Thousand Mountain Valley

"Is this really the bottom of Jinglan Ancient Lake? What's the problem?" Lin Chuan immediately asked.

Yet the Seven-Colored Exquisite Heart fell silent. After a long while, it still did not answer Lin Chuan's question.

Lin Chuan waited patiently while carefully keeping watch over his surroundings, guarding against any sudden danger.

"This place is dangerous. Be careful!"

After a long time, the Seven-Colored Exquisite Heart left behind that baffling warning and said nothing more.

Helpless, Lin Chuan could only give up on trying to pry information out of the Seven-Colored Exquisite Heart.

He turned to look around. Everywhere was shrouded in darkness. The colored light released by the Seven-Colored Exquisite Heart had vanished after only an instant, but Lin Chuan had still seen something—the walls of the passageway.

Contrary to Lin Chuan's earlier guess that they were black stone, the passage walls were pale white, resembling white jade. Had he not seen them with his own eyes, Lin Chuan would have found it difficult to associate such material with this environment.

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Chuan set off toward one side of the passage.

Since he was already trapped in here, he might as well take a look around.

Outside Jinglan Ancient Lake, at the marketplace where Lin Chuan and the others had once stopped.

Because of Luo Yuxi's earlier purchase of information, many people throughout the marketplace now knew that the old man beneath the withered tree was an exceptionally powerful Nascent Soul cultivator. For a time, countless people came hoping to buy information from him.

However, the old man did not sell the information in his possession to just anyone. Most of those who came bearing large amounts of spirit stones to purchase intelligence about Jinglan Ancient Lake left disappointed.

On this day, the old man