C516 Fong Jiaojiao!

If someone truly discovered the Bow Man's weakness, this world might already be exposed. More people would start coming here, so I need to be careful when flying with my sword.

Woo Zhengyang was still pondering when he noticed people approaching from behind. There were three of them, and to his surprise, they were from the Azure Sun Martial Mansion. Among them was a familiar face—Zhan Yinuo!

"Woo Zhengyang! What are you doing here?" Zhan Yinuo exclaimed in surprise upon seeing him.

"Why? Am I not allowed to be here?" Woo Zhengyang replied with a light laugh.

Seeing Zhan Yinuo made Woo Zhengyang happy; after all, they had come down together. Of those who descended, Woo Zhengyang had encountered Liu Xiangdong early on, but Liu had changed, becoming a Bow Man bent on vengeance.

"Zhan Yinuo, who is he?" asked the young woman among the three, aside from Zhan Yinuo. Both she and the young man with her looked to be around eighteen or nineteen.

"Yeah, I've never seen this guy before," the young man added, eyeing Woo Zhengyang's clothes suspiciously. Despite his scrutiny, he couldn't find any sign of the Martial Mansion.

"He's Woo Zhengyang!" Zhan Yinuo introduced.

"Woo Zhengyang?" The young woman looked at him with a hint of disdain. "Is he the country bumpkin who defeated you and Zhan Yifei?"

Woo Zhengyang was used to the personalities of the Martial Mansion disciples, but this woman was even more blunt than most, dragging Zhan Yinuo into her disdain as well.

Zhan Yinuo chuckled awkwardly, "Yeah, that's him. He's really something..."

"Alright, enough with the chatter. Let's figure out what's going on with this spirit pool," the young man interrupted, exchanging a glance with the woman before heading straight for the pool.

Zhan Yinuo didn't follow them. Instead, he walked over to Woo Zhengyang and asked, "Did you come here on your own? Have you seen Yifei and the others?"

"I only saw Liu Xiangdong, but for some reason, he seemed to have lost his mind. He turned into a Bow Man and attacked me on sight."

"A Bow Man? If he's become one, it means he's already dead. We've encountered several Martial Mansion disciples who turned into Bow Men."

"Dead?" Although Woo Zhengyang had suspected it, hearing Zhan Yinuo confirm it was still hard to accept.

"Yeah, when a cultivator dies in that world, they sink beneath the surface. When they reappear, they're holding a bow and don't recognize anyone. I saw it myself—a disciple from the Sea Heart Martial Palace turned into a Bow Man and killed another disciple from the same place. Then that person became a Bow Man too."

"Have you found the weakness of the Bow Men?"

"No, that thing shoots arrows incredibly fast and can fly with a sword. It's unbeatable!"

"Then how did you get in here?"

"I was being chased by someone with a bow. With nowhere else to go, I jumped into a small lake. I didn't expect the bowman to wait above, but then I found a portal at the bottom of the lake, and that's how I ended up here."

"You came in through the bottom of a lake?"

"Yeah, what's the big deal? Everyone seems to enter from different places. Like those two, they were just walking and suddenly found a big tree with a hollow. They went in, kept falling, and ended up here."

"You walked into a tree hollow and fell into this place?"

Woo Zhengyang was completely baffled...

At first, Woo Zhengyang thought everyone else had entered the same way he did, through that cave. But after listening to Zhan Yinuo, he realized there were multiple entrances to this world, each stranger than the last.

"When you got here, didn't you encounter any barriers or traps?" Woo Zhengyang asked.

"Nope! It was a breeze getting in..." Zhan Yinuo scratched his head, looking puzzled.

"Really?"

Woo Zhengyang was frustrated. Could it be that he and Situ Jingxiang had the misfortune of stumbling upon the hardest way in?

"Why do you ask?" Zhan Yinuo was confused.

Woo Zhengyang then recounted his own experience, explaining how much effort it took to find the entrance and how time-consuming and difficult it was to unlock the barriers.

"Barrier..." After hearing Woo Zhengyang's description, Zhan Yinuo suddenly seemed deep in thought.

"I remember now, there must be a barrier."

"What do you mean?"

"I was hiding in that lake and didn't notice anything unusual until over an hour later. Then, I suddenly felt some kind of energy fluctuation beneath the water. I went down to investigate and ended up here. When I entered, I think I saw some intricate patterns around the entrance. Looking back, there must be a barrier there."

"Over an hour later? How long have you been here?"

"Three hours! Those two entered around the same time as I did," Zhan Yinuo said, pointing to a man and a woman.

Their entry time was clearly much later than Woo Zhengyang and his group.

After some careful questioning, Woo Zhengyang formed his own theory. There are multiple entrances to this world, but all are sealed with barriers, making them hard to detect. However, once one barrier is broken, the others gradually lose their effectiveness and become easier to find. In other words, because Woo Zhengyang was the first to break a barrier, countless paths to this world have now opened, and more people will arrive over time.

Additionally, Woo Zhengyang learned that everyone appears in different locations upon entering. Zhan Yinuo found himself in a world made of Heavenly Essence Stones, while the man and woman appeared directly in a world composed of spirit crystals.

The three of them had just met less than two hours ago and decided to travel together. They sensed a fluctuation in energy, which led them to this place.

The man's name was He Tianye, a member of the He family from the Azure Sun Martial Mansion, and he was at the mid-level of the Inner Stage.

The woman was Fong Jiaojiao, like Zhan Yinuo, she had just entered the Inner Stage. However, among the three, Fong Jiaojiao held the highest status because of her family name. She was related to Fong Yeqiu, a powerful martial expert and the head of the Azure Sun Martial Mansion, and Fong Zhiyuan, who was at the peak of the Inner Stage. Fong Zhiyuan was one of the most gifted individuals in recent years at the mansion, with a strong chance of reaching the Tendon Bone Stage before turning twenty. He was also the strongest among the young people from the Azure Sun Martial Mansion on this journey.

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