At Yang Qing's command, Bu Er and the others had already begun escorting them back along the way they had come.
Though that route had not been entirely safe, at least it was familiar.
What lay ahead, however, was anyone's guess.
They could not simply blunder onward.
Yet they had barely retreated a dozen yards when whole swaths of forest began toppling behind them.
Fast as they were, they could not stop the trees from falling all around them.
Several times, towering ancient trees nearly crashed down together and buried them underground.
"Young Master, I'm afraid there really is something enormous down there, just as you said."
Bu Er spoke to Yang Qing as he ran with Ouyang Lin on his back, while Jiang Zhizhou carried Yang Qing.
Something sinister like Azure Cloud Fortress might well emerge from beneath this forest.
"We're stumbling in the dark now. We know nothing at all about what's happening in this forest."
Yang Qing sighed softly. "Let's reach somewhere safe before we decide what to do."
As Pei Buji ran with Mo Beixing, he stole a glance behind them.
"Young Master, more than half the forest back there has fallen, and the ground is riddled with cracks."
Yang Qing asked, "Can you see anything underneath?"
Pei Buji said, "It's too far away to make out clearly. But it does look a little like Four Directions City, the one we saw before."
Four Directions City was a city built underground.
It was also where the ancestors of the Yang and Feng families had once lived.
If it resembled Four Directions City, could there also be an Underground City here connected to the Eastern Radiance Ancient Kingdom?
As Yang Qing pondered this, he felt Jiang Zhizhou running considerably faster than before.
Coming back to himself, he