There is clearly only one road, either the way to go or the way back. Why is it that when we return by the same route, the road we take is completely different?

Just when the four people were even more confused, the small fire that had been running in front of them suddenly "whoosh" and went straight to the ceiling, clinging directly to a huge rock and stopped moving.

An Ran was furious. It was already late, and everyone was desperately trying to find a way out. Why was Xiao Huo still causing trouble? Everyone was already heading back to find her, so why was he still up there?!

She yelled angrily, "Xiao Huo, what are you doing? Can't you see everyone is busy? No one is playing hide-and-seek with you, so hurry up and come down!"

Xiao Huo, however, changed from his usual clever and sensible self. He held onto the big rock on the ceiling in a very willful manner, shaking his little head like a rattle and repeatedly shouting, "No, no..."

Seeing Xiao Huo being so disobedient and ignorant, An Ran became even angrier. Just as she was about to grab Xiao Huo down, she heard Xiao Huo say very willfully, "I don't want to go down, I don't want to go down! There's a familiar smell here!"

"A familiar smell?" Jun Zichen murmured to himself.

From the moment he saw Xiaohuo lying on the ceiling, Jun Zichen's brows were slightly furrowed, and he had been wondering what on earth could have attracted Xiaohuo to abandon the company of his beloved master and insist on lying on a rock. Now, hearing the familiar smell that Xiaohuo mentioned, his brows furrowed even tighter...

"Xiaohuo, what is in there? What exactly is that familiar smell you mentioned?" Jun Zichen looked up at Xiaohuo and asked.

"I don't know, Xiao Huo doesn't know either. Anyway, it's a familiar smell, a very familiar smell..." Xiao Huo looked back at Jun Zichen and answered in a childish voice. Then, he hugged the rock again and said with saliva dripping from his mouth, "I want to eat it so much..."

Seeing that he could not communicate with Xiaohuo, Jun Zichen had to find another way. He lifted his body lightly and put his nose against the huge rock on the ceiling, searching from left to right, not missing any trace, but still could not find any message or information.

"Did the sage forget to apply the potion to his small words, so after all these years, the small words on the rock have disappeared?"

An Ran scratched her hair and spread her hands, indicating that she had stared so hard that her eyes were cross-eyed, but unfortunately she still didn't find anything useful.

"Or maybe it's hidden under a rock?" Xu Errong raised his eyebrows and gave a faint guess...

"Hidden under the rocks?" Jun Zichen raised an eyebrow and looked at Xu Errong. He lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly raised an eyebrow and looked at An Yu, asking uncertainly: "If I remember correctly, you should also have an earth element attribute..."

An Yu looked at Jun Zichen in confusion and asked bewilderedly, "What's wrong? I do have an earth elemental attribute, but I only got it a short time ago. You all know this."

Jun Zichen raised his brows slightly. He took a step back, clearing the center of the field, and said to An Yu, "Since you admit that you have earth elemental magic, then it's easy. This rock is yours!"

Xu Errong immediately understood Jun Zichen's suggestion. Since there was nothing on the rock, the so-called "familiar smell" that Xiao Huo mentioned must be under the rock...

However, for this kind of delicate digging work, he, Jun Zichen, Su Fanjun and An Ran were too powerful, so it would be better to let An Yu do it.

He patted An Yu's shoulder and said calmly, "Don't break the thing behind the rock. There must be something hidden behind the rock."

Xu Errong, An Ran, and Su Fanjun took three steps back, leaving the entire five-meter area to An Yu.

"Brother, come on~" An Ran said to An Yu from a safe distance.

"Then I'll try."

An Yu looked at the four people who had made room for him and said helplessly.

He stretched out one hand and placed it directly on the uneven ceiling, and then the earth element in his body slowly flowed through his palm into the thick soil.

Even if they were standing five meters away, An Ran and the others could clearly feel the extremely powerful fluctuations of the earth element coming from the ceiling and the air!

Penetrated by An Yu's power, the huge rock embedded in the ceiling suddenly made a buzzing sound, as if there was a force from deep in the ceiling pushing it towards the ground, so with the increasingly intense buzzing sound, the huge rock slid down!

An Ran, Jun Zichen and Xu Errong quickly waved out a gust of wind to absorb the force of the boulder falling to the ground, and gently placed it on the ground.

At the same time, the rubble and dead branches that were blocked behind the boulder immediately fell down.

In an instant, it was like a landslide, and a large amount of sand, dust and gravel fell in front of An Ran, Xu Errong, Su Fanjun and Jun Zichen.

An Yu, who was located among the sand, had completely lost his elegant appearance. His head and body were covered with sand!

However, these were not what An Ran needed, because Xiao Huo was still repeating: "It's still behind, it's still behind, it's delicious!"

An Yu's power continued to transmit to the depths of the zenith. Because An Yu's power was originally the purest "earth", he had no destructive power on any of the stones behind the zenith. He just peeled them off layer by layer in order from near to far.

No one knew how long this excavation lasted. The corridor where the four people were standing was almost filled with thick soil, and An Yu was almost buried alive by the sand!

However, at this moment, a ripple finally appeared on An Yu's originally calm face.

"This should be it..." An Yu said in a strange tone.

Just as he finished speaking, a black mass rolled out from the ceiling that was hollowed out by An Yu.

"What is this?" An Ran, Jun Zichen and Xu Errong walked forward curiously and took a look.

An Yu also stopped what he was doing, stood there, and answered hesitantly: "It's... a corpse."

This pile of bones wrapped in black cloth clearly showed signs of careful handling. They had not been corroded by the soil for hundreds of years, but had simply turned into a pile of dried flesh. This shows the sage's determination to pass on his last words to the world.

Seeing the corpse did not frighten An Yu, Jun Zichen and Xu Errong, who were experienced in the battlefield. However, in this strange secret place, the only ancestor they knew well and was extremely capable met them in this way, and a chill suddenly rose under their feet.

An Ran couldn't bear it any more. Although she was a medical student in her previous life and these corpses were not uncommon, she had never seen a mummified corpse with such a horrible death appearance!

(To be continued.)