「Inside the ancient castle!」
Qin Feiyang looked around at Wu Yan and the others, saying, "I’m sure you’ve all heard the situation outside. Whoever has an idea, speak up now. Let’s discuss."
The crowd looked at each other, but no one uttered a word, their faces filled with helplessness.
"Sigh!"
"If you and Dong Zhengyang are at a loss, what good ideas can we come up with?" Lu Xingchen sighed lightly.
Ren Wushuang retorted angrily, "So should we just give up because we don’t have a solution? I don’t want to hear any more defeatist talk. Solutions are created by people; let’s think again."
Lu Xingchen replied, "Wushuang, I know you’re strong-willed, but the reality is right in front of us. What can we do?"
Ren Wushuang’s brows raised. "Don’t use such familiar terms. Are we that close?"
"We were engaged before!" Lu Xingchen forced a smile.
"That was in the past. Besides being from the same faction, we are nothing more to each other now," Ren Wushuang replied coldly.
Lu Xingchen sighed deeply, yet a trace of sharpness flashed across his eyes. He looked up at Qin Feiyang and said, "Brother Qin, I just thought of a solution."
"Hm?"
The crowd was stunned and looked at Lu Xingchen with expectant eyes.
Qin Feiyang also looked surprised and asked, "Really?"
Lu Xingchen laughed. "At this juncture, I wouldn’t dare to bluster."
Qin Feiyang replied, "Go ahead."
Lu Xingchen smirked mysteriously. "I can’t tell. Just take me out."
Qin Feiyang’s eyes twinkled briefly. Without hesitation, he took Lu Xingchen and left the ancient castle.
As soon as they appeared outside, Lu Xingchen did not bother to greet Fatty and the others, instead looking towards the marsh up ahead, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.
"Wait a moment," Lu Xingchen told Qin Feiyang, before turning and leaving alone.
"What’s happening?" Seeing this, Fatty and the others wore puzzled expressions.
Qin Feiyang said, "He claimed he has a way to get off the island."
"Really?" the group exclaimed in surprise.
Qin Feiyang shook his head. "I don’t know, but that’s what he said."
Dong Zhengyang said, "This man is really hard to read."
Qin Feiyang was stunned, then turned to Dong Zhengyang and the others. "All of you are from State City and close in age. You should know Lu Xingchen better than I do, right?"
Dong Zhengyang replied, "We did understand who Lu Xingchen was before, but the Lu Xingchen of now..." As he said this, his brow furrowed, his face filled with confusion.
Shen Long and the others felt the same.
Qin Feiyang and Fatty exchanged a look, their eyes sparkling with an inexplicable light.
BOOM!
The swarm of crocodiles continued to destroy the foundation of the island below. The booming sounds were incessant!
At first, only half of the island was trembling, but in the end, the entire island began to shake violently. Moreover, they all vaguely felt the island swaying!
If this continued, the island would surely sink into the marsh in less than an hour!
"What’s going on?" Murong Xiong said in anger. "Didn’t he say to wait a moment? It’s been almost an hour now, why hasn’t he come back yet?"
Dong Zhengyang and the others were also restless.
Fatty frowned. "Boss, do you think he might have snuck away alone?"
"He shouldn’t have..." Qin Feiyang was about to say it wasn’t possible, but he couldn’t quite figure out the current Lu Xingchen and didn’t dare to make rash assumptions.
BOOM! Suddenly, an unusually loud noise came from the north.
Qin Feiyang was startled and quickly turned to look. He saw a huge piece of land collapse and rapidly sink into the marsh.
"We’re finished, we’re really finished this time," Black Dragon lamented.
Dong Zhengyang said solemnly, "It looks like the island will be completely submerged in less than an hour."
Murong Xiong clenched his teeth. "Let’s split up to look for Lu Xingchen!"
"Don’t go!" Qin Feiyang said. "None of us know when he will come back. What if he returns and we are not here? Won’t that waste more time finding us? What we need to do now is to stay put and wait quietly for his return."
Murong Xiong said, "But what if he doesn’t return?"
"If he doesn’t return, we’ll find another way," Qin Feiyang said. "Although the marsh can swallow everything, as long as we hide in the ancient castle, we will not be in immediate mortal danger."
BOOM! With another tremendous crash, a large section of land to the south also collapsed.
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Everyone’s hearts gradually sank into despair.
While they could hide in the ancient castle for the time being, it couldn’t guarantee their safety forever. Once the ancient castle sank into the marsh, they would never be able to get out. It would be a dead end all the same.
CRACK! Suddenly, another loud noise echoed from beneath their feet.
Qin Feiyang glanced down, and his eyebrows twitched. A crack had appeared in the ground under their feet!
"Back off!" Qin Feiyang shouted.
Fatty and the others also noticed this immediately. Instantly, the group retreated like lightning.
BOOM! No sooner had they retreated than the crack expanded at a visible speed and spread outwards. Within a few moments, a large piece of land, several hundred meters wide, broke off from the island and sank into the marsh in the blink of an eye.
However, this was just the beginning.
The island shook violently, like a rickety boat in a raging storm, on the verge of capsizing.
BOOM! In less than a hundred breaths, the island, once several kilometers wide, was now just over one and a half kilometers across. And by now, the rate of the island’s collapse was several times faster than it initially was.
