"Gahahaha!" Just as everyone feared the structure would keep collapsing, the roar abruptly stopped, replaced by hideous laughter rising from deep underground.
"Hey, Senior Brother Zhang, that thing probably spotted us! Looks like it deliberately caused a landslide to bury us here!" Jiang Lingzi hurriedly said to Zhang Cai upon hearing the laughter.
"Probably..."
"Correct!" Before Zhang Cai could finish, the voice suddenly cut him off. "Count yourselves lucky that not even one or two of you were crushed to death!"
"Huh?" Zhang Cai exclaimed in alarm. Suddenly, he felt a hair-raising aura rising from underground. "This is bad! How did its aura suddenly become so powerful? Retreat!"
The others naturally felt it too. This was no longer the aura of a Golden Core Stage Cultivator, and their expressions changed dramatically. Retreat? They were blocked above, below, and on every side. Where could they retreat?
"We'll blast a way out!" Suoluo pointed overhead and spoke gravely.
"..." Everyone was speechless. Blast a way out above them? By the time they finished, their enemy would have caught up long ago.
"Too late!" the voice suddenly rang out again.
Rumble! As the voice sounded, everyone felt the ground begin to shake, as though another collapse was imminent.
Crash! Before they could discuss what to do, the entire floor suddenly loosened. Amid a chaotic clattering, the ground began to collapse beneath them.
"This is bad! Protect yourselves! We're going down!" Zhang Cai's expression changed drastically as he shouted. The entire floor caved in, and everyone released treasures to shield themselves as they fell. Zhang Cai repeatedly pointed his fingers, making the Dragonhead Ingot act like an enormous shield to block the falling rocks for them.
The ground seemed to have become a bottomless pit. Scorching heat and pitch-black demonic qi surged skyward, while