"Fine, we'll listen to you. The two of us will head back."
Yuwen Hualong and Yuwen Tingyi nodded, then the two of them walked back. Han Yu was the only one who left the grand hall.
At that moment, the gazes of the people inside the hall toward Chu Feng had all changed.
They all felt that the relationship between Chu Feng and the Ancient Snake Clan must be extraordinary — otherwise the Ancient Snake Clan would not have made things so difficult for Han Yu.
However, Chu Feng was very well aware that he had no relationship with the Ancient Snake Clan whatsoever, so he couldn't understand why the Ancient Snake Clan's clan chief had ordered his people to trouble Han Yu.
After that, people within the hall had been taking turns stepping into the pillars of light, each one holding a glass orb.
As for Chu Feng, he called Li Xiang and the other two over to his side.
Chu Feng figured that the sheer number of light pillars likely represented different entrances.
In other words, entering the maze formation through different light pillars would place you at different locations within the maze formation — otherwise there would be no need to have so many pillars of light.
And Chu Feng was worried that after entering the maze formation, if Yuwen Hualong and Yuwen Tingyi encountered Li Xiang and the other two, they would target them.
So by having Li Xiang and the others travel with him, Chu Feng could at least protect them.
Even if he ran into Yuwen Hualong and couldn't beat him, at the very least Chu Feng would still be able to flee with Li Xiang and the others in tow.
But if Li Xiang and the others weren't traveling with Chu Feng, then the moment they ran into either Yuwen Hualong or Yuwen Tingyi — even just one of them — they would be in serious trouble.
"Young Master Chu Feng, let's travel together."
Just as Chu Feng and Li Xiang's group were about to step into the same pillar of light, Xia Yun'er appeared at Chu Feng's side.
However, Chu Feng acted as though he hadn't heard Xia Yun'er's words at all and stepped directly into the pillar of light.
Chu Feng didn't want to travel with Xia Yun'er. He felt this woman was far too dangerous, and it would be better to keep his distance from her.
But Li Xiang and the others had no idea what was going through Chu Feng's mind. The three of them stood there frozen, exchanging bewildered glances, their eyes filled with confusion.
In their view, even they had heard Xia Yun'er's call, so Chu Feng must have heard it too.
And yet they couldn't fathom why Chu Feng hadn't responded.
In the end, the three of them could only arrive at one conclusion — Chu Feng was simply far too headstrong.
For him to treat Xia Yun'er, a stunning beauty, in such a manner — if that wasn't being headstrong, what was?
But the three didn't say much to Xia Yun'er. They simply smiled at her, gave a polite greeting, and then followed in Chu Feng's footsteps into the pillar of light.
As for Xia Yun'er, she didn't let her expression turn sour just because Chu Feng had ignored her.
Quite the opposite — on that exquisite and captivating face of hers, an even more radiant smile bloomed.
Right after that, she moved as well, gliding into the very same pillar of light that Chu Feng and Li Xiang's group had entered.
It seemed she had made up her mind to travel with Chu Feng and wasn't planning on letting him go.
It was worth noting that when those holding transparent glass orbs entered the pillars of light, the light they emitted was white.
The cyan glass orbs emitted cyan light, the purple ones purple light, and the golden ones golden light.
As these different colors of light flickered across the pillars of light in the hall, Chu Feng had already entered the so-called maze formation.
"This is the maze formation?"
Chu Feng was somewhat surprised. The maze formation was nothing more than a vast mountain range — strange rocks blanketed the slopes, towering trees reached toward the heavens, and thick vines coiled around everything in sight. There was nothing that appeared remotely special about it, and even the path up the mountain was clearly visible.
Chu Feng began to suspect that he might have gone to the wrong place.
Or perhaps the golden glass orb held the power to break through the maze formation.
"Something's not right."
At that very moment, Chu Feng suddenly realized that two pieces of information had appeared in his mind.
A single character, and a sequence of numbers.
The character was "Purple."
The numbers were 674953.
And looking down at his hand, Chu Feng discovered that the glass orb he had been holding was gone.
"Wait — don't tell me this is the so-called clue?"
Chu Feng was left almost speechless, because from the looks of it, the mysterious information that had appeared in his mind had to be the clue.