The Death of Bai Jinye

Of the two choices, Li Haowen leaned more toward the latter.

After all, waiting for an Upper Three Realms cultivator to come to their rescue was ultimately the safer option.

They had only just leaped into the cave, and nearly everyone had already been wiped out. No one knew whether there were even more troublesome tricks lurking in the abyss beneath the bed of Nanyu Lake.

Using the flame burning at his fingertips to see everything around him, Li Haowen stepped over the corpses scattered at his feet and walked forward.

The earth at the bottom of the cave was muddy. Presumably, all the water from Nanyu Lake had flowed into the cave, so that was hardly surprising.

Moreover, there was another question.

Where had Bai Jinye gone?

Li Haowen knew full well that Bai Jinye wouldn't die so easily.

In fact, any Wanhua Realm cultivator would have had ample time to react in the situation they had just faced.

Even if they had suffered severe injuries by accident, they could use their Destiny True Qi to quickly heal themselves in a short time.

But Li Haowen couldn't see Bai Jinye anywhere at the bottom of the cave.

A dozen or so breaths.

Li Haowen roughly calculated that the enormous cave beneath the bed of Nanyu Lake was about thirty-seven thousand zhang deep. Judging by how long it had taken him to reach the bottom, Bai Jinye could have arrived no more than a dozen or so breaths before him.

But where was he?

"Elder Bai!"

Li Haowen shouted into the deathly silence. The only answer was his own hollow echo.

After taking a few more steps, the Spiritual Sense he had spread out finally picked up a few clues on the ground nearby.

Footprints.

The prints left in the