"Arrogant."
Wan Yanxue's expression grew colder, and her gaze towards Xiong Zhuangzhuang lost all warmth.
Ignoring her warning and seeking death.
It was just a pity that the sect would have to spend more time cultivating another intelligent heir.
Knowing that the ten people opposite did not welcome her, she turned and left after speaking.
She still had to find Shangguan Yuquan.
After entering the secret realm, she had not seen Shangguan Yuquan again.
Seeing the ten people opposite gather, she guessed that Shangguan Yuquan must also be here.
"Why is she acting so smug?" Feng Qingyang patted Xiong Zhuangzhuang's shoulder forcefully. "You'll definitely surpass her in the future."
Xiong Zhuangzhuang did not reply, but his eyes flashed with confidence.
He, Xiong Zhuangzhuang, would not lose to anyone.
Bei Xinghan and Lu Zaiye, who had returned to the group, briefly recounted their experiences. They had also inadvertently arrived here after the anomaly occurred and had met each other after walking for some time.
"I encountered demons impersonating Xiong Zhuangzhuang and Yu Xiaoyu."
Seeing Xu Yi constantly looking at Lu Zaiye, Bei Xinghan suddenly spoke.
After he finished speaking, Xu Yi's attention indeed shifted back to him.
"There was even me?"
Yu Xiaoyu's eyes widened in surprise. She hadn't touched that mirror.
Xu Yi's eyebrows twitched. "It seems that mirror is more miraculous than we imagined, capable of replicating us without being touched directly."
"Mirror?" Lu Zaiye's eyes flickered, and he asked doubtfully, "What mirror?"
"A mirror that can replicate demons identical to us. Didn't you encounter it?" Xu Yi was also surprised.
She had asked others, and they had all encountered demons impersonating them. Bei Xinghan had also proactively stated that he had encountered demons.
"I did not."
Lu Zaiye frowned slightly.
For some reason, not only did he not encounter any impersonating demons in the secret realm, but he didn't even encounter a single demon. Besides Wan Yanxue, he hadn't met anyone else.
Even when the anomaly occurred, he could have avoided it. It was only later, when he was looking for Xu Yi, that he deliberately jumped into the rift connecting the spaces.
Xu Yi suddenly smiled. "What a coincidence, only the two of us haven't encountered them. Speaking of which, I really want to see it for myself."
Xu Yi didn't know that her words would soon come true, and was still chatting and laughing with everyone.
Hong Jing said that the exit was likely located at the eighteenth level of hell, so everyone had to continue forward.
Perhaps because everyone had successfully gathered, they felt as if the very passage of time had accelerated.
Two days later, they finally reached the last level of hell.
"Such a strong smell of blood."
Everyone frowned in unison.
The smell of blood was so intense that they even felt a sticky sensation on their skin.
And the further they walked, the stronger the smell of blood became.
"This doesn't smell like human blood."
Bai Shan blinked and suddenly said.
"How do you know?" Lu Zaiye asked indifferently.
"Isn't it obvious? The smell is fishier, and the blood is fainter. It should be demon blood."
After saying this, Bai Shan winked at Xu Yi, looking like he was seeking praise.
Xu Yi also praised him enthusiastically, "Amazing."
In fact, she had also guessed it.
She hadn't guessed from the smell, but from the location.
After all, this was the personal space of Patriarch Yicheng. The people here, besides them, were only Wan Yanxue and that Shangguan Yuquan.
They had already seen Wan Yanxue, and such a strong smell of blood couldn't possibly have been caused by Shangguan Yuquan alone. Therefore, this blood could only be demon blood.
"The last hell is the Blood Pool Hell," Hong Jing said.
"Blood Pool Hell..."
The words "Blood Pool" were enough to imagine the scene that followed.
They were mentally prepared to see a blood pool, but to their surprise, the first thing they saw was Wan Yanxue again.
"Why hasn't she left yet?" Feng Qingyang muttered softly.
However, no matter how softly he spoke, Wan Yanxue could still hear him clearly here.
But at this moment, she had no energy to care about Feng Qingyang's rudeness. She was staring intently at a blood pool in front of her.
It was a blood pool, a hundred zhang wide and unfathomably deep.
The dark red blood within exuded an ominous aura.
When Wan Yanxue's divine sense touched the blood, it became murky and obscure. Helplessly, she withdrew her divine sense.
The reason she had not left was that she sensed Shangguan Yuquan's aura within the blood pool.
Connecting this to the long-unseen Shangguan Yuquan, Wan Yanxue had a bad premonition.
Xu Yi and the others exchanged a glance and decided to ignore Wan Yanxue and search for the exit nearby. However, after searching almost everywhere, they were astonished to find nothing but this blood pool.
"Could the exit be down there?"
Feng Qingyang looked at the blood pool with a look of horror and disgust on his face.
If he had to jump down here to get out, he'd rather be killed.
Xu Yi looked at Hong Jing. "What are your thoughts, Buddha Son?"
Hong Jing's prayer beads spun faster, and after a long silence, he shook his head decisively.
"The exit will never be below this blood pool."
"Everyone, please search again."
Xu Yi also felt that Patriarch Yicheng wouldn't be so insane.
As Xu Yi searched, she kept glancing at the blood pool. For some reason, she felt a sense of unease looking at this blood pool, as if something extremely dangerous was about to happen.
As time passed, this feeling became more pronounced.
She had to stop searching for the exit and stood by the pool with Wan Yanxue, looking directly into the blood pool.
Wan Yanxue noticed Xu Yi standing beside her, and a flash of displeasure crossed her eyes.
If before she wasn't sure who was stronger and who was weaker, then after these few encounters, especially after conversing with Lu Zaiye, she could be sure that the radiant woman beside her was definitely the champion of this competition.
This was because the others implicitly showed her leadership, and even Lu Zaiye, who was equally arrogant, would stop and listen attentively when she spoke.
Wan Yanxue was not unfamiliar with such a scene, as she herself had been sought after by others in the past.
But no matter how she looked at it, she couldn't see anything particularly special about this female cultivator.
Apart from the vibrant heroic spirit on her, she was no different from that timid-looking female cultivator.
Her appearance was not outstanding compared to her own, and her cultivation was even more worlds apart. But why were those people willing to follow her lead and be cold towards her?
Wan Yanxue didn't understand.
But she wanted to understand.
Therefore, she was discreetly observing Xu Yi out of the corner of her eye.
Xu Yi didn't notice her subtle actions, or rather, Xu Yi had no time to pay attention to anything else at the moment.
She was trying her best to mobilize the strange power in her eyes to see if she could penetrate this blood pool.