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Chapter 314 - 290: The Mysterious Cave (Part 2)

Chapter 314: Chapter 290: The Mysterious Cave (Part 2)

"Xiaoxiao, hold on tight to me."

Li Chen shouted loudly, while Lin Xiaoxiao was already hugging him tightly.

This fall from the cliff, compared to the dangers he had experienced before, was just as perilous, if not more so.

As the tree grew closer and closer, Li Chen’s gaze suddenly became sharp, and in the midst of his fall, he violently grabbed onto the trunk!

Their plummeting bodies abruptly stopped, and Li Chen and Lin Xiaoxiao were left hanging in mid-air!

At the same time, under Li Chen’s pressure, the tree trunk continued to sink, and the roots growing in the crevices seemed to show signs of being pulled out entirely.

Seeing their descent halted, Li Chen couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. He held onto the trunk with both hands, as if suspended in mid-air, with Lin Xiaoxiao clinging tightly behind him.

Finally, they could take a breather. Li Chen looked up, then down, but said nothing.

Even though he was hanging from a tree, it wasn’t a solution; falling from midway up the cliff would still be fatal, and as for climbing up, don’t even joke – in their current state, how could they possibly make it?

"Brother-in-law, are we going to die here?" Lin Xiaoxiao, trembling behind him like a frightened kitten, had her face covered in terror.

"Your brother-in-law won’t let you die, trust me," Li Chen turned around and said gently.

Poor Xiaoxiao, last time she was inadvertently dragged into it by Shadow, and now, it was because of his and the Li Family’s grudges that they had fallen off the cliff.

At that moment, the horizontally growing tree, perhaps due to not being very old, had roots that hadn’t firmly grown into the crevices, and under the pressure of Li Chen and Lin Xiaoxiao, began to be pulled out bit by bit. Suddenly, the whole tree was uprooted and then fell downwards!

Li Chen was startled, and Lin Xiaoxiao, terrified, clung tightly to Li Chen with her eyes shut.

The two of them fell with the tree once more!

"Ah!"

Lin Xiaoxiao roared, and Li Chen too was shocked. If they continued to fall like this, it was likely a path to certain death.

Glancing below, that glance made Li Chen’s heart sink once again – sharp rocks reappeared below them.

Such rocks were lethal; falling on them was simply inviting death.

Without hesitation, Li Chen gathered the Energy within his body, his hands turned into claws, and he dug directly into the rock.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh"

The rocks kept falling, and Li Chen’s hands, as if ablaze, made direct contact with the rocks even with the protection of his inner Energy.

All of Li Chen’s fingers were dug into the rocks, scratching downward rapidly as if he was digging something out, creating two claw marks!

This was in hard stone, and Li Chen’s hands were already covered in blood.

Thankfully, this move was effective, and their falling speed began to slow. Eventually, just as they were about to hit the sharp rocks below, their descent finally came to a halt.

Li Chen let out a breath of relief, while Lin Xiaoxiao, with her eyes closed, was clinging to him, clearly in shock.

Li Chen surveyed the area below; there was still endless rock as far as the eye could see, but not far below, there were two exceptionally protruding rocks, large enough to serve as a platform.

Feeling a surge of hope, Li Chen freed his left hand and then dug it into the wall beside him, then his right hand, gradually moving towards the rock platform below to the left.

Li Chen was like Spider-Man, slow but most importantly, steady, for another fall would likely leave them broken.

But just at this moment, Li Chen’s brows furrowed as the energy within his body suddenly began to shrink, feeling as though his strength was being drawn out of him. He could clearly feel the power on his arms slowly diminishing.

This is bad!

If the support of the Mysterious Energy were to fail him now, he would surely fall.

"Sister, Brother-in-law, why have you stopped?" Lin Xiaoxiao’s voice was tinged with a sob. In this predicament, if anything happened to Li Chen, they were doomed.

"It’s okay." Li Chen said, but tiny beads of sweat had already appeared on his forehead.

He continued to move; fortunately, the rock platform on his left wasn’t too far away. At last, he stepped onto the platform.

Looking around, Li Chen was surprised to find a very faintly colored cave beside the platform.

A cave?

Delighted, Li Chen continued to move towards the cave.

His hands gripping the rocks, he reached the cave, then probed with his feet and stepped inside.

Eventually, Li Chen made it into the cave.

He set Lin Xiaoxiao down, but before she could speak, she fainted.

It must have been too much fright; a little rest should do her good.

Li Chen picked up Lin Xiaoxiao again and walked deeper into the cave. After passing through darkness, they were then greeted by a gentle orange-yellow light. This sight astonished Li Chen; the cave seemed to have some magic to it.

In the middle of the cave was a Round Pond with a diameter of ten meters, from which white mist rose, indicating that the water was much colder than normal.

He laid Lin Xiaoxiao down, intending to inspect the cave when suddenly everything went dark before him. His strength was drained in an instant, even the power to stand, and he collapsed to the ground with a thud.

What, what’s happening?

Li Chen felt as if his whole body had turned into an empty shell, utterly devoid of strength.

The Mysterious Energy within him receded like a tide, quickly disappearing, leaving only a profound weakness throughout his body. This wasn’t just fatigue, it was a complete loss of strength, so much so that parts of his body no longer felt like his own.

Li Chen was simply too exhausted. In his effort to save Lin Xiaoxiao, he had expended all his energy, and the Mysterious Energy had been overused. With Li Chen’s current physical condition, he couldn’t fully control this energy. From the combat earlier that day to jumping off the cliff to save someone, he had been using it non-stop, which was equivalent to the repercussions of overusing the Mysterious Energy.

As the feeling of powerlessness subsided slightly, waves of intense pain surged from within his body, as if every inch of his skin, every bone, and every cell were rubbing and squeezing against each other. The pain caused beads of cold sweat to appear on his forehead in an instant, yet he couldn’t cry out because his voice had been taken away, as if it no longer belonged to him.

The severe pain had to be bottled up inside. Li Chen’s eyelids fought to stay open, ready to close at any moment. The orange-yellow light above was also gradually darkening, dimming further and further.

He felt as if he were falling into a space of nihility, a space that was murky gray, seemingly filled with ghost spirits several meters long. Li Chen felt as if he was drifting ethereally, yet, paradoxically, he could feel these things around him.

A ghost spirit in front of him suddenly turned into the likeness of Li Zheng and then opened its mouth wide as if it could encompass the entire height of the spirit itself, snarling as it bit towards Li Chen!

Li Chen wanted to move, but found himself unable to, forced to let the ghost spirit bite at him, only for it to pass right through his body.

And all around, countless more ghost spirits appeared.

Faced with such a high cliff, Li Zheng and the others, after searching, left. In their minds, Li Chen and Lin Xiaoxiao, who had jumped from the cliff, were already dead.

Such a great fall left almost no chance of survival. From that moment on, the person known as Li Chen had disappeared from the world.

As Li Zheng and others departed, the mountaintop returned to calm. All the dead bodies were ruthlessly thrown off the cliff by the Li Family