Li Yan's mind was instantly thrown into chaos. This was Zhao Min trying not to drag him down, telling him to fly up quickly. But how could Li Yan be willing to do that at this time?
A fierce glint flashed in his eyes, and in the next moment, he shot straight down, headfirst.
Sensing the sound of something breaking through the air, Zhao Min opened her eyes. Seeing Li Yan rushing back, an angry expression immediately appeared on her jade-like face. Just as Li Yan reached her side, she finally spoke.
"You think you're some unparalleled hero? This way, neither of us will live. Even an idiot knows to choose the right place to be stupid..."
Li Yan paid her no mind. This time, he wrapped an arm directly around Zhao Min's waist. The words Zhao Min was speaking came to an abrupt halt.
For a moment, her gaze was filled with a dazed look.
Zhao Min felt a powerful force envelop her. The strong, masculine scent coming from that arm was somewhat familiar to her.
Of course, she had smelled this scent before. She had smelled it when she sat next to Li Yan on the back mountain platform.
But at this moment, the scent was so close, and the warmth from his arm made her unable to react for a moment.
"We go up together!"
Li Yan said simply, and then he had already taken two drops of "Rongsun" into his mouth.
"The Five Elements Return to Primordial Genesis" caused the meridians in his body to expand by more than twice their size, and Spirit Power surged out like a tide.
Their bodies actually began to rise again. Only then did Zhao Min react. She felt her face begin to burn.
Although they were separated by clothes, the warmth from Li Yan's arm wrapped around her small waist sent a wave of heat through her, and a tremor ran through her body.
Although she had taken the initiative to place her hand on Li Yan's shoulder before, the feeling was completely different.
She subconsciously circulated her Spirit Power again, wanting to push Li Yan away, but she found with frustration that Li Yan seemed completely unaware of her Spirit Power's counterattack.
When her Spirit Power touched Li Yan's arm, a gentle force blocked it.
Zhao Min hadn't expected Li Yan's cultivation to be so much higher than hers. Although she had already made a judgment before, after experiencing it firsthand, she now knew that the gap between them was not just a tiny bit.
"Don't move, or we'll both die!"
Li Yan's hurried voice sounded in her ear. His breathing was a bit chaotic, and it was clear that the short distance he had just ascended had been extremely difficult for him.
Seeing Li Yan's insistence, and that she truly couldn't push him away, as doing so would only add to his burden, Zhao Min became quiet.
Zhao Min also looked up. The space above was hazy. What made her feel even worse was that her Divine Sense, when she released it now, swept through nothing but emptiness above her head.
There was no aura of any cultivator in her Divine Sense. If she hadn't miscalculated, the two of them, even with their deliberate control, wouldn't have fallen more than three hundred zhang.
At this distance, her Divine Sense should have been able to spread upwards and see the situation clearly.
Then, Li Yan's hurried voice came again.
"Be careful!"
They did not rise again. Instead, like two heavy iron blocks, they fell rapidly downwards.
Li Yan's face was exceptionally grim. At this point, no matter how hard he used "The Five Elements Return to Primordial Genesis," it was useless.
It was as if countless hands were stretching out from below, like innumerable vengeful souls from the Hall of Yama, unwillingly dragging the two of them down to sink into the Nine Serenities Underworld together.
What made Li Yan feel even worse was that his Divine Sense, as they sank, could now only extend less than two feet from his body.
The space around them seemed to have suddenly shrunk many times over, pressing them into a narrow space. They seemed to be in a bottomless, straight shaft.
...
Zuo Qiudan's figure circled once and stood again at the edge of the Devil's Cliff Crevice. At this moment, with the arrival of Yan Longzi and the others, the surrounding demon cultivators had finally been cleared out for a time, leaving a small open space.
Peak Master Yi of Four Symbols Peak was now personally leading three Golden Core cultivators and over twenty Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Malevolent Spirit Sect to expand the defensive perimeter from the inside out.
Wei Zhongran was now in Li Yuyin's arms. She had already placed two emerald-green, thumb-sized Gu-insects on Wei Zhongran's forehead and Dantian respectively.
The emerald Gu-insects erupted with circles of jade-green ripples, which entered Wei Zhongran's body at an extremely fast speed. Wei Zhongran's originally pale face showed signs of life in just a short time.
However, the aura of the two emerald Gu-insects themselves was continuously weakening.
Some of the Never-Parting Peak disciples in the distance showed pained expressions when they saw this. Their Never-Parting Peak had only managed to cultivate three of these Gu-insects in the last seventy years, and they had never been willing to use them.
Aside from the large mother insect, these two had always been kept by the Peak Master Li. Now, she had taken them all out at once.
From the looks of it, these two Gu-insects would definitely suffer a great loss of vitality. Without ten or eight years of nourishment with heavenly materials and earthly treasures, they would not be able to recover.
They could all see that Peak Master Wei was only unconscious from exhaustion. He should have been able to be woken up with medicinal pills, just that his recovery would require a period of secluded cultivation.
But under these circumstances, it was estimated that not only would he wake up soon, but his magical power and cultivation would also be restored to seventy or eighty percent.
Wei Chituo was currently giving Lin Daqiao medicinal pills to treat his injuries, while Gong Chenying looked at Yan Longzi with a pale face.
"Sect Master, Junior Brother and the others..."
"They're gone. The suction from below is also gone. You can go down and check for yourselves now. As for what happened down there, we can only wait for Wei Zhongran to wake up."
Yan Longzi's Daoist robe was tattered, and he also had several wounds on his body that were deep enough to show bone. He had just exchanged words with Zuo Qiudan and was now probing below with his Divine Sense.
There was something he didn't say. He vaguely felt that this matter seemed to be related to spatial laws, but he couldn't be sure. After all, his cultivation was not at that level yet.
