If someone truly came here in search of treasure and had to expend great effort to enter, like Jiang Baibi's group before, only to find nothing afterward, they would probably be furious enough to want to raze the entire place to the ground.
After all, if there was nothing inside, why had so many restrictions been laid outside? To protect an empty cave dwelling?
Li Yan now naturally understood part of the reason. "Venerable Duanmu" and the others had taken all their belongings with them when they left; it had nothing to do with the Dark Spirit Demon Bats.
"The most mysterious cave dwelling that the Dark Spirit Demon Bats had always guarded should have had no cultivator living in it. In their memories, that mysterious expert entered it, then quietly came out soon afterward. There probably hadn't been any great battle?"
Li Yan rapidly considered his circumstances and guessed at what might be within the cave dwelling guarded by the Dark Spirit Demon Bats. A person? A treasure?
After pondering for a while, Li Yan still had no clue.
"Never mind all that for now. I'll find Xing Ming and Feng Moru first!"
Li Yan had already searched several places without seeing a single person. All he found were utterly empty houses.
After leaving the alchemy chamber, he began flying toward other areas. Although no one seemed to be here, Li Yan remained exceedingly cautious.
The cave dwelling was enormous. Li Yan alone had discovered four beast-rearing chambers, while the courtyards and corridors twisted and turned endlessly.
Though he was deep beneath the seabed, an illusion spread overhead. The blue skies and white clouds it conjured were so lifelike that he could even feel the occasional breeze brush past as he watched the drifting clouds float away...
The light