“Bai Li, please refrain from killing the Jiuyou people unless absolutely necessary…” Han Li sighed, saying.

“Understood. Fellow Daoist Ti Hun, my apologies.” Bai Li Yan belatedly nodded, cupping his fist towards Ti Hun.

Ti Hun remained silent, merely nodding noncommittally.

“Then what should we do with these two little ones?” Hu San asked, lifting up the two unconscious Jiuyou children.

Ti Hun was about to speak when Han Li said:

“Let’s imprison them in my cave treasure for now. The fact that Yin Xiao, a Grand Luo elder, personally protected them suggests they are no ordinary children. Perhaps they will be our lifesaver later.”

Having said that, he waved his hand, and a silver light gate opened. Hu San then readily threw the two children into the bamboo building.

Before Han Li could close the cave gate, his expression suddenly changed.

“Damn it, Gui Mu is catching up…”

With that, he waved his hand and closed the silver light gate.

“This way.” Ti Hun frowned and quickly said.

With that, she turned and darted into the depths of the passage where they had previously hidden.

Han Li and the others followed closely behind, entering the passage.

The passage went inward, and the terrain gradually sloped upward. At the end of the slope was a T-junction.

After a brief inspection, Ti Hun turned left and led the group away quickly.

Less than ten breaths after they left, a dense cloud of baleful aura surged out of a passage exit on the shore of the Karma Fire Lake. It solidified on the bank, revealing a black figure, which was none other than Gui Mu.

To pursue Han Li and the others, he disregarded the rule that non-Jiuyou people were not allowed to enter the Soul Cleansing Zone. After sending a message to Yin Xu, he left behind a group of puppets and You slaves, and pursued them alone with only the furry white beast.

As soon as he reached the lake shore, he saw Yin Xiao whose head had exploded. His eyes widened, and he let out a deafening roar.

A powerful aura erupted from his body, sweeping in all directions, causing the Karma Fire Lake to rumble and huge pillars of fire to shoot into the sky, reaching the top of the dome.

“Dare to kill my clansman and abduct sacrificial children, I will definitely grind you to ashes and use you to fertilize my ghost vines. Find them quickly, where are they?” Gui Mu said through gritted teeth, grabbing the small beast from his shoulder.

His grip was quite strong, and the white beast felt a sharp pain in its back, baring its teeth in fear. It dared not make a sound, but wrinkled its nose timidly.

Its eyes suddenly lit up, and a white ripple shot out from them, spreading rapidly around.

After a moment, it squeaked, pointing with its two front paws to a passage entrance on the opposite bank of the Karma Fire Lake, which was the very one Han Li and the others had fled into.

“Very good!” Gui Mu chuckled.

With that, he looked at the snow-white beast whose bones he had almost crushed, and a look of affection appeared on his face. He quickly released his grip and gently smoothed its fur.

Then, his figure suddenly darted forward, and he quickly turned into a cloud of black mist, pouring into the passage.

……

Han Li and his group, following Ti Hun's steps, zigzagged and dashed forward rapidly within the passage.

The underground passages in the Soul Cleansing Zone were particularly complex, like rat and ant nests, crisscrossing and branching out in all directions, with the terrain rising and falling without any apparent pattern.

After turning through a passage, the group ran down a slope for hundreds of feet, only to find a mountain wall directly in front of them.

"What's going on? Is this a dead end?" Shi Chuan Kong asked with a tense expression.

"Fake wall, hurry."

Ti Hun shouted and charged straight into the mountain wall without stopping.

"Rumble..." Under her impact, the wall immediately retreated a few feet, revealing a gap three feet wide.

The group quickly slipped through, entering the gap.

Behind the mountain wall was a rather spacious underground hall.

As soon as they stepped into the hall, they heard a hurried shout: "Elder Yin Fu, we found them..."

As soon as the voice fell, a group of Jiuyou cultivators, led by a Grand Luo peak-level elder, rushed towards them.

"Gui Mu is still chasing us, we can't fight them, let's go!" Han Li shouted.

The group's escape lights suddenly shone brightly as they flew directly towards the passage exit at the other end of the hall.

The Jiuyou cultivators were unwilling to give up, shouting curses as they used their abilities to chase after them.

"Let's give you a taste of this..." Bai Li Yan grinned, tossing something behind him.

Several black, sweet potato-like spheres flew out of his hand, falling towards the rear.

As the black spheres landed, they bounced upwards, their surfaces glowing with black light.

"Boom boom boom!"

A series of deafening explosions rang out as huge balls of black flame erupted from the black sweet potatoes. They contracted sharply for a moment, then suddenly expanded, turning into a sea of fire that surged in all directions.

