"So you're saying that the spirit river might be fake?" Someone asked.
"I don't think so. After all, almost all the ancient books related to this trial ground have mentioned about the River of Consciousness. However, it's hard to tell what exactly the River of Consciousness is. You can only explore it with your own eyes. Maybe it's really a legendary River of Consciousness, or maybe it's a dangerous River of Consciousness. Everyone, just be careful." Xin Yijie said.
The group looked at each other. The thing they were looking forward to the most was the legendary spirit river. Xin Yijie's words were like pouring a bucket of cold water on their heads. "No matter what, take care of yourselves.
"Anyway, take care of yourselves. I'll stay here for a month after you're teleported over. If anything happens to you, you can always find a way to teleport back here. However, if you wait for a month, the tide will rise again. By then, you'll have to find another one-way Teleportation Formation to return to the Primordial Underworld. As for the map of the one-way Teleportation Formation, each of you will have a copy. However, it might be different from the actual map," Xin Yijie reminded.
In other words, within a month, everyone still had the chance to back out if the situation was bad. After all, this training ground was only opened once every thousand years, and no one knew how it was now. If they were to directly cut off everyone's path of retreat with danger everywhere, causing all the genius disciples to be annihilated, then that would be a huge joke.
However, after a month, he wouldn't even have the chance to change his mind. No matter how dangerous the situation would be, he would have to brace himself and find another one-way Teleportation Array. Otherwise, he would be trapped in the trial grounds waiting for death.
Xin Yijie started arranging large amounts of spirit jade to activate the portal. Lin Yi, Lingshan, and the others looked at each other. According to Xin Yijie, it wouldn't be easy for them to come back from the Ancient Jianghu. If they couldn't come back through the portal, they would have to go back to the Ancient Jianghu. The time it would take would be unimaginable. It might take years or even decades.
Fortunately, they were mentally prepared for this. They had told their friends and family beforehand, so they could take care of each other. It wouldn't be a big deal even if it took a long time.
Everything was ready. The portal was finally activated. A white light flashed, and the scene in front of Lin Yi and the others changed.
"Why is it so dark?!" The group thought that their eyes weren't used to it yet, but it was still pitch black after a while. They started complaining. Even if it was pitch black, there shouldn't be no light at all.
"Don't panic, it's a cave." Lin Yi comforted them and reminded Lingshan and the others, "You can use your spirit sense if you can't see with your eyes. This is something you need to get used to."
After reaching a certain level, basically everyone would use their divine sense as their primary means of perception. If they really relied on their eyes, it would be very difficult to even keep up with their opponent's movement technique, let alone fight against them.
"It really is a cave, and it's very narrow and deep." Leng Leng nodded. She was the second strongest person in the group, and was also a foundation perfection practitioner. Naturally, her reactions were faster than Lingshan and the others.
The others also reacted, using their divine senses to sense the surrounding environment. Although there was no visual effect of color, their perception of shapes and silhouettes was more detailed and distinct.
"Why would the ancients put the portal in such a deep cave? It's scary." The group was speechless.
"No matter what, let's get out of here first." After saying that, someone took the lead and walked towards the entrance of the cave. The others didn't have any intention of staying here and followed suit one after another.
Only Lin Yi stayed and studied the portal underfoot. The structure of this portal was exactly the same as the one in the Transit Islands. In theory, it could be activated with enough spirit jade. But as Xin Yijie said, the place would be covered in seawater again a month later, and the Black Stone Plum Blossom Formation would be activated again. It would be hard to say if the portal could still be used then.
Right at this moment, a shrill and miserable howl suddenly rang out not far ahead. What followed was a flurry of panic. Everyone who had gone out earlier had actually all fled back, except for two people. One was Xue Jianfeng, and the other was Bing Wuqing.
"Everyone, be careful!" Lin Yi gestured for the group to form a defensive formation. This was something they'd practiced for all sorts of dangers they might face in the Primordial Trials, but this formation was more than enough for defense, not enough for offense. It only made them a little safer.
The group didn't dare tarry. Something that could scare so many elites of the Archaic Alliance this badly had to be a big threat.
Sure enough, after the people at the front fled back, a group of fire-like existences also whistled and chased after them. Moreover, there were many of them, if not ten thousand, there were at least eight thousand.
"What's this?" Lingshan and the others were startled at the sight. These things were extremely fast, covering the skies in the blink of an eye. One of the foundation establishment primeval disciples who was a bit slower got caught up and was dismembered into a pile of meat in an instant, his body still sizzling and smoking. It was a horrible sight to behold.
"Fire Bats!" Lin Yi blurted out. He'd seen these things in the Book of Omniscient on Sky Island before. They were extremely bloodthirsty spirit beasts, and while they weren't strong individually, at most at the early phase of foundation establishment, they always moved in groups. Now that there were tens of thousands of them, the threat they posed wasn't something normal foundation establishment practitioners could handle.
The two Golden Core experts, Bing Wuqing and Xue Jianfeng, were the strongest among them. If the two of them were willing to go all out, dealing with this flock of Fire Bats would not be a problem. Unfortunately, the two of them had no intention of doing so. Instead, they directly passed through the flock of Fire Bats and left, leaving only a group of Foundation Establishment experts trapped here.
The swarm of Fire Bats closed in. With the previous example right in front of their eyes, everyone didn't dare to have any thoughts of holding back their strength. They hastily used the martial skills they were most proficient in to counterattack. Rumbling sounds rang out incessantly, and the scene became extremely lively for a moment.
However, the bats were too small, and they were extremely fast and agile. The group's messy attacks couldn't hit them, and they could only cover their heads and run.
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