The arrow that Xuan Ji had just released almost burned the white sacrificial text on the green-clothed man's body into ashes, grazing past his chest and setting his scholar's robe on fire, which fell to the ground as the floor cracked under the impact.

Xuan Ji's pupils shrank as he realized that the charred roots of the foundation tree had not died, but had extended deep into the building, penetrating through the main defensive formations of the underground floors.

Xuan Ji urgently probed downwards with his divine sense. Dozens of Storm agents carrying sealing boxes were still in the narrow emergency passage, and the vines that had absorbed the power of heavenly demons were extending towards them!

The man in the green robe, who called himself the Demon King, grimaced in pain from the scorching heat. He grinned through gritted teeth, his sunken cheeks and pointed chin becoming even more pronounced, revealing a slightly creepy appearance. "There's no hidden trap here...or so it seemed, hahaha!" he exclaimed.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a muffled sound from the ground. A tree root as thick as a person's embrace shot up from the earth like a python, shattering the ground beneath it.

The jade and marble flooring, which was as crispy as freshly fried dough, shattered into pieces and scattered everywhere.

The entire underground structure was pierced through, and it looked like it was about to collapse, burying the elite members of the Wind God Team Two and the Storm teams alive!

In an instant, Xuan Ji's wings disappeared and all the feathers turned into countless points of light. They drilled into the ground through the cracks, and as soon as they entered the underground, the feathers turned into long steel needles.

They firmly and accurately pierced the roots and steel bars of the underground buildings, temporarily supporting the shaky underground space.

The power outage in the underground was instantly illuminated by the flame-colored steel needles.

Xuan Ji's voice echoed through the feathers, "It's collapsing, come out, quickly!"

The Storm agents on the tenth floor of the underground, carrying the sealed box of power, fled for their lives.

At the same time, the steel bars in the debris of the building were lifted by the fierce wind and turned into swords.

They were lifted by Aluojin's wind blade and enveloped the entire West Mountain in a murderous intent, rushing towards Sheng Lingyuan.

The three heavenly demons were resurrected in the body of the man in green, forcing Sheng Lingyuan to abandon his suppression of the demonic energy. Thunderbolts struck the ground like a lattice, and two black and white demonic shadows darted through them, seemingly faster than lightning.

Xuan Ji seemed to hear the distant Chiyuan stirring and competing with the Vermilion Bird bone seal.

The Storm agents that had not gone too deep had successfully escaped, but Dan Lin and his team had already reached the twenty-ninth underground floor.

Upon hearing Xuan Ji's warning, Dan Lin grabbed her mithril gun and strode forward, holding Gu Yuexi's shoulder.

"I'll go in alone, you guys go up immediately, come on..."

Gu Yuexi remained silent. Without waiting for Dan Lin to finish speaking, she kicked open the door to the 29th floor safety passage.

It was pitch black inside with nothing visible. The flashlight of the field agent disappeared as soon as it hit the darkness, as if it had collided with a black hole.

The danger warning sign hanging on the safety passage door was particularly alarming.

Dan Lin: "..."

"The sealed box here should be broken," Gu Yuexi said. "Captain Dan, don't be a hero. You can't make it through alone."

Dan Lin: "What is the seal on the 29th floor? Why is it so quiet?"

"There is a 'sensory deprivation black box' on the 29th floor," a Wind God quickly searched for encrypted information on the internal network. "It can deprive all senses within a certain area... including all bodily sensations."

Losing the sense of smell and taste doesn't affect one's ability to live, and even without sight and hearing, one can still manage to feel their way around.

But losing all bodily sensations is basically game over - even Sheng Lingyuan, who lost his "sense of touch" when his heart was cut out, only experienced numbness in the nerve endings on the surface of his skin.

He could still feel when he hit something, and it was still heart-wrenchingly painful before he turned to ashes.

However, losing all bodily sensations means not being able to feel impact or vibration, and if one steps on something, their body cannot maintain balance.

If there is more than one sealed artifact inside that was with a broken seal, and they suddenly die for no reason, they won't even know which organ was in pain until the moment of death.

"Captain Dan, why don't..."

Just as a Storm agent was about to suggest "we just retreat," Gu Yuexi sensitively pulled Dan Lin back a step.

Dan Lin asked, "What's wrong?"

Gu Yuexi stared at the safety passage door that she had just kicked open, her hair standing on end - half of the door had disappeared, and only a corner of the hazardous material warning sign was visible outside.

Inside, something was slowly expanding its territory.

The building shook violently again, and sand and gravel pelted against the rain and Wind Gods.

Xuan Ji's voice came through the solid material: "Captain Dan! Team Leader Gu! Can you hear me? My ancestors, please stop dawdling!"

Dan Lin's sweat dripped down: "How big can its territory be?"

"Unknown, there is no on-site experimental data," the Wind God who was researching the information said nervously, "but according to the energy level measured by the Research Institute, it is at least several hundred kilometers in diameter."

Several hundred kilometers in diameter... okay, the capital is gone.

