The thumping sounds were unnerving.
A layer of black spiritual light emerged on the blood-colored chains that shot out from the bronze cauldron. This layer of spiritual light followed the chains and entered the Spirit Eye Divine Tree, causing the Spirit Eye Divine Tree to become gray and white, as if it had been contaminated.
This unique treasure, the Spirit Eye Divine Tree, seemed to sense danger and trembled continuously, but it couldn't break free from the **** chains.
Within a few breaths, the ten-foot-tall divine tree rapidly shrank at a visible rate. At the same time, the divine tree was pulled away from the ground, drifting towards the bronze cauldron.
As soon as the Spirit Eye Divine Tree left the ground, the surrounding spiritual energy became somewhat chaotic, and the concentration of spiritual energy weakened by more than half.
Simultaneously, the ground shook, almost causing Zhang Ling to lose his balance. In an instant, the ground's shaking intensified, as if there was a risk of collapse.
"Quick, leave! The old monster has triggered the earth veins. This place is about to collapse!"
Ding Ruozhao's pretty face changed drastically. Her body glowed with spiritual light as she rushed towards a stone door not far away.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling's heart skipped a beat. He glanced at the small pool where the Spirit Eye Divine Tree had been rooted, shook his shoulder, and a green vine as thick as an arm split out from his left arm.
The vine, like a green snake, twisted in the air for a few moments before entering the small pool. After two or three breaths, all the milky white liquid in the pool was absorbed into the vine.
With a wave of his hand, the vine flashed and retracted into his left hand. Zhang Ling didn't stay there either, following Ding Ruozhao's direction to leave.
Ding Ruozhao was currently attacking the stone door, which had a layer of white light, indicating that some restrictions remained on it.
However, the ground was shaking more and more violently, and some large and small stones were falling from the surrounding stone walls. The restrictions on the stone door flickered on and off.
Clearly, even if there was a formation, it couldn't prevent the imminent collapse of this place.
Ding Ruozhao released black and white wind blades, continuously attacking the stone door, causing the spiritual light on the stone door to wail constantly.
Zhang Ling naturally wouldn't stand idly by. While approaching the stone door, he released his flying sword to attack.
Under their combined attacks, after dozens of breaths, the spiritual light on the stone door shattered with a bang. The stone door was sliced into countless pieces of stone like cutting tofu under a sword light.
Ding Ruozhao flashed and flew out directly.
Zhang Ling naturally didn't dare to be negligent. In this moment of escape, he also fully activated his escape technique. When passing through the stone door, he turned his head to look at the bronze cauldron where the white jade skeleton was.
The five-colored spiritual light on the cauldron was even brighter. He also saw that the Spirit Eye Divine Tree had shrunk to the size of an inch and was sucked into the cauldron in a flash.
Rumbling sounds were endless, and countless large and small stones collapsed around. Before them was a winding passage, and for a moment, they didn't know where it led.
The entire mountain was shaking at this moment. For Golden Core cultivators, the complete collapse of the mountain wouldn't hurt them, but being buried in it would cause no small amount of trouble.
Suddenly, Ding Ruozhao stopped in front. Zhang Ling's divine sense swept forward and found that there was a fork in the road ahead, with several passages. Even with divine sense exploration, he couldn't find out where they led for a while.
Zhang Ling frowned and landed on the ground. At this moment, the ground was shaking violently, but it wasn't a big deal for him. He landed steadily on the ground, and a layer of yellow light rose under his feet, but a layer of white spiritual light also lit up on the ground.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling's face turned ugly.
He wanted to use earth escape technique to directly pass through the mountain's stone walls, but there were actually restrictions on the ground. This was a bit troublesome.
However, he had already guessed this in his heart. After all, the place where they were just now was the core of the spiritual vein, and there was also the Spirit Eye Divine Tree, so there must be many restrictions.
If it weren't for the fact that the entire ground was shaking at this time and the restrictions were affected, they wouldn't have been able to break the stone door and escape so easily before.
After staying here for a few breaths, Ding Ruozhao in front suddenly acted again and entered the leftmost passage.
Zhang Ling hesitated for a moment and hurriedly followed.
Although the forbidden curse that had scared him had been lifted, the escape plan that the two had discussed before wasn't just about lifting the restrictions.
They weren't truly out of danger yet.
Once the white jade skeleton finished casting its spell, its powerful strength could catch up to them in an instant. Ding Ruozhao also had a treasure in her hand that could help them escape quickly, so Zhang Ling had to follow.
After walking through the winding passage for more than ten breaths, an arched stone door appeared in front of them.
Fortunately, the stone door was wide open, and the restrictions here hadn't been triggered. The two entered without any hindrance.
Inside was a space about a hundred feet in size, with more than a dozen arched doorways opening on the surrounding walls. Inside were identical stone houses, with some stone tables, stone chairs, and other items.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling's heart sank. This was clearly not the way out. These rooms seemed to be cultivation places opened up by ancient cultivators.
"Huh?"
Ding Ruozhao next to him suddenly flashed and entered one of the stone houses.
Zhang Ling also quickly turned his divine sense over there. He discovered that there was a round platform three to four feet in size in the stone house, built entirely of a kind of black rock, with some stone pillars standing next to it.
He recognized it at a glance as a small teleportation array.
Ding Ruozhao flashed and stood on the teleportation array. With a raise of her hand, she took out a few more mid-grade spirit stones.
These spirit stones flashed and disappeared into the several grooves on the edge of the teleportation array. Immediately, the entire teleportation array lit up with a white light.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling knew that this teleportation array was complete and could be activated. He no longer hesitated and entered the stone house as well.
"This teleportation array can allow us to leave this place quickly, but I don't know where it leads. Aren't you afraid of being teleported to a dangerous place?" Ding Ruozhao glanced at Zhang Ling, who had followed closely, and sneered.
Zhang Ling frowned when he heard this, but he also smiled and said, "Hehe, seeing that Fairy doesn't seem worried at all, why should Zhang be worried?"
Seeing his nonchalant appearance, Ding Ruozhao snorted and didn't say anything more.
As the light of the teleportation array grew brighter and brighter, Zhang Ling glanced at the stone house he was in. Although this stone house was also shaking violently, the walls and ground didn't show any signs of cracking.
After thinking about it, he understood. Teleportation arrays like this are not easy to set up. The places where they are set up are mostly reinforced and not easily damaged. Even if the entire mountain collapses, this stone house will probably just be buried.
Seeing the teleportation array being activated, a look of worry flashed across Zhang Ling's face. He still fully circulated his spiritual power, making the layers of defense on his body even thicker.
With a flash of white light, there were no longer any traces of the two on the teleportation array.
Only a series of violent sounds were left behind, and outside the stone house where the teleportation array was located, huge stones kept falling and cracks opened on the ground.
