"What exactly is this...?"
The shaking left everyone terrified.
After all, the Death Prison is too far away for most people. Generally speaking, only cultivators who successfully join the Lower Eight Sects will have the opportunity to represent their sect and enter the Death Prison to explore after completing the second stage of Foundation Establishment.
Among the students, the vast majority are not even cultivator seeds. If they can achieve the peak of the first rank in the future, it will be a stroke of good luck.
Therefore, the general public was completely unaware of information such as how the cultivators outside could work together to break through the black membrane of the death cell.
Even Shanggong Ji was deathly pale at this moment.
Meanwhile, Gu Yuan was looking around, searching for the Golden Gate!
A lone individual escapes Kinmen, with only one chance...
Gu Yuan remembered that in this death row cell, there were six small golden doors on the shallow level, one large golden door for the group to escape, and a red door leading to the middle level.
The red gate is located below the cliff, which is where Gu Yuan, Shanggong Changqing, and Lin Ao woke up. There is actually a secret passage there.
Continue along the secret passage, and you'll find the door to the middle level...
Once someone steps into the middle layer, the black membrane outside will be strengthened!
At that point, the cultivators outside will never be able to break through the black membrane to save people again.
Although Gu Yuan had never personally monitored the middle level of the academy's death row, he knew that all the evil creatures inside were at least at the second tier!
If Gu Yuan were to blindly enter the middle level at this moment, he would be courting death.
As for the other four Lesser Kinmen, the intelligence only confirmed their existence but did not specify their exact locations.
Therefore, Gu Yuan was unwilling to gamble, since in his previous life, no one had ever found or escaped from these small golden gates alive...
As another violent shockwave struck, the entire ground cracked severely!
Many students were too exhausted to react and fell into the cracks, disappearing without a trace.
Shanggong Ji naturally also quickly sought an opportunity to separate and find a safe place to recuperate and rest.
Amidst the chaos, Gu Yuan saw Lin Tian and the others relying on each other, managing to regain their footing with many of them.
And Xiao Mei...
Not among the crowd.
Seeing that the stones beneath his feet were sinking, Gu Yuan used brute force to insert his fingers between the soil and the stones, thus hanging them between the cracks.
One wave subsides only for another to rise!
A large amount of evil energy burst forth from the cracks in the ground.
Many students were able to barely stay in the cracks with their ordinary weapons, but when they were hit by the evil energy, they lost consciousness and fell from above!
At this moment, Gu Yuan's physical body, which had been tempered by evil energy, once again came into play. No matter how much evil energy surged up from below, Gu Yuan was not affected by this low-level evil energy.
This evil energy is nothing more than diluted airflow.
Compared to what I had previously absorbed, it was utterly insignificant.
Gu Yuan quickly explored other areas, searching.
Logically speaking...
If cracks appear and the ground collapses, then the location of Little Kinmen should also be revealed!
As we waited and waited, we didn't see Little Kinmen, but instead spotted two familiar figures...
Not far away, a young man was lying on the edge of the crevice, sweating profusely. He was holding onto the edge with one hand and pulling Xiao Mei, who was dangling in mid-air, with the other!
That young man was the only student who had tried to speak up for Gu Yuan not long ago.
Gu Yuan was also very surprised to see this scene.
Such a thing actually exists?
As the stone cracked again, even the stone spikes on top began to fall.
The young man was quickly covered in wounds from the falling rocks, but he still held tightly to Xiao Mei's hand below. Xiao Mei, on the other hand, had lost her former charm and her eyes were filled with fear and despair at the prospect of death.
The young man was exhausted and could only hope that someone would discover his situation and offer assistance.
Unfortunately, the miracle did not happen.
The next moment, a stone spike as thick as an adult's forearm fell from above and pierced straight into the young man's back. The young man let out a scream and then lost consciousness.
The instant the young man lost consciousness and let go, Xiao Mei's beautiful face turned deathly pale. She gripped his arm tightly, her hands now too weak to pull him any further—this was Xiao Mei's last straw...
Suddenly, Xiao Mei saw...
I saw "hope"!
"How pathetic, Xiao Mei."
At that moment, Gu Yuan appeared beside the unconscious young man.
"Quick, quick, save me! Ah Yuan, save me!"
Xiao Mei hurriedly called out, but her voice was quickly drowned out by the rising evil energy and the loud crashing of falling rocks below.
Xiao Mei just stared blankly at Gu Yuan above her.
Gu Yuan maintained a cold expression throughout, with a slight, contemptuous smile playing on his lips...
Xiao Mei's lips trembled slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but the words just wouldn't come out.
Previously, Gu Yuan was like a lapdog, doing everything he could to fulfill whatever Xiao Mei wanted or asked for.
Afterwards, all for the sake of getting the slightest reward.
Even as the spiritual roots within him were nearly drained, he showed no sign of noticing or resisting.
At this moment, Xiao Mei was no fool. Seeing Gu Yuan's expression, she knew perfectly well that Gu Yuan already knew everything.
perhaps....
The person who attacked Lin Ao at that time was Gu Yuan.
Having not seen Lin Ao for so long, Gu Yuan displayed combat power far exceeding that of ordinary people after entering.
All of this demonstrates that Gu Yuan has the ability to "kill," it's just a matter of whether he wants to do so.
After figuring all this out, a look of despair returned to Xiao Mei's eyes.
Seeing Xiao Mei's despair, Gu Yuan's smile deepened.
"Gu Yuan!"
Xiao Mei suddenly spoke up, "You don't want your spiritual root foundation anymore!"
"I can return it to you, but... you have to agree to one condition."
Gu Yuan remained silent, and Xiao Mei, having struggled for so long, was exhausted.
Just as Xiao Mei was about to fall, Gu Yuan suddenly reached out and grabbed her. Xiao Mei gave a bitter smile and said, "So this means... you agreed, right?"
I guess so.
Gu Yuan pulled Xiao Mei up, and Xiao Mei took the opportunity to lean forward slightly, handing Gu Yuan a dull and lifeless elixir.
"Go here... You'll understand when you get there, if it were you!"
Xiao Mei finished speaking in one breath, then revealed a pale but radiant smile. Without Gu Yuan needing to do anything more, Xiao Mei gracefully took a step back. The stones beneath her feet could no longer support her, and Xiao Mei lost her footing and fell directly into the crevice.
Only after Xiao Mei's figure disappeared into the shadows did Gu Yuan realize...
A surge of pure spiritual energy was flowing towards Gu Yuan's dantian. In the final moments, Xiao Mei transferred all the pure spiritual energy she had accumulated throughout her life to Gu Yuan.
That dim-looking elixir...
It might be some kind of secret technique, or it might be some kind of magical artifact, but that doesn't matter anymore.
Gu Yuan was somewhat dazed and confused, looking at the hand that had just been holding Xiao Mei's, now holding a crumpled piece of paper.
This was the last thing Xiao Mei gave to Gu Yuan.