After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

Upon entering this place, Huo Yu keenly sensed that the stone walls on all four sides concealed spirit-suppressing formations.

However, unlike the surging spiritual energy clouds in the secret realm, the formations within these stone walls could only gradually render the spiritual items he carried ineffective, but had no effect on the spiritual energy within his body.

However, the spirit stones, pills, and even magical artifacts and storage bags that he carried with him gradually became ordinary objects under the influence of this power.

This might be a thorny problem for others, but it's nothing for Huo Yu, a Foundation Establishment cultivator whose spiritual energy reserves far exceed those of ordinary people.

He chose to use a hybrid gorilla for transportation primarily for another purpose—

"stop."

As soon as Huo Yu finished speaking, the mixed-blood dragon under his feet immediately stopped obediently.

"Turn left."

At this moment, the dragon-shaped creature, only a few feet in size, stared at the tightly sealed stone wall on the left, its eyes full of confusion. However, it still obediently crashed into the stone wall without encountering any obstacles. It passed straight through the stone wall and entered a passage that was exactly the same as before.

At the same time, the mixed-race Gu Long felt a lightness on his back, and Huo Yu had disappeared without a trace.

Huo Yu did not vanish into thin air; he was simply left on the other side of the stone wall, unable to traverse freely like a hybrid dragon.

With a thought, the hybrid grain dragon emerged from the smooth, mirror-like stone wall once more.

"A wall that only hybrid dragons can pass through, but I cannot..."

Huo Yu's eyes flickered, and after a moment, he had made up his mind.

"Release spiritual power outwards."

Huo Yu gave instructions to the mixed-blood dragon.

Although the latter was heartbroken, he still obediently spat out a few mouthfuls of spiritual energy.

The moment the spiritual energy surged, Huo Yu noticed that the spiritual energy within his body began to stagnate.

Huo Yu did not give the instruction to stop, and the hybrid grain dragon did not dare to stop on its own, so it could only continue to exhale spiritual energy.

Its previous injuries had not yet healed, and it was carrying Huo Yu at high speed all the way. At this moment, Huo Yu even had to squeeze out the last bit of spiritual power from its mouth, which was extremely painful for it.

Huo Yu waited until he was no different from an ordinary person again before stepping towards that strange stone wall.

The next moment, he appeared on the other side of the stone wall, and he understood.

"Absorb all the spiritual energy, then catch up."

After leaving a divine thought in the hybrid dragon, Huo Yu flew swiftly toward one side of the passage.

He then passed through countless seemingly ordinary stone walls in the same way.

Finally, the scene before Huo Yu's eyes was no longer a dark and narrow passage, but gradually became more open, and a faint light was shining through from the front.

With a thought, the hybrid grain dragon, which had repeatedly expelled and swallowed its spiritual power along the way, returned to Huo Yu's wrist with a bitter expression.

Following the light steadily forward, a magnificent hall suddenly appeared before Huo Yu's eyes.

The hall was perfectly circular, with a diameter of several dozen feet and a height of over three feet. Its top was inlaid with countless evenly sized pearls, which barely illuminated the entire space. The faint light seen in the passage earlier originated from here.

There are seven seemingly identical passageways around the hall, and Huo Yu walked out from the passageway to the due north.

Inside the hall, six people had already taken up positions in different areas, creating a subtle sense of confrontation between them.

Huo Yu's appearance instantly attracted the attention of all six people. Some were wary, some looked unfriendly, some were extremely surprised, and some had meaningful glances.

That feeling of relief mixed with barely concealed excitement undoubtedly came from Long Yucheng, who was forced to stay here.

"I never imagined that a fellow Daoist could actually arrive at this hall while the dragon was holding its breath. May I ask your esteemed name?"

A burly man from the Beast Taming Valley, located in the southeast corner, spoke first. Although his cultivation was only at the ninth level of Qi Refining, the tiger with wings on its back beside him possessed the cultivation of the mid-stage Foundation Establishment, which made the others in the hall quite wary.

Before Huo Yu could speak, a clear, bell-like voice rang out from the southwest corner of the hall:

"Senior Brother Yu, you've come at the perfect time! With your help, this treasure hunt will be a piece of cake."

Upon hearing this, the others immediately reacted in various ways.

The female disciple of the Qiongshan Sect seemed oblivious, happily inviting Huo Yu to her corner, but a cold glint flashed quickly in her almond-shaped eyes, which were as lively as a deer's.

