Kou Ying blasted out his half-finished modifications as weapons, and Lou Guanshan swiftly took the others underground.
Ye Buyu floated down through the terrain. If she had had a heart, it would have been leaping into her throat by now.
"My god, you guys are way too hardcore."
Wan Lan glared at the air.
"Not as hardcore as you, going straight for Soul Self-Destruction!"
"Ahahaha..."
There was no arguing with that.
"We weren't apart for long, but Captain Ye's talent for attracting disaster has grown." Su Wuwei fell silent for a few seconds.
He really wanted to say something, but found that, in the face of such an enormous upheaval, any words seemed utterly inadequate and powerless.
In the end, he could only ask softly.
"Fourteenth tier. We can't get away, can we?"
Ye Buyu spoke, giving a one-word reply.
"No."
The group fell silent for a while before Lou Guanshan gritted his teeth and broke the silence.
"One day, we'll make him pay!"
Ye Buyu cracked a joke. "Maybe if you pull that blade out, you'll be able to land a slash on him."
After descending several thousand meters, they reached a cavern. Glowing stones overhead illuminated the dim underground space, and flowing magma hung from the stone walls like dangling crimson tassels.
The heat distorted the air. Red bubbles rose in the magma, soon bursting and throwing up a few sparks.
Above the magma-draped stone walls stood a silent stone stairway with no end in sight, slumbering within the Dead Star, waiting to be explored.
Using the rocks, they leaped up to the top of the stone wall and looked up the straight, towering stairway into the darkness beyond.
"Let's go. If that key was left for us, then this blade must be connected to us too. Whether