"Listen, since this place is so strange, why don't we head back now?" Xiao Yan's words had left Zi Yan feeling unnerved too. The longer she looked around, the more uneasy she became, and she hurriedly suggested, "We've found plenty of medicinal ingredients anyway, so the trip hasn't been wasted."
"You've found your medicinal ingredients, but I still haven't found what I came for." Xiao Yan couldn't help rolling his eyes. He had come to the Ruins of Return to search for traces of Heavenly Flames. With none found yet, how could he give up halfway?
"Young master, look! There seems to be something down there..." Just then, Qing Lin pointed toward the lakebed and cried out in surprise. After the Nine Nether Illusion Demon Flame evaporated the lake water, a black cavern had appeared beneath it. The hole looked incredibly deep, its end nowhere in sight.
Xiao Yan tried extending his soul force downward, but the moment it reached the space below, it was abruptly severed. Some terrifying power seemed to have attacked that strand of soul force, annihilating it completely. Xiao Yan frowned and was just about to leave when he suddenly felt something calling to him from deep within the cavern.
"It's pitch-black down there. It looks dangerous. Let's just go." Zi Yan glanced down and shook her head. She couldn't sense any energy within, so there probably weren't any treasures below. In that case, there was naturally no reason for them to venture down and take the risk.
"I'm going down to have a look..." Xiao Yan took a deep breath and suddenly spoke. For some reason, he had an inexplicable feeling that if he didn't descend this time, he might regret it for the rest of his life. Though reason warned him that unpredictable dangers