What the men were discussing was a cave that had suddenly appeared beneath a tall mountain in the middle section of the range, on the side near the Dark Forest. Strangely, eight or nine out of every ten people who went inside to explore never came back out.
Even those who emerged alive underwent drastic changes in temperament and a sharp rise in strength, killing anyone they saw.
Five teammates who had accompanied the men had entered the cave. Four never returned, while the lone survivor emerged having soared straight from Early-Stage Heavenly Immortal to mid-stage Golden Immortal.
But after coming out, he had lost his mind and killed anyone he saw. In the end, the explorers had surrounded and killed him, but he alone had slaughtered dozens of people.
The eerie thing was that he seemed to have lost his sense of pain. Unless his head was cut off, any other injury had absolutely no effect on him.
Fortunately, the men had been too timid to enter. Otherwise, they would not have been here drinking.
So they planned to move elsewhere, leaving the Wuling Peak area to make a living somewhere else.
Li Dalong had always kept a respectful distance from dangerous, eerie places like that. As the ancestors had said, a gentleman did not stand beneath a crumbling wall. He had absolutely no interest in joining the excitement.
And so he drank alone at the inn, while Ye Wuxia and Ke Xialing took Xiao Cui and the others along and tirelessly browsed the entire town.
They also bought quite a few local specialties produced within Wuling Peak.
Only after they tired of shopping did they come to the inn to find Li Dalong. They ate dinner together before returning to their rooms to rest, preparing to enter the