Coming from the sa sect, Senior Brother Qin and the others had so understanding of the capabilities of Spectral Shadow. This ghost cultivator junior brother had a perception for potential dangers that ordinary people could not match.
Take the recent encounter in the mine tunnel for instance; had Spectral Shadow not suddenly beco alert and warned them in ti, the injuries sustained by Senior Brother Qin, who was at the forefront, would not have been so minor.
"What did you sense?" Senior Brother Qin asked.
The blood color in Spectral Shadow's eyes grew denser as he shook his head, "I don't know, but it's very dangerous!"
Since starting his cultivation journey to this day, this talent had allowed Spectral Shadow to avoid many lethal dangers. In the Ten Thousand Poisons Forest of the Spirit Stream battlefield and the hunting grounds of the Cloud River battlefield, it was always Spectral Shadow who sensed the dangerous aura in advance and left in ti. In fact, it was precisely such caution that allowed him to escape from one calamity after another, navigating through each with his ager cultivation. Those who liked to crowd around and watch the excitent, those with higher cultivation than him, had long beco grass over their graves.
But never before had the alarms in Spectral Shadow's heart been so strong!
This made him faintly feel that if they truly entered the mine tunnel, the crisis they would encounter this ti might be more ferocious than any before!
Senior Brother Qin was still hesitating, and Senior Sister Hu was also undecided.
Spectral Shadow advised, "Senior Brother, with so many people involved in this matter, even if we succeed afterwards, the benefits that fall on us won't be much. It's not worth taking risks for such a small advantage! Even if I'm wrong, we will only lose a bit of supplies... but what if I'm right?"
If he was right, it would an they had avoided a disaster in advance.
This argunt undoubtedly moved Senior Brother Qin, who patted Spectral Shadow's hand and nodded, "Alright, then we'll wait outside."
Only then did Spectral Shadow breathe a sigh of relief. Frankly speaking, if Senior Brother Qin had ignored his advice and insisted on going in, there wouldn't have been much he could do. At most, he could only ensure that he didn't participate, as he couldn't force others to do anything, even if they were his fellow sect brothers...
Fortunately, his fellow sect brother was also willing to listen to advice.
Senior Sister Hu asked, "Should we also warn the others?"
Senior Brother Qin shook his head, "Who would believe us?"
The Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators gathered here were all rushing into the mine tunnel like cats that had slled fish. They themselves were not going in, so at this ti, warning others would only invite ridicule. Worse yet, others might even think they had ulterior motives.
The number of cultivators outside grew fewer and fewer until at last, only Senior Brother Qin's team of five remained. The previously noisy environnt suddenly beca quiet, making it sowhat uncomfortable for them.
Dull sounds continued to emanate from deep within the mine tunnel, where Song Zhui and others had already caught up with Si Nan at the forefront and witnessed an astonishing scene.
Si Nan kept moving forward, with explosion arrays being triggered continuously in front of him, causing the surrounding rock walls to loosen and pebbles to fall down in fits and starts.
They imdiately ca to the sa conclusion as Si Nan had earlier—the person who set up the arrays must have realized that they could no longer stop Si Nan, so they tried to collapse the mine tunnel with these arrays to buy so ti.
Yet the power of the arrays ultimately fell short. Therefore, although the mine tunnel was now covered with rubble, it was still relatively stable. As long as no more external force was applied, it wouldn't collapse anyti soon.
Moreover, since everyone present was a cultivator of the Cloud River Realm, barring being buried alive on the spot, they were unlikely to be in any real danger. With so ti and effort, they would eventually be able to clear a path.
The winding mine tunnel had to have an end sowhere.
When the humming of the explosion arrays ceased and the last fla extinguished, an emptied mine shaft was revealed to everyone's sight.
Si Nan was the first to step in, followed closely by Song Zhui and the others, and then by the grand, unending stream of Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators.
The mine shaft was pitch black, but Song Zhui and the others still imdiately felt a familiar aura, and they all looked toward that direction.
Soone cast a magic spell that wasn't particularly lethal, but it was incredibly bright, ascending slowly like a sun rising, its light enveloping the entire mine shaft and revealing the whole scene clearly at a glance.
The mine shaft was littered with rocks and had ample space. At the deepest part of the shaft, a figure sat cross-legged, dressed in a blood robe. The fresh blood on the robe had long dried, making the blood-red garnt stiff.
He sat there quietly, watching the group of unexpected intruders who had suddenly burst in.
"Lu Yiye!" a low shout ca from the crowd, followed by a flurry of commotion.
Although prior to this, many cultivators from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge had almost confird that the person hidden inside was Lu Ye, no one had actually seen him with their own eyes.
Now, the person they had been eagerly thinking about finally appeared before their eyes.
As the words fell, streams of magic spells and weapon controls tore through space, targeting Lu Ye's location all at once.
However, the distance was ultimately too far. Although Lu Ye's position was within the range of their attacks, by the ti the attacks reached him, their potency had greatly reduced.