Huo Yu's gaze slowly swept over the woman and the two people behind her, then he walked straight to the corner where she was.

At this point, the seven people in the hall were completely divided into four camps.

The burly man from Beast Taming Valley, accompanied by a fierce tiger, occupies a secluded corner of the southeast.

The Beast Taming Valley Foundation Establishment disciples who were the first to enter this place with Long Yucheng occupied the northeast corner not far away, but the two Qi Refining disciples who accompanied them were nowhere to be seen.

In the northwest corner stood a middle-aged Taoist from the Divine Sword Sect. This man possessed the highest cultivation level, having reached the late-stage Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment.

In the southwest corner were four members of the Qiongshan Sect.

Although they seemed to have the largest number of people, the girl who greeted Huo Yu was only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and the two behind her were even more shallow in cultivation, one at the third level of Qi Refining and the other at only the first level of Qi Refining.

Before Huo Yu appeared, their strength was undoubtedly the weakest among the four camps.

Now, with the addition of Huo Yu, who is in the late stage of Foundation Establishment, they have a faint chance to contend with everyone present.

The one at the first level of Qi Refining was none other than the unlucky Long Yucheng, who was directly teleported in.

He was only briefly overjoyed when he saw Huo Yu appear before falling into dejection again.

Throughout Huo Yu's appearance and subsequent joining of their camp, he remained completely silent.

Huo Yu immediately recognized the young man at the third level of Qi Refining beside Long Yucheng. This was the inner disciple he had noticed earlier, whom the Heavenly Dao had described as "stealing the beams and replacing the pillars".

Although the young man stood respectfully behind the Foundation Establishment stage girl as if he were just her follower, he secretly used his spiritual power to subtly restrain Long Yucheng.

"By the way, Senior Brother Yu, is this man your attendant? He stumbled into this place by mistake and even offended Fellow Daoist Hu. Fortunately, my attendant has sharp eyes and recognized his relationship with Senior Brother Yu, so I stepped in to save him."

The almond-eyed girl, seemingly oblivious to the eight words "Low-level cannon fodder, no hope of ascension" above her head, said to Huo Yu as if by accident, while the young man at the third level of Qi Refining also cooperated by releasing his grip on Long Yucheng.

After regaining his freedom, Long Yucheng quickly moved two steps to Huo Yu's side, trying his best to keep his distance from the master and servant.

As the almond-eyed girl spoke, the cultivator surnamed Hu in the northeast corner grew increasingly grim.

His cultivation was only at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, far inferior to Huo Yu's, and what the woman said was indeed true, so he had no way to refute it.

"Senior Brother Hu mistakenly thought that young man was the murderer of our two Qi Refining stage junior brothers, and acted rashly in a fit of anger. Fortunately, Fellow Daoist Ling from your sect appeared in time and cleared up the misunderstanding."

At this moment, the burly man from Beast Taming Valley suddenly stepped in to smooth things over.

"The next dragon's breath will arrive in a quarter of an hour. Let's not ruin our harmony at this crucial moment."

Upon hearing this, the cultivator surnamed Hu's expression softened slightly.

As the situation on the field rapidly deteriorated, the two from Beast Taming Valley seemed to be showing signs of forming an alliance.

Upon seeing this, the woman surnamed Ling merely rolled her eyes and said nothing more.

As for the middle-aged Taoist from the Divine Sword Sect, apart from glancing at Huo Yu briefly when he appeared, he kept his eyes closed and meditated the entire time, as if everything outside was irrelevant to him.

Huo Yu glanced at the burly man from Beast Taming Valley more than once, because everyone else present was a low-level cannon fodder, while only the one above him was a high-level cannon fodder.

The high-level cannon fodder he had seen before all started at the Nascent Soul stage. Now, seeing a cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining with this title, he couldn't help but take a few more glances.

Soon, the so-called "dragon's breath" time arrived.

A deep and powerful roar echoed simultaneously from all the passageways.

Upon hearing this sound, everyone present was overjoyed and each chose a passage, quickly disappearing into it.

The woman surnamed Ling and her attendant also entered the passage to the west. Only after their figures completely disappeared at the end of the passage did Long Yucheng whisper a reminder to Huo Yu:

"Watch out for that woman."

Huo Yu glanced at the passages chosen by everyone, his eyes flashing, and then led Long Yucheng into one of them—the very eastern passage chosen by the burly man from Beast Taming Valley.