821: Chapter 237_5 821: Chapter 237_5 He distinctly remembered the journey here, noting it had taken him less than an hour to reach this spot.
However, this time, when he and Linghu Gudu arrived at the spot where he had previously separated from Ling Xi and Yan Yourong and the others, it took them more than two hours.
Even after he and Linghu Gudu returned, Ling Xi and Yan Yourong had not come back.
“Where are the two of them?”
Linghu Gudu, full of surprise, looked around and called out, “We walked all the way to the hall and then back again.
Haven’t they returned yet?”
Cao Zhen didn’t bring Linghu Gudu, but instead, he directly opened the China Cloud.
Whether it was Ling Xi or Yan Yourong, he had connected with them before, so naturally, he could check their situation.
Soon, he sighed softly.
Through China Cloud, he could clearly see that the two were making their way along the stairs.
The two had not encountered danger, they just hadn’t returned here yet.
Cao Zhen quickly exited China Cloud and continued to wait.
About another two hours later, Ling Xi and Yan Yourong appeared in his sight again.
Seeing Cao Zhen and another, their faces showed no surprise.
Ling Xi even whispered, “Master, you really came back.
Did you also take a detour before returning?”
Cao Zhen shook his head, “No, we didn’t take a detour back, we went back to the hall, and then walked back on our own.”
“Ah?
Master, you went back to the hall?” Ling Xi, with a look of surprise, asked, “Master?
You didn’t end up taking a circular route down?
Then why did you come back?”
“Why come back?” Cao Zhen pointed down the stairs and said, “Do you think we could burst through that hall to escape?
We’ve tried before, the main doors of the hall cannot be opened.
Moreover, with so many skeletons and resentful spirits crammed together, even if we charged, we couldn’t get through.
I even suspect there might be other possibilities.”
Cao Zhen paused briefly before adding, “Has this tower been visited by anyone before?
This relic clearly has been contested by many.
It’s impossible that no one has discovered this tower before; perhaps many have entered this relic.
They weren’t just one group, so there must have been conflict, some skeletons might be people who died in those fights.
But, not everyone could have died; so, what about those who survived?
They are also within this relic, and they too might have been constantly searching for the true exit, searching for the treasures in this tower.
However, they too might be trapped here like us.
We have only been trapped here for a short while, and already feel impatient; what if we had been walking for even longer?
A year, two years, three years… After countless years, being constantly trapped here, would we not develop inner demons?
Or perhaps, thinking their Cultivation Base was high, they might have thought they could kill those skeletons, so they rushed out, then found they couldn’t open the gates, and were beaten to death by those skeletons?”
“This… So what do we do?” Ling Xi looked at her master, and suddenly, a dense life force came from beside them.
Following that, a wave of heat surged.
Li Ke?
Cao Zhen looked over at Li Ke, who was being held in Ling Xi’s arms.
At that moment, Ling Xi was so hot that her pretty face turned red, and even sweat beads were densely covering her face, as she looked somewhat painfully at Cao Zhen and murmured, “It’s so hot, I can hardly bear this scorching breath.”
Cao Zhen quickly instructed, “Li Ke is about to awaken.
Put her down on the ground first.”
Upon hearing his words, Ling Xi put down Li Ke, and almost the next moment, a clear chirping sound emerged.
This was the chirp of the Saint Beast Bi Fang!
Around Li Ke’s body, the flame that had been enveloping her showed a distinct crack, similar to a cracked eggshell.
This place, it’s clearly impossible to fly.
Yet the flame wrapped around Li Ke and began to slowly rise.
The next moment, the cracks in the flame around Li Ke grew larger, and with a crisp cracking sound, it burst open.
The flame truly fragmented like a broken eggshell, revealing Li Ke inside.
Cao Zhen immediately turned to Linghu Gudu and yelled, “You, turn your head away.”
Linghu Gudu also reacted instantly, turning his head to the side immediately while shouting, “I didn’t see anything, really nothing, don’t kill the messenger.”
Throughout this time, he had often heard Ling Xi and Yan Yourong refer to Li Ke as ‘Master Wife,’ and now…
He genuinely didn’t see anything; although the eggshell-like flame had broken, the flames were still there, and Li Ke was enveloped in flames, so all he could see was the flames, not anything else.
If he were to be killed by Cao Zhen for that, it would truly be an unjust death.
The Spiritual Energy inside this tower was present but wasn’t particularly dense, yet this time, after the eggshell cracked, Cao Zhen distinctly felt the surrounding Spiritual Energy becoming exceptionally dense, and a vigorous life force, like a breaching flood, surged toward them.
On these stairs, where there were no plants or moss, at this instant, he felt as if plants were about to grow on the steps.
The life force after the explosion of the flame was incredibly dense!
Simultaneously, an ancient, mysterious, and scorching breath surged toward them, and Li Ke’s body also stood upright, as a series of thudding sounds followed.