Warrior's Promise

Su Mo released his spiritual consciousness toward the bottom of the lake after hearing Qingxuan.

However, even his spiritual consciousness was greatly restricted by the massive water pressure. He could only extend his spiritual consciousness for over 300 meters, but he still failed to detect the bottom of the lake.

Su Mo sighed and said, "Let's go, we should continue diving, albeit at a slower speed!"

The two of them then continued heading toward the bottom of the lake.

1,000 feet!

2,000 feet!

2,600 feet!

Fortunately, the two of them finally hit the bottom of the lake after 2,600 feet.

"No one below Lv 5 Enlightenment Realm could get to this depth!" Su Mo thought to himself.

Su Mo saw through the murky lake water and discovered a stretch of seamounts several thousand feet ahead. These seamounts were not that tall and even the tallest one was only slightly over 1,000 feet in height. However, they were pretty big that Su Mo could not see the entire stretch of seamounts clearly with the current visibility.

At this point, there were many glowing spots of light before one of the seamounts. They were the Vital Spirit Air Shields of the huge numbers of martial artists that had gathered.

"Qingxuan, can you keep going?" Su Mo asked Hong Qingxuan, who was currently looking as bad as Huang Yao did before. Her teal Vital Spirit Air Shield was trembling nonstop as if it could collapse at any moment.

Su Mo was worried about her as it would become extremely dangerous if she could not keep her Air Shield up.

"Brother Su Mo, don't worry. I can still keep going. Furthermore, this pressure is like a training for me. I feel like I can break through very soon if I keep going!" Hong Qingxuan forced out a smile and replied.

Su Mo nodded as he knew about Hong Qingxuan's strength. If he had guessed correctly, she might be cultivating a Lv 8 Imperial cultivation skill.

Since Hong Qingxuan had become an official disciple of Firmament Palace and obtained the Martial Emperor's Legacy of Evergreen Palace, she must be cultivating an Imperial cultivation skill.

At present, Hong Qingxuan's cultivation skill was way ahead of Su Mo's. Although his Grand Chaos Five Elements Skill was extraordinary, he had to integrate other cultivation skills to raise its level. But now in light of the cultivation skills that he had fused, his Grand Chaos Five Elements Skill were still way below the Imperial level.

"Brother Su Mo, let's take a look over there!" said Hong Qingxuan, looking toward the seamount ahead.

"Ok!" the duo then quickly headed for the seamount.

After they reached the seamount, Su Mo finally realized that there were over 10,000 martial artists here.

All of them gathered before a huge mountainside, gazing at it, as if they were waiting for something to happen.

These martial artists were mostly at a high level. Most of them were at Lv 5 or 6 Enlightenment Realm and there was no lack of Lv 8 or 9 martial artists as well. There were even several martial artists of True Darkness Realm.

Su Mo's and Hong Qingxuan's cultivation were without a doubt the lowest among the crowd.

Su Mo and Hong Qingxuan did not know what everyone was waiting for. "Could the entrance to the ruin be on the mountainside?"

"Hi, there! Is the entrance to the ruin here?" Su Mo asked a lanky young man who was at Lv 5 Enlightenment Realm.

The young man glanced at Su Mo and replied flatly, "Yup, it's on this mountainside."

"Oh?" Su Mo's eyes lit up. He took a good look at the mountainside in front, only to find nothing abnormal about it.

This made Su Mo more confused!

"Then why couldn't I see the entrance?" Su Mo asked again.

"How could a Lv 4 martial artist possibly see the entrance?" the young man sneered and replied disdainfully. However, he still told Su Mo, "The entrance on the mountainside will appear once every two hours, and it will remain opened for a single breath before disappearing."

"I see!" realization dawned on Su Mo, and he asked again, "How long has it been since its last appearance?"

The young man became impatient and replied coldly, "An hour has passed. Stop asking questions and just wait patiently!"

"Thank you very much!" Su Mo expressed his gratitude instead of getting angry.

"Qingxuan, there's still an hour left. Let's wait for a while more!"

"Ok!" Hong Qingxuan nodded gently. She also heard what the lanky young man had said.

Su Mo glanced around the area and found an empty spot and sat down cross-legged. Since there was still an hour left before the ruin opened, he was planning to take a look at the spoils of the previous battle.

He had yet to take a look at Xue Tianhao's and Master of All Beasts' storage rings that he obtained three days ago so he had no idea how much wealth they contained!

Just as Su Mo sat down, Hong Qingxuan walked over and sat down beside him as well.

Looking at her trembling Vital Spirit Air Shield, Su Mo suggested, "Qingxuan, why don't you get into my Air Shield! You can take a break and replenish your energy."

Hong Qingxuan was startled to hear Su Mo and a blush soon appeared on her face. However, since her face was already red because of the massive water pressure, no one could tell that she was blushing.

"Maybe...maybe it's not a good idea." Hong Qingxuan hesitated to take up Su Mo's suggestion. Since Su Mo's Vital Spirit Air Shield was not very spacious, they would definitely be contacting physically if she entered Su Mo's Air Shield.

Of course, Su Mo could expand his Air Shield. However, the bigger his Air Shield was, the harder it was to maintain the Air Shield and the weaker its defense would be.

"It's OK, just sit beside me!" Su Mo said with a smile and contracted his Vital Spirit Air Shield.

Hong Qingxuan hesitated for a moment before she nodded shyly.

She then contracted her Air Shield as well and stood beside Su Mo.

After taking a deep breath, Su Mo exerted his Vital Spirit to expand his Air Shield rapidly to cover Hong Qingxuan.

This was an extremely risky move as a slight mistake would cause collapse of their Air Shields. However, since Su Mo was extremely powerful, it was not too dangerous.

After stepping inside Su Mo's Air Shield, Hong Qingxuan took a deep breath and sat down beside him.

The two of them sat shoulder to shoulder inside the tiny Air Shield. They were so close together that they could sense each other's breath. A strange emotion appeared in both their hearts.

Feeling the warmth on his shoulder and the delicate fragrance drifting into his nostrils, Su Mo felt a ripple of love pass through him.

Hong Qingxuan was so beautiful. She was like a descended fairy who could flutter the heart of any man, including Su Mo.

However, Su Mo tried his best to suppress his emotions for her. He did not have any time for love now.

Furthermore, he already had Xi'er, whom he had promised that he would reach Emperor Xuan Palace in Central Continent in five years.

But now he had not fulfill his promise of meeting Xi'er again, how could he go after another girl.