On the side, Zuo Qiudan had just circled back up. A moment ago, all the power in the abyss below had suddenly vanished. He had immediately sunk down, but had found nothing.
Earlier, when Li Yan went down again, he had wanted to switch places with him and go down himself, but this kid Li Yan's movement skill was too bizarre.
Zuo Qiudan hadn't even seen clearly before the kid was already at the side of the young woman in white.
Although Li Yan had used the suction from the abyss to his advantage, Zuo Qiudan reckoned that he himself couldn't have descended so quickly over a short distance. Li Yan was clearly proficient in an extremely advanced evasion art.
What he didn't expect was that just as Li Yan reached the bottom of the abyss, the suction below suddenly increased. Let alone Li Yan, even he didn't dare to get close to that force and could only avoid its brunt.
In his anxiety, the powerful suction came and went quickly. In just a breath's time, everything in his Divine Sense's perception had vanished, including the falling corpses and the mountain peaks and giant stones.
When he went down to look again, the abyss below the Devil's Cliff Crevice was only a little over seven thousand zhang deep. The pit was filled with large and small boulders and broken wood, and the entire pit was less than twenty li in circumference.
Greatly alarmed, Zuo Qiudan carefully and repeatedly scanned the area with his Divine Sense several times. Apart from a pile of rubble, there was no trace of Li Yan and the others. It was as if they had vanished into thin air.
After searching for a while, Zuo Qiudan could only return dejectedly. After he flew up, Yan Longzi and the others had just cleared out a space above, and the two of them quickly exchanged information via voice transmission.
At this time, around the edge of the Devil's Cliff Crevice, the auras of many Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators from Windy Cool Mountain began to appear in increasing numbers.
It was unknown whether they had finally arrived, or if the demon side had finally discovered that the passage in the Devil's Cliff Crevice had completely collapsed and had given up on their life-risking interception.
In a dozen or so breaths, the drastic change in the Devil's Cliff Crevice had altered the course of the battle. And after a few shouts were heard from the battle between the several Spirit Transformation cultivators high above, they too fell silent...
Hearing these words, Gong Chenying's body began to tremble, and her face instantly lost all color, turning a frighteningly deathly white.
She suppressed the terror in her heart with great effort, slung her long halberd over her back, and flew down without the slightest hesitation.
On the side, Wei Chituo and Lin Daqiao looked at each other. They knew that Gong Chenying and Zhao Min were as close as sisters. Moreover, they still wanted to find out the whereabouts of Li Yan and the other, so they also flew down after her.
...
Li Yan vigilantly surveyed the dark yellow space outside his Spirit Power shield. One hand was still firmly wrapped around Zhao Min's waist.
As the two of them fell, they were pulled back and forth by the powerful suction, and the entire area below the Devil's Cliff Crevice began to become chaotic.
It was no longer a single source of suction from below. Instead, several sources of suction would suddenly appear from any direction. The two of them could no longer stabilize their bodies and were constantly shifted left and right.
Like two leaves in the wind, they fell without a trace.
But fortunately, these suctions were not like the terrifying existence of Astral Wind; they did not instantly tear them to pieces, which allowed the two of them to relax slightly.
Li Yan had been silently counting in his heart. When he had only counted to three, the color of the space around him suddenly changed. They seemed to have arrived in a vast, dark yellow world.
There were no more rubble or fierce winds, but their bodies were still falling uncontrollably. The space below was also a dark yellow, and in all directions, it was the same boundless dark yellow color.
After a while, Li Yan and Zhao Min could no longer tell if they were falling down, rising up, or flying sideways.
Because, as far as the eye could see, it was all a dark yellow. How could they distinguish up from down, left from right?
"This doesn't look like the Devil's Cliff Crevice!"
Zhao Min looked around and said softly.
She had been in the Devil's Cliff Crevice for some time. Although she hadn't set foot in every part of it, someone had told their group of Foundation Establishment cultivators about the situation in all the dangerous places.
She had never heard of a place like this in the Devil's Cliff Crevice. This place gave her a great sense of danger, yet her Divine Sense couldn't extend too far from her body.
As far as the eye could see, it was a stretch of dark yellow, as if only the two of them existed between heaven and earth, giving one the feeling of floating forever.
The only thing that gave the two of them a sense of life was the shimmering light of the Spirit Power shield around them.
"Take out all the defensive talismans and magical treasures you have. I'll defend first, you prepare to take over. This place is very strange!"
Li Yan withdrew his gaze and looked at Zhao Min at his side. At this moment, Zhao Min's face was still very calm, as if she didn't know she was in danger at all.
But Li Yan knew her to a certain extent. He knew that Zhao Min had always had a cold temperament, and expressions like fear and dread almost never appeared on her face.
He had later learned the reason for this from Gong Chenying when she told him about Zhao Min's past. Zhao Min had been sent to the clan when she was young. Amidst longing and fear, she had long since buried these things deep in her heart.
Because she knew that no matter how much she cried, all it would bring her was the silence of her surroundings, and ultimately, the two cold words: "cultivate."
As Li Yan spoke, a layer of purple qi had already appeared outside his Spirit Power shield. The "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" was directly summoned by Li Yan.
Then, with a flash of brilliant light, a dozen more talismans of various colors, shimmering with a soul-stirring light, were plastered outside the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation."
These talismans included some he had looted from enemies, as well as some good defensive talismans from the sect, the "Ghost-Chariot Talisman."
Being stared at so closely by Li Yan, feeling the warmth from his arm at her waist, Zhao Min felt a little nervous, and at the same time, a sense of calmness.
Surprisingly, neither the nervousness nor the calmness came from the unknown and dangerous outside world, but both came from Li Yan.