317: A bunch of idiots...

"Escape?" Chen Heng frowned. What exactly was in there that made Qing Changsheng instinctively want to escape?

"Yes, I felt something in there that strongly attracted me. Perhaps the deepest part of the ruins is my ultimate destination."

Qing Changsheng's eyes began to glaze over, as if he was recalling that feeling.

"But at the same time, my instinct told me that once I truly entered the deepest part of the ruins, death would be waiting for me."

"Pulled between the feelings of death and ultimate destination, I still chose to escape."

"Interesting..." Chen Heng's lips curved. He really wanted to see this 'ultimate destination'. "Big Brother Chen! Are you alright?"

Chen Heng landed beside Bai Jun and the others, tossing Qing Changsheng in front of them.

"What could happen to me? This guy is as weak as they come."

Chen Heng sneered, glancing at Qing Changsheng, who lay on the ground, withered and looking like he was about to breathe his last.

"Alright, this guy is yours..."

But just then, a soaking wet figure climbed up from the cliff below their feet.

"W-what's going on?" It was the middle-aged man who had almost infuriated Yan Penglang to death.

"Old Hua? Elder Yang?"

"Hmm?" Hua Luandao was also stunned for a moment, then he lunged and grabbed the middle-aged man by his collar.

"Xia Fu? How are you here?"

"No, what exactly is going on here?" Xia Fu was utterly bewildered, his brain overloading as he looked at the withered Qing Changsheng in front of him.

"First, tell us what happened to you. Didn't your True Sword Sect already pledge allegiance to Danqing Valley?"

Elder Yang's brows furrowed, and he looked at Xia Fu with displeasure.

"Uh, actually, our True Sword Sect never Cultivated the Way of Reaching Heaven."

Xia Fu scratched his head, secretly glancing at Chen Heng.

"After the True Immortal Sect was disbanded, our Sect Leader led us to feign submission and pledge allegiance to Danqing Valley."

"We were thinking of finding a way to kill Qing Changsheng after we climbed to a high position."

"Then, two days ago, we received news that someone was coming to Danqing Valley to cause trouble, so we prepared to help."

"But before we could even make a move, something roared from an unknown place and knocked us all unconscious."

"When we woke up, we found ourselves floating here, and we just climbed up..."

"?" Everyone looked at Xia Fu as if he were an idiot.

"This strategy of yours... it wasn't suggested by your Sect Leader, was it?" Elder You narrowed her eyes; she already had the answer in her heart.

Besides that foolish woman, no one else could come up with such an idiotic 'scheme'.

"Oh! Our Sect Leader..." Xia Fu nodded, but just as he was about to reply, he remembered that his Sect Leader seemed to be missing.

"Where's my Sect Leader?!"

Only now did Xia Fu realize that the Sect Leader he had been talking about for so long seemed to be gone... About ten minutes later, Xia Fu found the True Sword Sect's Sect Leader in the water, his head caved into his chest.

"Oh, my Sect Leader! How did you die so tragically!"

Xia Fu wailed and threw himself onto the True Sword Sect's Sect Leader, but not a single tear fell.

"..." Everyone.

"This person might have a mental illness; let's deal with his problem first."

Hua Luandao shook his head, unwilling to bother with Xia Fu anymore.

"I really want to punch you to death right now, but I won't let you die that comfortably."

Hua Luandao turned to look at Qing Changsheng, his teeth grinding audibly.

"Heh heh." Qing Changsheng didn't speak; he knew he wouldn't survive today.

"Old Hua, have you forgotten what the Sect Leader once told you?" Elder Yang stopped Hua Luandao, his expression very serious.

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

"So, let's also behead him, stick his head on a spear, and hang his body on a rack to slowly air-dry."

Elder Yang's expression also turned ferocious as he pondered how to make Qing Changsheng feel the greatest pain.

Bai Jun still wanted to join the fun, but Chen Heng immediately covered his eyes and pulled him aside.

"Alright, alright, children shouldn't get involved in this kind of excitement."

"Let those old fogeys go crazy."

"I have something more interesting here."

Hearing about something even Chen Heng found interesting, Bai Jun's eyes immediately lit up.

"You know that Qing Changsheng's Way of Reaching Heaven came from a ruin within Danqing Valley, right?"

"Let's go, let's go, the three of us will go look. Maybe there are still good things inside."

Chen Heng rubbed his hands. The feeling of having a ruin all to himself was just too good.

Normally, as long as he entered this ruin, he would obtain massive resources and treasures, and his strength would skyrocket.

Chen Heng was exceptionally excited.

"Let's go, Luo Shuo, what are you staring at?" Seeing Bai Jun agree, Chen Heng turned to look at Luo Shuo, who was sitting motionless with his arms wrapped around his knees.

"Big Brother Chen, my, my tail is burned bald."

Luo Shuo touched the base of his tail, his face full of grievance.

"Ah?" This stumped Chen Heng. Could a Black Phoenix really be burned bald by a fake sun?

"I remember that thing's temperature wasn't too high, so how did it get burned bald?"

"Never mind, it's not a big deal. Let's go take a look quickly and let these old guys play here."

He shook his head. A burned bald tail wasn't a big deal; the ruins were more important... According to Qing Changsheng, the entrance to the ruins was beneath Danqing Valley's main hall.

Sure enough, as for the main hall, only a pile of broken bricks and tiles remained.

"It should be right below here." Chen Heng and Luo Shuo both looked at Bai Jun.

Among the three, Bai Jun was the only one with a quick method for clearing debris.

"Alright..." Bai Jun sighed. He hadn't expected that the methods he had learned for so many years and the spiritual Qi he had Cultivated for so many years would be used for such a task.

After moving all the broken bricks and tiles away, the three craned their necks to look.

A giant pit, at least a hundred meters in diameter, appeared before them, bottomless.

"Are we... really going down?" Bai Jun turned to look at Chen Heng, asking with some hesitation.

"It looks like a bottomless abyss down there. It's questionable whether we can get back up if we go down..."

Not only Bai Jun and Luo Shuo were hesitant; even Chen Heng wondered if Qing Changsheng was bluffing him.

Chen Heng's five senses were incredibly powerful; even in the darkness, he could see everything around him clearly.

But no matter how he mobilized his Qi and blood and focused it in his eyes, he still couldn't see what was at the bottom of the giant pit.

It seemed... this giant pit really was a bottomless abyss.

"Who cares, we're already here." Shaking his head, Chen Heng, acting on the 'since we're already here' mentality, dragged Luo Shuo and Bai Jun and jumped into the giant pit.

"Ah!!!!"

Soon, Bai Jun and Luo Shuo's screams disappeared, as if their very existence had vanished.