"Elder Changyin, she's there," the Night Phantom, hidden in a crevice between rocks, suddenly heard a shout from the foot of the mountain.
The Night Phantom quickly peeked out and saw a group of people had appeared at the foot of the mountain at some point.
This group was none other than her pursuers. They seemed to have spotted the Night Phantom, and one of them pointed in her direction and shouted.
"It's over." The Night Phantom's face instantly changed. Although she never thought she could escape, she hadn't expected to be discovered so quickly.
"Heh, it's a pity that in my short life, I've never even found a boyfriend, and my first kiss is still intact. I'm about to take my final bow." The Night Phantom looked at the group of people rushing up from the foot of the mountain and couldn't help but let out a wry smile.
"Fine, fine. If I have to die, so be it. I'll disfigure myself now, hoping my true identity won't be discovered and my family won't be implicated." After speaking, the Night Phantom immediately took out a small knife from her person. Next, she intended to use the knife to completely slash her face, making it unrecognizable.
Just then, as the Night Phantom was about to slash her face with the knife, she suddenly noticed that on one of the rocks in the crevice where she was hiding, there was something like a keyhole. The hole was about the same size as her small knife.
"Hmm? What's this?" The Night Phantom immediately inserted her small knife into it.
Suddenly, the Night Phantom felt a sensation of the world spinning. The stone slab beneath her feet, in the place where she had just hidden, suddenly loosened, and she began to plummet downwards.
"Ahhh!" The Night Phantom felt her body falling rapidly and couldn't help but scream.
Meanwhile, outside, the pursuers had already rushed up.
"Where is she?" an aged elder asked.
"What's going on? She was right here just now. Where did she suddenly disappear to?"
Everyone who had caught up suddenly found that the Night Phantom was gone.
"She must have run in another direction. Everyone, split up."
"Yes, Elder Changyin."
The pursuers from the Dugu family immediately scattered, heading in different directions to search. Unfortunately, they would never find her, because the Night Phantom was not on this mountain at the moment. To be precise, she was inside this mountain.
"Bang!" Deep within the mountain, after falling for seven or eight seconds, the Night Phantom felt herself plunge into a body of icy water.
"It's so cold! Where is this?" The Night Phantom frantically surfaced. The water was bone-chillingly cold, and her body trembled uncontrollably.
At this moment, Zhou Hong was still a thousand kilometers away.
"This is too hard to find. Fine, fine, I'll just use the Heaven and Earth Boundless Tracking Technique." Zhou Hong searched for over half an hour and found that finding the Night Phantom was not so easy, so he decided to use the Heaven and Earth Boundless Tracking Technique.
"Heaven and Earth Boundless Tracking Technique." Zhou Hong immediately channeled his life essence.
However, there was no reaction.
"Why is there no reaction? Could it be? Is the Night Phantom very far away from me now?" Zhou Hong couldn't help but let out a wry smile. His Heaven and Earth Boundless Tracking Technique was not omnipotent. It had to be within a certain range, which was about ten to twenty kilometers, the distance of a city. But the Night Phantom was currently over a thousand kilometers away, so naturally, he couldn't find her.
Zhou Hong almost wanted to give up, whether she lived or died.
"Fine, fine. I'll see this through to the end." After an internal struggle, Zhou Hong decided to continue searching.
Thus, three days later, Zhou Hong arrived at a very tall mountain peak. On this mountain, Zhou Hong discovered traces of many people's activities.
Moreover, Zhou Hong also saw many people searching all over the mountain.
"If I'm not mistaken, those people are the pursuers from the Dugu family. It seems they still haven't found the Night Phantom." Zhou Hong chuckled. It was worth the long time he spent finding this place.
"The Night Phantom should be within the range of this mountain. If I use the Heaven and Earth Boundless Tracking Technique, I should be able to find her." Zhou Hong said to himself.
With that, Zhou Hong immediately used the Heaven and Earth Boundless Tracking Technique again.
Finally, a scene appeared before Zhou Hong's eyes. In the scene, a beautiful woman was surrounded by a group of giant spiders. The spiders were constantly spitting silk, which coiled around like ropes, quickly binding the Night Phantom's limbs.
"What's going on? Where is this? How can there be such large spiders?" Zhou Hong was also stunned by the scene before him. Each of those spiders was as big as a cow, likely having lived for at least a hundred years. How could such large spiders exist on this mountain?
At this moment, Zhou Hong noticed that the scene seen by the Heaven and Earth Boundless Tracking Technique was dark and damp, unlike the surface.
"Could it be? Did the Night Phantom fall into some cave?" Zhou Hong mused to himself.
"It must be. My Heaven and Earth Boundless Tracking Technique can find her, which means she's within ten to twenty kilometers of me at most. I'll search within this range."
Zhou Hong immediately began to search.
Soon, Zhou Hong found the crevice where the Night Phantom had hidden before.
"This place should be where she was last seen, but this crevice looks very ordinary." Zhou Hong stood in the crevice, seemingly unable to see through it.
Just then, Zhou Hong saw a small hole on the rock face, with a knife still inserted in it.
Zhou Hong immediately pulled out the knife and then inserted it again.
The very next second, Zhou Hong felt the stone beneath his feet suddenly open, and he plummeted down.
However, Zhou Hong was, after all, an extraordinary individual. He controlled his body within a fall of less than five or six meters.
Then, like having a parachute, his body slowly descended.
After about a minute, Zhou Hong landed at the bottom of the mountain. At the bottom was a lake, which appeared to be quite large, at least the size of two football fields.
Zhou Hong stood directly on the surface of the lake, which felt like a concrete floor to him.
Fortunately, no one saw this scene. Otherwise, the Night Phantom would have been terrified. Being able to walk on water like this, her strength was comparable to any titled Venerable expert.
Zhou Hong leaped lightly onto the shore.
Zhou Hong immediately walked along the lake's edge. The entire underground cave was very dark and damp. If it were an ordinary person, they probably wouldn't be able to see their hand in front of their face.
"Whoosh!" Just then, a giant spider appeared from Zhou Hong's side. The spider spat a ball of silk towards Zhou Hong. Its silk was like a rope, directly wrapping around Zhou Hong's neck.
Unfortunately, this spider miscalculated. Zhou Hong instantly grabbed the silk spit by the spider and then pulled hard. The spider was yanked to his feet.
This spider, grown so large, must have had considerable strength. Unfortunately, in front of Zhou Hong, it was like a toy.