Boom— At that moment, a deafening roar rang out, and the cavern began to tremble once more. This time, the shaking was far worse than before.
"It's really going to collapse! Everyone, run — run!"
"If we don't get out now, we'll be buried alive!"
Panic consumed the crowd this time. They spun around and fled back the way they had come.
Everyone ran, but Chu Lingxi remained rooted to her spot, still launching attacks against the force sealing the entrance.
"Lingxi, aren't you going to run? Do you want to die here?" Chu Huanyu called out.
But she paid him no heed whatsoever, as though she hadn't heard a word.
"She's lost her mind. She's completely lost her mind."
"Fine then — go ahead and die here with that Chu Feng."
Chu Huanyu cursed under his breath in frustration, then followed the others and departed.
In the blink of an eye, the once-bustling cavern held only Chu Lingxi.
Bracing herself against the ever-intensifying tremors, she swung the half-finished immortal weapon in her hand relentlessly, unleashing powerful immortal techniques.
In that moment, she cut a rather solitary figure — yet her stubbornness and her fearless resolve moved the heart.
But sadly, the juniors of the Chu Heavenly Clan were not moved.
In their eyes, Chu Lingxi's actions were foolish. Crazy.
But only Chu Lingxi herself knew that she could not abandon Chu Feng and leave. After all… they had fused the Yin-Yang Life Pearls, and from that moment on, as long as they were both here, their fates were bound together.
Right now, she hadn't sensed anything unusual — which meant Chu Feng wasn't dead.
But the current situation suggested that Chu Feng might be in trouble.
So she couldn't give up. As long as Chu Feng was still alive, she would not abandon him.
…
Boom— Suddenly, another thunderous roar erupted — louder and more piercing than any before, as though it were right on top of them. The frequency of the tremors was utterly terrifying.
Yet after that roar, everything seemed to return to normal.
"What the hell is going on?"
"Chu Feng, you'd better hold on no matter what. If something happens to you, this lady is going to suffer right along with you."
Chu Lingxi froze for a moment, but she quickly resumed swinging the half-finished immortal weapon in her hand, launching attacks against the force that sealed this place.
Even though the roaring and the shaking had stopped, Chu Lingxi's unease only grew deeper. She was genuinely terrified that something had happened to Chu Feng.
It wasn't because she was worried about being implicated herself — she simply didn't want anything to happen to him.
And at that moment, deep in the innermost reaches of the cavern, Chu Feng still stood in his original position. Beneath the protective barrier, he was completely unharmed.
Not only unharmed — a gleam of delight had surfaced in his eyes.
Though ripples still churned throughout the chamber, with his Heavenly Eyes, Chu Feng could see that Chu Haoyan's grandfather lay slumped at the base of the cavern wall, drenched in blood from head to toe.
But Lord Youyuan, on the other hand, was entirely unscathed.