This is the barrier reminding her that she has touched something she shouldn't have.
But that's exactly what Shi Xuan wants to touch!
When Shi Xuan touched the barrier, a black arc of light flashed by, indicating the location of the barrier.
Shi Xuan didn't remove her hand. She had been waiting for this barrier to appear.
After she had dealt with all the monsters in the wilderness, she could feel that the demonic energy in the entire Demon Abyss had thinned out.
Such a demonic abyss must be supported by some source of demonic energy.
She asked Hong Chi, and he said that there was a demonic root underground in the Demon Abyss that would continuously output demonic energy to this place and support the operation of this barrier.
Shi Xuan directly affixed the "All Things Grow" seal to the barrier, and stood there, once again entering a profound state of meditation.
At this moment, guided by the growth of all things, Shi Xuan carefully sensed the energy flow within the barrier.
Its magic flows from there and then rises upwards to the top of the entire barrier.
Shi Xuan followed the direction of the magic and slowly moved her feet, eventually stopping at the edge of a cliff.
It wasn't far from where she fell. Shi Xuan realized that the barrier's energy was being drawn from that spot.
Therefore, the Demon Root should be located below this point.
Just as Shi Xuan was about to probe the ground with his divine sense, Fan Mingzhu arrived again.
The moment Shi Xuan sensed Fan Mingzhu, his expression changed instantly. From earnest exploration to somewhat pathetic avoidance, his acting skills kicked in so quickly.
After ten days, Fan Mingzhu's wariness of Shi Xuan had completely disappeared. Shi Xuan grew more and more haggard each day. Now, she had even hidden herself at the bottom of a cliff.
"How have you been, Shixuan?" Fan Mingzhu asked with a relaxed smile.
Lately, she's always had that confident, calculating smile on her face. Shi Xuan always looked like that before. She'd appear all smiles, but her words were anything but pleasant, and she showed no mercy when she took action.
What goes around comes around, and now it's her turn.
Look at Shi Xuan now, she can no longer smile at all. Apart from the first three days, although Shi Xuan still stubbornly refuses to admit her pain, anyone with eyes can see that her condition is terrible.
Looking at Fan Mingzhu, who was smiling smugly, Shi Xuan replied with a hint of anger, "Very good, it could never be better!"
"She's really stubborn!" Fan Mingzhu was getting impatient with her. She waved her hand and released a burst of demonic energy.
The demonic energy rushed straight towards Shi Xuan.
Shi Xuan reacted immediately, and her instinct was to dodge, but at that moment, she looked at Fan Mingzhu's expression and held back.
Faced with this attack, she only made a gesture of swinging her sword to block, appearing somewhat powerless.
The sword energy seemed utterly ineffective against the powerful demonic energy. The two energies collided, and the demonic energy directly overwhelmed the sword energy, striking Shi Xuan's shoulder.
Shi Xuan was suddenly struck by the demonic energy and sent flying backward, crashing into the cliff face. He then coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Fan Mingzhu laughed triumphantly, "Shi Xuan, look at you now! You really don't have any power to fight back against me! What's the point of just hanging on like this? Haha, enjoy yourself."
Shi Xuan struggled to lift her head, her gaze still stubbornly fixed on her, without saying a word.
It was obvious that Fan Mingzhu didn't want to kill Shi Xuan immediately; she wanted to keep her around to continue playing with her.
After watching Shi Xuan's humiliating expression of helplessness for a while, she smiled with satisfaction and turned to leave.
Only when Xuan's divine sense could no longer perceive Fan Mingzhu did he dust himself off and stand up again.
If she doesn't recoup some of her losses this time, she'll be letting down the actress who was so dedicated to her role!
Since the energy of the entire barrier is supplied from here, the demonic root here must either be below it or continue along this line.
Shi Xuan probed the ground with his divine sense, but found nothing.
It seems that this demonic root has a self-protection mechanism, completely isolating itself from divine sense detection.
Hong Chi said, "Don't waste your time here. Since ancient times, things like demonic roots have not been within the range of divine sense to detect."
"It's alright." Shi Xuan didn't seem to care much.
She placed her hand on the barrier again, right where it met the ground, and simultaneously shrunk the area of the myriad life forms, concentrating it all in this spot, and unleashing her full power to absorb the demonic energy emanating from the barrier.
It doesn't matter if we can't perceive it. Since it can connect to the outside world, let's consume the channels through which it flows out and let it continuously output outwards!
Due to Shi Xuan's intervention, the demonic energy in the barrier soon became insufficient.
At this point, a full twelve days had passed since Shi Xuan fell into the Abyss of Demons.
The cultivators from the five sects on the shore initially thought that Shi Xuan would be like the previous two cultivators, falling into demonic possession within half a day, then being "thrown" out of the Demon Abyss, repeating the previous process, and being killed by his own master.
But half a day passed, and Shi Xuan still hadn't appeared.
A day has passed, and they still haven't come out.
Three days passed, five days passed, seven days passed... Shi Xuan was nowhere to be found.
Only then did the cultivators finally realize that something was wrong.
It seems that Shi Xuan's situation is very different from the previous two people who went in. Those two disciples came out after half a day, but Shi Xuan has not made a sound for so long!
Lu Wenxing was stunned for several days, but now it seemed like he had finally come to his senses, and he let out a loud "Awooo!"
"No! Junior Sister must be alright!"
He almost jumped up and ran to Lin Daozi, saying, "Master, I'm certain that Junior Sister is alright! I remember a few years ago when we were in the outer realm arena, Junior Sister once fell into a deep abyss. All the cultivators who fell in before her exploded and died, but Junior Sister was fine after falling in!"
Lu Shenzhi nodded; he knew Shi Xuan wasn't dead. They had signed an equal pact before coming here, and he could sense that Shi Xuan was still alive.
Furthermore, she has a space she can enter at any time. It's possible that she has entered that space at this moment.
But this still didn't put his mind at ease, since Shi Xuan's space couldn't be opened when he was attacked by Fan Hongde last time.
Moreover, even if Shi Xuan is currently in the space, the question remains how she will get out.
“I can sense that she is safe right now,” Lu Shenzhi said. “We still need to break this barrier as soon as possible and destroy this Demon Abyss. Then Junior Sister will naturally return.”
"What's the use of safety?!" Shen Wuyang from the Langya Sect said painfully, "The first two senior brothers came out alive..."
His words led everyone to think of the two people from before. They had come out alive, but had been possessed by demons.
But how could righteous cultivators allow a demonic cultivator disciple to remain in their ranks!
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