Xuan Zi's words fell into everyone's ears, making everyone's heart sink involuntarily.
Unable to fly, if they truly encountered any crisis in this boundless mountain forest, and even the means of evacuation were sealed off, they would only have to bite the bullet and face it head-on.
At this moment, a trace of solemnity also flashed in Huo Yuhao's eyes; matters seemed to be developing in a direction he had not anticipated.
The bizarre degree of this layer of white fog far exceeded his initial judgment.
'Ah!'
Suddenly, a panicked shout came from the crowd, sharp and short.
Everyone looked towards the source of the sound, only to see the figure of a reserve team member from Shrek Academy suddenly vanish, as if dragged by an invisible hand into the thick white fog surrounding them.
Almost at the same moment, the others also felt a faint pulling force coming, as if pairs of invisible hands were gently pulling at their bodies, attempting to drag them into the fog.
'Be careful! Everyone stay together, don't get separated!'
Cai Meier's voice suddenly rose sharply. Her reaction was extremely fast; the moment her words fell, she had already moved closer to the few people beside her.
Xuan Zi also reacted immediately. Earth-yellow Spirit Power surged turbulently from within his body, wrapping around everyone from Shrek Academy like a thick protective cover.
On the other side, Huo Yuhao's movements were equally fast. He also immediately released his own Spirit Power, protecting everyone from the Spirit Pagoda and the Star Luo Royal Spirit Master Academy within it.
Although his cultivation was only at the Spirit Douluo level, possessing the ability of dual spirit cores made the solidity of his Spirit Power not inferior to a Super Douluo at all.
Although everyone gathered together, that gold-and-silver dual-colored pulling force did not weaken because of this; instead, it was strengthening bit by bit.
That force, like an invisible giant hand, gradually sucked and pulled the two balls of Spirit Power along with the people wrapped inside them off the ground, shooting rapidly towards mid-air.
The original restriction of being unable to fly within that white fog seemed to completely fail under the pull of this gold-and-silver force.
Everyone's figures, like fallen leaves swept into a torrent, were carried by that force through layers of dense fog.
The fog was extremely thick, where one could not see one's fingers in front of oneself. Coupled with mental force perception being completely isolated, they only felt that they were being quickly dragged and moved, yet completely unable to determine the direction.
About a quarter of an hour later, the surroundings suddenly brightened.
It was as if someone had pulled aside a heavy curtain, and light poured back into their vision.
When everyone's gazes fell upon the scenery below, almost everyone was stunned.
That was a vast lake, quietly spreading out in the embrace of continuous mountains. The lake water was clear to the bottom, reflecting the light of the sky and the shadows of the clouds.
However, what truly shocked people was the color of this lake water; the water surprisingly presented two completely distinct lusters of gold and silver.
In the most core region at the center of the lake, a circular golden lake surface spread out quietly like a solar wheel, emanating a rich golden light.
On the outer periphery of the golden lake surface, a curved silver moon surrounded its side, and the silvery-white lake water rippled with shimmering light, reflecting each other brilliantly with the gold.
One gold and one silver, one sun and one moon, two patches of lake water differing in color and shape nestled against each other, like a scroll meticulously painted by the Creator.
Around the lake water, the gold-and-silver dual-colored light continuously expanded outward, climbing upward along the trend of the mountains and spreading toward more distant places.
After a brief shock, everyone quickly came to their senses.
They could almost be certain that the gold-and-silver light that had pulled them here earlier came precisely from this strange lake below.
And the'Sun Moon' shape of this lake involuntarily made people associate it with the Sun Moon Empire.
Everything seemed to be pointing to the same conclusion: this place was very likely a trap set up for them by the Sun Moon Empire.
However, just as everyone had various thoughts, Huo Yuhao's expression suddenly changed.
It was as if he remembered something extremely important, and he suddenly shouted out: 'Later, if anyone asks questions, remember not to lie!'
Earlier, when he saw that gold-and-silver dual-colored pulling force, Huo Yuhao already had a vague judgment in his heart.
