I asked you to go down the mountain and get married, not to shock the world!

Upon entering, one immediately feels a tremendous stickiness, as if sinking into an invisible swamp, causing a sudden drop in speed.

The surrounding air was no longer a flowing turbulent energy current, but a hazy, gray substance that seemed to be formed from countless fine dust particles. When divine sense probed out, it was as if it had entered a quagmire, and the light of the spell quickly dimmed.

The pursuers followed closely behind, but were also greatly affected, their speed was greatly reduced, and their attacks became weak and ineffective.

"Ye Yan, make your move!" Lingxu Zhenren shouted.

Ye Yan had been preparing for a long time. Upon hearing this, he suddenly slammed the three ancient, earth-yellow talismans in his hand onto the ground.

"Earth Vein Sealing, Activate!"

hum!

The three talismans shone brightly, but instead of spreading outwards, they contracted and condensed inwards!

Three earthen-yellow halos suddenly lit up around the talisman, instantly spreading to the entire entrance of the passage. They did not attack the enemy, but instead forcibly activated a long-dormant ley line structure deep within this inert energy zone!

Rumble!

The entire passageway began to shake violently!

At the entrance, the solidified dust seemed to come alive under the stimulation of the earthy yellow halo.

In the blink of an eye, the originally spacious entrance to the passage was completely blocked, forming an incredibly thick rock wall that exuded a strong sealing power!

Caught off guard, the pursuers were blocked by the sudden change in terrain. Their attacks landed on the newly formed rock face, but only caused ripples, and they could not break through it in a short time.

"It's sealed off, but it won't last long."

Ye Yan was panting heavily. The earth vein sealing talisman consumed far more energy than usual when used here, almost draining most of his spiritual power.

"Quickly, Green-Faced Fox!" Master Lingxu looked at Green-Faced Fox.

The blue-faced fox kept her eyes tightly shut, the blue fox pattern between her brows glowing at its peak. Her life senses were greatly suppressed in this place, but thanks to her keen sensitivity to the essence of energy, she was still trying her best to sense it:

"Found it! Thirty feet to the left front, inside the rock wall, there is a place with an extremely thin energy structure, as if... a scar left after being pierced by a powerful spatial force and then healed!"

"That's it! The Crimson Flame Fox!"

"I've been waiting for this!" Crimson Flame Fox laughed wildly, his entire body like a burning meteor, compressing the long-accumulated crimson-gold flames to the size of a fist.

The core of the flame had turned from crimson gold to blazing white, emanating a terrifying wave of destruction.

"Open for me! Crimson Flame Boundary-Breaking Drill!"

boom!

The blazing fireball did not explode, but instead, with extreme penetrating and burning power, it slammed into the rock wall that the Blue-Faced Fox had pointed out!

laugh--!

There was no earth-shattering noise, only a piercing sound like a red-hot iron being plunged into ice!

The incredibly thick rock wall, imbued with the power of sealing, was actually melted by the extremely concentrated flames, leaving a hole with glass-like edges, just wide enough for one person to pass through!

The space around the hole was slightly distorted!

"Go!" Lingxu Zhenren shouted, transforming into a stream of moonlight and shooting into the hole.

Ye Yan, Qingmianhu, and Chiyanhu followed closely behind.

Just as the last Crimson Fox was about to slip into the hole—

"Buzz!"

A terrifying intent, like an invisible tsunami, suddenly swept across the sealed-off area!

That thought wasn't directed at them; it was more like some dormant being being awakened by intense energy fluctuations and changes in the earth's veins, taking an unconscious breath!

puff!

The Crimson Flame Fox was struck as if by a heavy blow. Its protective flames dimmed instantly, and it spat out a mouthful of blood. It staggered and almost fell off the edge of the hole.

The newly formed rock wall behind him, swept over by this terrifying thought, silently crumbled and vanished like a sand sculpture!

The pursuers from the Silent Zen Temple, who had just been blocked outside, and two other enemy groups that were approaching from a distance, all froze, their faces showing fear for the first time. They all looked towards the deeper part of this inert energy zone, as if something that terrified them was awakening there!

"quick!"

Lingxu Zhenren sensed the terror of that intent, his scalp tingling. He pulled the injured Crimson Flame Fox into the hole, and the four of them fled frantically towards the other end of the hole without looking back!

The hole wasn't long, and the other end seemed to connect to another, even stranger space.

However, just as they were about to burst out of the hole, a special spatial communication talisman in Lingxu Zhenren's arms, which was used to make emergency contact with Wanchuan Sect, suddenly became slightly warm.

A very faint, urgent divine thought message belonging to Mingchuan was transmitted:

"Senior Lingxu, leave the Chaotic Void Sea immediately! Yueyao is orchestrating a plan. Several forces in the Holy Domain seem to have detected the unusual activity at the Silent Zen Temple... and are mobilizing their forces to investigate. Their target may be your area... Be careful... or you'll become the target of everyone's attacks...!"

The message abruptly ended there; clearly, transmitting information over such a chaotic and distant distance would be extremely costly and unreliable.

Master Lingxu's expression changed drastically!

Yueyao! It's her again!

"That damned woman!" Master Lingxu felt a chill run down his spine.

Ahead lie the pursuers from the Silent Zen Temple and an unknown terror awakening, while behind them are reconnaissance teams from other forces in the Holy Domain, soon to be led there by Yueyao…

The four of them were in an extremely desperate situation!

"Never mind, let's get out of here!" Lingxu Zhenren gritted his teeth, handed the Crimson Flame Fox to the Green-Faced Fox for support, and stayed behind with Ye Yan. The four of them finally rushed out of the scorching hole.

The scene before them, however, startled them once again.

This is not another fragmented landmass or energy turbulence zone as expected, but a gigantic... underground cavity?

The cavern was high and boundless, with a flat surface made of strange stone slabs that shimmered with a dark metallic luster.

The stone slabs were also covered with dark gold runes that were older and more complex than those on the outside of the fortress, but most of these runes were dull and lifeless, as if they had lost their energy source.

In the center of the cavity is a giant circular pit that is sunken downwards and has a diameter of over a thousand feet.

At the edge of the giant pit stood twelve dark gold pillars, covered in cracks and towering into the clouds. At the top of the pillars, the remains of broken Buddha statues could be vaguely seen.

At the center of the giant crater was an even larger, now-defunct, dark gold array base.

At the center of the base is a deep, pitch-black hole that seems to absorb all light.

At the edge of the deep cave, the space presents an unnatural, distorted feeling, like a broken mirror.

This place seems to be an older and larger ruin of the Silent Zen Temple, or... more like an abandoned, failed stargate anchor construction site?

That chilling, overwhelming sense of terror that had awakened him earlier seemed to be slowly emanating from that dark abyss...

"Could this place... be the real core?" Ye Yan's voice was hoarse.

Master Lingxu quickly scanned his surroundings, his gaze finally settling on the twelve giant pillars and the deep hole in the center, his eyes flashing with a sharp light.

"No...this is not the core, this is...the graveyard. An old anchor point that failed, or was deliberately abandoned. The things in that deep cave...are probably some kind of product or remains that were sealed or abandoned here after the failure."

Upon hearing this, all four of them felt their hearts tremble simultaneously!