While Chen Lin was pondering, the Hundred Flowers Fairy also flew over to inspect the node, and she was just as bewildered.
"What should we do?"
The Hundred Flowers Fairy looked at Chen Lin, a question in her eyes.
"There's no other way. We can only keep testing."
After a moment's hesitation, Chen Lin released the Scholar. His artifact spirit was a true spirit's remnant soul, which could resist the invasion of nightmare qi here to some extent. An ordinary puppet would undergo nightmare transformation the instant it left the protection of his innate power.
He gave the Scholar a Realm-Breaking Talisman, then controlled him to fly to the node.
The node broke open normally. The Scholar slowly reached forward, but the moment his hand touched the ripples, it could advance no farther.
With a thought, Chen Lin had the Scholar unleash a streak of sword qi.
But just as before, it failed to shake the node in the slightest.
His expression turned extremely grim.
They could break open the node but could not leave. There was no doubt that a rule was restricting them!
The short man had also realized this. His expression could no longer be described as merely grim-his face was ashen as death.
If Chen Lin and the others could not leave, they would merely be trapped here at worst, with time to slowly search for a solution. But he was about to undergo nightmare transformation. If he could not leave within fifteen minutes, he would become a mindless monster!
"My lord, save me!"
After his expression shifted several times, the short man dropped to one knee.
Perhaps feeling that such a plea was too weak, he steeled himself and added, "If you lend me your aid, my lord, I am willing to acknowledge you as