When Yue Wen came to, he found himself and his teammates sprawled haphazardly across the pitch-black stone floor. The lava around them had already flowed over.
"Wake up!" Yue Wen hurriedly roused everyone.
As the others woke one after another, Yue Wen looked around, only to discover that they were back in the very first cavern, and the entrance to the Treasure Vault had vanished.
"What happened?"
He scanned their surroundings and found the Treasure Vault doors still tightly shut, as though they had never entered in the first place.
In fact, all the spectators had seen was the team trying to open the Treasure Vault doors after slaying the stone dragon, only for a burst of brilliant light to blast them all away.
Everything that had happened after they entered the Treasure Vault seemed to exist only in their consciousness.
This was the Rock Dragon's Secret Realm, after all. Within it, the Rock Dragon King Ao Hui held supreme authority. If he wanted to tamper with things, even ordinary Void Realm Dao Lords would have difficulty noticing.
Probably only those few Living Immortals high in the sky could discern some hints of what had happened.
There was nothing particularly unusual in his teammates' memories, either. They only remembered a dragon-shaped figure appearing before them, after which they had all lost consciousness. In their sleep, they vaguely recalled circulating their Cultivation Methods for a while.
At that thought, everyone checked their cultivation.
"I've reached the peak Astral Realm!" Qi Dian exclaimed. "And my essence, qi, and spirit are all brimming with vitality. I feel like I could condense my Dharma Form at any moment!"
He could feel his surging qi and blood pressing against the upper limit of his cultivation. If condensing a Dharma Form had not required materials, he