"Are you sure this is poison?"
After Cheng Tianming took the antidote pill, Nangong Luo examined him again. Just as he had diagnosed himself earlier, his own antidote pill had no effect.
"Yes, the spiritual energy within my body is slowly disappearing." Cheng Tianming nodded. If he weren't poisoned, why would his spiritual energy vanish without reason?
"That's strange." Nangong Luo stroked his chin, staring at Cheng Tianming. He couldn't detect any signs of poisoning.
"Fellow Daoist Cheng, do you know where the entrance we came through is?" In the time they were speaking, the secret chamber had already changed. Chu Lingwei could no longer find the entrance they had just come through.
This had become a true secret chamber, one with no entrance or exit.
"I don't know." Cheng Tianming shook his head. "When you came in earlier, I didn't even see an entrance."
"How is that possible?" Chu Lingwei was surprised. They had entered in the span of two breaths. For a cultivator in the Huatian Realm like Cheng Tianming, two breaths were enough to accomplish many things.
"It's true. I saw you all enter through the wall from inside the chamber," Cheng Tianming said, pointing at the murals on the wall. "Even these murals are constantly changing, making it impossible to distinguish the real from the fake."
Chu Lingwei exchanged glances with her two senior brothers. They had been focused on the murals on the wall. Could these be illusions?
"Let's try to find an exit. If we can enter, we can definitely leave," Nangong Luo said with a solemn expression. He wasn't worried about being trapped here, but rather about contracting the same poison as Cheng Tianming.
This poison was like poison, yet not like poison.
Chu Lingwei nodded and instructed the illusion cat and others to search together. This might be an illusion, after all. Only by being within an illusion could the people inside fail to see the true appearance of the secret chamber, and naturally, the entrance would also be invisible.
Cheng Tianming followed them. Having finally encountered some cultivators, he had hope of leaving together.
Nangong Luo saw the anxiety flashing in Cheng Tianming's eyes and guessed he was worried about those outside. "Fellow Daoist Cheng, you weren't the only one to enter the Chengtian Grand Hall, were you?"
"Yes, there were four others who entered with me. We separated in different directions, and I don't know how they are now," Cheng Tianming replied. They were not from the same sect. He had been delayed here for three days, and in three days, many things could happen.
If one of them obtained an inheritance, the difference between them would be like heaven and earth.
He needed to leave here as soon as possible and find his own destiny.
Chu Lingwei and the illusion cat meticulously searched the secret chamber for any discrepancies. As Cheng Tianming had said, the murals on the stone walls were truly changing slowly with the passage of time.
Even the human figures depicted were constantly shifting.
"Feng Ming, find a way to record all these murals," Chu Lingwei transmitted to Feng Ming. Anything that appeared in the Chengtian Grand Hall should have a purpose.
They might not understand the meaning of these murals now, but they might understand them later.
"Alright." Feng Ming nodded, his eyes quickly scanning the scenes and imprinting them into his mind.
"We really can't find any flaws." After searching for half an hour, the few of them found nothing. Everything here was like a normal secret chamber, without even a trace of spiritual energy.
"In another half an hour, this secret chamber will change again. Be careful," Cheng Tianming said. He had initially thought they could leave with the combined efforts of the three of them, but now it seemed they would need another way to get out.
In half an hour, this place would welcome something they did not want to see.
"Junior Sister, stay close behind Senior Brother," Nangong Luo called out to remind her.
"Okay." Chu Lingwei quickly moved behind Nangong Luo. Looking around the secret chamber, she said, "Second Senior Brother, have you noticed that the four of us are inside without feeling crowded at all?"
Chu Lingwei and Nangong Luo stood in the center of the secret chamber. From their visual perspective, the chamber was not very large.
As soon as she said this, the other three began to scrutinize the secret chamber.
It was true.
"Indeed. Your appearance here feels the same as when I was alone in this chamber." Logically, with more people in the chamber, one should feel crowded.
There was no spiritual energy surge, no artifact enhancement, how could there be such a sensation?
"Be careful."
At that moment, a black mist flew towards Chu Lingwei. Su Yan reacted in time, using his spiritual energy to disperse the mist.
"Strange, this mist should only appear after half an hour." Cheng Tianming came to Chu Lingwei's side. They formed a circle with their backs to each other. "I've been here for three days, and a large amount of mist appears every three hours. It has never been wrong about the timing."
"What Junior Sister said might have frightened them," Su Yan sneered, and suddenly sent a burst of spiritual energy towards a corner.
With a "squeak," a surge of black energy suddenly erupted from the seemingly empty corner of the chamber. This black energy did not dissipate directly but rushed towards them.
"It's a spirit beast."
Su Yan pulled Chu Lingwei aside and said loudly.
Chu Lingwei drew her Ice Jade Frost Sword and, as the black mist rushed towards her, thrust it directly at it.
"Ah..."
A scream echoed, causing Chu Lingwei and the others to experience tinnitus.
"It must be this spirit beast causing trouble." Su Yan approached the black mist and quickly chanted a beast-taming incantation. During the brief pause of the mist, Nangong Luo casually fanned his Warm Jade Haotian Fan, causing the black mist to heavily collide with the stone wall.
"Open the exit, or you'll know the consequences." Nangong Luo walked up to the black mist, which was already close to losing its form. It was only a matter of time before its true appearance was revealed.
The black mist writhed on the ground. Chu Lingwei felt it seemed about to make a move. "Second Senior Brother, be careful."
The ball of black mist suddenly transformed into countless tiny wisps of black mist and pounced towards Nangong Luo.
"Seeking death."
Nangong Luo let out a cold snort. The Warm Jade Haotian Fan fanned gently, and the black mist was deflected by spiritual energy, revealing a spirit beast with black horns in front of them.
With a "crack."
One wall of the secret chamber formed a door.
"The exit! Let's go!" Cheng Tianming saw the door appear in the secret chamber and rushed out without a second thought.
Nangong Luo glanced in the direction Cheng Tianming had left, but did not follow. "Junior Brother, collect it."
Such a cunning spirit beast, the door it created might not be real.
Su Yan had the same intention. He chanted a spell and collected the spirit beast, whatever it was, into a spirit beast bag.
"Weiwei, quickly look, these murals have changed again." Feng Ming had been continuously copying the murals. After the spirit beast was captured, new murals suddenly appeared here.