Sacrificial Offering

The moment those words were spoken, the silence in the tunnel shattered. As Chen Fan turned around, the crowd behind him erupted into commotion, and before long, nearly the entire tunnel had descended into chaos.

"Where's Li Yu? He was just talking beside me—how did he suddenly vanish?"

"Lin Hong'er is gone too! What is going on? She just evaporated right in front of me!"

"This is bad—the tunnel is wrong! Throne Lords, what should we do?" someone immediately shouted.

Yet there was no movement from the people ahead. Everyone looked over, only to discover that at some point, the ten Throne Lords had already vanished. Panic instantly seized the crowd, and they thought of the corpses they had seen embedded in the rock walls before entering the cave.

"What happened to the people in front?" someone shouted, questioning the cultivators who had been walking at the very front.

"We don't know. There was a bend up ahead just now, but when we went around it, most of the people in front disappeared, including the ten Throne Lords," a cultivator at the front replied.

After hearing this, everyone's faces darkened.

This was absolutely not a good sign. They all knew that Throne Lord Fu had entered Five Finger Mountain before, and Sect Master had been speaking with him. There was no way he would lead people into a disappearance out of thin air like this.

"Could this be another sacrifice?" someone guessed. When they entered from the cliffside, more than a dozen cultivators had been sacrificed in exchange for a wind passage.

Now that most of the cultivators had disappeared along with the ten Throne Lords, it was probably already very clear who the sacrificial offerings were.

Chen Fan, too, furrowed his brows. *Could Fu Baihou have included me in