Li Yan immediately probed another stretch upstream, then carefully searched along the fine cracks in the ground where the mountain on the opposite bank met the earth.
Yet he found none of that same sensation again. Thus, he did not continue searching elsewhere and returned to the previous location.
Just as Li Yan returned there, a yellow glimmer flashed at the mountain wall at the river's end, and Ming Qi stepped out from within the stone.
Ming Qi's expression was rather unsightly now, her delicate black brows tightly knitted together.
After using an earth-escape technique to enter the mountain, she had not only carefully investigated the suspected barrier at the end, but had also searched along both sides of the mountain, heading left and right.
After silently calculating, she felt that the distances to the edges of the mountain peaks on both sides matched almost exactly what they had seen outside. Yet she was currently trapped here and could not escape beyond the entire mountain.
From this, it could be determined that they were still inside the mountain.
Just as Li Yan had judged, there was nothing inside the mountain worth noting. Only upon reaching the barrier did one experience an intense, heart-pounding sense of dread.
However, Li Yan had still been wrong about one thing. After searching fruitlessly for so long, Ming Qi gritted her teeth and attempted to attack that barrier.
Li Yan had obtained what he wanted, while Ming Qi's true objective remained nowhere in sight. That was why she had become even more desperate.
But even after using her full strength, she could not break through it in the slightest. It was as though that place marked the end of all space, with no further expanse beyond it.
In the end, she withdrew first, intending to