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Everyone followed the Golden-Armored Cultivator for a while, then rounded a bend and came to a staircase whose bottom was lost from sight. After following the group for some distance, Li Xiaoya realized that the stairs seemed to curve downward in an arc. He could not help wondering, Could Spiritlight Lake be underground rather than out in the open? As the group descended, the spiritual qi seemed to grow increasingly dense.
Half an hour later, Li Xiaoya's guess proved correct. Just as all the winding turns were beginning to make him dizzy, they finally reached the bottom of the stairs. A great swath of blue-white light shone in from the exit. By Li Xiaoya's estimate, their descent had brought them several hundred zhang underground.
The moment he stepped out of the tunnel, Li Xiaoya was stunned by the sight before him.
An enormous underground cavern stretched before his eyes. Not far ahead, white mist blanketed the ground, hiding the cavern's far end. The ceiling was actually covered entirely in multicolored spirit stones, which gave off tiny points of colorful light like a starry sky, only even more dazzling thanks to their myriad hues.
Looking astonished, everyone gathered in a clearing beside the lake. Li Xiaoya craned his neck to look at the water, but its surface was entirely milky white, concealing everything beneath. As soon as he entered the clearing, he discovered that his sealed magic power and divine sense were usable again. He could clearly feel that the spiritual qi in this cave abode was astonishingly dense, almost seven or eight times that on Heavenly Dao Mountain. The spiritual qi contained in the lake water seemed even more extraordinary. No wonder it could improve cultivators' constitutions and help them condense