After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 191 Unintentional Remarks

As the first rays of morning sunlight gently draped the secret realm like a golden veil, they also shone into the darkness within the sinkhole.

This time, even the darkness within the sinkhole could not stop or swallow it up. Sunlight mercilessly pierced through layers of mist, shining directly into the bottomless depths of the sinkhole.

Under the hazy mist, the sunlight intertwined into dazzling yellow pillars, like pillars of holy light descending from the sky, bringing unprecedented light and warmth to the entire sinkhole.

Faced with such a strange and spectacular sight, the members of the Fire Society couldn't help but widen their eyes.

After a long while, someone seemed to wake up from a dream and muttered to themselves, "What... what exactly is going on?"

Someone asked the person next to them somewhat uncertainly, "I seem to remember that bloodthirsty bats supposedly hate sunlight, right?"

"If you remember correctly, bloodthirsty bats don't easily fly from the darkness to places where there is sunlight."

After receiving an affirmative answer, the scene fell silent.

However, after only a brief silence, a deafening cheer suddenly erupted from the crowd.

"Haha, so does that mean the Kunyuan Palace is already in our Fire Flame Society's hands!"

"Yes! Yes! It must be because the leader and the others succeeded!" The members of the Fire Flame Society were all beaming with uncontrollable joy.

But someone immediately stopped the cheering and gestured for everyone to be quiet, saying, "Don't be too happy yet, the leaders haven't come out of there yet."

I reckon they won't come out until the midday sun is at its strongest; we'll celebrate together after they get back.

Upon hearing these words, the previously noisy and bustling crowd gradually calmed down, but the excitement shining in everyone's eyes was still clearly visible.

Bottom of the sinkhole.

"Do we really have to wait until noon? It feels so agonizing!" Xiao Ruohuang squatted on the ground, idly fiddling with the dust in her hands, and piling the fine dust around her into tower shapes.

Chen Bing replied somewhat helplessly, "To ensure everything goes smoothly, we'd better listen to him."

"Did you find anything yesterday?" Xiao Ruohuang asked softly.

Chen Bing shook his head. "We've been unconscious for who knows how long. This place isn't very big; people have already walked around it all."

Xiao Ruohuang frowned and said, "I think there must be something good in this place. After we leave, you take some people and dig this place up to the bone. I don't believe he can find anything underground. Don't forget my share after you find it."

"Don't worry, I would have done it even if you hadn't told me. Why don't we go look for it again? We were in a bit of a rush yesterday," Chen Bing suggested with a smile.

"Let's go!" Xiao Ruohuang was filled with fighting spirit again.

At this moment, Shen Xu was circling around the circle, searching for a relatively well-preserved statue. Even if it was useless, it would be excellent as a decorative piece, which he could give to the two little ones later.

Yesterday, he thought that since there were many fragments of statues on the ground, there should be many complete statues buried underground. But after he dug, he found that all the statue fragments seemed to exist only on the surface of the ground, and the fox demon was buried the deepest.

At this moment, he noticed that Xiao Ruohuang and Chen Bing were slowly walking towards him.

"What are you looking for?" Xiao Ruohuang asked curiously as she approached.

“Look, there are quite a few fragments of statues here. I was trying to find a well-preserved statue, but after going around in circles, all I found were fragments,” Shen Xu replied with a smile.

The two looked down and found some stone fragments with carving marks.

"It really exists!" Xiao Ruohuang immediately became excited.

"Then let's give it a try!" After saying that, Xiao Ruohuang immediately pulled Chen Bing and began searching the surrounding area.

Seeing how afraid he would find something first, Shen Xu couldn't help but smile.

He deliberately lured the two here, because even if he didn't warn them, Huo Yan would eventually discover the clues here.

He owes a great deal to the Fire Flame Society for helping him obtain those three Condensation Yuan Fruits, but apart from those Condensation Yuan Fruits, this is probably the only place at the bottom of the entire sinkhole where some secret might be hidden.

Seeing how much the two were suffering while waiting, he figured he might as well just show them the place and give them something to do.

Sure enough, time flies when you have something to do. As the sunlight gradually shone into the bottom of the sinkhole, although the three of them hadn't found anything, each of them wore a happy smile.

Shen Xu was happy because he could finally leave, while Xiao Ruohuang and Chen Bing were happy because they felt that there must be some great secret in that place, and now that secret belonged to them.

With a loud eagle cry, the giant eagle flapped its huge wings and carried the three of them out of the sinkhole. Not a single bloodthirsty bat dared to come out and disturb their good mood.

After a short rest at the Fire Flame Society's base near the sinkhole, Shen Xu declined the Fire Flame Society's request to celebrate his victory. Then, following the plan agreed upon at the bottom of the sinkhole, he transported the Fire Flame Society's one hundred members to the bottom of the sinkhole.

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"Brother Cen, you have no idea how dangerous it was. Those bats were like madmen, constantly swooping at me..." On the back of the giant winged demon eagle, Xiao Ruohuang was excitedly recounting their experience in the sinkhole to Cen Chong.

"The difficulty of your Five Mountains Alliance's Kunyuan Palace is nowhere near that of our Kunyuan Palace!" Xiao Ruohuang raised her head and made a post-battle summary.

Cen Chong also chimed in tactfully, "It was indeed too dangerous. All six of you fire experts, plus a giant winged demon eagle at the Qi Condensation Realm, almost perished inside."

"But right now, the only alliance that doesn't have a way to get close to the Kunyuan Palace is the Golden Rainbow Society! I wonder if they'll eventually ask me to help them," Xiao Ruohuang said with a mischievous smile.

Shen Xu replied, "They won't know we have a giant-winged demon eagle so quickly, but once they do, they'll definitely come. It all depends on what Zuo Chen wants them to give up."

Speaking of the Golden Rainbow Society, Shen Xu thought of the Heavenly River Society. "I wonder how Bai Lu and the others are doing against the Golden Rainbow Society?"

At this moment, on the island in the center of Qinghu Lake, Bailu looked at the crowd scattered around Kunyuan Palace and couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness. If it weren't for her greed, there would be many more familiar faces here.

“This isn’t your fault, leader. Anyone would have done the same. Blame Shen Xu! We’ve been so good to him, yet he wouldn’t give us a single piece of information. I don’t trust him anymore,” Wen Han said angrily.

“Shen Xu has no obligation to remind us, and he is not yet a member of our Tianhe Society, so naturally he must obey the orders of the Qingmu Society.”

Moreover, we can't blame the Aoki Society for this. If I hadn't been blinded by my current advantage and wanted to directly cause trouble for the Golden Rainbow Society, we wouldn't have been caught off guard and suffered so many losses.

"Sect Leader, I was unaware of the conspiracy behind this. I am willing to accept the sect's punishment after the sword selection!" Guan Bi said firmly.

Bai Lu sighed softly and said, "If anyone should be punished, it should be me, the one who made the decision. It's not your place to be punished."

At that moment, she suddenly remembered something Shen Xu had told her many times: "Don't be too greedy!"

"So he was reminding me back then?" Bai Lu gave a bitter smile.