Fell for the Trick

Hearing Xu Mu's words, the few people present all frowned.

Especially Chen Xuan, who frequently acted together with Xu Mu; he immediately sensed his surroundings.

He knew very well that Xu Mu's intuition was always spot on.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

Dai Xingluo asked from behind.

"I feel that this ruin is dangerous."

Xu Mu didn't go into too much detail. They would definitely still have to go inside and check it out.

He just hoped that the two people from the Immortality Research Institute had also found this place for the first time.

If they already knew about this place and had treated it as a base, then there would be trouble.

"Don't scare yourself. As long as it's a ruin, there's no such thing as it not being dangerous."

Jiang Huihui blew a bubble, "Let's go."

Xu Mu nodded slightly. No matter what, they definitely still had to go in and take a look.

The group walked for another ten minutes or so and finally reached their destination.

The ruin here wasn't an exposed cave entrance, but rather, a formation sealed the entrance.

It was exactly because of this that it had remained undiscovered for so long.

Xu Mu sensed his surroundings and found that the two people from earlier had disappeared. If nothing unexpected happened, they had already gone inside.

"Let's go, we'll go in and take a look."

Jiang Huihui placed her hand on the stone. After injecting her Qi, the stone in front of her rippled like water.

She stepped into it first, and Xu Mu and the others followed suit.

Following the narrow passage, they continued to go deeper. After walking for nearly a hundred meters, the view suddenly opened up.

The scenery in front of them was similar to the mountain forest outside.

The only difference was that at the top of a distant mountain peak, there was a very magnificent palace.

The palace stretched on endlessly, almost covering the entire mountain peak.

As soon as Xu Mu entered, he immediately expanded his perception to check his surroundings, but found that the two people from before were not within range.

Obviously, they had already headed deeper inside.

Chen Xuan took out a machete from his woven bag and looked around vigilantly.

"Brother Mu, this doesn't look like a place where people live."

Meng Wanyue said from the side.

"It really doesn't seem like it. Although there's a palace in the distance, this place is simply too desolate."

Xu Mu said with a calm expression, "Let's go. Since we're already here, we might as well go to the palace and take a look."

The rest of the people all nodded in agreement.

Along the way, Xu Mu didn't turn off his perception. There was no one around.

He was even starting to suspect that Liang Yi and that woman in leather from earlier didn't know about the ruins here at all, and they had just happened to pass by.

Finally, the group arrived at the mountain peak where the palace was located.

After arriving here, Xu Mu sized up the palace in front of him.

The interior of the palace was almost entirely covered with formation patterns, at least a level-eight formation.

Xu Mu closed his eyes and carefully sensed it. Because of the obstruction of the formation, he couldn't see through everything.

This was because a formation would distort the interior of a space, extending the distance.

In other words, a small space of ten square meters, under the effect of a formation, could be turned into a hundred square meters, or even larger.

Therefore, it wasn't that Xu Mu's perception couldn't see through the formation, but rather that the formation affected the distance of his perception.

Originally able to see four hundred meters away, under the effect of the formation, he might only be able to see three or four meters.

The group came to the main gate of the palace. The two stone doors were seven or eight meters high, and the width of each door was about two meters.

At this time, only the left door of the main gate was half open, revealing a gap of about one meter.

The inside of the gap was pitch black, making it completely impossible to see the situation inside.

"Although your strength is all pretty good, I still have to remind you that there is definitely danger inside. My suggestion is to turn back."

Xu Mu looked at the people beside him.

"It's rare to have this opportunity, so we definitely have to go in and broaden our horizons."

Chen Xuan looked at Xu Mu and said.

The rest of the people also expressed their agreement.

"Alright then. You must be careful. Compared to treasures, prioritize saving your lives."

After Xu Mu finished speaking, he stepped inside first, and the rest of the people all followed him in.

The interior of the palace was pitch black, so dark that they couldn't see their hands in front of their faces.

The few people present were all at the Divine Ability Realm. Upon seeing the darkness in front of them, they all released their Qi, wanting to illuminate their surroundings through the light of their Qi.

However, the Qi they emitted only allowed them to see their own bodies, and they still couldn't see the situation around them.

"Brother, I'm scared of the dark."

Dai Xingluo's voice drifted over.

"Don't be nervous."

Xu Mu didn't need to use his own Qi; he could clearly see the few people in front of him through his perception.

As long as there were people in this space in front of him, he could see everything within this space clearly.

In his eyes, the surroundings were all black formation patterns, with no floor and no walls.

This was a genuine formation space.

Right at this moment, a woman's laughter rang out.

"Giggle! Welcome!"

Hearing this, the few people present all became vigilant.

Xu Mu also sensed his surroundings, but there was no figure. Obviously, this woman was outside the formation, using the formation to transmit her voice so that they could hear her.

"Who are you?"

Xu Mu asked loudly.

"You don't need to care who I am. You only need to know that you are about to die."

The woman's voice came again.

"You... knew we were coming?"

Xu Mu asked in a deep voice.

"It's not that I knew you were coming, but rather that you were able to come here all because of me."

After the woman said this, she started giggling again.

Jiang Huihui widened her eyes in disbelief, and then said coldly, "You intentionally leaked the location of this ruin?"

"Smart! However, I still have to thank Mr. Jiang for this. He used to be a Cleaner, so he knows your rules very well."

The woman said with a smile, "When the Cleaners' geological survey department finds a new ruin, they will report it. In most cases, the Sanitation Department will reward the Cleaners who made the contribution by letting them explore the ruin first. Generally, Cleaners who make contributions have extraordinary strength."

"Your goal is to capture Cleaners?"

Jiang Huihui sneered.

"Cleaners with extraordinary strength."

The woman emphasized.

"Then let me go, I'm not a Cleaner."

Dai Xingluo raised her head and said.

"Hehe, you are all in the same group, and that's enough."

The woman said with a smile.

"Beauty, we're on the same side. The Mr. Jiang you mentioned should be Jiang Mingzhuo, right? That's my uncle."

Xu Mu shouted towards the high place, "And this Cleaner is named Jiang Huihui. If anything happens to her, Jiang Mingzhuo won't let you off!"

"Hehe, do you think I'll believe that? Good luck to you all!"

After the woman finished speaking, her voice disappeared.

At the same time, the ground around them began to shake. Suddenly, it seemed as if the land beneath their feet had vanished, and all of them started falling downwards.

The speed of this fall was extremely fast. Before Xu Mu could even execute his Cloud Steps, he had already crashed to the ground along with the others.

At this moment, the world in front of them gradually became clear. Seeing the scene before them, they felt it would have been better if it had remained blurry.