CHAPTER 2101: CHAPTER 2099: THE LANDSCAPE HAS COMPLETELY CHANGED

Lanlan was so scared that her eyes widened, her whole body felt unable to breathe, but her heart was pounding as if it was about to jump out of her chest.

Mornwind himself was also taken aback, but the sensation of their lips touching made him feel incredibly wonderful, he was reluctant to let go, until he noticed that Lanlan’s little face was turning red from holding her breath, unable to breathe, then he hurriedly released her.

Mornwind collected his thoughts and seriously said to Lanlan, "You can’t go back, I promised your mother I would protect you."

Lanlan urgently cried out, "No, I have to go rescue my mother, what if something happens to her? Her body hasn’t recovered, she’s not fit to fight anyone."

"With Madam and the others there, nothing will happen. If we recklessly go down there now, they’ll have to split up to protect us, wouldn’t that be even more troublesome?" Mornwind advised.

Lanlan collapsed to the ground, exhausted, and suddenly began to cry, "It’s all my fault for being useless, if I could control the Phoenix Poisonous Insect inside me, I could send it to protect my mother and the others."

Mornwind tenderly said, "It’s not your fault, it’s mine for being useless."

"Don’t say that, without you, I wouldn’t have even been able to get out of the room, I might have been captured by now. Tell me, what exactly happened? Could it be that the Quanrong Clan has attacked?" Lanlan wiped her tears forcefully.

Mornwind thought for a moment and said, "It’s unlikely, even if Du Fei took the Barrier Jade Pendant to find the Quanrong Clan, it wouldn’t be so fast. The Quanrong Clan would need time to gather horsemen and then attack, right? It’s likely an internal problem within the clan, today the Jiuli Clan was discussing the chief, perhaps the second elder was not willing for everyone to choose Elder Su as the chief."

Lanlan frowned and said angrily, "That old scoundrel Second Elder is shameless, if he behaved properly, would the Jiuli Clan refuse to choose him as chief? Du Fei using the Evil Technique on Xin Sheng is definitely related to him."

"Let’s find a place to hide first and assess the situation later. If Madam and the others are safe, they will signal me." Mornwind said.

Lanlan bit her lip and eventually did not insist anymore. Now she had another worry, which was the Phoenix Poisonous Insect inside her. If she couldn’t suppress it, not to mention herself, but the first one to be harmed would probably be Mornwind.

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Unexpectedly, Bai Ruozhu and the others encountered three crises in half a day. Fortunately, these three were significantly less dangerous than those in the Stone Chamber, since the open Space was relatively easier to hide in, and the people of Wei Hall could better set up Defensive Arrays.

Only a few people ended up with minor injuries.

When night fell completely, Elder Su instructed everyone to rest in place, but along the way, no one discovered any beasts or water sources, everyone was hungry and thirsty, relying only on willpower to endure.

This was fine for a day or two, but if it went on longer, the people of Wei Hall might be the first to fall.

Bai Ruozhu was also anxious at heart, her Space did have water and food, but taking it out might only be enough for these people for one meal, after eating it, there’d be no guarantee for the next meal, and she couldn’t explain where it all came from.

Elder Su arranged for some people to take turns on watch, while others, older or injured, rested first.

It was around midnight when suddenly, the person on watch let out a scream, waking everyone.

The third elder asked worriedly, "What happened?"

The person who screamed said, "Look around, everything has changed!"

Bai Ruozhu rubbed her sleepy eyes, looking around, to find that the mountains that had once been on the left had completely disappeared, as if leveled, but the surface showed no signs of disturbance, turning into a flat meadow.

On the right, the path they came from had transformed into a forest, the road they once took was nowhere to be seen.

Returning the way they came was now impossible!

"How can this be?" the tenth elder exclaimed, "This is impossible, are we seeing illusions? Then what about the spikes that injured us earlier, and the traps, what’s going on?"

He reached out and pulled at the grass beside him to check if it was real. He ended up pulling a patch of turf, fresh soil clinging underneath, showing all the grass was undeniably real.

He turned again to the forest on the other side, wanting to walk over, but was held back by the fifth elder.

"Are you mad? What if you trigger something by going over now, you might never find us again, and we won’t be able to find you. Don’t act rashly, let me try something first."

The sixth elder said, taking a copper coin from his pocket, throwing it toward the forest, and hearing several swooshing sounds as it struck a tree and embedded itself in the trunk.

Bai Ruozhu, with her sharp eyesight, saw clearly, knowing the forest was not an illusion either. So how to explain what they saw before? Could what they had seen have been illusions?

No wonder it is said that this secret realm is the most dangerous, and remained closed for over a hundred years. Changes like these, once you stop, could alter the entire scenery in mere hours, possibly leaving you unsure which direction to go, even changing your original route and plans entirely.

Everyone fell into a state of panic, finding their surroundings changed in the middle of the night was eerily terrifying.

Suddenly, a buzzing sound came from afar, as if something was quickly approaching.

Bai Zepei reacted quickly, saying urgently, "Let’s quickly set up a Defensive Array, something’s wrong."

The people from Wei Hall simultaneously began casting spells, and the Defensive Array had just formed when a swarm of dark shape objects flew from above. Because the array blocked them, they couldn’t directly reach the people but clung densely outside the array or flew around, looking extremely creepy.

The tenth elder walked to the edge of the array, observing closely, and exclaimed, "These are bugs, but why do they look like Mechanical Puppets? How can there be such small Mechanical Puppets?"

Bai Ruozhu thought immediately of those extremely tiny Mechanical Puppet fish she saw in the trial center, these bugs were even smaller than those, with more intricate bodies, but how potent they were was unknown.

Bai Ruozhu’s thought moved, and she took from her Space some Poison intended to deal with those Mechanical Puppets, distributing it among the people, "Carefully sprinkle outside, it can render these Mechanical Puppets powerless."

Recalling her previous use of Poison Skills, no one doubted her, hurrying to pour out the poison, but one person barely put a hand out when a swift bug bit it, causing them to scream in pain, pulling back to see a small piece of flesh had been bitten off.

The tenth elder, who loved studying these strange things, kept shaking his head, "How can Mechanical Puppets be so formidable? These aren’t ordinary Mechanical Puppets. Without the array’s protection, if these bugs swarmed over, they’d chew us down to the bone!"

Seeing the wound on the person’s hand, everyone finally understood why it’s said that venturing into this secret realm is a journey of no return.