After taking out the rope and securing it, everyone began to slide down.
Su Jinyue was about to climb down, but Zhan Yihan had already reached out and pulled her behind him, squatted down and said, "I'll carry you!" He felt more at ease with her on his back.
"I can do it myself." Su Jinyue shook her head. Third Brother said the tiankeng was one or two thousand meters deep, and even if Yi Han was a cultivator, carrying her on his back would be too much.
"I feel more at ease carrying you on my back." Zhan Yihan reached out and pulled Su Jinyue onto his back, then tied his taken-off coat around her body and secured it.
"But the sinkhole is two or three thousand meters deep. Can you handle it?" Su Jinyue asked worriedly.
"Your man is not so useless. I caught him." Zhan Yihan carried Su Jinyue on his back, walked to the sinkhole, pulled the rope and slid down.
"Bully!" Su Jinyue gave Zhan Yihan a coquettish look, put her arms around his neck, and leaned her head on his sturdy back, a sweet smile slowly rising from the corner of her mouth. When she fell off a cliff while picking herbs in Shangxin Village, he had carried her like this.
Zhan Yihan quickly descended, soon reaching the bottom of the rope. He let go of the rope and scrambled down the uneven cliff face, nimbly and swiftly, as if walking on flat ground. His strength had risen by another level thanks to the two spirit stones, and he was now mid-Earth Grade, the sixth level of Qi Refining.
Su Jinyue looked at Zhan Yihan's relaxed look, and felt relieved, lying on his back with peace of mind.
"You carried my younger sister down here?" Su Yanyue and the other two were a little surprised to see Zhan Yihan carrying Su Jinyue down here. It seemed that Zhan Yihan's strength was even greater than they had expected.
Zhan Yihan untied the clothes around his waist and put Su Jinyue down.
Su Jinyue looked around and saw that the sinkhole was mostly made up of cliffs and stalactites of various shapes. There were waterfalls and springs on the cliffs, butterflies and fireflies flying around. There was primitive vegetation at the bottom, as well as a group of interconnected caves and underground rivers. The underground rivers were surging, and the sound of water was like thousands of horses galloping.
"Look, there are caves of all sizes everywhere on the mountain wall." Su Jinyue pointed to the mountain wall in the distance.
Zhan Yihan and his companions looked towards the mountain wall, and indeed saw caves of various sizes and shapes on the wall.
"I didn't pay much attention the last time I came down. I looked around and didn't find anything, so I went back up. I didn't realize there are so many caves here," Su Yanqi said. The last time he came down, his eyes weren't as clear as they are now. He could only see the area illuminated by the mining lamp. As for the caves on the cliff, he really didn't notice them.
"When we came down, we visited a larger cave. There wasn't anything special in there except for some stalactites of various shapes," Zhan Yihan said. He had led his team to explore the area the previous time, but apart from a few larger creatures, they hadn't found anything.
"Since we're already down here, let's take a look around." Su Yanyue suggested. When the tiankeng suddenly appeared last time, he had also wanted to go down and take a look, but Yan Qi said there was nothing to see down there, so he gave up the idea.
A few people chose a direction and walked forward. Along the way, they could see toads as big as rabbits, as well as some rats, snakes and insects.
Su Jinyue was walking while scanning the area with her eyes. Suddenly, a black shadow quickly passed through her sight and went into one of the caves.
"What's wrong?" Zhan Yihan asked when he saw Su Jinyue pause.
"I saw a dark shadow enter the cave. It looked like a human, but much larger than a human," Su Jinyue said. She was sure she wasn't mistaken; it was indeed a human figure.
"How could there be someone down there? Little sister, did you see it wrong?" Su Yanqi asked.
"I shouldn't be mistaken." Su Jinyue squinted her eyes and looked at the cave that the black shadow entered. The cave was very large, and inside it were countless large and small caves closely connected.
"Then let's go in and take a look." Su Yanxi suggested.
Everyone nodded and headed towards the cave. Since they were already here, they might as well treat it as an adventure.
The cave was on the mountain wall. Everyone climbed up along the mountain wall and soon arrived at the entrance of the cave.
Su Jinyue looked at the dark area in front of her and took out the night pearl that Grandpa Mo gave her. Soon, everything around her became invisible under the illumination of the night pearl.
"Night-shining pearl?" Su Yanyue and the other two looked at the night-shining pearl in Su Jinyue's hand in surprise.
"This night pearl is not cheap. Little sister, where did you get it?" Su Yanxi asked.
"I'm treating someone, and they gave me this as medical expenses." Su Jinyue twirled the night-shining pearl in her hand, a hint of disdain crossing her lips. If it were anyone else, she might not have accepted it. But the Mo family, they wouldn't have accepted it. This was just interest; Mo Feiheng must have owed her much more than that in her past life.
The crowd walked inside the cave. The cave was winding, with large and small caves connected to each other, and strange-shaped stalactites could be seen everywhere.
After walking for an hour or two, no one found anything.
"It seems that this is just an ordinary cave. Why don't we go out?" Su Yanqi stopped and said to everyone.
"Little sister, what do you think?" Su Yanyue looked at Su Jinyue and asked. They came here mainly to accompany little sister. If little sister wanted to go out, they would go out too.
"Let me take another look." Su Jinyue continued to look deeper inside without giving up, but wherever her eyes went, there were only caves and dense stalactites.
Su Jinyue sighed helplessly in her heart and retracted her gaze. Just as she retracted her gaze, the black shadow appeared in her sight again. She quickly followed it and saw that the black shadow disappeared after entering a cave.
"I saw that black shadow." Su Jinyue said as she walked towards the direction of the cave.
Everyone looked at each other and hurriedly followed.
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