Chapter 300: He’ll Lead Us Out

"Your Soul Lake? How?" Yu Er Dan blurted out quizzically.

"I used a soul link to incorporate your True Soul into my Soul Lake. That screech earlier was a soul scream and only a few things in this world can block it. The Nirvana Flame is one such thing"

Yu Er Dan gazed at the pink flames that encircled both her and Lu Zheng like a cage and nodded.

She knew about the Nirvana Flame. When she was searching for Mystical Flames for Cangxiang Ziwu, she had heard rumours of it.

From the warning signals that were blasting through her mind, Yu Er Dan knew that the Nirvana Flame was dangerous to her soul.

"Thank you" Yu Er Dan said to Lu Zheng. She knew that in the cultivation world, places like the aperture and the Soul Lake were forbidden zones for others.

Martial practitioners, under normal circumstances would never allow a person into their aperture or Soul Lake since it was the basis of their cultivation. Despite that, Lu Zheng had allowed her into his Soul Lake to save her life.

Lu Zheng smiled: "It is nothing. Your soul foundation is very low; I can manage to bear your soul within my Soul Lake"

Yu Er Dan felt her lips twitch. She was a strength path expert and never in her life had she tried to increase her soul foundation.

The only time her soul foundation ever rose was when she brokethrough to the Sky realm and since then, she was at the eight thousand man soul level.

Yu Er Dan only shook her head and sighed. She was in Lu Zheng's Soul Lake now and any random motion could be misinterpreted as an attack. She could punch him later, yes, later…

"Wait" A thought struck Yu Er Dan. "How are you able to use soul path methods in this place?"

"The chaos energy in this labyrinth is dangerous that souls would tear apart and destroy within it. But, the soul scream you heard was a soul path method which means that soul path methods can now be used here. It seems the chaos energy in this place is already thinning" Lu Zheng explained.

"What would happen when the chaos energy dissipates completely?" Yu Er Dan was curious.

"The labyrinth is formed from chaos energy. It is the source of its existence. Without it, the labyrinth will surely collapse" Lu Zheng smiled as he spoke to Yu Er Dan.

Yu Er Dan was confused as Lu Zheng spoke. Although he spoke of the destruction of the labyrinth which they were in, he said it like a person would say their favourite colour was green.

Lu Zheng gazed at his Sea of Consciousness which rippled vigorously because of the soul scream. It seemed the user of the method was relentless and wanted to kill everyone in the labyrinth with it.

"I'll control our bodies to leave this labyrinth. Something feels odd about the series of events" Lu Zheng said to Yu Er Dan.

"You know the way out?" Yu Er Dan faced Lu Zheng. She felt he was like a special archive of knowledge and that nothing was beyond him.

"No, but I know where that member of the Changshou Tong Race is. He'll lead us out"

…..

Makato who had already regained his consciousness walked with the eight people that had walked out of the spatial tear that he opened.

The female, Chiemi, would occasionally open her mouth to let out soundless screams. She was the soul path expert behind the soul screams.

"Kyosuke, where are the others?" Makato asked, breaking the silence.

"They stayed back. We alone are enough to fulfil our plans" A male youth replied to Makato's question. He was the same person that had stopped the spatial tear from fully closing.

"Hmm" Makato nodded in understanding. He felt his fore-eye which was still closed and tried to open it. Blood seeped from the vertical slit whenever it parted and he was unable to keep it open for long.

"Do not overly strain yourself, Makato" An amorous looking female said with a chuckle.

Makato regarded the female and easily identified her as Kumiko.

"You must have overused your Togan" Doan, a male said with a soft smile.

"The human you fought must've been very strong then" Kumiko giggled as she spoke. She skipped as she moved near Makato to walk beside him. Whenever she tried to start a conversation with Makato, his responses were always bland that she could not continue the conversation.

Soon, she became disinterested: "You are as boring as always"

Makato ignored Kumiko as he gazed at his hands before feeling his fore-eye again. His voice was hoarse as he muttered: "Lu Zheng…"