"Rope!"
The old man shouted, and someone immediately brought out a rope.
It was an equally pitch-black rope, looking almost identical to the one Luo Yusheng had prepared for them.
The old man personally used nearly the same method to throw the rope onto that boulder.
"Senior Brother, it's done!"
"Enter!"
The square-faced old man gave a cold shout and was the first to descend into the abyss.
A powerful suction force suddenly appeared.
In the span of a single instant, the square-faced old man's pupils contracted sharply, his eyes nearly bulging from their sockets.
"Bastard! Who dared to break in ahead of us?!"
The abyss's suction force did not only target Qin Shaofeng and the others.
Even though the old man's cultivation was extraordinarily powerful, he was still rapidly dragged downward by that suction.
Not even his voice could carry out.
A full quarter of an hour passed.
All twenty of them landed in the first trial Qin Shaofeng and the others had encountered.
"Eldest Senior Brother, that rope just now was..."
The old men all wore equally ugly expressions.
Even the one asking already knew what had happened here in his heart; he simply refused to believe it.
"It should have been people from one of the major powers."
The square-faced old man spoke with a strange expression.
He wanted to say something, yet felt that something was deeply not right. After a long silence, he finally said, "It seems we weren't the only ones to discover this place. Those people from the various powers all arrived alongside us. If it really was them, then that power is far too terrifying."
"Grandfather, what do you mean by that? Why don't I quite understand?" the young man from earlier asked.
"You don't understand even this?"
The square-faced old man