Lin Xianzheng's array formations remained unbroken. Hu Dan and her companion were both within them, meaning the one who had screamed was naturally unrelated to them.
The sound came from an opponent hiding in the dark. Judging by the noise, that person was definitely finished.
With one fewer opponent, Lin Xianzheng felt not a shred of joy. A split second before that scream, the surrounding strata had begun to shake wildly.
While descending all the way down, he had studied the structure of the surrounding strata in order to deploy his array. Even if the spiritual veins were being forcibly shifted and presented an unstable posture, things should not have been this violent. As for earthquakes and the like, that was even more impossible—like cultivators of his caliber, he would have sensed such natural disasters half an hour prior.
This was definitely unnatural. Some immense force was twisting and acting upon it.
Lin Xianzheng turned his gaze to interrogate Hu Dan within the array, but wherever his eyes fell, the array was completely empty, as if the two had evaporated into thin air without him sensing a thing.
It made his flesh crawl.
"Extraordinary times, join forces against the outside!"
An opponent in the dark shouted thus, and firelight simultaneously ignited within the strata, revealing that person's position. Lin Xianzheng almost opened his mouth to agree, but a certain palpitation in the depths of his heart suddenly flared, causing his response to be half a beat too slow. It was precisely because of this half-beat that screams from different directions rang out almost simultaneously, and the freshly lit firelight was abruptly extinguished. There was no process in between, as though the darkness had swallowed it in one bite—yes, the darkness clearly concealed a fierce beast that hunted wantonly, and they