"Are you sure that you don’t want to..."
Lin Fan didn’t get to finish his words when he saw the way that Ye Qing Huan was staring at him.
Since she was even going to glare at him like this, there really was nothing else that he was able to say. Or it could be said that Lin Fan was just too scared to say anything else with what Ye Qing Huan might say.
With Xiao Mu leading the way, they soon arrived at the location that they wanted to go to.
This wasn’t the place that was deemed too dangerous, this was a place that a different elder had gone to. It was the place that the Fire Fist King, Lin Fan’s other master had gone to.
However, that wasn’t the reason that this had been chosen as the next spot.
Rather, it was simply because out of all the locations that the Poison King remembered, this one was the closest. If it wasn’t for that, they wouldn’t have chosen to come to this place either.
Though Lin Fan was certain that there was another place that Ye Qing Huan would have preferred to go to.
Still, it was hard to change her mind when she was acting like this.
So the only thing that could be done was to gather as many elders as they could so that they could charge into that place in the end.
If it was dangerous, they would gather as many helpers as they could to charge into it.
Once they arrived at this place, they didn’t charge in right away.
Instead, the same thing happened where they took a certain formation.
Both Ye Qing Huan and Xiao Mu moved behind Lin Fan, as if they were using him as some kind of shield against the things that were here. But in reality, it wasn’t as if they were using him as some kind of shield.
It was simply because he was the one that owned the token that made things much easier.
Time and time again, the use of the token had been proven.
With such concrete proof, it really was hard to deny the fact that the token was useful.
As for how they would use it this time, they naturally had no idea since they didn’t know what to expect from this place.
So far, it didn’t seem like there was anything here at all. But that was mainly because of how thick the mist was in this place.
It seemed like the mist was especially thick in this place, as if it was trying to hide something special. But if that was the case, then it would be bad that the mist was this thick.
If there really was something that special in this place, it was hard to imagine just how strong the traps used to defend this place were. The only thing that was certain was that they would be more special than normal traps.
So that was why they slowly made their way forward.
But eventually, there was something that changed in the space around them.
"There’s more spiritual energy filling the air?"
As they continued forward, they could feel that the concentration of spiritual energy in the air was getting stronger and stronger. It wasn’t even a small increase that was happening at a time, it was as if there were large waves of spiritual energy filling the air with each step.
The more that they moved forward, the harder it was for them to continue.
There was also a limit when it came to spiritual energy in the air.
Once it reached a certain point, it became excessive and harmful.
Unless one had a strong enough cultivation to properly absorb it, it would just harm them if they tried to absorb it. Which was why Lin Fan’s group slowed down in the end.
It wasn’t as if they had a choice since the pressure was getting stronger. If they wanted to keep going forward, it would mean having to force themselves to go forward.
There was no telling what was in front of them and weakening themselves like this wasn’t the right way to go.
"Just where did such pure spiritual energy come from?"
There was a part of them that envied the cultivation of the elders which allowed them to move through this spiritual energy like it was nothing.
It wasn’t as bad for Ye Qing Huan or Xiao Mu, but it really was hard for Lin Fan who had the lowest level of cultivation. If it wasn’t for the fact that he had the token, then it would have been even harder for him.
The token did help with the pressure that came from this pure spiritual energy, which showed that this was something that the Dao Sect controlled. It meant that this was something that the Dao Sect had most likely induced in this place.
But as for how they did it, that was something that no one knew.
Once they were completely out of the mist, they let out a sigh of relief.
After all, it wasn’t hard to figure out that it was the mist that had been used to block the spiritual energy from escaping. It was the reason why the mist was so thick in this place to begin with.
Though it was certainly strange to find that this was something that the mist was capable of. It seemed like this mist really had all kinds of functions that they just didn’t know about.
"So where are the elders?"
With the mist gone, they were able to see what was in front of them.
Even before seeing it, they were already able to hear the sounds coming from in front of them. With how loud it was, it really was something that was hard to ignore.
There was this large waterfall that was raging right in front of them and nothing else.
It didn’t seem like there was anything at all on the side of the cliff that the waterfall was situated on, but it was also strange since they couldn’t see where the water for the waterfall was coming from.
With the way that the water flowed, it really seemed like it came right out of the sky.
Though that wasn’t the most important thing about this waterfall.
The most shocking thing was the sensation that came from the water itself.
"It’s the water releasing the spiritual energy?"
Looking closely, they could see the spiritual energy that was being spewed out by the water as it fell down the waterfall. At the bottom was a pool, but it didn’t seem to overflow even though it was so small.
It was as if there was something that was quickly draining all of the excess water from this pool so that it didn’t overflow.
However, they could tell that it wasn’t that simple.
"When the water from the waterfall lands, it splashes and releases the spiritual energy into the air. That’s where most of the water is disappearing to."
It really was a strange method of filling this space with spiritual energy, the water itself was being used as some kind of vessel to transfer the spiritual energy.
Since the water was being used as the transport method, then the source of the spiritual energy had to be at the source of the water as well.
If they were able to bring it back to the Heavenly Demon Sect, then there was no doubt that they would be able to set up training areas that were far superior to what they currently had. Once that happened, it would be easy for them to surpass the righteous sects.
But it wasn’t as if Lin Fan or Ye Qing Huan were even thinking about that.
To take the source of the spiritual energy, that would mean taking one of the key treasures of the Dao Sect.
They already knew that it would be impossible unless they had control over the entire ruins. Otherwise, the trap that would be guarding this source would be enough to take out all of the elders that came.
It wasn’t as if the Dao Sect wouldn’t protect a treasure like this.
So instead they focused on the waterfall itself.
At first they had been focused on the pool since they thought that there would be something special there. But they soon realized that the pool itself was nothing more than normal water.
The spiritual energy that had been in the water had long been dispersed into the air and the pool seemed to be where the water gathered once more. It seemed like there was something that was placed in the pool that drained the water that was used to transport the spiritual energy.
So only the spiritual energy remained in the air while the water was taken away to be used again for transport.
From where they were looking, they could see that there was something at the bottom of the pool for this. They couldn’t see it clearly since it was the bottom of the surprisingly deep pool, but they could still tell that it was some kind of array.
As for the waterfall itself, there was actually a small island right at the base of the waterfall. It wasn’t right under so it wasn’t being hit with the water from the waterfall.
The only thing that was on this island was a small rock pillar that had some words carved on the side of it.
When they came closer to see the words, they were surprised by what they saw.
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