Crimson flames swept upward, engulfing the layers upon layers of dry bones.
The white bones sizzled in the fire. As the flames scorched the once-impenetrable mound, a narrow entrance to a dark tunnel finally emerged beneath the blackened bone fragments and ashes.
"Look! There's an entrance here!" The cultivator froze, then shouted.
The nearby cultivators immediately gathered at the sound, and the news soon spread rapidly among the disciples.
The disciples hurried over. As they gazed at the hidden passage the flames had just exposed, shock flickered in all their eyes.
"So there was a secret passage! Whoever stole the divine flame must have left through here!"
With no time to think further, several cultivators leaped into the dark opening and pursued at full speed along the narrow, winding passage.
The passage twisted and turned. The farther they went, the more the texture of the cavern walls changed, and the rich spiritual energy unique to the depths of the secret realm gradually permeated the air.
As more people arrived, their auras mingled ever more densely. Auras from outside rapidly accumulated within, completely dispersing the traces unique to the chaos fire and Jiang Lu.
Before long, the group rushed out of the hidden passage, and the scene before them changed abruptly.
It was actually the vast, secluded inner region of the secret realm.
A natural barrier separated the secret realm's inner and outer regions, making it difficult for ordinary disciples in the outer region to enter the inner region without permission. Yet this hidden passage's exit happened to lead directly into the inner region.
"The inner region is full of demonic beasts. This person ran in here, so all we need to do is wait until the secret realm closes and see who leaves last. Then we'll know who took the