Those words silenced the once-lively Stalactite Cavern for a moment.
After all, given their current cultivation, reaching the heights they hoped for within a hundred years was little more than a tale from the Arabian Nights.
But soon, a voice broke the silence. "Since that person said so, there won't be a problem."
"Rather than worrying about the outside world, you should worry about when you'll be able to get out of those rocks."
Yes, if Su Jiu and Chu Luohen had still been there, they would surely have discovered that the voices came from the individual stalactites.
Outside, the blazing sun still burned like fire, its scorching heat more than ordinary people could bear.
Perhaps because the spiritual qi at her disposal was limited, Yu Qing dared not spare any to regulate her body temperature.
Spiritual qi slowly seeped from her palm and spread toward the barrier wall opposite her, which absorbed almost every last trace.
She looked at the increasingly solid barrier wall before her and thought that, at this rate, she would be finished in another two days.
While Yu Qing's thoughts were still wandering, a tremendous crash suddenly erupted not far behind her, carrying another surge of power within it.
That very power abruptly weakened the barrier wall before her.
Yu Qing was furious. This meant that all the repairs she had made over the past several days had gone to waste, her efforts undone at the final hurdle.
Yu Qing steadied her breathing and temporarily withdrew her spiritual qi, then turned toward the disturbance.
Dust billowed across that stretch of desert. Without spiritual power to support her senses, even she had no idea what had happened there.
At the same time, Mi, who was far from Su Jiu, seemed to sense something and looked