This idea had been mentioned by people from other sects last night, unlike Wukang Mountain, where the other sects had done some background research for their disciples attending the meeting. In Moon Sea, there weren't any snakes, bugs, rats, or ants, let alone wild animals. It seemed as if there were no native animals either, but there might be some monster.

Exactly what kind of monster it was seemed unclear to most people; even the organizers of the meeting only mentioned there was danger but did not specify what it was.

Wu Jinliang quickly backed into Shi Chun and said, "That means either someone or something, a monster, had been here."

Shi Chun warily looked around and said, "I'd rather it have been a monster."

While speaking, he activated his blood energy and once again ignited the superpower in his right eye. He looked around several times but didn't see any monster. However, he discovered something interesting for the first time: Yan Ji's figure in the white fog in his right eye had become very faint, as if it was about to disappear completely.

From this, he could guess that after a person had been dead for a certain amount of time, his right eye would no longer be able to see them.

"There's nothing around here that I can see with my right eye. It should be gone," Shi Chun briefly informed, knowing the other could understand and that there was no need for unnecessary words.

With that, Wu Jinliang breathed a slight sigh of relief and asked, "What should we do with Yan Ji?"

Shi Chun replied, "Worrying about it now is too late. Handle it as usual. You do it; I'll keep watch."

Knowing that his eyes could see things normal people couldn't, Wu Jinliang immediately started working, first searching Yan Ji's body and then, treating it like he did Guan Wen, chopped off his hands, removed his bracelets, and threw them directly into a pit to bury.

Then he pulled a Wind Scale out of his bag and gave it to Shi Chun, unable to stop grinning, "One each. This time we've really struck it rich. These things are worth more than a house in the capital. We can use them to fly anywhere. Su Yuan Sect has five people; if we manage to get our hands on the remaining three, we could retire for life, hehehe."

Indeed, it was something good for travel and escape, especially in the current situation, so Shi Chun didn't hesitate and took it immediately.

But at that moment, a scream suddenly came from outside, "Ah..."

The sound wasn't loud, and it was somewhat distant, but they could still faintly hear it.

The two looked at each other and quickly jumped out of the ravine.

Once outside, Wu Jinliang quickly threw away Yan Ji's bracelet and other charms far away.

Another scream came, "Ah..." accompanied by the sounds of intense fighting.

Both startled, they quickly leaped onto the treetops to survey the surroundings but saw nothing. They could see the area where hundreds of people had scattered.

Shi Chun quickly dropped into the forest. Without touching the ground, he darted between branches, and Wu Jinliang, with his large knife, followed closely.

The two hurried to the mountaintop where they had committed the earlier violence and hid among the treetops to look into the distance. They suddenly saw many trees shaking. Then, startled by the scream, people who were also on alert appeared in the forest.

It was those people from the sects. Many didn't know what the danger was; they just leaped out and fled towards the shore.

The terrifying thing was that some people vanished into thin air halfway through their jump.

Others seemed to be grabbed by some invisible force, suddenly pulled back into the forest.

Wu Jinliang's eyes showed terror, "What the hell?"

But Shi Chun's right eye saw quite a different scene, many large monsters shaped like octopuses but with many more tentacles, adeptly moving through trees and fluttering through the air like butterflies.

Inside the body of these monsters, there was a flickering blue luminescence, identical to that of Insect Extreme Crystal.

After grabbing a person with their tentacles, they would drag them into a dark, gaping mouth.

People vanished mid-air because they happened to jump right into those gaping mouths.

These mouths seemed like doors or maybe the mouths of the monsters themselves. Once someone entered, they would abruptly close or disappear into thin air.

Fighting an invisible enemy and suddenly appearing traps were impossible.

Some managed to sever the tentacles wrapped around them and quickly escaped.

The sounds of screams, cries, fighting, and the silhouettes of fleeing people made the scene utterly chaotic.

This was unplayable; Shi Chun urgently yelled, "Let's go!"

Just as he turned his head and threw out his arm to bar the way, he urgently grabbed Wu Jinliang, his eyes wide as he looked ahead at the void - a huge brown misty monster hovered in front of them, silent and seemingly watching them intently.

Seeing Shi Chun's reaction, Wu Jinliang knew things were bad.

"Back!" Shi Chun shouted.

Seeing the monster's tentacles come at them, he pulled Wu Jinliang and quickly retreated.

Suddenly, there was a strong suction from behind, the surrounding light dimmed abruptly, and the scene in front of them went as dark as if a light had been blown out, plunging them into endless darkness like leaping from daylight into deep night without a single hint of light.

Shi Chun's scalp went numb as he recognized that they had fallen into one of those gaping mouth traps, and his right eye's superpower disappeared just then.

The darkness itself was one thing, but they also felt their bodies falling, bumping left and right, their weapons clashing and clanging.

Guided by the sparks that flared up, the two vaguely realized they were in a narrow crevice.

With their quick reactions, they soon stopped falling and took out a Sandal Gold Illumination.

"Chun Tian."

"Jinliang."

They spoke in unison, their tones carrying an instinctive concern for each other's safety, each immediately worried about the other.

Hearing this, one looked up, and the other looked down.

Shi Chun, legs spread apart and bracing against the cliff walls on either side, looked down.

Wu Jinliang, who had wedged his saber between the cliff walls, grabbed the hilt of his saber and hung there, looking up. Seeing Shi Chun's actions, he pulled himself up with one arm, braced his feet against both sides, half-lying on his saber, and broke into a wide grin that reached his ears.

A person might panic alone, but with a companion by their side, seeing the companion still well, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

After quickly stabilizing their minds, the two surveyed their surroundings. On both sides were dark, heavy stone walls, which their sabers had already tested to be extraordinarily hard, and they didn't appear to be ordinary stone walls.

