The corner of Xun Kun's mouth twitched. He felt Yunxi was taking a jab at him, but he still stepped forward. Things could not get any worse anyway, so he might as well give it a try.
Xun Kun took a deep breath and began leading the way. No one had expected to find an exit right away; they had all prepared themselves to be trapped for a while.
Yet half an hour later, everyone looked at the formation disk newly embedded in the crack, and the way they looked at Xun Kun had changed. Even Xun Kun himself found it miraculous. He had never imagined his terrible sense of direction could be used like this.
Xun Kun looked at Ranxi with a trace of surprise in his eyes. As expected of his close friend—she understood him so well.
Yunxi had merely acted on a sudden whim, thinking to fight poison with poison. She had not expected it to actually work. Of course, she could not tell them the truth, so she gave a profound little smile and said to Cao Yi:
"Take out the formation disk. We're getting ready to leave."
"Yes, Your Excellency!"
Cao Yi was certain that what lay before him was no illusion. He had refined this formation disk himself, and it bore his personal mark. With a sweep of his sleeve, he collected the formation disk, and everyone turned into streaks of Escape Light and shot out.
Once outside, Yunxi instructed Cao Yi:
"Seal the gap in the 'Soul Sealing Formation.' Don't let the evil cultivators notice anything amiss."
Without the "door," the evil cultivators could not drag ghost cultivators over from the Ghost Domain anytime soon. They would not notice anything wrong with the Soul Sealing Formation in the short term. All they needed