Like an item handled with gentle care, she felt something cushion her body just before she reached the ground. In the end, she actually landed on her feet.
So did Su Jiu, and naturally, so did Chu Luohen beside her.
The two could not help looking around. Darkness surrounded them, every bit as deep as in the Demon-Subduing Land, if not deeper.
Unlike the Demon-Subduing Land, however, the demonic qi here was very faint. By contrast, spiritual power seemed even more abundant.
Su Jiu looked at her hand, opening it and making a fist several times. A flicker of delight passed through her eyes.
"It seems we can use our spiritual qi again."
"Mm." Chu Luohen's voice remained perfectly calm, with little surprise.
Su Jiu tried to probe their surroundings with her divine sense, only to discover, unexpectedly, that it remained sealed and unusable. Her otherworldly eyes were sealed as well.
In other words, apart from relying on her senses to make out certain things in the darkness, she could use nothing else. She was hardly different from an ordinary person.
"Junior Granduncle, did those branches drag us into an underground world beneath the Demon-Subduing Land?"
"Rather than an underground world, I'm more inclined to think we're inside the Life-and-Death Tree."
Su Jiu nodded and murmured to herself, "That makes sense... If there really were an underground world beneath the Demon-Subduing Land, we shouldn't have failed to sense it when we entered the Life-and-Death Tree's territory..."
Only the interior of the Life-and-Death Tree lay beyond the reach of their divine sense.
"I actually read another annotation about the Life-and-Death Tree in an ancient text." After saying this, Chu Luohen fell silent, seemingly hesitating over whether he should say what came next.
Su Jiu noticed his hesitation too and said frankly,