Chapter 1494: Chapter 1489: Waiting (Part 2)

The ones who truly understood this, there were only four.

Han Kun, Bai Zhan, Lin Tian, and Lin Yanxia.

Lin Yanxia knew it was only because she had pushed Lin Tian so hard that he finally told her.

The others still held on to a sliver of hope that someone from outside would come to rescue them.

But the four of them knew that even if people did come, it would be useless, they’d just be throwing their lives away.

If that man hadn’t broken through to the Innate realm, and the family had sent people in to rescue them, then wiping out all six of them wouldn’t have been a problem.

Now, there was no time.

If they ran into those six, they’d be doomed for sure.

Even if there were any that managed to escape, it wouldn’t be more than a handful.

And this "escape" wasn’t escaping to safety, it meant running into the Great Canyon.

You could say that no matter what they did today, it was a dead end.

But they hadn’t told the others any of this.

With this many people, someone was bound to crack.

Once someone broke down, it would drag everyone else’s emotions down with them.

By then, they really wouldn’t even have a shred of fantasy left to cling to.

So up until now, the three of them hadn’t gone around rousing everyone, but they had said this much: there was still hope they could get out alive.

They just had to hold on until the Secret Realm started repelling people.

Or until people from the family came to rescue them.

As long as there was something that could be said, they said it.

It was precisely because of this that they’d managed to keep this many people alive.

Otherwise, it’d be considered pretty good if ten were left.

It was also one of the most important reasons they’d managed to stay hidden up to now.

"Change locations!" Hearing a sudden noise from outside, Han Kun immediately spoke in a low voice.

The others didn’t question it at all and stood up at once.

They followed Han Kun and headed for the outside.

Honestly, they were far too familiar with that sound.

Whenever that sound appeared, there were definitely Exotic Beasts nearby.

If they didn’t move, it wouldn’t be long before a large pack of Exotic Beasts was drawn over.

The smaller the area where battle could unfold, the shorter the distance between one Exotic Beast and another.

In other words, at this point it wasn’t just a "large pack" of Exotic Beasts anymore, it was an uncountable horde.

When that happened, they wouldn’t be able to get away.

Right now, all they could do was drag things out as long as possible.

Maybe they could stall all the way until the repulsion kicked them out.

As long as people have dreams, you never know—sometimes they come true.

Even though the odds of that were tiny.

Sure enough, they hadn’t gone far before they had already cut down ten Exotic Beasts.

That was way more than before.

Looks like the Exotic Beast horde was pressing closer and closer.

The only comfort was that this wasn’t some other place.

The Exotic Beast horde was extremely wary of the Great Canyon, or rather tiptoeing around it, not daring to make any big moves.

If they did, the whole horde would spread through every inch of the canyon.

Then the group would have nowhere left to hide!

It was just that everyone’s faces were looking worse and worse.

Because the deeper they went into the canyon full of caves, the fewer caves there were, and the spaces inside were pathetically small.

Most of them could barely fit two or three people.

If they were discovered, the ones who could escape a second time would probably be only Han Kun and the other two.

After all, the others were much weaker, and on top of that their bodies were badly injured.

Once they fell into the Exotic Beast horde, there’d be almost no chance of survival.

"What do we do?" a Han family disciple asked, his face full of fear.

At that moment, they all came to a halt.

There was nowhere else to go.

Up ahead was the interior of the canyon proper.

They could clearly see a line on the ground under their feet.

Rumor had it that it was drawn by the Lin family ancestor who had discovered this Secret Realm back in the day.

And it came with a warning: if your strength hadn’t reached late Innate, you must never go in.

Even if you’d reached late Innate, you had to go in with companions, or you’d be facing grim odds.

In the hundreds of years afterward, quite a few powerful elders refused to believe it.

They went in anyway, and never came out again.

Only after that did the clan elders strictly order that no one was to enter.

If you did, your life and death would be your own business.

The family would not send people in to save you.

In other words, once you went in, it was the same as being dead.

It wasn’t that the family was being heartless, they were simply helpless, forced into it!

They didn’t want even more clan members dying in there.

Besides, they had already said long ago that you couldn’t go in.

If you refuse to listen, isn’t that just courting death?

"Wait." Han Kun uttered just a single word.

After hearing that, even though everyone still felt all kinds of fear inside, their hearts calmed somewhat.

Especially when they saw Han Kun, Bai Zhan, and Lin Tian standing in front of them, facing the outer canyon, their expressions and their bearing not showing the slightest tremor or confusion.

That was a pillar to lean on.

Worst case!

They die!

And besides, it wasn’t certain they would die.

Hadn’t Han Kun and the others said there was still a sliver of hope?

Worst case, they’d go into the Great Canyon.

Anyway, it was only three hours until the repulsion kicked in.

Couldn’t they last three hours inside the canyon?

They had three Peak Soldier Kings, and more than ten low-, mid-, and high-level King of Soldiers.

Plus, that horde of Exotic Beasts behind them definitely wouldn’t dare chase them in.

Even now, the beasts around the canyon were already shivering a bit.

Because they were watching more and more Exotic Beasts gather.

Those Exotic Beasts whose whole bodies had started trembling were baring their fangs as they took step after step forward.

So densely packed it was impossible to count.

If anyone had trypophobia, just seeing this sight would probably make them faint on the spot.

What surprised everyone was that they’d thought this horde would immediately attack them.

But unexpectedly, the beasts stopped ten meters away from them.

Judging from those eyes full of chaos and slaughter, there was no hint of rationality there.

So how were they being controlled?

You had to know that before this, the beasts would throw themselves at them without a second thought the instant they saw them.

There had never been the slightest sign of "warning the others."

Otherwise, in one or two of those encounters, their position would’ve been exposed.

They might already have been swallowed up by the horde.

"What are they waiting for?"

"How should I know?"

"Maybe it’s because they’re afraid of the Great Canyon!"

"If they’re afraid, then why are they besieging us?"

"I feel like they’re trying to force us into the canyon."

"I don’t buy that."

"Because they don’t have any intelligence to begin with."

"Then what’s with how they’re acting now?"

"You ask me, who am I supposed to ask?"

Han Kun didn’t stop them from talking.

At a moment like this, what was the point of stopping them?

Talking or not talking, it wouldn’t change anything.

Might as well take the opportunity to observe these Exotic Beasts carefully.

First, they didn’t seem like ordinary lifeforms—more like something unique to this Secret Realm.

If they left the Secret Realm, they couldn’t exist.

You could tell they weren’t ordinary lifeforms because once you killed them, their bodies gradually faded away, leaving no trace in the ground.

Second, the abnormal way they were acting now.

It was like something was controlling them.

Plus, why were they so fixated on chasing this group?

According to what the elders had said, as long as you didn’t enter their territory, no matter how much trouble you stirred up outside, they wouldn’t care.

And they wouldn’t leave their territory.

All of this was baffling and impossible to make sense of.

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