"Thud~ thud~~" The sound grew ever more urgent, like footsteps, yet also like a deliberate rhythm, pounding upon the ground and hammering into everyone's hearts.
Before Xiao Hua could return to his quiet room, shrill whistles rang throughout the Quanjin Mountain mine veins. Squad after squad of Quanjin Mountain Disciples flew out from their resting places and headed toward different caves, while the several thousand Daoist disciples sent as reinforcements also flew back from their quiet rooms and guard posts with slight nervousness. Though the entire mine vein was in a flurry, everything remained orderly.
Xiao Hua's appearance did not draw much attention.
Cui Hongshen and the others had naturally come out long ago. Seeing Xiao Hua return to the squad, he said nothing further, merely waved his hand. "Follow Cui."
As he spoke, Cui Hongshen rose into the air and flew straight toward the space through which the Thunder Control Sect disciples had previously entered Quanjin Mountain.
When they reached that rather large space, its circumstances had long since changed. Not only was the atmosphere extremely tense, with every Quanjin Mountain disciple wearing a taut expression as they hurriedly directed the arriving Daoist disciples, but there were also many more cave entrances within the space.
When Xiao Hua and the others had entered earlier, there had only been four or five connecting tunnels in this space. Now, there were actually forty or fifty more, filling the entire space, which spanned several dozen zhang.
A Quanjin Mountain disciple stood guard beneath each pitch-black entrance. Whenever the disciple coordinating matters from the center called out the name of an incoming reinforcement squad, the responsible disciple would immediately raise a hand in signal, inviting that squad to pass through the entrance above their heads and enter the tunnel.
*It seems Quanjin Mountain