What was most frightening in a high-difficulty dungeon?
Not powerful enemies, but unknown mechanics.
Just like now.
Many times, once you figured out a dungeon's mechanics, all that remained were powerful enemies. You just had to fight.
The Yaoguang statue wielded the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger and was powerful enough to instantly kill any one of them, yet it had still been slain.
With the team's strength, even if they encountered a level-nine Sovereign, they could put up a fight. But if they could not figure out the dungeon's mechanics, they might be picked off one by one and ultimately wiped out.
Zhang Yuanqing did not even know who the enemy was, nor did he understand why his teammates had vanished so strangely. He was completely at a loss, with no idea where to direct his strength.
He forced himself to calm down. "At their levels, they have enough strength to handle a crisis. They won't be in danger for the time being. Before then, if I figure out this stage's mechanics, there'll be a turning point."
Zhang Yuanqing thought quickly:
"We must have triggered the dungeon's mechanics before we vanished so strangely. Xiahou Aotian disappeared when the Ghost Marriage procession passed by, while the others disappeared after separating from me. Maybe they didn't disappear—I did.
"My scouting Yin corpse also disappeared for no reason, but it never saw the Ghost Marriage procession. So it wasn't the Ghost Marriage procession that triggered the 'disappearance' mechanic."
By this point in his analysis, Zhang Yuanqing had vaguely reached a conclusion:
Entering this area was what triggered the disappearance.
The moment they entered this place, they had already triggered the mechanics of the second stage. But why Xiahou Aotian had disappeared first, and why the Yin corpse had lost contact sooner than the others—those