"Lu Chen, what’s going on?"
Li Yanran had not experienced the battle here and felt that Lu Chen had changed, so she couldn’t help but ask.
"The ancient demon beasts that were here, they’re gone."
Lu Chen took a deep breath, standing on the icy fan, and looked around. Only after confirming that they were indeed missing did he speak.
Not only were the demon beasts gone.
Even the four from the North Dragon Sect that he had killed earlier, not a single body remained.
This made Lu Chen wonder if he had gone to the wrong place!
Or perhaps, you could only move forward in this wasteland and not return.
It seed like he was walking back to the starting point, but in reality, within the forbidden land, he had already reached soplace else.
"Ancient demon beasts?"
Li Yanran couldn’t help but ask with suspicion, "I didn’t sense any lingering presence of Demon Qi here. Could you have made a mistake, Lu Chen?"
Lu Chen responded with a wry smile, "How could that be, I had just hastened from here to your side earlier, and it was Mo Buwen and Yu Qingqing who told ..."
Suddenly, Lu Chen furrowed his brows and said, "I didn’t take the wrong path! Mo Buwen and Yu Qingqing were injured and ended up here, where I happened to encounter them. After I treated their injuries, we stayed in this wasteland. Moreover, when we ca back from there, they remained in the sa spot!"
Hearing Lu Chen’s words, Li Yanran also fell into deep thought.
She had no reason to doubt Lu Chen.
And she would not doubt him either.
Li Yanran’s mory loss and unfamiliarity with Lu Chen did not an she lacked her own judgnt.
After pondering for a mont, she said, "So the exit to go back is within this wasteland?"
Lu Chen said, "No, it’s in the wasteland ahead!"
The barrier was not far from here, and Lu Chen pointed out where they could still see the first wasteland they encountered.
Many demon beasts were tornted, chained and their painful howls were emanating from the crevices of the earth.
However, for Li Yanran, this distance was still too far, and she couldn’t see clearly.
"Then what should we do about this wasteland? Let’s hurry on."
She also had a sense of crisis in her heart and felt there was no need for Lu Chen to waste ti in this wasteland.
"You don’t understand," Lu Chen, having experienced more than Li Yanran, saw her indifference and urgently intervened, then he told her all he had seen, heard, and speculated.
Gradually, Li Yanran’s expression changed.
She had not expected Lu Chen to have encountered such perilous and eerie events!
"What should we do then?"
The rational her knew she should not act on her own, just like what Qin Yaotiao told her when she woke up—that if she were to accompany him, it would be best to listen to him because he was ticulous in his thoughts.
At this mont, she was truly appreciating the extent of Lu Chen’s prowess.
"That wasteland is full of violent winds. Plus... passing through the barrier does not guarantee that what you see is real. So, let’s go down first and talk..."
Lu Chen glanced at Wen Buhui and then at Yu Qingqing.
The blood on their bodies had already dried, still unconscious.
Aside from the chained demon beasts, that wasteland was also plagued by endless violent winds!
Lu Chen was not confident that he could protect everyone!
And now, aside from retracing their steps, he had no other choice.
Those beasts, more intelligent than humans and nurous and strong.
Lu Chen did not want to go and et his death!
"I’ll follow your lead," Li Yanran said, having landed and placed Qin Yaotiao and Yu Qingqing down, she then looked at Lu Chen prettily.
Lu Chen took a deep breath and instructed, "Can you help them heal? I will go ahead and check the situation first."
Li Yanran nodded and said, "Sister Yaotiao’s injuries are not severe; I can use the Vitality Force of the Wood Spiritual Bead to wake her up. But for Mo Buwen and Yu Qingqing, waking up won’t be so simple."
Lu Chen knew it would be like this, although Li Yanran couldn’t do much, it was a small matter for himself.
"Then leave it to you. I will trouble you to keep watch here, Senior Sister Li," he said.
Now that Li Yanran was indifferent to him, Lu Chen did not dare to appear too intimate.
After seeing she had no objections, Lu Chen then slowly approached the first wasteland.
He needed to make sure it was safe before he could confidently lead them back the way they ca, then by using the Formation they had co through, figure a way to return to the icy land!
As everything before him flickered, Lu Chen heard the familiar violent winds.
Feeling the disordered Spiritual Power, Lu Chen did not let his guard down. Apart from tightly holding the icy fan and the Ice Spirit Pearl, the Heavenly Inquiry Spear in his hand was also ready to strike!
But in the next mont, a sense of crisis suddenly sprouted from the bottom of Lu Chen’s heart!
Without hesitation, he retreated towards the location of the barrier. Just before leaving, he saw a scarlet tongue covered in barbs dropping down from the sky and deeply plunging into the very spot where he had stood monts before!
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