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This is the limit that humans cannot achieve, offering them chances to continuously enhance their elental affinity. That being said, trying to increase one’s affinity as a human is not easy, and typically only one in ten thousand can elevate theirs to fully embody their elent.
"Let’s try scanning this area," Wang Julong sighed and said, knocking lightly on the stone wall in front of them. Sha Yun nodded in agreent.
Sha Yun sat down, letting her body rge with the stone. In the room’s silence, the stones around Sha Yun seed to co alive, a faint squeaking sound could be heard.
Tiny pebbles from the ground began crawling onto her body, and within monts, her entire serpent stone form was enveloped by rock. Beneath the gravel, Wang Julong could see her very flesh transforming into stone.
Suddenly, Sha Yun opened her eyes, staring at Wang Julong as she glanced at the Snake Woman, visibly startled.
"Those idiots," she hissed, shattering the layer of condensed stone above her tail before letting a yellow hue erge on her body. Then, she began smashing through every wall between her and her unknown destination.
Wang Julong raised an eyebrow at her sudden action but chose not to speak as he quickly followed the swearing Snake Woman.
"Those idiots... Why did they leave us behind?" Sha Yun muttered, speeding up as she headed straight for the labyrinth—sothing Deng Wu and Hui Yue had never considered.
Within the maze, Deng Wu and Hui Yue often paused to survey the surrounding area, searching for Sha Yun and Wang Julong. Unfortunately, no matter how hard Hui Yue stretched his senses, he could not detect even the faintest trace of life.
On the seventh day, Hui Yue finally sensed sothing that filled him with profound fear. Sitting on the ground, blending with the earth of the labyrinth, his face suddenly revealed shock as he felt wall after wall crumbling, as if shattered by an imnse impact.
Hui Yue quickly broke out of his ditative state where he had joined with the earth. The abrupt interruption of the rge caused him to cough blood, as the earth he had previously bonded with violently reverted to its original state.
The young boy had no ti to inspect his injuries; he stumbled on his legs and gestured urgently to Deng Wu that they needed to run. Whoever was destroying the labyrinth had to be at least as strong as the two of them—most likely stronger—to force through the stone walls.
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Another possibility was that whoever was responsible for demolishing the walls had an affinity with the earth elent. But given how effortlessly it was done, Hui Yue could clearly see that their affinity was far superior to his, making the youth excessively cautious.
As Lan Feng ignored the unfolding events, Hui Yue couldn’t help but swear inwardly, pretending as if it was none of his concern. The white-haired boy resolved to enter the divine dungeon to enhance his cultivation in a place where he wouldn’t be found. However, this damned bird refused to offer even the faintest clue about what the location truly was.
Glancing around, Hui Yue noted the extravagance of so much light stone being used. Though it appeared lavish, the walls were still simple stone walls, and so far, Hui Yue had yet to see anything he could deem divine.
Before this, he’d chosen so Shadow Mushrooms, as Lan Feng had claid they were valuable. However, after filling the entire storage stone with mushrooms, Hui Yue paid no heed to the stars in the sky.
"This way!" Hui Yue hurriedly advanced down a narrow path, Deng Wu following closely behind. "Whatever it is, it seems to follow a specific course. We better not wander off, or we might end up getting smashed along with the walls." With Lan Feng eerily silent and his scanning revealing no signs of life, Hui Yue felt slightly panicked. This made it difficult for him to anticipate what lay ahead.
Rushing down an adjoining path, Hui Yue convinced himself they could veer off. But as soon as they moved, the crashed walls behind them shifted direction too. There was no longer any doubt about its intended target—whether through the destruction of the walls, it was directly aid at them. Hui Yue stood his ground once more, clenching his teeth tightly.
"Get ready," he uttered, black blood appearing in his hands, a slight red gleam flashing in his icy blue eyes. His deanor changed, and the surrounding air grew increasingly cold. Even Deng Wu shivered involuntarily next to him.
Hui Yue allowed his consciousness to sink into the stone below him, granting him vision of everything, even beyond the walls.
Hui Yue waited patiently and soon noticed it was not just one person moving along the path—there were actually two. As the realization struck him, a sly smirk erged on his ditative figure’s face, and the previously frozen atmosphere swiftly turned damp and stale.
Deng Wu was surprised to discover Hui Yue had withdrawn his senses from the stone floor and returned fully to his physical form. While Deng Wu had anticipated the white-haired boy to ready himself for battle, instead, Hui Yue leisurely strolled to the opposite wall and leaned against it.
A deafening thunder-like noise echoed around them, shaking the mountain as wall after wall crumbled. Eventually, only one wall remained separating them.
Deng Wu grew slightly uneasy, but he placed his full trust in Hui Yue. In the end, he walked over to the boy with white hair, sat beside him on the cold, damp stone, and waited to uncover the source of the booming sound.
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