"What?" Li Xiaoya hurriedly stole a glance into the distance. An enormous shadow had appeared there, with a faint golden glow showing behind its massive form.
"What is that?" He Jin and the others looked back as well. Only Yang Muqing, who was holding off the attackers at the rear, had no time to turn around.
"Could we be almost at the end?" Li Xiaoya said excitedly. Taking a closer look, he added, "Huh? Have you noticed there seem to be far fewer Mechanism Beasts behind us?"
"Huh? You're right!" At his words, He Jin peered ahead. "They don't seem as densely packed!"
"That's it!" Li Xiaoya surveyed their surroundings, then suddenly smiled. "Look, the curve of this wall bends to the right now! At the beginning, it bent to the left, and the direction we're facing has changed too!"
"Oh! That's right! We're almost at the exit!" Realization dawned on everyone, and their spirits soared.
"Good! Let's pick up the pace! Stay close!" Li Xiaoya shouted excitedly, immediately speeding up.
"Right!" everyone answered in unison. Their momentum surged as they kept close behind Li Xiaoya.
As they advanced rapidly, the Mechanism Beast Guards behind them grew fewer and fewer, greatly easing the pressure on them. The enormous shadow also became increasingly clear. It turned out to be an oval black sphere nearly twenty-odd zhang tall, resting in the middle of the ground. There was not a single Mechanism Beast within several dozen zhang of it, but the sight around it shocked everyone. With the enormous black sphere at its center, a crescent-shaped clearing lay before it, its perimeter piled with cultivators' bones and the wreckage of Mechanism Beasts, forming a Crescent Bone Wall over a zhang high.
Behind the Black Orb, however, golden light flickered, though they could not