The destruction of the forest and beast tide continued for more than one hour and only when Ye Xiao saw that there is no beast left alive did he stop attacking.
The Fire Clones also vanished in thin air but the fire in the forest left behind them was still burning.
"It is done! Let's continue to move forward!" Ye Xiao smiled at Su Xue Er and said.
Su Xue Er who was spacing out seeing the destruction caused by Ye Xiao was snapped out from daze. She looked at Ye Xiao as if she was looking at a monster.
Ye Xiao was speechless seeing her reaction. He only thought "Miss, why are you looking at me like this?"
Both Ye Xiao and Su Xue Er moved forward. As far as they could see, they only saw the corpses of magical beasts and the ashes as tress. Some trees were burnt down to ash and some were half burnt.
They continue to walk for one hour at high speed but still, they were unable to reach the end of the forest.
"This forest is really quite long!" Ye Xiao sighed seeing that they were not going to reach the end of the forest anytime soon. But before they could walk any further, something unexpected happened.
A massive tidal wave of wind appeared from below their feet. That wave was emitting a strange white light. With the flash of white light, a strange and chaotic energy fluctuation suddenly rose from the bottom of their feet.
In the blink of an eye, the previously dull and ordinary ground became mysterious. A gigantic whirlpool appeared in between heaven and earth, and the violent and chaotic wind vortex enveloped both Ye Xiao and Su Xue Er.
"W-What is happening?" Su Xue Er was terrified to see this scene.
Both Ye Xiao and Su Xue Er were like butterflies in a tornado. In the blink of an eye, they were submerged within. The sky spun and the clouds changed!
The Dragon mountains trembled for a short while. Birds and beasts fled. Inside this mountain, dazzling white light was constantly flickering. It was both strange and mysterious.
This chaotic scene lasted for about thirty seconds. The ground gradually returned to its tranquil state. After a while, the forest once again became quiet.
Ye Xiao and Su Xue Er were nowhere to be seen but if they were to be still here, they would have been shocked to see that the forest has already returned to its previous state.
There was no fire burning the forest, nor was there any trace of fire in the forest, and also, there was no trace of destruction.
The only thing that can testify that a huge battle was fought here was the corpses of countless beasts. Only these corpses remained here.
.....
Ye Xiao's mind unceasingly resounded with the clamour, and a kind of chaotic noise seemed as though it was going to burst his brain. When he could no longer endure, he suddenly opened his eyes, and his consciousness returned to clarity.
He rubbed his eyes and saw that the area he was in was filled with pitch-black darkness, and the air was filled with a humid atmosphere. He was currently sitting on the ground with his back leaning against the cool stone wall.
"Where is this place?" Ye Xiao mumbled in confusion.
"Miss Su, are you there?" not being able to see anything due to darkness, Ye Xiao called out Su Xue Er's name, but she did not respond to him.
Only after calling her five or six times did he heard Su Xue Er's voice. From her sound, he could tell that she too fainted.
Since Ye Xiao could not see anything, he spread his Divine Sense and roughly determine the position of Su Xue Er who was not far away from him. There was another restriction placed here that blocks one's spiritual sense.
It was fortunate his sea of consciousness evolved and turned into the Divine Sea and along with its evolution, his Spiritual Sense also evolved and became Divine Sense. Otherwise, his spiritual sense would have also been restricted here.
His Divine Sense was many times more powerful than Spiritual Sense, so he was able to outstay the restriction.
Ye Xiao stood up and arrived beside Su Xue Er and helped her stand up. Then he once again released all of his fire clones who spread in every direction, lighting up the entire area.
"Where is this place?" Su Xue Er muttered seeing the big space they were in.
In the gloomy and wet unknown space, Ye Xiao and Su Xue Er stayed there.
In such an environment, coexisting so closely with a young woman with such a beautiful appearance, any man would feel nervous.
Ye Xiao seemed to be able to hear his own heartbeat, and the same was going on with Su Xue Er.
"Cough! Cough! I think we should be underground." Ye Xiao's voice broke this strange silence.
"Oh?" Su Xue Er was startled, and her face revealed a look of bewilderment, "Underground?"
"Well, I guess so. I think that there was some unknown formation on the ground. The turmoil caused by my fight with those thousands of beasts must have accidentally triggered that formation. And when we stepped inside the formation, We arrived here. I was also careless and failed to see the formation on the ground!"
After listening to Ye Xiao's explanation, Su Xue Er did not have any suspicions. The reason was simple, Ye Xiao was the one who discovered the concealing formation on the top floor of the tower and broke it. He was also the one who gave the idea of dropping the blood on the black box to open it.
And lastly, given how high his cultivation was, his knowledge and experience must have definitely far surpassed her.
"Let's check the situation here!" Ye Xiao said and Su Xue nodded her head.
Immediately, the two of them begun to look everywhere and not long after, they found a tunnel and entered it one after the other.
The air was filled with the smell of earth and the surrounding walls were extremely damp. As they went deeper into the tunnel, they gradually realized that the deeper they went, the more space they had.
Not long after that, a faint glow of white light was quietly detected by the two.
"There's light!" Su Xue Er was ecstatic.
"En!" Ye Xiao's face also revealed a little surprise, but he was also more cautious.
The radiance in front of them became increasingly stronger, and after walking forward for less than a hundred meters, a strange space appeared before their eyes.
"This is ?"
Ye Xiao frowned. What appeared in front of him was a concave building that looked like a pond.
The pond was square, about fifty meters in length and width. A two-meter wide stone bridge connected to the other side, and underneath the stone bridge, there was a pool of stagnant water.
This pool of stagnant water was emitting a pungent smell of decay. From afar, it looked like a pool of ink.
"There is a door on the other side!" Su Xue Er's red lips opened slightly as she said.
Ye Xiao nodded, indicating that he saw it too.
On the opposite side of the concave building, on the wall, there was a half-open stone door. The stone door was about two meters tall and the inside was dark as if it was a dark path that led to another world.
Ye Xiao's eyes slightly narrowed, and he muttered: "I wonder what is inside?"
"Let's go in and take a look!" Su Xue Er said then took the lead to step onto the stone bridge that spanned both the inside and the outside.
Chu Hen wanted to say more, but the other party was already walking up.
Immediately after, the two stepped onto the stone bridge. The sturdy stone slabs supported their feet. However, Ye Xiao's heart was not particularly calm, and his attention was focused on the black water of the ink pool under the bridge.
After walking for nearly a third of the way across the bridge, they were safe and sound.
As the two covered half distance of the stone bridge, the water surface of the Black Lake suddenly rippled.
"Be careful!"
"Be careful!"
The same word came out of Ye Xiao's and Su Xue Er's mouths at the same time.
"Whoosh!"
In the next moment, a blurry black shadow suddenly burst out from the black water pool.
A cold light flashed in Ye Xiao's eyes. His right hand immediately transformed into Dragon's Claw and the dense spirit energy of Martial Ancestor Realm cultivation, instantly condensed in the center of his claw, accompanied by a violent gust of wind. The powerful Dragon's Claw was like a storm hitting on the black shadow.
"Bam!"
A heavy explosion sounded in the air and the black shadow was sent flying by Ye Xiao's claw. It landed back in the black water pond.