Han Li and the others had flown far enough away, but they were still hit by the powerful air wave, feeling a burning sensation on their backs and an unbearable nausea in their hearts.

Those Jiuyou people who were chasing after them were naturally in an even worse state. They hadn't even used the Karma Fire Fiend Thunder yet, but Bai Li Yan had thrown several of them, engulfing them all.

Echoes of the explosions resounded continuously in the underground hall, and the Karma Fire air waves lingered for a long time.

Just as Han Li and the others flew out of the hall, a figure flew in from a passage entrance on the left.

He wore a black robe, was rather thin, and had a refined face. He looked like an elderly accountant, and it was hard to associate him with a Grand Luo Realm middle-stage expert.

But in fact, he was none other than Yin Xu, the Grand Luo cultivator who guarded the Soul Cleansing Zone.

The old man was also alone at the moment, suspended in mid-air, looking at the tragic state of his clansmen below. His gray eyes were like two brewing storms, as if gray clouds were constantly swirling within them.

At that moment, a figure flew out of the passage behind him, it was Gui Mu who had come chasing after them.

"Elder Yin Xu, did you intercept those people?" Gui Mu asked urgently before he got close.

"Hmph, one step too late." Yin Xu said with a gloomy face, snorting coldly.

Gui Mu knew that he was blaming himself for not guarding the Bai Cang Zone properly and letting Han Li and the others in, so he did not retort.

"I didn't have time to tell you in detail before, these people killed Yin Xiao near the Karma Fire Lake and also abducted two sacrificial children." Gui Mu said.

"What! What were you and Yin Gua doing? They even managed to take away the sacrificial children?" Yin Xu's expression became even gloomier upon hearing this, and he shouted sharply.

"This... Elder Yin Gua had originally captured them, but You Luo suddenly rebelled, which allowed them to seize the opportunity to escape from the You Prison and come all the way here." Gui Mu said.

"You Luo... Such a big thing happened, where is Yin Gua? Where is he?" Yin Xu frowned and asked again.

"Elder Yin Gua has exhausted himself previously and is temporarily in seclusion, but I have already sent someone to inform him. I think he will be here soon." Gui Mu said.

"He still has the mind to go into seclusion? Now is the critical moment of the Three Regions Alliance. Once the Region Lord knows about the sacrificial children, we will all be in deep trouble." Yin Xu said angrily.

"Elder Yin Xu, this matter must absolutely not be reported to the Region Lord like this. You and Elder Yin Gua might only suffer some skin and flesh wounds, but I will have my five internal organs dug out and refined into puppets..." Gui Mu's expression changed and he quickly said.

"Hurry up and chase after them, clean up the mess." Yin Xu frowned and said.

"Thank you, Elder Yin Xu." Gui Mu said gratefully.

With that, the escape lights on the two of them connected with each other, and their figures burst forth, disappearing in an instant.

At the same time, Ti Hun was leading the group, speeding along a wide downward-sloping passage. Han Li suddenly looked back and felt his scalp tingle.

All he saw behind him was darkness, and all the passages they had just flown through had disappeared.

The purple light in his eyes suddenly brightened, and he activated the Nine Serenities Demon Eyes. When he looked, he saw a large expanse of black shadows, filling the entire passage and surging towards them.

Wherever it passed, it was as if it was swallowed by darkness, and everything disappeared.

"Damn it, Elder Yin Xu is catching up too..." Ti Hun also noticed the movement behind them at this time, exclaiming.

As soon as she shouted, the approaching shadow became even more rampant, and its speed suddenly doubled, almost catching up with them in an instant.

Han Li felt the terrifying aura emanating from the shadow, knowing that it was definitely not something they could deal with. He gritted his teeth and desperately activated the Mantra Treasure Wheel to reverse within his body.

Immediately afterwards, he wrapped his arms around the others, and two pieces of green light gushed out from his sleeves, wrapping them all up. His figure flashed suddenly and disappeared from the spot.

A moment later, Han Li and the others suddenly emerged from a passage exit, rushing out of the doorway in a hurry.

Before their figures could land, Han Li swept his gaze and found that he had appeared in a huge underground cave.

The cave was ten thousand feet wide, and the terrain below was very flat. Not far away was a white square of considerable size, and behind the square was a group of strangely shaped dome palaces.

Outside the palace complex, a layer of hazy red light shone, with faint black runes flashing on it, which was a forbidden formation.

"What is this place? Why is it sealed with a restriction?" Han Li asked in confusion.

"I've seen this place in Yin Xiao's memory. I only know that it is a very important place, and even the Region Lord attaches great importance to it. Normally, no one is allowed to enter it, and no one is allowed to fight or kill near it." Ti Hun said after thinking for a moment.