The complete annihilation of the Azure Mountain Sword Sect disciples who had entered the tomb left Lu Feng in a heavy mood and made him even more worried for Shao Yang and the others.
"The exit is just ahead."
After walking for another half an incense stick's time, Wu Ying suddenly pointed at a corner ahead, still shaken as he said, "That tiny piece of fallen rubble nearly deafened me before."
Lu Feng approached the corner and saw faint remnants of battle marks on the stone wall. He surmised that the fallen stone had likely cracked after being struck earlier.
Unfortunately, the marks were too blurred and chaotic, and none contained any traces of techniques, making it difficult to discern any useful clues.
Lu Feng continued onward with Wu Ying and finally emerged safely from the maze.
Though they had encountered no danger along the way, Lu Feng understood perfectly well that without Wu Ying having scouted out the route beforehand, they could never have made it out so easily.
Take the invisible "spider silk" they had encountered upon entering. Had Wu Ying not heard through that arrangement in advance, Lu Feng entering alone might well have been ensnared, triggering the mechanisms that followed.
The same had been true when they passed through the winding corridor. Any wrong step upon those floating tiles laid across the ground would alter the passageway, spawning new routes and leaving one lost within.
Then there had been those Secret Door Passages. Without prior knowledge, they could not have been discovered at all, while rashly probing the rock walls in search of them might unexpectedly trigger other dangers.
Still, they had yet to discover precisely what had killed Jiang Yingyu and the other.
That meant the road ahead might hold the same unknown dangers for