Ye Muni watched helplessly as Feng Buqing took Su Ze underground, but he had no means of pursuit. He excelled at fire; he couldn't exactly burn down the entire mountain.
He turned to Amida and demanded, "Dean Amida, why didn't you make a move?"
Amida's expression was grave as he shook his head. "I already did. It was just... useless!"
"Useless?" Ye Muni did not quite understand what he meant.
"I only specialize in mental attacks. Just now, I launched my strongest mental attack against Feng Buqing, but he had no reaction at all."
"That's impossible!" Ye Muni could not believe it, but he also knew Amida would not lie to him about something like this.
After pondering for a moment, Amida said, "Feng Buqing is extremely powerful. As evolvers of the same rank, my mental attacks could never have posed a fatal threat to him in the first place. At most, they could affect his mind. But he is already mentally damaged."
"What use is a mental attack against a madman?"
"This..." Ye Muni could not answer that either.
Watching Su Ze escape, Liu Wenyin and Aunt Yun both breathed a sigh of relief. Still, they worried for Su Ze, unsure what fate awaited him after being abducted by a lunatic.
At that moment, Su Ze was on a wondrous journey.
Green Evolutionary Light radiated from Feng Buqing, illuminating the darkness underground.
Su Ze felt as though his body had merged with the soil as he continuously sank downward. From the perspective of a passerby, he witnessed sights within the mountain unlike anything he had seen before.
He saw Drill Mice adept at burrowing, cavern ant nests, hibernating red-scaled snakes, and... a maggot!
A massive maggot wriggled nimbly through the earth, opening Su Ze's eyes.
"Could this be