With Star Shifting, heaven and earth changed places. After a wave of dizzying vertigo and a nauseating, stifling sensation of being turned upside down—
Meng Zhao and several others appeared inside an underground cavern. As far as the eye could see, there was only pitch-black ruin and sinister peril.
Before them, black smoke curled through the air, swept by a faint breeze toward Meng Zhao and the others.
Before Meng Zhao could speak, an elder of the Lei Family had already warned them,
"Everyone, be careful. Hold your breath, circulate your protective true qi, and keep this poisonous miasma outside your bodies. Do not let your guard down."
At the Lei elder's reminder, everyone scattered throughout the cavern immediately did as he said. Meng Zhao was no exception.
Disguised as Lei Chongfeng, Meng Zhao was enveloped in a shield formed by arcs of blue lightning across his body, isolating him from the outside world.
When the black smoke reached his body and settled upon his protective true qi, the instant the two came into contact, they gave off a series of hissing corrosive sounds. Meng Zhao could keenly sense his protective true qi being steadily consumed, requiring its user to continuously channel power to sustain it.
Those with deep cultivation and solid foundations could manage well enough. But those with shallow foundations and insufficient cultivation, if they remained in such an environment for too long, would easily end up drained in both heart and strength, exhausted in body and mind.
Of course, this black poisonous miasma was merely the most basic harsh condition of the Poisonous Cave Land. It was far from truly dangerous. The greater dangers lay hidden within the boundless black earth.
Less than ten feet to Meng Zhao's right-front, the black, hard ground, like a slab of