My carefree life in space

Chapter 224 The Vanished Person

Such things continued to happen over the next few days, but no one noticed them immediately.

When Elder Yan Hua of the Yan Yang Sect and Elder Ling Xu of the Qing Xuan Sect met again, they saw that the other was also alone and began to ask each other questions.

"Yan Hua, didn't you go to find the younger generation? Why are you still wandering around alone?" Master Lingxu teased.

Master Yan Hua had no time for jokes. He had searched this ruin for a long time, and hadn't seen many people, let alone those from his own sect.

"Have you found your younger relatives?" he asked directly.

"Well... I haven't seen them either. Could these brats really be trapped in some formation?" Master Lingxu hadn't thought much about it yet.

"Don't you find it strange that it's so quiet here?"

"Isn't it strange? Anything can happen in a place like this!"

Seeing that Master Lingxu had not yet realized the seriousness of the matter, Yan Hua could only voice his guess.

"I suspect something has happened to those younger ones!"

“Something happened? It’s not impossible in this place. Didn’t we know before we came that this place was full of dangers?” Master Lingxu thought he was referring to the traps and formations inside.

Master Yan Hua shook his head. "What I mean is, this might be a conspiracy. Someone deliberately released information about the ancient ruins to lure us here."

Upon hearing this, Master Lingxu's expression finally turned serious.

"I've searched many places these past few days, and I haven't seen many of my own disciples, or even disciples from other sects. Do you think that's normal?"

Yan Hua Zhenren's words reminded Ling Xu Zhenren of his own search over the past few days, during which he had indeed not seen many people.

Unfortunately, communication was impossible here, and even their spiritual senses were blocked, so they had no way of finding anyone.

"Let's split up and look for those old guys. Whether we find them or not, we'll all come back here to meet up in a day," Master Yan Hua suggested, and Master Ling Xu nodded in agreement.

A day later, when Master Yan Hua returned here with Zhou Quan, the sect leader of Hongyin Sect, and Qin Yang, the sect leader of Changtian Sect, Master Ling Xu also returned soon after, accompanied by Master Yuan Hong, the elder of Tianyuan Sect, and Zhang Yuan, the sect leader of Hunyuan Sect.

When the group met, their expressions were all solemn. They all believed Yan Hua Zhenren's guess. After all, it was too strange that no one could find him. Something must have gone wrong.

"What do we do now? Where are we supposed to find them?" Zhang Yuan, the leader of the Hunyuan Sect, was an impatient man. He had been unable to find his disciples for the past few days and was starting to get anxious.

"Now we have to split up and search. If we find anything, everyone should send a signal." Master Yan Hua took out several signal transmitters and handed them to everyone.

The Flame Sun Sect has a very high level of weapon crafting skills, but they have not given up on this relatively primitive communication device. Although it is rather useless, it can play a significant role in certain situations, such as at this moment.

In fact, Yan Hua couldn't understand why the sect didn't send a signal for help if something really happened. Didn't they even have that little bit of time?

The group took the signal transmitter, each chose a direction, and set off.

Inside a certain formation, Elder Fang finally broke the formation that had trapped him and his wife, Fang Siya.

"Great! We can finally get out!" Fang Siya exclaimed excitedly. The three of them had been trapped here for several days.

Upon entering the ancient ruins that day, the couple and their second grandfather were teleported to the same location because they were relatively close. After regaining their senses, they discovered that they were actually in a complex formation.

The spiritual energy within the formation was chaotic, and various strange runes flickered with an eerie light, moving around as if they were alive.

Fang Siya channeled her spiritual energy, condensing a ball of spiritual fire in her palm to illuminate the surroundings. Relying on her keen senses, she attempted to find a flaw in the formation.

Qi Ting then used a special spiritual sense detection method to try to find the abnormal spiritual energy fluctuations within the formation, but his technique was ineffective, and his spiritual sense could not be dissipated at all.

The couple had no choice but to place their hopes on their second grandfather.

Elder Fang was injured while breaking the entrance barrier and was not fully recovered yet, but he could not care about that and began to study the formation carefully.

A moment later, he took out several ancient jade talismans from his pocket, muttered incantations, and cast the talismans into the formation, attempting to disrupt its operation. Unfortunately, the formation remained unchanged.

Over the next few days, they tried countless methods. However, each attempt ended in failure, and their spiritual energy was constantly being depleted.

Finally, during an in-depth study, Elder Fang discovered a subtle pattern in the flow of spiritual energy within the formation. Following this discovery, the three simultaneously circulated their spiritual energy, injecting it into a key node of the formation.

In an instant, the array shone brightly, emitting bursts of booming light. Then, the array began to twist and deform, eventually slowly dissipating.

After leaving the formation, Elder Fang quickly contacted the other family members. He and his two companions had been trapped in the formation for several days and didn't know how the others were doing.

However, the communicator wouldn't start. Seeing this, Fang Siya quickly pulled out her own communicator to try and contact Lin Shushu, but to no avail. The three then realized the problem lay with the ruins. Helpless, they could only explore the ruins while searching for Lin Shushu.

To their surprise, after walking all day, they hadn't seen a single person. Where had they been teleported to? Why were they so far away from everyone else?

Up until now, they haven't found anything unusual about this ruin. This is understandable, of course; it's their first time here, so they wouldn't suspect anything. Besides, they've been trapped for several days and haven't had time to investigate.

Just then, a dazzling light rose in the distant sky and lingered for a long time.

The three exchanged a glance. "Is this a distress signal from the Yan Hua Sect?"

"Second Grandfather, shall we go?" Fang Siya asked Elder Fang for his opinion.

Elder Fang pondered for a moment, then nodded. For the Yan Hua Sect to send out a distress signal, this was certainly no small matter. Although the journey was somewhat risky, they knew nothing of the situation yet, so it was good to go and find out first.

On their way to the signal transmission site, the three encountered Master Lingxu, who was also on his way there.

"Old Fang, what are you doing here?" Seeing that he was accompanied by two juniors, Master Lingxu asked excitedly, "Where did you find your juniors?"

These two questions stumped Elder Fang. Although he had been trapped by the formation for several days, it wasn't to the point of being unexpected. And what did he mean by "where to find the juniors"? They'd been together the whole time!

Seeing his expression, Master Lingxu realized something was wrong; Old Fang seemed to know nothing. That's right, they had been searching for people these past few days, but Old Fang wasn't among them.

So, Master Lingxu told the group about what had happened in the past few days and shared their speculations.

Elder Fang and his wife Fang Siya then realized that such strange things had happened in the ruins during the days they were trapped in the formation, and they couldn't help but worry about their own people.

"Someone sent out a signal; has the person been found?" Elder Fang asked expectantly.

It's hard to say, and even Master Lingxu dared not draw a conclusion. The four continued to speed off in that direction.