Ye Tian instantly looked toward the source of the sound. The towering city wall before him had actually collapsed, replaced by a gigantic pit whose depths could not be seen.
"What is going on?"
This time, no one could remain seated. Even those devout believers who had been kneeling hurriedly rose to their feet, their faces filled with panic.
Though Hong Ying said nothing, she nervously clutched the corner of Ye Tian's robe.
Ye Tian frowned deeply. Though he showed nothing outwardly, he too felt profoundly unsafe.
Yet a strange aura suddenly emerged from the pit, as though it had locked onto him and was sending out an inexplicable summons.
"Fellow Daoist Ye, do you feel something strange? It is as if that hole is drawing me in."
The scholar spoke to Ye Tian.
Ye Tian was somewhat surprised and nodded.
"I thought I was the only one who felt it. It seems I was overthinking it."
"You! Did you feel the Earthwyrm's call from underground? I seem to have felt a peculiar force of summons calling me over!"
An old man stepped out from among the black-robed crowd, raised both hands high, and shouted.
But the people around him cast strange looks his way, thinking only that he was spouting nonsense.
"Sigh, looks like another one driven mad by the treasure."
Someone said this.
"Did none of you feel it? This is the Earthwyrm's summons! No, the treasure is mine! I'm going down!"
The thin middle-aged man became wildly excited and rushed toward the hole as he spoke.
But the young people around him would not have it. Someone even directly raised a sword against him.
"Hey, old man, if you want to play mad, do it somewhere else. This is not a place where you can throw a