Shen Long spoke solemnly, "If Lu Xingchen hasn’t left on his own, he’s likely in a life-threatening situation by now. We should quickly head to the ancient castle."
"Previously, I was really curious about Qin Feiyang’s castle and wanted to explore it. But now, I really don’t want to go in," Jiang Wei laughed bitterly.
Dong Zhengyang, Murong Xiong, and Dongfang Wuheng nodded, deeply sharing his sentiment.
Because once they entered, they might never come out again. But at this point, it seemed there were no other options.
Qin Feiyang smiled faintly and said, "Only the living have a chance."
Dong Zhengyang sighed. "Only you can still laugh at a time like this." Regarding Qin Feiyang’s mindset, they all felt somewhat inadequate.
"One should try to stay optimistic," Qin Feiyang chuckled, ready to lead them into the ancient castle.
"Sorry to have kept you waiting." Just then, Lu Xingchen’s voice came from afar.
Their eyes lit up. They looked over and immediately showed expressions of astonished surprise.
At that moment, Lu Xingchen was in a terrible state. His clothes were torn and tattered, his body covered in injuries, and his face was terribly pale.
But that wasn’t the crucial part. The crucial part was that right behind him followed a thirty-meter-long Dragon Crocodile! Clearly, this was an Alligator King!
The Alligator King also had countless wounds, large and small, on its body and was filled with a menacing Evil Qi. Yet, it obediently followed Lu Xingchen, like a loyal sidekick.
Soon enough, Lu Xingchen arrived in front of Qin Feiyang and the others. The Alligator King also stopped behind him, its fierce gaze fixed on them.
Shen Long looked at the Alligator King with surprise. "Lu Xingchen, what’s going on?"
Lu Xingchen laughed. "Don’t worry, it’s our companion now and won’t harm us."
"Companion?" Shen Long looked skeptical.
Qin Feiyang gave Lu Xingchen a meaningful look. "Any questions can wait until after we leave this place."
Lu Xingchen leaped onto the Alligator King’s back and, looking at Qin Feiyang and the others, said, "Quick, get on."
They looked at each other and jumped up one by one. The Black Dragon also shrank to one meter long and curled around Fatty’s thigh.
Then, Lu Xingchen gently tapped the Alligator King’s back. "Hurry and get us out of here."
The Alligator King let out a low ROAR and sped forward towards the marsh.
Fatty furrowed his eyebrows slightly, asking with some worry, "Lu Xingchen, are you sure it won’t dump us into the marsh once we enter?"
Lu Xingchen laughed. "You can absolutely rest assured!"
Fatty glanced at him, then transmitted a message to Qin Feiyang, "Boss, don’t trust his nonsense. We must stay on our guard."
Qin Feiyang subtly nodded, remaining prepared to lead everyone into the ancient castle at any moment.
Ten meters! Eight meters! Five meters! Three meters!
The marsh was getting closer and closer.
Qin Feiyang’s gaze grew more and more solemn.
SPLASH! Finally, the Alligator King entered the marsh but made no move to harm them and continued swimming straight ahead.
BOOM! In less than ten breaths, a thunderous noise echoed from behind them. Qin Feiyang and the others looked back to see the entire island shattering into pieces and rapidly sinking into the marsh.
Giant waves rolled around them! Seeing this, they all shuddered in retrospect.
Fortunately, Lu Xingchen had returned in time; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
ROAR!!!
Simultaneously, a horde of dragon crocodiles emerged from the marsh, roaring continuously towards the sky. Their roars carried a tinge of sorrow and also a hint of satisfaction, as if they were mourning the Ghost of the Crocodile Emperor.
ROAR! But suddenly, one Dragon Crocodile spotted Qin Feiyang and their group in the distance and let out an angry roar.
At this roar, all the dragon crocodiles turned their heads towards Qin Feiyang and his companions, their enormous pupils filled with anger and surprise.
Among them, twelve Dragon Crocodiles slowly swam to the front of the swarm, forming a line. All of them were more than thirty meters long. Clearly, they were Alligator Kings!
But their gazes were not on Qin Feiyang and the others, but on the Alligator King beneath their feet, their eyes full of puzzlement.
ROAR! Suddenly, one of the Alligator Kings roared at the Alligator King under their feet, as if asking why it had betrayed them and why it was helping those humans.
However, the Alligator King they were riding remained silent.
"Let’s go!" Lu Xingchen shouted in a low voice.
The Alligator King under their feet immediately turned and swam straight ahead, carrying them onward and churning up meter-high waves of sludge!
ROAR! At that moment, those twelve Alligator Kings roared in unison, leading the rest of the crocodile swarm in a frenzied pursuit of Qin Feiyang and the others. Their pupils all glinted with horrifying ferocity!
"You still dare to chase us?" Fatty’s lips curled into a sneer. "Master Fatty will ensure you never leave!"
Lu Xingchen reached out to stop Fatty, shaking his head. "Don’t kill them."
"Huh?" Fatty paused, puzzled.
Lu Xingchen said, "I promised it beforehand not to harm its kind. A man’s word is his bond."
Fatty glanced at the Alligator King under his feet and asked curiously, "How did you subdue it?"
Lu Xingchen laughed. "You could say I just got lucky."
"Well, tell us about it!" Fatty promptly sat down on the Alligator King’s back, looking expectantly at Lu Xingchen.

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