At this point, the scenery around them had undergone a fundamental change.
The stretch of road ahead had still been a primitive cave, formed entirely by nature, but now, whether it was the lake before them or the smooth mountain walls, it was clearly man-made.
In the empty lake below, a grayish substance continued to swirl endlessly.
On guard, Luo Zheng and Lie Yu advanced along the edge. In any case, there was no retreat left, and he wanted to see what exactly existed at the end...
This man-made lake was not large, only about two or three li across. Once they reached the far end, the smooth mountain walls began to contract continuously, finally forming a narrow, elongated passage.
After moving sideways along the lake's edge, the two discovered that the passage below was bottomless. It was actually a dead end!
Luo Zheng and Lie Yu exchanged a glance. Lie Yu then took a brown wooden stick from his body. With a light wave in the air, one end of the stick burst into flames.
Lie Yu then tossed the stick downward.
The two watched as the flame grew smaller and smaller in their field of vision, finally vanishing only after a long while...
A gloomy look appeared on Lie Yu's face. "It's too deep down there."
They had fallen from above before, and after approaching this artificial lake, they were already extremely deep beneath Saint Spring Mountain. If they continued downward, who knew where they would end up? Besides, under such powerful gravity, they would likely die from the fall.
"Looks like this is a dead end too." Lie Yu sighed. The matter he had been worrying about had finally come to pass. They would probably be trapped here until they died.
"There is a way through," Luo