Commander Wang and his group entered the passage first. Immediately afterward, Zhao Xiayang swept his hand, and the Clear Water Sect disciples followed close behind. More than twenty people, all armed to the teeth and in full fighting trim, vanished one after another behind the curtain of light. Only then did the remaining people begin to move.
The Middle-aged Scholar feared Commander Wang's deep and inscrutable scheming, and he was also wary of Zhao Xiayang's overwhelming numbers. He temporarily recruited several lone wanderers; at least they could huddle together for warmth and look out for one another.
Lu Bei and She Xuan politely declined the Middle-aged Scholar's invitation to team up. More people did indeed mean greater safety, but putting himself in the other's shoes, Lu Bei felt that what the Middle-aged Scholar needed was not teammates, but cannon fodder to take the blows for him.
There were uninvited guests behind the tunnel. The two dared not delay and entered the water curtain at the end of the passage one after the other.
In an instant, everything ahead turned pitch-black. She Xuan held a Luminous Pearl, yet it could not illuminate the surroundings. All she knew was that they were inside a gigantic cavern.
"The way back is gone. Was that a Teleportation Array just now?" Lu Bei took several steps backward, but he could not repeatedly leap back and forth through the water curtain.
"It should be."
She Xuan frowned and put away the Luminous Pearl. A strange glint flashed through her golden snake pupils. She sniffed the faint, nearly imperceptible scent in the air, then led Lu Bei briskly to the right.
Without the Luminous Pearl's illumination, scattered fragments of phosphorus ore on the cavern walls glimmered here and there. Though they were clearly underground, it gave one