Overwhelming demonic might, one against a thousand; breaking the deadlock, facing the middle stage

Then where was the cultivator who had brought this flood of trouble hiding?

Realizing the question, Lin Changheng began to think.

At the same time, two possible routes of escape surfaced in his mind.

First, he could find the hidden cultivator and expose them, drawing all the attention of the demon cultivators above.

Second, if the demon cultivators found that cultivator before discovering him, he would naturally be left out of it.

The former meant actively searching; the latter was also active, except that he would actively conceal himself to delay discovery.

Lin Chang's gaze instinctively swept over his underwater surroundings.

Beside the pitch-black cave mouth where he was staying, countless similar openings leading to unknown destinations densely covered the rocky walls at the bottom of the lake.

The larger ones spanned several zhang, while the smallest barely allowed a person to squeeze through sideways.

Some were unfathomably deep; others extended only a few zhang.

Some were utterly silent; others faintly carried the sound of surging water.

If the demon cultivators searched them one by one, even several times their number would accomplish nothing. They could never explore them all.

Yet they were still doing so-

Lin Changheng surmised that, on one hand, they intended to "beat the grass to startle the snake," deliberately creating pressure to force that cultivator out.

On the other, they were probably fairly confident that some powerful means of detection could drag that person out.

Otherwise, however grand this display, it would likely be wasted effort.

He raised his head, his divine light piercing the lake water as he looked upward.

The great encirclement formation had already spread open. A blood-colored curtain of light enveloped the entire lake, and countless demon cultivators were busily taking their positions.

The young Core Formation Middle Stage demon cultivator