly estimated, they could sell for a total of four to five billion, which would be several hundred million per person on average.
Finally, there was some comfort; these resources could make everyone comfortable at the Super-Level.
While Mo Fan and the others were tallying their gains inside the stone doors, Jiang Yuan, on a whim, stood before the faceless human statue.
The moment his right hand touched the statue, ancient Indian words resonated in his mind.
Although he didn't know ancient Indian, he could somehow understand these words.
They were praying to the spiritual god, asking for their souls to rest in peace after Death.
They were narrating to the spiritual god, describing the daily gains and losses of their tribe.
Among them was their proudest Nazca Secret Art—Fictional Double Image.
Accompanying this were some scenes from the ancient Indian era, appearing in his mind like fleeting glimpses.