"This wait really dragged on..."
Yu Ming had followed the stone passage Zhang Chen had opened all the way to the Fork in the Road, leaning against one side of the wall as though he had been waiting for someone to arrive.
"Zhang Chen should have noticed something by now, right? Why had it taken him so long? Might as well have a smoke..."
A finger extended from Yu Ming's hand, blades of grass growing from his fingertips and wrapping together into a plant cigarette. It lit itself and delivered the filter to Yu Ming's mouth. The fragrance produced by this green tobacco was completely harmless to the body and even cleared the mind and refreshed the spirit.
By the time he finished a cigarette, Yu Ming crushed the butt beneath his leather shoe. He had been here for over three hours, yet no movement had come from below.
When Yu Ming glanced at the plant-based watch on his wrist again, a faint ripple came from the depths of this place. Though extremely distant, it contained immensely powerful energy.
"Looks like he can break open the demonic cave without me lifting a hand?"
The wall Yu Ming had been leaning against began to tremble faintly, countless cracks spreading across it as though the entire structure was starting to collapse and disintegrate.
At the same time, Tian Jing and Elizabeth, in two other spaces, suddenly felt a tremendous vibration from afar. A powerful force seeped through the barrier.
"Was that caused by Zhang Chen? It was even stronger than I imagined."
Tian Jing planted her foot on the body of a ghost creature whose life force had faded, gripping the end of the arrow lodged in the center of its skull and pulling it out with force.
The arrow did not