"Cough cough cough~" After the purple droplets melted in Ruth Wilcox’s mouth, she suddenly began to cough violently.
"Haha." Ember Vance laughed heartily, and Yusuf Zuck also sat down on the ground with a thud.
"Ruth, Ruth." Ember laughed and cried at the same time while also hugging Ruth Wilcox’s head, carefully wiping the sand from the corners of her mouth and her nostrils.
Ruth Wilcox slowly opened her eyes, first confused, and then gradually regained consciousness.
"Ruth, it’s okay, it’s okay, we’ve made it," Yusuf Zuck said urgently, clutching her hand.
"We made it inside?" Ruth’s eyes lit up, and she also propped herself up to sit.
"We’re not sure yet, it’s pitch black like a cave here," Ember and Yusuf finally looked around. In front of them was a small pool with a bubbling sound of air bubbles. It was also a spring, and the water from the spring flowed away through a crack in the nearby stone wall.
This space was not large, just a cave, with a dark tunnel at the back, leading to an unknown destination.
The reason there was light here was apparently due to a kind of bioluminescent fly on the water and cave walls, flickering on and off, probably fireflies.
"You two wait here, I’ll go check it out and also find you some clothes," Yusuf Zuck glanced at the two women. Their previous skin-tight diving suits were now torn to shreds.
Both Ruth Wilcox and Ember Vance were in a sorry state; Ruth’s upper body was nearly bare, and Ember’s buttocks were half exposed!
As for their previous equipment, it seemed everything was washed away except for Yusuf Zuck’s sword.
The two women blushed awkwardly and glared at him fiercely, then burst into laughter.
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As Yusuf Zuck walked forward, he extended his telekinesis.
However, his telekinesis found it difficult to penetrate the cave walls, but the tunnel inside the cave was clearly visible.
"Huh?" As he used telekinesis to look down the tunnel from afar, he couldn’t help but let out a light gasp; this place was quite strange.
"Can we walk? Follow me," Yusuf Zuck carefully surveyed the dome-shaped cave before waving Ruth Wilcox and Ember Vance over.
"We can walk." The two women helped each other up and followed closely behind Yusuf Zuck.
About five hundred meters later, another dome-shaped cave appeared, almost identical to the one they had been in, complete with a spring, the water from which also flowed through cracks in the stone wall.
"What’s going on? Have we hit a ghost wall?" Ember Vance exclaimed in shock.
"What ghost wall, the two caves are different," Yusuf Zuck shook his head. "This is a series of linked caves, also a spring, much like the Hundred Veins Spring, but I remember what that cave looked like, let’s keep going." Yusuf Zuck led the way, and the three continued along the cave opening.
After several hundred meters, the same dome-shaped cave appeared again, with the terrain and spring identical to the previous ones.
This was indeed a series of linked caves.
After passing through seven or eight linked caves, the three finally felt wind and discovered a fork in the road, with light shining through!
"Go, go, go." Yusuf Zuck quickly whisked the two women away.
A moment later, the three stood upon a cliffside, halfway up the mountainside, with many cave entrances leading into the mountain — they stood in one of them.
Additionally, there was a waterfall cascading down from the mountain top.
The trio looked far ahead, where there was a river, its water so clear that the riverbed was visible, meandering far into the distance.
"How beautiful," it might have been due to the early morning, that from their halfway up the hill, looking far ahead brought a sense of sublime contentment to the three of them. Everything ahead was a lush green, picturesque, and the air carried a fresh fragrance.
Yusuf Zuck’s telekinesis rapidly expanded, as he was now able to exert it over a distance of more than thirty thousand meters. However, after opening the Eighth Blood Pearl, he did not discover any new special abilities.
"There are no households within dozens of kilometers, but there are people!" Yusuf Zuck’s eyebrows rose as he declared, "We’ve entered the Dragon Gate World!"
"Where are the people?" the two women asked curiously.
"Downstream, about fifteen kilometers away, by the riverbank."
"Ah? That far away?" The two women were incredibly surprised. Although they had long known Yusuf Zuck was extraordinary, could he really see people fifteen kilometers away?
"Let’s go," Yusuf Zuck decided. The distant group of people, although not ordinary, were also not experts, at least not as strong as him. So as he stepped forward with the two women in his arms, it was already over a dozen kilometers later when they appeared a hundred meters away from the group.
There, two horse-drawn carriages were halted with sixteen guards carrying swords, an old nurse and an old steward, as well as a woman and a child.
The woman and the child were catching fish by the stream, the guards scattered around, while the old nurse and old steward were cooking.
Yusuf Zuck and the two women appeared suddenly, and the guards spotted them immediately. Hence, the sixteen guards quickly gathered together, while the child and the woman by the river immediately ran to hide behind the carriages.
"Wait here for me, and hide behind the trees," Yusuf Zuck instructed the two women, as they were truly in a sorry state at the moment.
The two women ran behind a tree and crouched down, carefully hiding themselves.
Among the guards, there were a few longbowmen who had already notched their arrows and aimed at Yusuf Zuck.
Yusuf Zuck raised his hands and called out loudly, "Please don’t misunderstand, we mean no harm, we are just asking for help!"
He didn’t know what worldview the people here held, so he remained cautiously on guard.
"What do you need?" A middle-aged man wearing armor stepped forward. This person had an innate cultivation level and was the most powerful among the group, with an especially stern appearance!
"My wives and I encountered a beast in the mountains, and their clothes got torn, so could we borrow two sets of women’s clothes?" Yusuf Zuck said loudly.
The armored man didn’t answer but turned to look towards the back of the carriages.
After a moment, the old nurse from behind the carriages came forward, holding a bundle and handed it to the armored man.
"Take this." The armored man suddenly threw the bundle he held. Over a hundred meters in distance, the bundle shot straight into Yusuf Zuck’s hands like an arrow.
Yusuf Zuck caught it with one hand, took a deep breath, and bowed, saying, "Thank you!" He then turned and went back into the woods.
"Change into these; there are shoes as well, see if they fit," Yusuf Zuck said as he opened the bundle. Inside were two sets of very luxurious clothes with intricate embroidery. Although worn, they were immaculately clean.
"Turn around, and don’t you peek," Ember Vance handed a purple set to Ruth Wilcox, while she herself took a light green set, both long robes with connected collars.
Yusuf Zuck obediently turned around, also winking at Ember Vance.
The two women quickly changed into the new clothes, and the shoes unbelievably fit perfectly, after which they stood up together.
The convoy remained on alert and showed no sign of leaving, while the child peeked out curiously from behind the carriages.
However, at that moment, Yusuf Zuck’s telekinesis suddenly detected over twenty red horses about a dozen kilometers away. The riders on the fiery steeds were all clad in uniform black, with knives and bows slung over their shoulders, rapidly approaching!