Dan Lin glanced at the topographic map of the 29th floor in the hallway and memorized it.

She gritted her teeth and said, "I have to go in, even if I have to bury myself here today."

As a spiritual-type ability user, Dan Lin's abilities were not limited to the five senses. She had a special ability to construct a "spiritual perception" within a certain range. People around her could sense each other's presence and transmit information without using language.

However, this method was not very efficient because even for the same objective material, different people had vastly different perceptions. Misunderstandings could arise even in face-to-face conversations, and without language as a communication bridge, only simple signals could be transmitted through vague information.

Dan Lin never imagined that her mediocre ability would come in handy one day.

Connecting everyone together seemed useless, but at least in a space where they felt completely stripped of their senses, it could make them feel less lonely and afraid.

If someone died, that person wouldn't know, but at least their companions would.

Gu Yuexi held a long stick in her hand and mechanically swept the ground in front of her. She didn't know what she was sweeping, and if she encountered something she couldn't sweep, she wouldn't be able to tell if it had been cleared or not.

All she could do was use all her strength to eliminate any obstacles on the ground - otherwise, if they stumbled upon something, they would fall and not even know it.

Special agents have all gone through rigorous military training. Taking a step with a fixed stride is something they can achieve.

In a completely dark place, they can only count their steps to confirm each other's position. Even so, everything still depends on luck.

As they walked, Gu Yuexi suddenly remembered the story of the "Southern Return Tower" that the emperor had told.

Many years ago, were her ancestors who left the bloodline of the all-seeing eye also locked up in such a place? Their crime was simply being born.

Gu Yuexi closed her eyes, which were now useless, and mechanically repeated the action of scanning for obstacles, recalling the feeling of her all-seeing eye opening amidst the Heart Demon Miasma that day.

It is said that there is a type of bird that can fly to an altitude of nearly 10,000 meters, crossing mountains in temperatures as low as minus 50 or 60 degrees Celsius with thin oxygen. There is also a type of tree frog that does not have a constant body temperature, and its heart freezes into ice crystals in the icy snow, yet it does not die, waiting for the next year to thaw and revive. And there is a tiny water bear that has survived since the Cambrian period, leaving traces of life in extremely cold and hot environments over the course of a long time.

Those innocent prisoners who were sentenced to exile from birth, unwilling to die obediently, have also developed a transcendent understanding in the infinite darkness.

So...if one refuses to believe that there is an end to the mountains and rivers in the world, even in the cruel and desperate situation, could they still find a glimmer of hope?

As Gu Yuexi furrowed her brows, a sudden burning sensation shot through her forehead.

Suddenly, her pitch-black vision opened up, and the faint blood vessels flowing through her body seemed to have crossed millions of years of time to her ancestral bloodline, allowing it to hear the silent prayers of this small descendant - the 'All-seeing eye' was immediately transmitted to everyone through Dan Lin's 'spiritual perception'. They all 'saw' the 29th floor control room, which was within reach.

However, before they could rejoice, Gu Yuexi's world in her all-seeing eye suddenly tilted to one side.

Since it was not the usual habit of the naked eye, the field agents' first reaction was that the "lens" seemed to be out of focus, but they soon realized that something was wrong.

A huge rock hit Gu Yuexi's shoulder, causing her to fall to the ground. Without any sense of pain, she could only try to maintain her breathing and slowly deduce her situation through the images from her all-seeing eye.

The cracks on the ceiling and walls were getting bigger and it seemed like the ground was about to collapse. The roots that Xuan Ji had pinned into the wall were violently wriggling like a dying python, but the Vermilion Bird's feathers had a natural ability to conquer evil and dispel demons, causing the struggling roots to weaken and eventually wither away.

This was a life-threatening situation!

Once the roots completely withered, the power inside them would dissipate, causing the dead roots to rapidly shrink in diameter and decompose even faster due to their overuse of life force during their lifetime.

The underground space that was destroyed by the roots was on the verge of losing its support, and the group of field agents on the 29th floor had some unknown problem. They were clearly still alive, but no matter how much they were called, they didn't respond and seemed to be trapped by something, not even uttering a word.

Xuan Ji had no choice but to scatter the body of the Heavenly Demon Sword into those feathers - previously, he had lent half of his sword body to Yan Qiushan, and his body had become semi-transparent.

This time, he disappeared on the spot!

Each feather was infused with a bit of metal from the sword body.

The Heavenly Demon Sword, refined twice in the furnace of Chiyuan, had an unbelievably tough sword body that held up a thin, gossamer-like net.

Unable to control other areas, he could only tremble and temporarily support the escape passage and the twenty-nine underground levels.

In just one day, he had to carry out tasks both above and below ground, and he felt like he was part of the building support structure now. For his next job, he would have to find a unit that operates in a bungalow!

Xuan Ji's sudden disappearance was a traumatic experience for Sheng Lingyuan.

With just a glimpse, the Emperor's eyes turned red and he cried out, "Little Ji!"