Chapter 703: Leaving The Domain
Smack!
Noticing Xu Tianhua playing with the bracelet of thousand echoes like it was a toy, he slapped his head once more.
This time he even reached out for his wooden sandals but realized that he was only a soul and did not have anything real on himself.
After grumbling a few more words, he turned to Noah with a smile, "Please come with me; I will show you the way to the place where you can leave this domain from."
Noah refrained from showing any kind of reaction and slowly followed behind a stumbling core formation realm cultivator.
The young monk was starting to think twice about his idol, the ancestor he always looked up to.
'They said, blessed are those who have met their idols.' Tianhua looked down at the ground with a lost look on his face. 'Tell me who they are!'
Grumbling inwardly, he reached an empty hall where murals of different heroes stood tall, almost touching the ceiling.
One of them was a monk, while the rest of the four were not.
He guessed they were heroes from the way their statues were built, showing their gallant aura and righteous expressions.
There was no living soul within the room beside them.
Suddenly the monk leading them froze as Noah narrowed his eyes slightly in interest, sensing a thread of mental transmission reaching him.
"Cough, you two wait here. I will guide the rest of the disciples here as well." Without even waiting for their reply, Mu Lian flew out of the room.
"There he goes…" Xu Tianhua whispered exasperatedly, not expecting him to leave them high and dry like that.
"Truly a weird old man." Hearing someone speaking in agreement, Tianhua nodded until he thought, 'Why did his voice sound so feminine…?'
He snapped his head towards Noah only to be shocked when he saw Elysia standing beside him.
He had not seen her since they entered the trial room in the temple.
But he did not think much about it before since the others were also not present now.
"When did you come back?" He couldn't help but ask. Elysia smirked seeing his gaping expression and said, "What, did he smack you brainless? I have been here from the start, and you could not even see me?"
Her words struck the monk like a thunderclap; he staggered back with a shocked look on his face.
…
Time passed, and the others also started to appear in the room.
Seeing a lifeless Xu Tianhua sitting under one of the statues, questioning life, they started getting curious.
Not only those who entered the temples but even those who did not reach this place appeared on the spot.
"What happened to him?" Lei Yiran was the first to break the silence; to his question, Noah replied. "He had high hopes in the wrong person."
Lei Yiran got even more confused, but his pride did not allow him to be the one to keep asking questions.
He glanced at Xian Mei, but the young woman was already beside the young monk, directly asking him what happened.
Even when everyone had gathered, there were no signs of the old monk returning.
"How long do we have to stay in this place?" Some people were too eager to leave, while others started to look for those who were still not present.
"No one saw, Wu Si?" Xian Mei asked the other female disciples from her sect worriedly; their group had lost one member.
"Tch." Lei Yiran was also missing two people from the team he entered the domain with.
Xu Tianhua also lost his easygoing attitude. His temple did not lose anyone, but he did not like the fact someone did lose their lives.
In the end there was nothing he could do about it. Everyone signed off on their death warrant when they entered this place.
Noah saw all of this happen from the side indifferently. The most scared ones were the only two remaining disciples of the Blood Fiend Sect.
Their leader was gone!
At first they did not want to believe that, but when the leaders of the groups from the three sects started to tell their fellow disciples about how Noah had killed their leader, they had no choice but to accept reality.
Now they had no one to depend on but themselves.
They just wanted the domain time limit to come to an end as soon as possible. If they did not, they just might end up becoming the target of the righteous sect disciples.
"The Domain will now close!" Suddenly a loud and heavy voice echoed through the stone hall, and everyone felt the ground beneath their feet shifting as small portals appeared beneath them.
With the ground gone, everyone started to fall down, and Noah also started to feel the effect of the gravity.
Even as he was shifting through the portal, he snapped his fingers while glancing at the two disciples of the Blood Fiend Sect.
Woosh!
Splash!
The portal closed, and the ground returned to normal. Everyone was gone, but two distinctive splashes of blood were now painted on the ground.
"What a merciless young man." Just as they all disappeared, Mu Lian returned back to the room. He no longer looked like the dignified old monk, the founder of the Temple of Eternal Body.
His face was swollen, and his eyes were black; despite being a soul body, he was injured like it was his real body.
Limping towards the blood splattered on the ground, he stopped and waved his hands. The blood disappeared, and his body turned translucent.
"Looks like my time is about to arrive." Looking down at his hands, he muttered without any sadness. "But I have no regrets."
"Then let me make you regret using my treasure." The jingling of anklets echoed in the silent hall as another soul body appeared in the area.
With a pink flash, the monk was reluctantly dragged back into the darkness.
…
Outside the domain, a lot of the crowd had dispersed. Since they did not have the qualifications to join, they turned around and left.
Only the people who were accompanying the participants were still waiting for their arrival.
And right before their eager and worried eyes, the blackened gateway pulsed to life, and it spewed out the remaining alive participants.
Everyone stood up, noticing their arrival.
The blood demon was the first one to shoot to his feet and the first one to tense up.
His eyes frantically searched through the group, but he noticed no signs of anyone from his sect.
Dead?
His sect's disciples were dead?!