"There's movement again!"
"Could those people still be alive?"
Outside the mine shaft.
The people of the Jade Appraisal Pavilion buzzed with speculation about the disturbance inside.
Boom!
Boom, boom...!
Just then, after several more thunderous crashes, the enormous shaft cover suddenly began shaking violently.
The Jade Appraisal Pavilion guards scrambled backward in alarm.
Only Lu Yu, Luo Wei, Jin Wuming, and a few others remained calmly where they stood.
Bang!!
Then, following another tremendous collision, the enormous cover was actually knocked slightly open from below.
Only now did Lu Yu give a slight wave of his hand and say:
"To think we'd actually need to use the second layer of the seal."
As he spoke, a boom rang out, and an invisible surge of mountain spirit power abruptly pressed down on the cover.
Boom! Boom, boom!
At the same time, amid a succession of ear-splitting whistles through the air, great rocks flew in from every direction and landed on the cover.
In an instant, they weighed it down securely.
The cover, which had been shaking incessantly, abruptly became utterly motionless.
Only faint, muffled collisions could still be heard from within the shaft.
Seeing that the disturbance inside had been suppressed, Luo Wei of the Jade Appraisal Pavilion curled his lips upward and said:
"As expected of a Flame Guard. He's got some tricks."
Jin Wuming smiled as well.
"To survive so long surrounded by those monsters, the other two must also possess considerable cultivation and fighting strength."
Luo Wei nodded.
"That's just as well. With three people of considerable cultivation as sacrifices, those monsters down below should behave themselves for a few hours."
Lu Yu, whose brows had remained tightly knitted, frowned and said:
"I'm afraid it won't be that simple."
At these words, Luo Wei and Jin Wuming