And at this moment, seeing this gold-and-silver dual-colored lake with his own eyes, and seeing the strange landform where the solar wheel and moon arc embraced each other, that guess in his heart completely settled down: this place was none other than Qiankun Asking Emotion Valley.
He had once read records about this place in the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record left behind by Tang San; that was the existence ranked first among the continent's three major treasure basins.
The book said it was a treasured land containing unimaginable Opportunity, but at the same time, it was accompanied by immense danger.
Anyone who stepped into it had to face the most genuine emotional interrogation of their own heart; lies would incur punishment, and only honesty could pass the test.
Huo Yuhao did not expect that the Sun Moon Empire's conspiracy would actually lead them to this Qiankun Asking Emotion Valley. Yet this thought subsequently gave birth to a new perplexity for him: in the historical records Ten Thousand Years later, why was there completely no record regarding this place?
Could it be that in the original historical trajectory, the Sun Moon Empire did not utilize this Secret Realm?
But that shouldn't be right; could it be because of some other reason that the upheaval here was not recorded in history books?
There was no time for him to think much more. The lake surface below suddenly burst forth with dazzling gold-and-silver light, the light shooting straight into the sky like a substance, instantly shattering the two Spirit Power barriers wrapping around everyone.
Everyone's figures were separated simultaneously, and a gold-and-silver dual-colored light shield resembling a bubble emerged on each of their bodies, steadily holding them in mid-air, separated by a few zhang from one another, unable to touch or approach each other.
Huo Yuhao was also unable to break free at this moment. That layer of light shield looked thin and transparent, yet it carried an indescribable solidity, as if woven by the Law of Heaven and Earth itself.
A trace of regret flashed through his heart, because he realized that he had been somewhat arrogant.
He originally thought that holding sufficient trump cards in his hand would allow him to come and go freely in this World of Ten Thousand Years ago, but at this moment he discovered that between this heaven and earth, things he could neither anticipate nor control still existed.
Without waiting for Huo Yuhao to think further, the gold-and-silver dual-colored bubble wrapping him suddenly plunged downward, like a leaf blown down by the wind, falling straight into the dual-colored lake water below.
Huo Yuhao instinctively held his breath, thinking he was about to feel the coldness and submersion of the lake water, yet the expected feeling of falling into the water did not appear.
He only felt a dizzying vertigo strike, as if the entire World was inverted, distorted, and churned before his eyes.
With his Spirit Domain Realm mental force, logically speaking, such a feeling of dizziness should not occur, yet at this moment that real swaying sensation actually filled every inch of his perception.
A moment later, the dizziness finally dissipated.
Huo Yuhao opened his eyes and discovered that he was not in the lake water, but was instead in a transparent and strange World.
Everything around him was gold-and-silver dual-colored, and he was still wrapped by that layer of gold-and-silver dual-colored bubble.
Beneath him was a huge circular platform with a diameter of about twenty meters, its surface glowing with a warm jade luster, and its patterns resembling the intersecting trajectories of the sun and moon.
His gaze swept around, and he discovered that along the edge of this circular platform, circles were evenly arranged, and on each circle stood a person, thirteen in total.
Huo Yuhao also became nervous at this moment, records about Qiankun Asking Emotion Valley rapidly surging through his mind.
Legend has it that this was the place where the God of Love fell. That God of Love was betrayed by her lover, and out of grief and indignation, ended her life here. Her Divine Power and grief merged into this lake water, forming this strange Secret Realm.
When Huo Yuhao first read this record, only a single thought flashed through his heart: this God of Love was truly incompetent.
Could it be that the deity controlling love was also unable to see clearly whether her lover was sincere?
No matter what he thought, in this Qiankun Asking Emotion Valley, anyone who was unfaithful to love would receive punishment, and might even face mortal danger.
And Huo Yuhao's concept of love was definitely not one husband and one wife for a lifetime.
This Qiankun Asking Emotion Valley was a massive danger to him, so right now Huo Yuhao was also somewhat panicked.
He hurriedly called out anxiously in his Spiritual Sea: 'Teacher! Is there a way to leave this place?'
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A/N:
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