Jiang Chen and the others entered through the stone gate and discovered a staircase leading downward, so they followed it down.
It truly was an Underground Palace—it really was underground.
They had no idea how long they had walked, but they finally reached the bottom.
They encountered no danger along the way because several teams of geniuses had already passed through here.
Those people had vanished without a trace, and no one knew where they had gone.
Soon, they left the staircase behind. As soon as they entered the Underground Palace proper, they felt the dense spiritual energy, which was at least several times richer than outside.
"What dense spiritual energy!" someone exclaimed.
If they cultivated in an environment like this normally, their cultivation progress would surely be much faster.
"Let's keep moving. I wonder what's inside this Underground Palace," Jiang Chen said.
The group quickly moved on, but their whereabouts had been spotted by the geniuses from Jiuyun Town.
This person had been sent by Shi Anming to keep watch on the movements of the people from Qingyue Town.
The people from Jiuyun Town could not swallow their anger from earlier, so they wanted to take revenge on Jiang Chen and the others inside the Underground Palace.
How dare they oppose them?
If they could not defeat Jiang Chen openly, they could always play dirty.
"Boss, we've found the people from Qingyue Town. However, only thirteen of them entered this time," the Jiuyun Town scout reported after returning to Shi Anming.
"They've entered? Excellent. Didn't we discover a new monster horde? We're no match for them, but we can lead those monsters over to Qingyue Town," Shi Anming said viciously.
They decided to divert the disaster toward someone else.
There was a horde of monsters there—Black Armored Lizards, numbering