Shi Xuan glanced at him, then walked to the bank and sat down near the crevice. She said, "This river is quite strange, and we don't know how it was formed. This is not a spiritual spring. There is only fire spiritual energy here, and that spiritual energy is about to solidify. I suggest you don't rush down."

Lu Wenxing has one good point: he listens to his junior sister very much. If his junior sister says he can't go down, then he can't go down.

He muttered, "If someone else goes down, does that mean it's okay for me to go down?"

"It depends," Shi Xuan replied. "If someone else goes down, we need to observe them first to see if it's all beneficial and if there are any unacceptable side effects."

As soon as she finished speaking, a disciple from another continent standing next to her said, "If all of us cultivators were so timid, cautious, and afraid of death, how could the cultivation world ever achieve any great development!"

Shi Xuan will ignore such dissenting voices. There will always be some people in this world who are impossible to communicate with; it's a waste of effort to try. As the saying goes, those who walk different paths cannot make plans together—that's the point.

But Lu Wenxing wouldn't have it. He shouted, "Who do you think you are? What does it matter to you whether we go down or not? What does it matter to you whether the cultivation world develops or not? If you're so powerful, go develop it yourself!"

The cultivator snorted coldly and said, "I am determined to try it out first, so as to pave the way for those who come after me!"

As he spoke, he turned and walked toward the crevice, stood on the bank to observe the situation inside, and then jumped in.

Shi Xuan's lips twitched. This person was ridiculous. He was clearly acting out of selfishness, not wanting to miss the River of Spiritual Power, yet he spouted such grand principles and described himself as a hero. He was truly a master of self-promotion.

However, since he had jumped, Shi Xuan naturally wouldn't miss the good opportunity to observe him.

So she stood up, walked to the edge of the rift, and looked at the cultivator who had entered the river of spiritual energy.

For the first few breaths after the man went in, he wore a smug smile, but soon he could no longer smile. His face showed an expression of unbearable pain, and the veins on his forehead bulged. Before long, blood flowed from his seven orifices, and he looked like he was about to die.

He began to struggle, but seemed to be bound and unable to break free.

"Not good!" Seeing his condition, Shi Xuan knew that the man's life was in imminent danger.

Seeing this, Shi Xuan took out a long rope from his spatial storage, infused it with spiritual power, and threw it in the direction of the person.

Although this person wasn't very likable, he didn't have any grudges against Shi Xuan and the others, so it wasn't to the point of refusing to help someone in distress.

Shi Xuan's divine sense and spiritual power, along with the rope, directly wrapped around the man's outstretched wrist, pulling him outwards.

At this moment, the man's teammates arrived in time. Seeing Shi Xuan's actions, they followed suit and threw out ropes, trying to pull the man up together.

Nearly a thousand people were gathered on this small floating island. The population density was already high, and now they were all concentrated at this critical point to watch the person struggling in the river. In no time, there were twenty or thirty people standing on this spot.

The monk who jumped into the river ultimately could not escape the fate of exploding and dying.

Just as Shi Xuan had dragged him two zhang away, he could no longer bear it and his whole body burst open from the spiritual energy.

"ah!"

A gasp rippled through the crowd on the shore; the scene was too horrifying, and many had never witnessed anything so terrifying.

Just then, as the cultivator in the river exploded and died, and the crowd on the bank cried out in alarm, Shi Xuan felt a tremendous force emanating from her back, propelling her forward uncontrollably. It felt as if someone had stuck a speed-boosting talisman on her back.

She was right; it was Qian Zheng who had secretly placed a speed-enhancing talisman on her back when she wasn't looking.

Qian Zheng was, after all, a Nascent Soul stage array cultivator, and now that he had used every means to conceal himself, it would be difficult to be discovered. In addition, the area was densely populated with many cultivators, and the people in the river had exploded and died at this moment, causing everyone to cry out in alarm... All these factors combined caught Shi Xuan off guard, allowing Qian Zheng to succeed.

However, Shi Xuan reacted extremely quickly. In the instant she was suspended in mid-air, she took out the puppet sword, intending to fly directly to the other side in the form of sword control.

However, Qian Zheng already knew that a mere Swiftness Talisman wouldn't be enough to deal with Shi Xuan when he took the first step, so he used a whole set of other talismans along with the Swiftness Talisman. The Spirit Binding Talisman and the Gravity Talisman were used together. Although the Spirit Binding Talisman only worked for a moment, Shi Xuan was in mid-air at the time. With the addition of the Gravity Talisman, it was as if Shi Xuan was suddenly pulled by an invisible hand in the river of spiritual energy and fell down at an abnormally fast speed.

"Junior Sister!" Lu Wenxing, who had just been standing with Shi Xuan chatting and laughing, was completely taken aback when Shi Xuan suddenly went down.

But he had no time to think about anything else. He immediately imitated what Shi Xuan had done earlier, and threw the rope with spiritual power.

However, the gravity talisman on Shi Xuan caused her to sink to the bottom quickly after entering the river. When Lu Wenxing's rope arrived, no part of Shi Xuan was above the surface of the river, causing the rope to miss its target.

"Junior Sister!" Lu Wenxing cried out in a panic, his voice hoarse from shouting.

The team members who weren't nearby heard the commotion and rushed over. Lu Shenzhi stared at the calm river with bloodshot eyes, then got up, ready to jump in and save the people.

At this moment, the team members who witnessed the cultivator's body explode on the shore quickly grabbed Lu Shenzhi.

"No!" Shen Wuyang exclaimed, "Senior Brother Lu, you absolutely mustn't! Any cultivator who enters will instantly explode and die!"

Lu Shenzhi, his eyes red, looked back and said, "Are we just going to watch our junior sister explode and die?!"

At this moment, all team members were standing on the shore.

Zhang Yingxin, who had jumped into the icy lake without hesitation to search for Shi Xuan on the floating island in the ice field last time, also grabbed Lu Shenzhi this time and said, "Senior Brother Lu, calm down! If something happens to the captain now, jumping in will not help, and will only result in another person being lost for nothing!"

All the team members knew this, and Lu Shenzhi, being pulled along like this, knew they were telling the truth.

But he simply couldn't accept it psychologically, and he slumped his shoulders in dejection, his eyes red with tears.

At this moment, all the members of the best team had red eyes. They never expected that their captain would have an accident at this time. How could their all-powerful captain have such an accident?

The group stared intently at the spot where Shi Xuan had fallen into the water, hoping for a miracle.

At this moment, Sun Shaoxing, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke up. His voice trembled slightly, indicating that he too was unable to accept the matter.

He said, trembling but firm, "If only one person in the entire outer realm can survive this river of spiritual energy, that person must be the captain!"