"Senior, can you not endure it?" Chu Feng asked directly, beating around no bush.
Chu Feng was standing right beside the massive hole. He could see that it was a formation tunnel opened by a Forbidden Artifact.
Though the hole was constantly surging with a force that assaulted their minds, in truth, the interior of the hole had been transformed by the Forbidden Artifact into a formation tunnel.
If they truly entered the hole, they would plummet rapidly — whether they retreated or advanced would no longer be up to them.
And the force inside the hole was even stronger. If even Fairy Jie Shan could not withstand the power pouring out of it, then she should not enter that hole.
Otherwise, she would surely die.
"Chu Feng, put me into the formation space and take me inside."
Fairy Jie Shan handed back the formation sphere that Chu Feng had just passed to her.
She intended to enter the formation space.
"Senior, are you certain you wish to do this?"
Chu Feng felt this was extremely risky of Fairy Jie Shan.
Fairy Jie Shan wanted to see if she could bypass this force through Chu Feng.
But Chu Feng was not sure whether this method would work. Normally, it should not.
"I must go in. Take me inside."
Fairy Jie Shan spoke again, directly opening Chu Feng's formation space and entering the spatial formation herself.
But even after entering the formation space, the pain on Fairy Jie Shan's face did not lessen.
That force was able to penetrate into the spatial formation — she had not escaped its assault by hiding inside the formation space.
Even so, Fairy Jie Shan urged him on: "Take me in."
"Then forgive this junior for not standing on ceremony."
Chu Feng clasped the formation sphere and drew it into his palm. This was the true method of evasion — absorbing it into his body.
Having entered his own body, Chu Feng could still sense the changes within the formation space.
Fairy Jie Shan's suffering had not diminished. The force could not be avoided.
"Senior, it's not working," Chu Feng urged.
But Fairy Jie Shan pressed him: "Don't wait. Go in directly."
Hearing this, Chu Feng could only comply. He leaped downward, plunging into the massive hole.
Just as Chu Feng had anticipated, the moment he stepped into the hole, the raging power of the barrier sent him hurtling downward with no possibility of turning back.
At that speed, the force intensified several times over — even Chu Feng could feel that something was wrong. If this continued, he would not be able to endure it either.
But fortunately, the force soon dissipated — completely vanished, in fact. Yet Chu Feng was still falling. The tunnel had not reached its bottom.
Chu Feng realized that the source of that force had already been passed. The origin was not at the bottom.
He looked upward, but could see nothing at all. He could not stop his descent either. All he could do was drift with the current.
Finally, Chu Feng emerged from the tunnel and landed within a vast, boundless palace.
Looking up, he could see no trace of where he had come from. The ceiling of the palace had no opening, no barrier — nothing.
It was as though Chu Feng had simply appeared out of thin air.
This left him somewhat worried. After all, he knew that after he entered, Xianhai Shaoyu and Little Fishy would surely follow.
With the way back invisible now, he feared something might go wrong.
But fortunately, before long, a barrier gate materialized on the palace ceiling above Chu Feng, and the figures of Little Fishy and Xianhai Shaoyu descended through it.
This time Chu Feng saw that the moment the two of them appeared, the barrier gate vanished immediately.
This made Chu Feng marvel at the power of Fairy Jie Shan's Forbidden Artifact.
After all, this passage had been opened by that Forbidden Artifact. Even though the artifact had already shattered, once the barrier gate concealed itself, not even Chu Feng could detect a flaw.
However, Chu Feng had no mind to examine any of that at the moment, because he could see that Xianhai Shaoyu was not in good shape.
"How are you?" Chu Feng hurried over.
"I'm fine. I just need a moment to recover." Xianhai Shaoyu waved his hand. His complexion was grim, and his voice was weak.
That was to be expected — the force within that tunnel had been formidable. Even Chu Feng had felt the pressure.
But fortunately, after observing him, Chu Feng could see that Xianhai Shaoyu's condition was fundamentally sound. Just as he had said, he merely needed time to recover.
Chu Feng then quickly turned his senses inward, for within the formation space, Fairy Jie Shan was still there.
And upon doing so, Chu Feng was overjoyed.
Fairy Jie Shan's condition was still poor, but it was exactly the same as it had been before entering the tunnel.
This meant he truly could carry outsiders into this place.
Yet according to Chu Feng's observations before they entered, this method should not have worked.