Chapter 221: Strange Occurrences Follow One After Another

Hearing this, Su Chen sighed helplessly; he patted Lv Luo's head with some doting, then said.

"They didn't chase after us; this place must be full of strange things. Let's first see what the difference is."

Lv Luo felt that she had done something wrong and immediately recalled what had happened the moment they stopped.

The two walked side by side, and Lv Luo suddenly gave a light cry.

"When we just came in, I kept feeling that this place was a bit strange."

Lv Luo couldn't help but say, walking to a tree and saying slowly, "Look at this mark; it's one I just made in passing."

Su Chen looked closely, and she also had an impression of it in her dazed state.

"We've been walking for so long; could it be that we've been going in circles the whole time?"

Su Chen frowned tightly, only feeling that this Illusion Realm was becoming more and more strange.

It seemed that they would not be able to get out for a short while.

Far away in the cave, Liu Ruyan rested for a while longer before getting up to tidy things up.

Because she was afraid that Su Chen and Lv Luo would return too early, Liu Ruyan did not choose to go out, but only cleaned up the mess from last night.

This cave was bottomless, and they had only found a relatively buffered area to rest in yesterday.

Liu Ruyan stayed in the cave alone, and as time went by, she felt a bit bored.

Although it was already daytime, the depths of the cave were still bottomless, and it was pitch black inside.

Liu Ruyan suddenly heard a series of dripping water sounds; last night, the sound of the wood burning and crackling was too loud, and she was too exhausted, so Liu Ruyan hadn't heard it.

Now that it was quiet, she suddenly became curious about the internal structure of the cave; was the sound of water because there was groundwater inside?

She stood up and gradually walked toward the depths.

After walking along the winding path, Liu Ruyan was finally able to glimpse the full picture of the cave; this was no cave at all, as there was an underground river flowing inside, winding on and on, with no visible source.

In the river water, several fish could be clearly seen swimming; those fish were entirely black with a touch of red on their heads, and although the cave was dim and lightless, their scales were clearly visible and shimmering.

Liu Ruyan's pupils shrank slightly, and she looked at the scene before her in disbelief.

These fish were not ordinary fish; outside, even top sects would have the entire sect support them if they obtained one, simply because these fish were treasures from head to tail, and after growing up, they were highly likely to advance into a Divine Beast, and even the water they swam through when young would cause one's cultivation to improve.

And in this ordinary cave, there was more than just one.

In such a crude environment, to just casually place a few fish here—one could imagine how powerful the owner who created this Illusion Realm was, and how deep their family background was.

Liu Ruyan was too surprised to speak, and she tentatively reached her foot into the river water.

Sure enough, she saw a warm current flow from her toes through her limbs and bones; her body, which had been somewhat depleted from overusing Spiritual Power, was instantly filled with the warm current, and she only felt a sense of comfort all over, with her fatigue swept away.

She bent down and tentatively gathered a fish into her hand; the fish flicked its tail slightly and touched her hand a few times, feeling ticklish.

Liu Ruyan did not dare to move these fish easily for fear of any mishaps, and she planned to wait for Su Chen and Lv Luo to return before making a decision.

But she hadn't walked a few steps before she discovered that the stone wall in the distance was carved with dense patterns.

Those patterns were intricately crafted, but because too much time had passed, some of the patterns had faded.

Looking closer, she discovered that beneath those patterns were pictures, the most vivid of which was a Divine Dragon Totem.

The appearance of that Divine Dragon Totem was very familiar, and Liu Ruyan always felt she had seen it somewhere, but for a moment, she couldn't think of where.

The pictures probably depicted the fall of the Divine Dragon; the scene was grand and shocking, and Liu Ruyan felt her eyes stinging just by looking at those pictures.

It was clear that these pictures were covered with Spiritual Power, and the strength of the person who carved them was at least Emperor Level or above; such pressure was more formidable than anyone Liu Ruyan had ever seen.

She couldn't help but stroke the Divine Dragon Totem, her eyes vacant.

The treasure she wore at her waist, given to her by Su Chen, suddenly lit up imperceptibly.

Inside the entire cave, golden light suddenly erupted; before Liu Ruyan could react to what was happening, she only felt the world spinning, everything before her eyes began to distort, and a huge sense of dizziness struck her.

Opening her eyes again, Liu Ruyan realized she no longer knew where she was.

The surroundings were still the same scenery as the cave walls, but the smell of damp earth came through; Liu Ruyan understood that this was likely underground, and this stone path should also have been formed by manual excavation.

The surroundings were hung with Spirit Fire, and it had likely existed for a long time; those Spirit Fires were already dim, with only a few slowly burning.

This Spirit Fire was also by no means an ordinary object, as it could burn for a thousand years without going out.

Liu Ruyan had been pulled into another space; that mural was likely the door to open the space, though she did not know what the trigger condition was.

But since she was here, she would settle in; Liu Ruyan could not sit and wait for death. With a wall behind her and no way to go, she could only look at the pitch-black passage in front and keep walking forward.

Half a day passed, and Su Chen and Lv Luo still had not found an exit; even the path they came by was long lost, and they returned once again to the place where Lv Luo had made her mark.

Lv Luo sat directly on the ground in a huff and said angrily, "We've walked back and forth hundreds of times; I'm not walking anymore."

Su Chen was also somewhat broken; clearly, the scenery they passed each time was different, but no matter how they walked, they would eventually return to this marked spot.

"Are we going to be trapped here to death? To think that I, Su Chen, have a lifetime of fame, and in the end, it gets out that I was trapped to death here—wouldn't that make people laugh their heads off?"

Su Chen was also exhausted, lying directly on the soft grass and unable to help but grumble.

Ever since entering this Illusion Realm, they hadn't had a single day that went smoothly, and each time they were like headless flies running around.

The enemy was in the dark, and they were in the light; although the enemy hadn't done anything to them, who could understand this feeling of being stifled?

But there was no way to get out; it was suffocating.

Su Chen punched the marked tree, and feeling that his heart was still not at ease, he kicked it a few times heavily.

The tree suddenly shook for a moment, then quickly returned to calm.

Lv Luo, who had been lying there like a corpse, suddenly did a carp-spring and rushed over directly.

"What's wrong?"

Su Chen looked at Lv Luo, who had suddenly darted over, and was startled.

"Master, Master, I felt a different aura."

Lv Luo pointed at the tree excitedly, "So familiar, so warm, it's Master's aura!"

This remark made Su Chen start to wonder; he had just hammered the tree a few times and hadn't used any Spiritual Power, so how could his aura be there?

(End of chapter)