423: The protagonist who gained nothing

At the same time.

The Ancient Restriction on the outskirts of the Mysterious Fruit Forest regained its calm, no longer continuing to absorb the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi from the outside.

The originally massive commotion also vanished instantly.

"The abnormality of the Ancient Restriction has disappeared?"

"Could it be that it has returned to normal?"

Upon seeing this, several Yaochi Elders were delighted.

Among them, the White-robed Elder of the Jade Pool directly took out a restriction token and circulated her Spiritual Qi to activate it once more.

Soon, she was pleasantly surprised to find that the functions of the restriction token had been restored.

"Fellow Daoists, the Ancient Restriction has returned to normal. We will now open the exit passage of the Mysterious Fruit Forest."

"Then why aren't you opening it quickly?"

"So much time has passed; we don't know what the situation inside is like!"

"Yes, open it quickly!"

...The experts from various major factions said with some excitement.

If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't directly dismantle this Restriction, they would have taken action long ago.

Earlier, when the Array Cultivators of the various major factions had studied it for a long time and couldn't break the Restriction, they had already become anxious.

Now that the Restriction had returned to normal, it was naturally best to directly open the passage to leave the Mysterious Fruit Forest and let their younger generation of Disciples come out as soon as possible.

"Fellow Daoists, do not worry. We are going to open the passage right now!"

The White-robed Elder of the Jade Pool breathed a sigh of relief and spoke in a gentle tone.

It had finally returned to normal.

Otherwise, if so many major factions were to hold their Jade Pool Holy Land accountable, they truly wouldn't be able to bear it.

After all, these factions, including several other major Holy Lands and the great cultivation Families of the Central Domain, were not something their single Holy Land could withstand.

Immediately after, the White-robed Elder of the Jade Pool and several other Yaochi Elders formed a Formation and successfully activated the restriction token, directly opening the exit passage of the Mysterious Fruit Forest.

It wasn't that they didn't want to manipulate the Ancient Restriction to teleport all the younger generation of Cultivators out.

Rather, the restriction token did not have that function.

The automatic teleportation after seven days was an inherent setting of the Ancient Restriction within the Mysterious Fruit Forest.

Soon, a light gate emitting powerful spatial fluctuations appeared... Deep within the Mysterious Fruit Forest.

The group of Cultivators had just intended to rest for a while when they noticed a pillar of spiritual power light reaching into the clouds in the direction of the outskirts of the Mysterious Fruit Forest, flashing with complex Law spiritual runes, making it very conspicuous.

Liu Ruoxi's beautiful eyes brightened at the sight.

This pillar of spiritual power light was the teleportation array leading to the outside world.

She had just been thinking about using the Yaochi Saintess Token to contact the Yaochi Elders outside!

She hadn't expected the passage to leave the Mysterious Fruit Forest to open ahead of schedule.

It was likely that the earlier battle had caught the attention of those outside, which was why the Elders opened the passage to leave the Mysterious Fruit Forest early.

Thinking of this, Liu Ruoxi looked around and said directly:

"Fellow Daoists, you can leave the Mysterious Fruit Forest through that pillar of spiritual power light in the outskirts area of the Mysterious Fruit Forest!"

"Is what Saintess Liu said true?"

"I once heard from someone who explored the Mysterious Fruit Forest that the passage to leave the Mysterious Fruit Forest takes that form, so what Saintess Liu said should be correct!"

"Let's go, let's leave this place quickly!"

...The group of Cultivators was suddenly overjoyed. Regardless of their injuries, they all turned into streaks of light and left the area.

They could heal their wounds outside.

But they couldn't stay in the Mysterious Fruit Forest for another moment.

"Saintess, what should we do now?"

Li Xue asked directly from the side.

Liu Ruoxi's eyes flickered as she said with certainty:

"Of course we're going out together. I still need to report the events that occurred within the Mysterious Fruit Forest to the Elders."

"Let's go, it's time to leave this place!"

After speaking, she glanced in the direction Su Yun had left and then flew directly toward the Mysterious Fruit Forest's exit passage.

"Hehe, the Saintess is saying one thing but meaning another again!"

"Yeah, she even took a look in the direction Young Master Su left before going!"

"She clearly wants to go find Young Master Su!"

"Shh~ keep it down. If the Saintess finds out, we'll be dragged off for a sparring match!"

...Li Xue and the dozen or so Yaochi Disciples whispered behind her.

Soon, they also turned into streaks of light and followed.

Chen Hao felt very disgruntled.

He had led a team deep into the Mysterious Fruit Forest to explore.

But not long after they started, he and a dozen Spiritual Martial Disciples fell into a powerful natural illusion formation.

After emerging from the illusion Formation, he found himself in a remote place. He thought there would be some Opportunity, but there was nothing at all.

He searched that area for a long time and broke through many Ancient Restrictions, but he didn't harvest many precious spiritual fruits.

Afterward, he left that area and, after searching around, discovered a mysterious space.

Upon entering that mysterious space, he found a heavenly profound ancient tree inside.

To him, the heavenly profound ancient tree was not important.

What was important was that the heavenly profound ancient tree could condense nine profound jade dew fruits.

Before exploring the Mysterious Fruit Forest, he had specifically looked into the rumors about this kind of spiritual fruit.

After learning of its effects, he planned to find a nine profound jade dew fruit and give it to Ruoxi.

He figured that if he did, the misunderstanding between them could be directly cleared up.

But to his surprise, there wasn't a single nine profound jade dew fruit on that heavenly profound ancient tree.

So his plan failed again.

"Who on earth is messing with me!"

"Damn it!"

The more Chen Hao thought about it, the angrier he got, and he punched a nearby boulder directly.

After a booming loud noise, the boulder shattered instantly, and a huge crater appeared in the ground.

After a moment, Chen Hao calmed down and said with some confusion:

"And that massive commotion earlier—could it be that there was a battle between experts of the Enlightenment Realm deep within the Mysterious Fruit Forest?"

He had also noticed the battle thousands of miles away earlier, but for the sake of caution, he didn't go to investigate. After all, he didn't know if they were friends or foes.

If he provoked an expert of the Enlightenment Realm, he certainly wouldn't be able to withstand them.

"Saint, look!"

"There seems to be a unique grotto-heaven over there!"

"Could it be a grotto-heaven left behind by some ancient expert?"

"There must be many Heaven And Earth Treasures inside. Why don't we go explore it?"

A burly Spiritual Martial Disciple suddenly suggested.

"Hmm? There really is!"

Chen Hao also looked at the place not far away.

This grotto-heaven was extremely well-hidden; it couldn't be detected with Divine Sense at all and could only be observed with the naked eye.

As expected, his luck wouldn't vanish.

Not finding any Opportunity earlier was just an accident.

Now was the time for his harvest.

It was the same in the past; while exploring Secret Realms, he would accidentally stumble into the Immortal Cave of some ancient powerhouse and obtain many good things.

This time would certainly be the same.

Thinking of this, the displeasure in Chen Hao's heart vanished instantly, a confident smile returned to his face, and his mood improved significantly.

"Let's go, we'll head into the grotto-heaven and take a look!"

At this moment, another Spiritual Martial Disciple said with some hesitation:

"But Saint, the passage to leave the Mysterious Fruit Forest seems to have opened. Are we still going to explore this grotto-heaven?"

"Of course. I feel that I will obtain many Opportunities within this grotto-heaven!"

"So it won't be too late to leave the Mysterious Fruit Forest after exploring this grotto-heaven!"

Chen Hao said confidently.

Immediately after, he flickered and flew toward the grotto-heaven, and the rest of the Spiritual Martial Disciples followed.