The narrow space was very damp, mist drifted faintly in and out of view, and there was moisture on the stone walls.

Above the crack, there was no end in sight; below, the bottom was not visible; and the ends to the sides were also unknown.

From the tense scene of trees swaying just moments ago in broad daylight, suddenly they were in a dark, cramped space. Wu Jinliang really couldn't wrap his head around it, "Chun Tian, what's going on?"

"I don't know, I only saw some kind of strange creature that seems to be related to the Insect Extreme Crystal…"

Shi Chun relayed everything he had seen, and his Sandalwood Gold also shot upwards.

But it didn't go very high, less than sixty feet before it hit the stone wall and didn't reach the top because of the irregularities in the stone wall, making it visible that the upward crack still extended endlessly before the light dropped.

The Sandalwood Gold clattered down, and Shi Chun made no move to catch it, just looking down as it fell.

The light gradually dimmed, eventually becoming completely invisible, along with the fading sound of its fall, not knowing if it ever reached the bottom.

In places too narrow for a person to squeeze through, the situation was quite spine-chilling.

Shi Chun drew his legs together and floated down onto the large saber that Wu Jinliang had wedged in the stone walls, sheathed his saber in its scabbard on his back, and informed him, "I'll use my right eye again."

Wu Jinliang's expression tightened, knowing the consequences of him using his right eye superpower too frequently. He also turned and sat cross-legged on his saber, watching him.

Blood surged as the right eye superpower was stimulated again, and Shi Chun's figure flickered, reaching out to stabilize himself against the wall. He took a deep breath, feeling the air here very thin. His right eye scanned around, becoming more and more astonished.

In the crevice of the stone wall, there was actually nothing; it was truly a void with no hint of the subtle azure backup shade, only occasionally flashed by linear light spots.

And what the stone wall looked like in his left eye was exactly the same as in the right, a very rare instance of reality and illusion having the same source in his right eye superpower.

Still due to the uneven wall, his right eye could not discern which side had an end or an exit.

After a long while, he said, "Jinliang, this place isn't like the outside; even the immobilization charm might fail here."

Wu Jinliang was greatly startled, "Ah, what's the situation?"

Shi Chun: "Let's find the way out first."

Wu Jinliang expressed his worries, "In this endless and headless situation, we aren't going to get stuck here, are we?"

"Stop farting around." Shi Chun spat in his face and then bent down to grab his arm, pulled on his sleeve cuff, and tore off a strip.

Curious, Wu Jinliang asked, "What are you doing, ripping a perfectly good new shirt?"

Shi Chun peeled out few threads from the shirt, then tied some grains of Sandalwood Gold to them, and tied them all over Wu Jinliang's body, in multiple points and positions, "The air here is thin, and it's possible there isn't any air initially, just drawn in from outside when the space opened. Free up your limbs, use less energy, better for illumination."

That made sense. In such pitch-black environment, it was a good idea. Promptly, Wu Jinliang imitated him and tied Sandalwood Gold on Shi Chun.

As more and more Sandalwood Gold bound them, they were brighter all around. The scene of the two together was rather heartwarming, and Wu Jinliang suddenly chuckled.

Shi Chun: "Why are you laughing? You can still laugh?"

Wu Jinliang chuckled, "I suddenly remembered when we were young, they told us we had grown up, our food consumption had grown too, and from then on, we'd have to earn our own keep. Then they threw us a couple of ragged sabers. Later, starving, we rushed out and fought for our lives, several buddies died, and we were nearly beaten to death ourselves. But one day, you said you wanted to seize the position of Master of the East Nine Plain. Do you remember what you told me?"

Tying Sandalwood Gold, Shi Chun was momentarily silent, either truly forgetful or feigning it, he shook his head.

Grinning, Wu Jinliang said, "You said: 'From the day I took up the saber to fight, every bite I eat is what I snatched myself.'"

Shi Chun frowned, "What's the point of bringing this up now?"

Wu Jinliang: "My point is, we can definitely get out. Don't give up."

Shi Chun rolled his eyes, tied another Sandalwood Gold on him, then discarded the torn cloth in his hand, "Enough, that'll do."

Wu Jinliang also stopped, looked around in all directions, and asked, "Which way should we go?"

"Obviously the easiest way," Shi Chun glanced below, "I don't believe in bottomless pits." With that, he jumped straight down from the saber.

"What's the rush, wait." Wu Jinliang hurriedly spread his legs to brace on both sides, lifted his saber in hand, shouldered it, and also dropped down.

Soon, he saw Shi Chun spread his legs and brace again.

Wu Jinliang landed beside him, did the same, and was about to ask what happened when his eyes caught sight of the stone wall, and he paused in surprise. It was a mural, and a grandly scaled engraving at that—mountains, waters, pavilions, and towers—unbeknownst who had the leisure to carve it.

He immediately cheered, "Someone carved a mural, that means there's a way out, let's find it, quick."

Then, like a glowing spider, he darted rapidly back and forth, up and down between the cliff walls, like a duck wagging its tail, movements strikingly quick.

Shi Chun slowly moved, examining the content engraved on the cliff sides. The stone wall was very hard, normally hard to even scratch, and this stroke was really significant; whoever did it must be highly cultivated.

Suddenly, Wu Jinliang's voice came drifting from diagonally below, "Chun Tian, here, come quick."

Shi Chun's gaze shifted downward, then he glided sideways, quickly kicking the stone wall and landing across from a finely carved courtyard-like entrance.

A flash of light and shadow, and Wu Jinliang burst out, holding an ancient metal bracelet, his voice trembling with excitement, "Chun Tian, guess what this is?"

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