Rong Yi blinked. So the two in front of him were truly the elders from the Yin family, not the illusion in his mind? And he didn’t run into the illusion?
Elder the First came to his sense first and knew he was not in an illusion. He swayed his sword in anger, “You little brat, how dare you slap me?! You wanna die…”
Rong Yi ran away quickly, “This is a mistake. I fell down with my friends, I thought I was holding his hand and then I thought my friend changed into you to fool me. I didn’t expect you are the real yourself!”
He was also very depressed about why he would be holding their hands just now, but it felt really awesome of that slap.
Elder the First didn’t care about what explanation he offered, the man who dared to hit him must pay the price.
When he saw Rong Yi running away, he immediately wielded his magic power, only to find it didn’t work.
The disciple from the Yin family explained, “My elder, our spiritual power has been restrained here. Other disciples were also separated and we still do not know where they have gone.”
Elder the Sixth said, “There might be several passages in the hidden tunnel, so they are scattered to other places.”
Elder the First felt his burning face and stared at Rong Yi’s retreating figure, “Have you looked around yet?”
“No, here’s the secret realm. We dare not go anywhere. But, we were the first to come here. After that, more than a dozen disciples of Yin family and you two fell off one after another, then no one else.”
His words changed Elder the First’s focus from Rong Yi to the current situation. They should first figure out the current situation before setting this straight with that boy.
The cave was about a hundred feet wide, and the surrounding rock walls were embedded with many luminous ingredients to light up the whole cave. Most of them were above grade eight. However, no one dared to touch it, for fear of touching the cunning devices or trigger thing and sacrificing their lives.
“Are these ingredients genuine?” The cultivators looked at them with coveted faces, “If we take them back, we can forge a lot of top magic weapons.”
Someone warned him, “Don’t touch them. There may be triggers inside.”
“Don’t worry. We would have already done that if we want.” It was a hard test for their endurance. So many high-level ingredients were right before their eyes, but they did not dare to touch them.
“Find out where this place is and how to get out first, otherwise, we won’t be able to use them even if we take them.”
“Hmm.”
Since his body was missing, Rong Yi was not in the mood to look at those ingredients on the stone walls at all.
After he moved far away from the elders, he walked around the vicinity and did not see his body or his guards, nor any exit.
The other cultivators walked around and also found nothing.
“Why is there no exit?”
“Maybe we need to find the trigger for the exit ourselves.”
“But where to find it?”
Everyone looked at the ingredients embedded in the stone walls, “Do you think the trigger will be inside the ingredients? But there’re so many of them. Where to start?”
“It may be in the ingredients or buried underground. We should find out it clear before taking any action.”
“Yes, if we trigger the real cunning devices by accident, we would be so dead.”
The cultivators moved separately, with some observing the stone walls and some observing the ground.
Rong Yi remembered, in the video of the ancestors going into the secret realms to look for ingredients, they went into a cave similar to this one. Each kind of the ingredients on the wall was a trap, and every one of them could make them at least half-dead.
Later, the ancestors of the Rong family took the lowest-grade ingredients according to the guide of a pattern they found before leaving the cave.
Rong Yi said to the people around him, “Let’s see if there is any pattern or what. If you find any strange pattern, let us know.”
People around him said ‘yes’. Anyway, they would take labor to find a way out.
However, they found nothing after two hours, not to mention any patterns. There was not even a stone on the ground. A protruding trigger? Forget about it.
At this moment, someone suggested, “We’d better take away the ingredients. Maybe the trigger is inside.”
Someone nodded, “Before the master of the hidden real hid the trigger among the ingredients, he must have anticipated that we dare not take down the ingredients casually.”
Someone timid said, “I don’t want to die here. We’d better look for it carefully. Besides, it’s so big here. It’s definitely not easy to find the trigger. As for the ingredients on top of us, we can’t fly up by the sword to check the situation.”
“Yes, how do we get up there to look for the trigger?”
Just as everyone was cracking their brain, someone suddenly shouted out loud.
They were all startled and looked at the screamer.
The man quickly ran to the entrance, “We are really all big fools. Why not return by the way we came. Why must we find an exit here?”
He stepped against the wall with one foot, jumped up, climbed to the entrance of the cave and smiled at everyone, “Bye, everyone, I’m going first.”
Then, he took out his flying sword as a crutch and climbed back step by step.
All of a sudden, with a loud bang, a pile of flesh and blood, large and small, sprayed from the entrance.
Everyone was shocked to see the chopped head rolling down belonging to the man who said he would leave first.
Someone said sarcastically, “It was truly he is a step ahead of us.”
Everyone looked carefully at the entrance, where a large pile of stones blocked the way. “It seems that we cannot return to the road we came.”
“What shall we do and how shall we get out?” Those cultivators were buzzing.
Rong Yi, who was also in distress, suddenly found that the entrance to the cave was an inverted fan shape. His eyes lit up. That might be the pattern he was looking for!
He quickly turned around and looked at the stone wall, searching for the same pattern as the entrance.