A layer of light suddenly appeared in front of Lu Ye, which was actually a protective array.
The weakened offensive magic and weapon control hit the protective array, causing ripples to spread out, but they couldn't harm him in the slightest, not even breaking the protective array.
The cultivators who took action did so with reluctant hearts, finally understanding why Lu Ye had kept such a distance.
Soone roared in anger, "Lu Yiye, co out and face your death imdiately."
Another shouted, "Lu Yiye, I'd like to see where you can flee to this ti!"
In such a confined environnt, with such a disparity in power, it seed to everyone that Lu Ye had no hope of escape—unless he could once again call upon the Heaven's Augury Pillar and use its mighty power to flee back to the Nine Provinces.
Yet at this mont, there was no sign of the Heaven's Augury Pillar beside Lu Ye.
However, these people were rely shouting and didn't dare to advance rashly. Lu Ye had set up so many Formations in the mine tunnel previously; who knew if there were any Formations within this cave?
There definitely were. Until the Formations were broken, no one dared to act precipitously.
"Brother Si Nan, Lu Yiye knows how to set up teleportation arrays. Take a look around him, see if there's a teleportation array," Song Zhui approached Si Nan and whispered.
Back in Great Reversal Valley, Lu Ye had indeed escaped by using a teleportation array.
Now, although they hadn't seen anything like the Heaven's Augury Pillar, if Lu Ye had set up a teleportation array here in advance, he would still be able to escape.
Yet the likelihood of this was small. According to the information he had received, Lu Ye was inadvertently discovered and had been hiding here to heal his injuries. It didn't make sense for him to set up a teleportation array unless he had foreseen this scene and prepared an escape in advance.
Si Nan observed carefully for a good while before shaking his head, "I don't see any traces of a teleportation array, but that doesn't rule out the possibility that he's intentionally concealing it."
The distance was a bit too great for Si Nan to see very clearly.
Song Zhui said, "At this point, if he really had set up a teleportation array, he would have already used it to escape. What would be the point in concealing it now? Since we don't see it, then it must not be there."
In such a desperate situation, Lu Yiye, the fellow, was ultimately going to die. It's just a pity that during the incident in Great Reversal Valley, Ying Wuji had failed; otherwise, he wouldn't have to worry about his cultivation resources in the future.
"Killing him won't be easy; he's set up a lot of Formations in this cave. Would you prefer that I break the Formation, or should we attack by force?" Si Nan inquired.
A hint of doubt suddenly erged in his mind.
Logically, if the enemy were truly set on resisting to the end, the best place to set up Formations would be at the entrance of the cave. However, there were inexplicably no Formation remains there, as if the enemy had deliberately left a space for the Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators to stand firm.
But Si Nan didn't dwell on it, simply assuming that the enemy didn't have enough array banners.
The number of Formations set up in the mine tunnels and the cave was excessive, hence the number of array banners used must also have been imnse.
At this very mont, Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators were still steadily erging from the mine tunnel, stepping into the cave. With nearly two thousand people, it took so ti for everyone to enter due to the tunnel's narrowness.
Song Zhui said, "Breaking the Formation is indeed the safer approach, but it also takes more ti. Lu Yiye is cunning by nature; therefore, we should not delay too long. Let's opt for a direct attack. What do you all think?"
His last question was directed to the other Level 9 cultivators.
Ning Zizai said, "Whatever Brother Song decides."
Wei Zhong, as well as the other two Level 9 cultivators, had no objections.
Song Zhui then nodded, "Then it's a direct attack!" With this decision, although there might be so casualties, as long as they were cautious enough, there shouldn't be too many problems.
With this thought in mind, Song Zhui raised his arm and shouted, "Fellow Daoists, Lu Yiye is just ahead. Those who wish to share in the reward, follow to strike, break his Formation, and take his life!"
As he spoke, he took the lead and launched an attack towards the empty space ahead.
He truly lacked the ans to break Formations like Si Nan could, nor could he discern where Formations had been placed. But as long as he could maintain a powerful enough force, everything ahead could be leveled, and any hidden Formations would be rendered useless.
By himself, he couldn't achieve this, but if all the Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators worked together, no matter how many Formations Lu Ye had set up here, they would eventually be destroyed.
As Song Zhui made his move, the many Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators also took action simultaneously. In an instant, the cave was in turmoil, with spirit force clashing and colorful lights constantly blooming.
The multifarious bursts of spirit force plowed the ground over and over, not even giving the hidden Formations a chance to activate before forcibly breaking them through.
So of the more impatient Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators leaped up, trying to fly over to strike at Lu Ye. However, just as they flew less than thirty feet high, a trendous pressure descended from above, so crushing that they struggled to breathe.
Indeed, even this cave had been equipped with a Great Sky Prohibition Array.
The continuous rumbling sounds were incessant. The Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators who had poured into the cave ford a curved line, persistently attacking and pushing forward, gradually closing in on the direction where Lu Ye was located, bringing with them an aura of despair.
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