"Young Master Xiao Yan, go deeper into the cave! I can feel something calling to me."
Qing Lin's voice was exceptionally weak after the Bloodthirsty Pattern had absorbed her life essence. Xiao Yan was startled to hear this. The cave stretched beyond sight; it was not as though he had never scanned it with his soul perception before, but the result had been a maze of twisting passages, with his soul perception weakened within. Even Xiao Yan himself could not claim he could find the way through.
After the attack just now, Lu Zhi remained where he was and activated the Spirit-Devouring Pattern, continuously absorbing Dou Qi. Evidently, that attack had not been as effortless for him as it appeared.
Watching Lu Zhi and Shi Meng eyeing them like tigers watching prey, Xiao Yan knew those two would never let him have his way so easily. Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan were both slower than Lu Zhi, and they certainly would not be able to escape when the time came.
Xiao Yan then quietly said a few words to Chu Qun and Yang Lingyan. Although both of them refused at first, they could only agree in the face of Xiao Yan's unusually serious attitude.
Xiao Yan swiftly swallowed a fifth-tier pill to restore Dou Qi. The blood-red Crimson Lotus Karma Flame appeared once more. To Xiao Yan, the flame he was most familiar with controlling would always be his own source flame.
With overwhelming momentum, Xiao Yan threw a punch at Lu Zhi, who stood in place. His arm trembled strangely, setting off layer after layer of sonic booms.
Standing where he was, Lu Zhi looked at Xiao Yan as though he were toying with prey and laughed. "It seems you really are at the end of your rope!"
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