The Strange Underground

"Where are they?" Everyone looked around, but there was not a single person in sight. Whether Luo Shaobo or Kong Chen, both had vanished at that moment.

"Could they have already gone down? Could this be the entrance to the Underground Labyrinth Kong Chen mentioned?" Fang Jin's expression turned grave. With a few swift leaps, he arrived beside the massive hole. He glanced down, yet saw nothing but pitch-black darkness. Even light shining into it revealed nothing.

A dangerous aura, coupled with the grim and terrifying entrance, made everyone's hair stand on end.

Lin Chuan surveyed the surroundings. There were no traces of a fight, and the earlier spiritual energy fluctuation had seemed to be fire-attributed. In other words, the person who had just unleashed that spiritual energy should not have been Luo Shaobo. Unless Luo Shaobo was a cultivator secretly possessing multiple attributes, someone else had definitely been here.

Arriving at the mouth of the hole, Lin Chuan pretended to peer inside. After confirming that no one was paying attention to him, he slowly closed his eyes. When he opened them again, his black pupils had turned blood-red, three tomoe spinning rapidly within them.

After a while, Lin Chuan quietly withdrew his Sharingan, his heart growing heavier.

Even the Sharingan can't see through it. What exactly is this place? Lin Chuan thought.

By then, everyone had finished examining the area. However, they had previously been some distance away, and neither Lian Yifan nor Liu Yong possessed Lin Chuan's powerful perception while in his Sage Chakra state. Thus, unlike Lin Chuan, they had not sensed that the burst of spiritual energy was fire-attributed. Instead, they mistakenly assumed that the lingering fire-attributed fluctuations had been left behind by Kong Chen. This skewed everyone's understanding, and they failed to realize that an