In the black hole that Chu Chen had dug out with his own strength, everyone descended at an unusually fast speed.
Chu Chen could not help but sigh at the fact that he had dug for so long, but it only took an instant for everyone to descend.
In the blink of an eye, everyone had already reached the bottom of the five hundred feet cave.
The light below was very dim, but it was not a problem for the cultivators. The entrance to the black ruins was a huge circular stone arch that was about a hundred feet wide.
Standing in front of it, everyone felt as if they were standing in front of a monster's huge mouth. They felt like they could be eaten at any time!
However, when they thought of the Nine Heavens troops that were about to chase after them, everyone did not hesitate to follow Chu Chen into this deep and mysterious stone door.
Following this huge black tunnel, Chu Chen and the others flew for their lives in the darkness.
Not long after, everyone unexpectedly discovered that the tunnel had come to an end. There was a huge wall in front of them!
"Senior Brother Chu, how … how did we reach the end so quickly?"
"There's no way to go. Is this the only empty tunnel in the black ruins?"
"What do we do? They … they will catch up soon, right? "
A group of cultivators stood at the end of the black tunnel and looked around. It was empty. There was nothing but the wall.
Ignoring the clamor of the crowd, Chu Chen closed his eyes and stood among the stunned cultivators, not saying a word.
The one-armed old man made a shushing gesture, and everyone immediately shut up. They knew that it was useless to say anything at this time. They could only wait for Chu Chen's next move.
Fortunately, not long after, Chu Chen moved. He slowly took three steps forward, then squatted down. He pressed a palm heavily on the ground and rotated it a few times to the left and right.
"Ka ka!"
Everyone faintly heard the sound of machinery. The floor under their feet began to shake slowly. They all hurriedly retreated from the shaking area. In a flash, a squarish black hole appeared in front of the cultivators.
At this time, the cultivators were not curious or surprised that Chu Chen could easily find the secret tunnel on his first visit to the ruins.
It was as if it was natural for Chu Chen to know any secrets of the heavens and earth.
It would be strange if there was something he didn't know!
Following the stone steps, the group began to speed up again. Not long after, two forks appeared. Without any hesitation, Chu Chen pointed with his finger and chose the left.
Everyone walked to the left.
In less than an incense stick's worth of time, another fork appeared. This time, Chu Chen chose the right one.
Everyone walked to the right.
Everyone continued to choose. In just a short two hours, they were faced with dozens of crossroads.
"This is a f * cking maze!"
"That's right. I've taken so many forks that I'm completely confused now."
"My head is spinning, and I feel like I'm spinning … What the hell is this place?"
"Could it be that we're just going to keep walking like this? This is actually an endless ruin!"
While everyone was flying, they were discussing among themselves. Suddenly, they heard Chu Chen's voice. "We're here."
They had arrived?!
Everyone looked over and saw that the end of the stone steps was actually a slightly narrow space.
This was a stone room with a radius of about a hundred feet. The stone room was surrounded by incomparably hard iron-scaled astral rocks. It seemed to have an extremely strong defensive power. However, there was no other way out except for the exit that everyone had entered.
Was there another mechanism?
Everyone's first reaction was this. However, Chu Chen immediately denied everyone's thoughts. "Unfortunately, there are no mechanisms here."
"If there are no mechanisms, then … then what should we do?"
"Don't tell me that this is the final place of the ruin …"
"How can that be? It doesn't look like it."
The group of cultivators had been frantically following Chu Chen all the way. Their hearts were constantly in a state of turmoil, and they couldn't let go of their worries.
At this time, the one-armed old man gestured for them to calm down. Everyone tacitly quieted down and focused their attention on Chu Chen.
They watched as Chu Chen slowly closed his eyes.
Not long after, Chu Chen, who had used his Spiritual Sense to scan in all directions, opened his eyes. He already understood in his heart.
"The stone slab under our feet is the exit, or rather, the entrance."
All the cultivators remained silent and continued to look at Chu Chen.
"To be precise, the stone slab under our feet is the real dome of this black ruin. It is about a hundred feet thick …"
Before Chu Chen's voice fell, Qi Fei, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "That means that we haven't really entered the black ruin yet."
Chu Chen nodded.
"That's right. We are still at the periphery of the black ruin. If we want to enter the ancient stone hall and completely solve the ancient curse, we can only enter the real ruin by breaking through this layer of iron-scaled astral rock slab."
As soon as this was said, all the cultivators were dumbfounded.
"This … this is iron-scaled astral rock, which is as hard as meteoric iron and is a hundred feet thick. Can we break through it?"
A weak middle-aged cultivator, who was more knowledgeable about geomancy, kept shaking his head.
All the cultivators had heard of iron-scaled astral rock.
It was one of the three hard bones in the immortal crystal canyon. Once they encountered such a rock in the mining area, everyone would choose to give up digging and find a new way.
It was impossible to break through thirty feet, let alone a hundred feet!
"There is no other choice. If we can break through this dome, we can live. If we can't, we can only die."
Chu Chen said word by word.
All the cultivators were silent and stood there dumbfounded. At this time, Qi Fei gently stretched out his hand and separated the crowd. He came to the center of the stone room alone.
Without saying a word, Qi Fei quickly urged the spiritual power in his body. Everyone immediately understood and dodged to the side.
The most powerless people should do was to make way for the strong.
A scarlet blood light burst out from Qi Fei's body, instantly illuminating the entire narrow stone room and turning the cultivators' faces blood red.
Chu Chen had already discovered that Qi Fei had forcibly suppressed the hundreds of white robed cultivators in the Nine Heavens by himself. In the constant battle, he had actually suffered heavy injuries.
At this time, the blood light around Qi Fei's body was dim and far less majestic than it was at its peak.
When the blood light appeared, it was as agile as a spirit python and coiled around his body.
Chu Chen was just about to speak when Qi Fei moved!
Buzz!
When he clenched his fist, a strange sound came from the air. The blood light around his body condensed into his clenched right fist like lightning.
The blood-colored ball of light instantly transformed into an incomparably sharp drill-shaped blade!
Break for me!
With a clear shout from Qi Fei, the blood light fiercely spun out and heavily smashed into the hard ground.
Rumble …
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