Zhou Yan's words instantly jolted everyone awake like a splash of cold water.
For Xie Changsheng, Lu Hong, and Lin You, Hui Ming had vanished before their eyes in the blink of an eye, and then Si Chen and the others had appeared.
For Zhou Yan and Luo Qingyin, they had only hidden inside for a few breaths to avoid being "searched."
But what about Hui Ming, who had disappeared?
Time had been stretched out.
Black Mountain was the first to jump up. "Then what are we waiting for! Let's go out and beat him!"
"Go out?"
Zhou Yan shook his head with a bitter smile. "That's exactly the problem."
He pointed at the amber light screen beside them.
"You experienced it yourselves just now. When people enter from outside, no matter how far apart they enter, they almost always arrive here 'at the same time.'"
Zhou Yan took a deep breath. "But going out... is the exact opposite."
He looked at everyone and said gravely, "Even if we leave only a breath apart, once we're outside, we might be separated by several hours, or even... several days."
Red Wind understood, and his tiger face darkened. "Meaning, even if we charge out right now, we might not be able to meet up at all, and he could pick us off one by one instead?"
"It might be worse."
Zhou Yan shook his head. "Outside, Hui Ming can use that time to do plenty of things."
Si Chen nodded and explained with a smile, "Like breaking through to a higher cultivation realm, or continuing to devour Dao Foundations... After all, there are still so many rogue cultivators outside Mistveil Valley."
"Devour Dao Foundations?"
Xie Changsheng frowned, and Lu Hong and Lin You froze as well.
"What do you mean?"
Zhou Yan