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Chapter 493 - 484: The Ancient Capital Ruins Beneath the Desert

Chapter 493: Chapter 484: The Ancient Capital Ruins Beneath the Desert

After approximately three or five seconds of free fall, Jiang Lingxi finally managed to open her eyes.

She didn’t bother to wipe the fine dust from her eyelashes; the scene on the ground flashed before her eyes. She swiftly clasped her hands over her head, curled up, and protected her crucial brain and internal organs.

All these actions were completed almost instantaneously.

Although there was sand flowing down from above on the ground, the height determined that the impact force was certainly not low. Even with sand as a cushion, the shock of an instant was hard to bear.

If injured in this place, all one could do was simple bandaging, take some anti-inflammatory medicine, and wait for self-healing.

After landing, she performed two forward rolls to release the force, then got up.

Looking up, Jiang Lingxi finally had a clear view of her current surroundings.

Fine sand fell like rain, still drifting down from the dome.

From the dome to the ground where she was standing, it was roughly estimated to be five or six zhang high, approximately the height of a modern six-story building.

As for the area... it was too dark to see the edges.

However, hearing the echo when she landed, it could be estimated that the space was not small.

Someone nearby switched on lighting equipment.

"Hey, is anyone there? I’m here!"

Someone spoke, and soon came a response, "I’m not far from you. I twisted my foot when I landed."

"Then you’re not as unlucky as me. Someone fell down after me. If I hadn’t dodged quickly, it wouldn’t have been just a backpack hitting my leg!"

Jiang Lingxi rummaged through her backpack and took out the light stick Xu Zhao had given her earlier, turning it on to illuminate the surroundings.

Those who spoke earlier seemed to be quite close, but she wasn’t sure if she was the last one to come down, as there were still some distances.

She was about to walk toward the direction of the voices when she heard someone calling her.

"Sister Lingxi, are you there?"

"Changning, I’m here."

"I can tell which direction you’re in, Sister Lingxi. Don’t move. I’ll come to find you."

Jiang Lingxi stopped, aiming the light stick toward Changning’s direction, quickly seeing her and Yun Yi trudging over.

"Are you guys okay?"

"Sister Lingxi, are you okay?"

The three of them examined each other for a moment and then shook their heads reassuringly.

"It’s good that nothing’s wrong. Let’s go find Xu Zhao and the others."

While searching for people, it was inevitable to encounter members of the Changcang Sect, but at this point, both sides tacitly ignored each other.

Finding their own companions was the priority.

When they found Xu Zhao, he had already gathered most of the team members.

After nearly ten more minutes of work, everyone was accounted for.

Except for one person’s arm twisted due to landing posture, the rest only suffered minor injuries, much better than Jiang Lingxi had initially expected.

"Seems like the sand has stopped falling!"

Jiang Lingxi took off her hat, "The quicksand above has stopped."

"Well," Yun Yi shone a flashlight upward, "with such height, how are we supposed to get back up later?"

"Retracing our path is definitely unrealistic, we need to find another exit."

With everyone gathered, they could safely examine the surroundings.

But before Xu Zhao could switch to a high-intensity light, the other side suddenly became brightly lit.

To exaggerate a bit, it was as if someone suddenly brought out a mini-sun!

Immediately, more than a dozen pairs of eyes turned to look.

The Changcang Sect side had brought it out.

Xu Zhao put the lighting device he had just taken out back, "Theirs is brighter than ours and has a longer range, no need to use ours, save the power!"

With the lighting equipment nicknamed ’little sun’, almost everything within two thousand meters was visible.

A hundred meters ahead was a cliff.

Below the cliff lay their destination, the Ancient Capital Ruins.

Yun Yi: "...This ruins are buried really deep."

Given the height of the cliff, even with an elevator, it would take a few minutes to reach the top from the ruins.

"If they fall to the bottom of the cliff, they’d be smashed to smithereens!"

The two teams almost reached the front of the cliff simultaneously.

Yin Chong retracted his gaze from the ruins below and turned to look at Jiang Lingxi, "The area of these ruins is not small, Miss Jiang, would you like to have your team accompany us?"

This thought arose after he saw Jiang Lingxi accurately calculate the time of the quicksand’s appearance.

Though ambitious, he valued his life, and since Jiang Lingxi could calculate the entry time to the ruins, that ability might also allow early avoidance of many hazards within.

As for finding what the Sect Leader wanted, it depended on whether Jiang Lingxi was sensible.

"No need. As we agreed earlier, bridges are bridges, roads are roads."

"Alright then, I won’t force it." Yin Chong sincerely expressed regret, "I wish Miss Jiang all the best."

Jiang Lingxi returned his gaze with one clearly conveying ’You’re so insincere’, openly showing it.

The previous cooperation was to prevent backstabbing and hindrance, but now, being inside the ruins, was there any need for such talk with cooperation broken? As if not knowing one another!

Yin Chong: "Go down!"

Immediately, a couple of people took out ropes they had prepared in advance, quickly secured them, and jumped down holding onto the rope.

Following the sound from below indicating a successful landing, the others also grabbed the ropes to descend.

In no time, there were few left from the Changcang Sect, only leaving a few discarded ropes.

"Sister Lingxi, let’s hurry down too. Can’t let Yin Chong and them find the Master first."

Although she had great faith in Wu Jue’s abilities, the difference in numbers was quite significant!

Xu Zhao opened the backpack zipper, about to take out a rope.

Though there were ropes left by the Changcang Sect members, who knew if anything had been done to the ropes by the last person going down?

"Do you think Yunqing and the others used ropes when they went down?"

Everyone paused in confusion.

Huzi and Yun Yi began searching along the cliff for ropes.

Jiang Lingxi ignored them, returning to the place where she fell earlier.

On the ground which was once covered in a thick layer of sand, now, only a shallow layer remained.

It could be imagined that after a while, the fallen sand would be ’eaten up’ by the ground!

But it’s impossible for it to literally eat, indicating there must be some mechanism transferring the sand.

While she was figuring it out, Yun Yi and Huzi returned after circling the cliff, with expressions complex and shocked.

"No ropes."

"Other than the ropes used by the Changcang Sect, nowhere else had signs of ropes being secured."

So the question arose, how did the earlier individuals descend?

Xu Zhao walked over and crouched beside Jiang Lingxi, looking at the disappearing sand on the ground, and grabbed a handful, "Is there something odd about the ground?"

"Once the sand clears, we should be able to determine it."

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