Chapter 97

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Sha Yi stared straight at the hall master of the Qingyun Sect, his face showing a slightly contemplative expression, and then said, "I hope you haven't lied to me."

"This... How could I dare to," the Qingyun Sect hall master was frightened by Sha Yi's words and quickly replied.

Sha Yi nodded indifferently and then looked to the left front of the maze, as if trying to see through the layers of the maze to the true location of Zuo Yang.

After learning the location of Zuo Yang from the hall master of the Qingyun Sect, Sha Yi took one last look at the hall master and finally stepped out of the small hall, heading towards the left front of the maze.

Seeing that Sha Yi was really leaving, the hall master finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This person recalled the terrifying scene not long ago, where the Qingyun Sect protector, who had become several segments of a corpse, was cut into pieces after the crystalline insect circled around him several times, and he involuntarily shuddered.

However, just as this person was about to move, his body, which had become extremely stiff due to the previous fear, several extremely thin blood lines appeared on his body and limbs.

Soon, these blood lines spread rapidly across the hall master's body.

At this moment, Sha Yi, who had not walked far in the maze passage, noticed that the small flying insect beside him had disappeared at some point.

Next, the hall master's consciousness fell into darkness.

With a 'bang,' his body instantly shattered along the blood lines that appeared on him and fell to the ground.

Only then did a faint breeze sound beside the hall master's corpse.

Then, a stream of light formed by a crystalline insect flew past the corpse, heading towards Sha Yi and returning to his side.

Not long after Sha Yi left the small hall, several figures appeared in the maze passage and entered the hall.

Among these figures, one person led the group, and a few of them were high-ranking members of the Qingyun Sect. The leader was none other than Zuo Yang, whom Sha Yi had been looking for.

When Sha Yi was following the maze route taken by Zuo Yang and others, he did not encounter Zuo Yang, possibly due to some place where they had diverged.

It seemed that because the maze passages were too complex and varied, although Sha Yi and Zuo Yang had taken roughly the same route, they ultimately missed each other.

Now, Zuo Yang and his companions looked at the two extremely tragic corpses on the ground, their faces extremely grim.

After staring at the two corpses for a long time, a high-ranking member of the Qingyun Sect beside Zuo Yang, with a desolate expression, sighed deeply and said, "When Protector Sun and Hall Master Zhou did not meet at the location predicted by Protector Qian, I suspected... I didn't expect it to be this result."

"I wonder what kind of mechanism the Protector Sun and others encountered here, to end up so tragically," another high-ranking member of the Qingyun Sect said, looking around the small hall with caution.

Since entering the hall and seeing the two people who had died tragically, Zuo Yang's face had been extremely grim and cold. Listening to the conversation of the two high-ranking members of the Qingyun Sect, his face showed even more caution.

Zuo Yang and his companions clearly believed that the reason for the tragic deaths of these two people was some unknown mechanism hidden in the hall.

Zuo Yang looked at the two corpses with a dark and uncertain expression, and then an invisible aura extended from his body, protecting him. At the same time, a layer of invisible aura extending from Zuo Yang also enveloped the few high-ranking members of the Qingyun Sect beside him.

They were on guard against any mechanisms that might appear in the hall.

The reason Zuo Yang and his companions appeared here was that the Zhao surname protector and the Zhou surname hall master did not meet at the previously designated location. This situation gave Zuo Yang and his companions a bad feeling, and they ultimately decided to return to the original exploration area to check the situation, arriving here.

In the end, they saw this tragic scene.

After the several high-ranking members of the Qingyun Sect looked at the scene in front of them with a desolate expression, they came to their senses after a light cough from Zuo Yang.

"Everyone, now that the situation is clear, Elder Zhao and Hall Master Zhou encountered this... sigh. This hall, although we don't know what kind of mechanism it has, is clearly very dangerous. We must leave here as soon as possible," Zuo Yang reminded them.

Under Zuo Yang's reminder, the several high-ranking members of the Qingyun Sect also nodded.

Then, they left the hall extremely cautiously, preparing to return to the original gathering point. However, the route they took to return was still the left front passage.

Although they had avoided Sha Yi by chance this time, it seemed that they would eventually meet.

Not long after, another figure appeared from another maze passage and entered the hall.

"After circling around in the maze for a while, I finally got that thing. Next, I just need to retrieve the sandstone insect, and then I can go to the central area to retrieve all the things left in the underground palace from back then," the person said, glancing at the two corpses in the hall.

This person was naturally the Feng surname cultivator.

The Feng surname cultivator moved his gaze from the two corpses, frowned slightly, and then muttered, "Although I have taken over a new body, the sandstone insect was cultivated by me, and the connection between it and my mind is inseparable. From the current situation, it seems that Sha Yi left here not long ago."

Saying this, the Feng surname cultivator's gaze faintly turned towards the left front of the maze.

Then, the Feng surname cultivator, as if he had known Sha Yi's route all along, followed the left front passage deeper into the maze.

...

Ding Qi, deep in the maze, naturally did not know about all these events.

"At such a young age, you are so devious, hmpf," in the original hall, Ding Qi looked at a corpse on the ground and said coldly.

This corpse was the extremely devious Bai surname youth.

At this moment, the devious youth's eyes were wide open, as if he could not believe that he would die here.

Ding Qi looked at the youth's corpse and shook his head, "You really thought I couldn't see through it. From the beginning, you never intended to find out Zuo Yang and Guan Qiu's secrets. You were just putting on an act to make me let my guard down, so you could surprise attack me."