The stone door opened completely, revealing a passage that led downward.
The passage was about two meters wide, its walls built from rough stone bricks. A Moonlight Stone was embedded in the wall every ten meters or so, illuminating the dim passage.
A damp, stale smell washed over them, mixed with faint traces of mildew and earth.
"This place... feels like nobody's been here in ages." Zhao Qiu poked his head inside for a look, then shrank back.
"No shit. If people came here every day, could it still be called a Treasure Secret Realm?" Zhou Fan rolled his eyes at him.
If someone had already been here, that meant the treasure might have already been taken. That definitely wouldn't be good news.
"Be careful. There might be traps here. I'll scout ahead with my Paper Butterflies."
Lin Qianqian raised her hand and released dozens of Paper Butterflies into the cave.
But before they had flown very far, Lin Qianqian suddenly felt herself lose control of them.
Then all the Paper Butterflies dropped to the ground at once.
"That's strange. There seems to be some kind of restriction here. My Paper Butterflies stop working once they're more than five meters away from me," Lin Qianqian said.
She could clearly feel that her connection to the Paper Butterflies had been abruptly severed.
"Doesn't that mean there could be traps up ahead?" Zhao Qiu immediately grew nervous.
"What's there to be scared of? I'll take the lead. Just follow behind me." With that, Duan Fei strode inside without a care.
Zhou Fan and the other two followed, keeping five meters behind him.
Click!
Duan Fei stepped on a trigger.
Three sharp arrows shot straight at him from ahead, piercing clean through his chest.
Completely unharmed, he pulled out the arrows and kept