Ao Qing and Xie Chen suddenly attacked. Seeing this, the black-robed youth's face lit up with joy.
He had never intended to help Ao Qing and Xie Chen again. Taking advantage of their attack on Lin Bai, he turned and fled.
"According to the agreement between my father and the Spirit Lake Dragon King, seven days from now, they'll activate the formation and forcibly teleport us out of the grotto."
"I only need to survive this calamity, find somewhere to hide, and wait in peace!"
"Look at how vast the world inside this grotto is. There are mountains and plains—more than enough places for me to hide!"
The Spirit Lake Dragon King and several Demon Race experts had reversed the formation, and the negative effects were extremely severe.
It could only allow martial artists to enter; it had no exit for them to leave.
Thus, the Spirit Lake Dragon King and the other Demon Realm experts discussed the matter and decided that after seven days, regardless of whether Ao Qing, the black-robed youth, and the others had gained anything, they would stop reversing the formation. At the same time, they would activate another formation and use the grotto's restrictions to forcibly teleport them out.
Therefore, when the black-robed youth saw that he was no match for Lin Bai, he turned and ran, planning to find somewhere to hide.
Unexpectedly, while he was using an escape art to flee rapidly through the mountains, his spine suddenly turned cold, and his expression abruptly darkened.
"Heh heh, where does Your Excellency think you're running to?" a man's mocking voice echoed beside his ears.
The black-robed youth turned his eyes and saw that the light transformed from Lin Bai's escape art was already less than a hundred zhang behind him, and the distance between