Just as Ning Xiaochuan spotted Xue Lingxu, another group of rotting corpses came chasing after them from afar, icy Evil Qi radiating from their bodies.
"Emptiness!"
Xue Lingxu formed seals with both hands. Tadpole-sized characters appeared in the void before her and slowly drifted down onto the heads of all the corpses.
The instant the characters touched the corpses, every corpse stopped pursuing them and soon vanished without a trace.
Ning Xiaochuan looked at Xue Lingxu beside him, a trace of surprise in his eyes. Through his probing, he discovered that Xue Lingxu's cultivation had actually reached the late stage of the Creation Realm Fourth Level, placing her on equal footing with him.
Xue Lingxu must have encountered some great fortuitous opportunity. Otherwise, her cultivation could not have risen so quickly.
"Follow me!"
Xue Lingxu sliced open a crack in the void before her. Without another word, she stepped directly inside, and Ning Xiaochuan followed. Very soon, both of them disappeared from this stretch of heaven and earth.
Ning Xiaochuan and Xue Lingxu emerged from the void and arrived in a secret chamber. The moment he arrived, Ning Xiaochuan saw Xiao Ling'er, Zi Hanyan, and Little Red.
No one knew how far this secret chamber was from the palace gates. Xue Lingxu and the others had reached this place only because Xue Lingxu had continuously carried Xiao Ling'er, Zi Hanyan, and Little Red through space. It had taken them a full month to find this chamber.
Ning Xiaochuan carefully examined his surroundings. The secret chamber was pitch-black, with only several torches on the walls giving off faint light.
The entire chamber was only about twenty square meters, making it somewhat cramped for Ning Xiaochuan and the others. At the same time, Ning Xiaochuan was puzzled. What could such a tiny