"Aah!"
The next moment, everyone spun as though they had been thrown into a giant tumble washer, their consciousness beginning to blur amid the intense spatial distortion.
Yun Che's vision blurred, and his body felt as though countless invisible threads were pulling and kneading it, while the scenery around him kept flashing into view and disappearing. Instinctively, he enclosed Feng Chu and the other five within a divine power barrier, shielding them from the impact of spatial turbulence.
After an unknown length of time, that intense pulling sensation finally disappeared.
"Splash!" "Splash!" The sounds of bodies hitting water rang out one after another.
Yun Che was the first to steady himself and discovered that he was in a murky black lake. The water was bone-chillingly cold and gave off a nauseating stench of rot and blood.
He looked around. Feng Chu and the other five, along with the other elders and cultivators, were surfacing one after another, all in a sorry state. Clearly, they had all been transported into this lake.
"Cough, cough... what the hell is this place?" Situ Xue asked with a frown after choking on a few mouthfuls of water.
Lin Duo circulated her divine power, evaporating the lake water from her body as she surveyed their surroundings warily. "Be careful, everyone. There's something wrong with this water. It contains a faint corrosive power."
Yun Che swept his gaze across the lake. It stretched without end, its waters an unsettling inky black. Unidentifiable fragments of skeletons floated on the surface. The distant sky was a blanket of gray, with no sun, moon, or stars in sight. Only occasional streaks of blood-red lightning crossed the sky, illuminating the indistinct outlines of black mountains in the distance.
"The demonic qi here is extremely concentrated," Yun Che said. "Keep your