Upon entering the cave, Yang Chen felt deeply frustrated.
What had been completely within reach was now gone just like that. Clearly, those Jade Green Leaves had been taken by the people from Shaoyang Palace.
Yang Chen sighed inwardly at the pity of it, but he still calmly followed after them.
With two Enlightenment Stage experts present, he did not dare follow too closely. Yet with the Spirit Resonance Divine Eye, he could maintain the perfect distance at all times as he shadowed the group.
The depth of this cave far exceeded Yang Chen's expectations.
They traveled forward for a full hour, yet they still had not reached the end.
Their speed was extremely fast. In one hour, they could cover a very, very great distance.
Another half hour passed, and they still had not reached the end.
Yang Chen could sense that the depths of the cave did not extend straight ahead, but sloped downward. The farther they went, the deeper underground they descended. No one knew where it led.
Finally, after two hours, faint light appeared ahead.
The light grew brighter and brighter, allowing everyone to see clearly at last. At the end of the cave was a massive cavern, and within it lay something profoundly strange.
Yang Chen swept it with the Spirit Resonance Divine Eye and discovered rivers of blood flowing through the cavern. Bubbles gurgled up from those blood rivers, giving off an eerie, sinister feeling.
The surrounding walls were covered in tiny blood-colored crystalline granules. The crystal fragments were exceedingly small, piled together in dense clusters. Combined with the environment around them, they made one's scalp tingle the moment one entered.
Before long, Yang Chen was slightly startled again.
They were not the first group to arrive in the cavern.
Someone had already beaten