Now, apart from this huge crack, the rest of the area has been carefully examined, but nothing has been found.
Therefore, only cultivators with fire spirit roots can achieve better results by cultivating near the river of spiritual energy than outside. After Shi Xuan's incident, no one dares to get too close to the rift, lest they be harmed by malicious individuals.
Once someone launches a sneak attack and pushes you down, there is no chance of survival.
Cultivation is important, but compared to life, life is more important.
As long as the green hills remain, there will always be firewood to burn.
So even cultivating near the rift became a double-edged sword, something that was neither useful nor worthwhile. Getting too close made you anxious, while staying too far away made it less effective.
The settlement date for the Outer Arena is fast approaching, and they cannot afford to waste time here.
Half a month later, almost all the teams returned to their respective sects' residences, except for the best team, which stubbornly stayed in place.
The captain's fall into the water was clearly intentional, but the person deliberately hid it. Moreover, there were many people around at the time, and the teammates' first reaction was to rush towards Shi Xuan, so they had no time to care about anything else.
Later, when the matter was settled, he began to reflect on Shi Xuan's abnormal behavior at the time.
At that time, Shi Xuan was rescuing the cultivator who had exploded and died. Judging from the speed at which she flew out and fell into the rift, she must have fallen into someone else's trap.
Chen Qi and Sun Shaoxing were quite accomplished in talismans, and they analyzed that there must be two types of talismans: the Swiftness Talisman and the Gravity Talisman. They didn't know about the others.
As for the suspect, even Lu Wenxing blurted out, "Who else could it be but the HarmonyOS team!"
Since they came to this outer arena, the only team they truly grudged was the Hongmeng team. They had only had occasional minor skirmishes with the other teams, and had never had any major conflicts. The Hongmeng team, on the other hand, had been involved in many large-scale battles, and they were also familiar with the Hongmeng team's character.
Therefore, the most suspicious party is the HarmonyOS team. However, without evidence, they can only speculate.
Although no one in the team said it, everyone secretly wished they could go and fight the Hongmeng team to the death. However, they also knew that this was not allowed. If they were disqualified, the whole team would have wasted their time.
With Shi Xuan missing, the decision-making power rested with Lu Shenzhi, the acting captain. He looked at all the members and said solemnly, "I know what you're thinking, but now is not the time. Nearly twenty days have passed, and our Lianfeng Sword Sect has not made any response. This means that Junior Sister is definitely still alive; she just can't come up for the time being."
He paused, then continued, "Don't rush into revenge. There will be plenty of opportunities when your captain returns. What we need to do now is improve the team's and our individual performance. It wouldn't look good if the captain came out and found that we had been demoted instead of promoted."
As time went on, they became increasingly certain that Ding Xuan was not dead. Every sect has a disciple's soul tablet; if a disciple dies, the soul tablet shatters. Given Shi Xuan's status in the Lianfeng Sword Sect, if something happened to her soul tablet, the sect would definitely send someone. But no one did, so the river of spiritual energy was indeed powerless against their captain!
"Shouldn't we wait here for the captain?" Zhang Yingxin asked. "What if the captain comes out?"
“Don’t worry,” Lu Shenzhi said. “She still has the ability to protect herself, and we can’t wait here forever.”
Lu Shenzhi's words were quite convincing, after all, he was the one who initially wanted to jump in to save people.
So after waiting for 25 days, the best team also withdrew.
Shi Xuan was completely unaware of this. She followed the direction from which the spiritual energy flowed and searched until the best team members left before she found a cave entrance at the bottom of the river.
The cave entrance appeared to be vortex-shaped, flashing with a scarlet light. The fiery spiritual energy, which seemed to be real, surged out from the swirling vortex, inspiring awe and fear.
Upon arriving here, the fire elemental energy became even more concentrated, and the spiritual energy seemed to have liquefied. Shi Xuan was able to stay outside for shorter periods, from fifty breaths to thirty breaths.
Even from a distance, Shi Xuan could sense the dangerous aura emanating from within.
But now that she was here, she had no choice but to go through this door.
Shi Xuan returned to Silver Frost at the entrance. This time, she rested for a longer period of time, adjusting herself to her best condition before coming out and rushing straight towards the vortex.
The moment she stepped inside, Shi Xuan felt as if she were being torn apart. The spiritual energy was so abundant that it entered her body through every pore, rampaging unchecked within her, overwhelming all her efforts to control it.
The moment she stepped through the vortex gate, before she could even see what was inside, she was once again plunged into the Silver Frost.
Just by passing through a door, most of the meridians in her body were destroyed.
Shi Xuan swallowed a handful of Rejuvenation Pills, sat down to adjust, and only went out again after Wanwusheng had dissolved all the violent spiritual energy in his body.
No wonder those cultivators who tried it died from their bodies exploding. The intensity of this forced infusion of spiritual power would probably have even caused a Void Refinement cultivator to burst.
This time, Shi Xuan has reached the other side of the vortex.
It's like a separate, secluded space, quite large, filled with even more violent fire elemental energy than the outside world.
With the spiritual energy too dense, Shi Xuan had to reduce his time outdoors again, returning to rest every fifteen or sixteen breaths. He was truly forced to cultivate while walking along the way.
Ten days had passed by the time they reached the center of this space.
Surprisingly, there were no other living creatures in this space, and several huge bones were scattered in the central area.
Each of those bones was golden-red in color, with a dazzling light. If viewed from a distance, they looked like golden-red stars scattered in a desert.
From those stars, a rich fire elemental energy was constantly emanating outwards.
Clearly, this place, as well as the river of spiritual energy outside, are the reason for these bone "stars".
Shi Xuan exclaimed in surprise, "What kind of terrifying monster is this that can still release such a huge amount of energy after it dies!"
Even the most powerful ninth-tier demonic beasts seen in the outside world, whose inner cores are regarded as rare treasures, are far less powerful than one percent of this demonic beast!
This single bone, from an unknown location, is equivalent to more than ten inner cores of a ninth-tier demon beast.
Shi Xuan spent a lot of time going in and out hundreds of times to look at all the stars, and then decided to try refining a bone first.
She walked to the very center of the arena, carefully placed her hand on a golden-red bone, and tentatively channeled a wisp of her spiritual energy to communicate with it.
Just then, a deep, powerful voice rang out: "How dare you!"
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