The two walked into the passage together, and as soon as they entered, they felt the dark elements crowding in from all directions.
The more dark elements surged in, the harder it became for the two to breathe. However, before they could react, they discovered that the oppressive feeling was slowly disappearing, and soon Mo Shuwan was pushed away from Wen Zuo.
After being squeezed into the toilet, Mo Shuwan felt relieved, but she immediately saw the dark power surging wildly towards Wen Zuo, and her expression changed drastically, "Wen Zuo!"
"Don't worry, I'm fine," Wen Zuo's voice came from inside.
Hearing the ease in his voice, Mo Shuwan breathed a sigh of relief and looked curiously at the dark power that had completely ignored her. "What's the situation inside you right now?"
Surrounded by a constant stream of dark elements, Wen Zuo did feel somewhat oppressed, but only slightly. He looked down at the glowing healing stone, lifted it up, and sure enough, the surging dark elements also rose upwards.
He gave the healing stone a strange look before saying, "It's a healing stone. The healing stone is absorbing the dark elements here."
"Absorption?!" Mo Shuwan exclaimed in shock. "I've never heard of healing stones having any other use besides healing!"
This is precisely what Wen Zuo found strange. "Perhaps the healing stone mutated without our knowledge—did you remove the healing stone when you soaked in the spring?"
Mo Shuwan immediately realized what Wen Zuo meant by that question, "No, it's very likely that the change occurred because it soaked in the spring water with me?"
"Very likely."
Aside from this reason, there really isn't any other possibility right now. Mo Shuwan didn't speak again because the dark elements in the entire passage completely ignored her, so there was no need to try to resist them. She easily pondered what she had experienced this time and what might have caused changes to the healing stone.
The first thing that comes to mind is spring water, but after soaking in the spring water, it seems that nothing special happened to the healing stone.
"Maybe I just didn't notice?"
After a moment of contemplation, Mo Shuwan thought of the time when she was surrounded by the rioting dark forces when she entered the city. At that time, she was completely focused on compressing and condensing the dark forces into arrows, and she did not notice the situation of the healing stone. It is very likely that the healing stone changed at that time.
Once they entered the passage, the situation outside was not visible, but at least half of the people believed that Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo would come out soon.
Until an hour had passed.
The four cloaked figures responsible for observing the area were speechless. "Isn't she able to gather dark power? Even though the passage is filled with dark elements, she can always find a way to gather them. Why hasn't she come out yet?"
"I don't want to burn too much energy too early."
Two cloaked figures flipped through the records in their hands and discovered that in this area, Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo's group had actually fallen from a commanding lead at the beginning to the middle. If they didn't come out quickly, they might even fall to a very low ranking.
"Further delays will be very detrimental to the later matches."
Zheng Shanhe and some other passengers who had been silently watching noticed that Mo Shuwan and the others had not yet come out. She had climbed directly from inside the building to the top of the last arrow, and even killed the extraterrestrial invaders and climbed the monument of merit when she was still a junior passenger. These deeds had all caused a sensation. But at this moment, she was still in a passage that was not particularly difficult and had not come out yet.
Time flew by, and the cloaked figures responsible for recording and observing watched helplessly as Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo's names were last in this round.
Just as everyone was wondering when the two would come out, finally, a sound came from the other end of the passage.
Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo finally came out.
The cloaked man sighed, "After four hours, thirty-two minutes, and eight seconds, we can only score 23 points."
This 23 points severely dragged down Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo's rankings, causing them to drop from the top ten to the thirties. Some passengers were gloating, while others felt sorry for them. However, the change in rankings did not affect Wen Zuo and Mo Shuwan at all.
After exiting the passage, they found themselves in another passage, but this time it was clearly a gateway to a large door. After confirming that there were no threats around them, the two turned their attention back to the healing stone in their hands.
The healing stone was now only the size of a fingernail and was entirely black. It hadn't felt uncomfortable when I held it in my hand before, but now the whole stone was cool, though not to the point of freezing my hands.
"Can this stone still heal wounds?"
"Give it a try?"
Mo Shuwan nodded.
Just as Wen Zuo cut his finger with a dagger, several staff members responsible for cleaning the passageway walked into the passageway.
Looking at the clean passageway devoid of any dark elements, one of the staff members asked, bewildered, "Have we come to the wrong place?"
Upon hearing his voice, another staff member standing next to him also snapped out of his daze, quickly took out a log sheet, and then looked even more surprised. "The log shows that this place has already been used. It seems that all the dark elements were dispelled or absorbed by the passengers who just passed by here in their own way."
"Are there any passengers in this batch who can dispel and absorb dark elements?"
"Maybe so."
Because the entire passage was spotless and free of any dark elements, the two staff members saved a lot of effort. However, when they returned, they inevitably told their colleagues about it, and soon almost all the passengers knew that the passage Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo had just walked through was completely devoid of any dark elements.
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