The moment the three moved, the others were first stunned. After pondering for a moment, they too began to act, following the same method and heading down that fork in the road.
Once they turned into the side passage, the path ahead grew increasingly narrow. Light could not reach inside, making it much darker. Even someone of Wu Yang True Person's realm felt ever more stifled and weighed down, seized by a sense of heading toward a point of no return. All manner of thoughts churned endlessly through his mind—
I shouldn't have trusted those words so easily.
Who knows whether that person has some scheme? Even if it isn't a scheme, I should still be cautious here.
Besides, though this voice can be identified, it may not truly have come from that person. I have explored quite a few ruins and secret realms in the past, and some contained illusion arts capable of easily mimicking the voices one wished to hear, deceiving others.
This little cave must be full of secrets, surely riddled with mechanisms and dangers. That voice may well be a test, yet worse luck, we have all taken the bait.
But then again, we were groping through the fog from the moment we entered this cave. Going over to investigate may not necessarily be a bad thing...
Amid these shifting thoughts, Wu Yang True Person continued onward. Their speed far surpassed ordinary imagination, yet as they walked, all they saw remained a stretch of dim grayness. Only after the time it took to drink a cup of tea did things finally change, as a sliver of light emerged from the depths ahead.
At the sight of that light, Wu Yang True Person and the others perked up. They hastened their steps, and after several breaths, they