The thick layer of magma continued for some time. Only when it became possible to breathe did I finally notice the pungent smell of sulfur.
This hardly smelled like a paradise. It was more like the result of an exhaust fan beneath a mine working desperately to ventilate it.
The storage boxes were spatial items and had not been burned away by the starstone magma. Those who had managed to gather enough points probably would not be easily lost here either.
The surroundings had been utterly silent at first, but gradually, the muffled voices of some prodigies calling out the names of people they knew began to ring out.
"Yu Yi? Leader Yu Yi?" Yu Yi's voice soon sounded.
"Mm, I'm here. Are you all right?" I called back.
Because I had warned everyone beforehand, they had all prepared spare clothes. Once their vision recovered, everyone appeared within one another's sight.
Since we had all gathered on a stone-washing ship, everyone quickly called out to friends and assembled together.
However, unlike the image I had shown them, not a single trace of the dozens of prodigies' stone-washing ships could be seen now.
"What do we do? It looks like we haven't seen any other prodigies!" Yu Yi muttered, then suddenly seemed to spot something and added, "It's Tai Sheng!"
"Tai Sheng?"
Everyone looked over. Sure enough, Tai Sheng and Quan Jie had both come up, along with quite a few members of their own clan. They were probably all elites of the Tai Pan clan.
Tai Sheng looked toward us without saying a word.
Quan Jie, meanwhile, wore an awkward expression as he said, "Leader Zi Ye, everyone, we've just discussed it and decided to seek a path to the Free Star Sea with you. Besides, the old leaders never