At the entrance of the Huangquan Road gathered a lot pf people, waiting for the Zhong families－the most familiar ones to the road－to take action first. After all, the Huangquan Road was one of the twelve death places which would take their lives easily.
The Zhong people, together with the Fentian disciples, were the nearest to the wellhead. Everyone was watching them, including Zhang Yan. All of a sudden, a monk, with a huge bunch of Budda beads on his neck and a small one on his hand, uttered, "Amitabha! Well, there must be a first one and let me be it!", then he jumped into the well.
Zhong Xu suggested with a smile, "Let's stop hesitating and go after the Reverend Huijue of the Small Buddhism School!" He jumped into the well as well as his families and Fentian disciples.
Therefore, the other warriors began to follow them into the well. Not in a hurry, Zhang Yan still stood calmly, but the Anti-Soul Beast abruptly warned him, "Sir, someone is searching for you though soul energy, maybe intending to find you troubles!"
He responded with a nod, "I killed Mo Ning yesterday and they must be from the Qingming School and the Qinglong School. "
"One of them holds very high cultivation, probably around the sixth level of Martial King State. Do you want me to get rid of them?" The beast asked.
Shaking his head, he answered, "No, leave them aside and let's go into the Huangquan Road first. By the way, I need contests to improve my strength and your help all the time is not good for my cultivation, so you never join my battle unless the key times!" He bounced into the well among the crowd.
Darkness filled the well up. He felt like the time was suspended at this moment and the space was changing, which arose his excitement. Only after a second, strange brightness greeted him and he knew he was on the Huangquan Road already.
As the first time to be here, both curiosities and fears climbed up in his heart, so he just looking around, daring not to take actions rashly.
The sky in the Huangquan Road was stained dimly bloody-red by the setting sun. Everything here on the rock-and-sand ground was covered with a layer of dark red. There was a woods in the distant. Different from the outside world, the trees were bare, as if in a drought.
The others also saw the strangeness and some of them began to went around to explore, some were scared to want to return back, but they couldn't find the way they came in. Now they knew why it was also called No Return Road, because there was no way to return.
"We can't go back! Oh, what are we gonna do?! Are we dying here?" Someone exclaimed with great fear.
Zhang Yan also felt strange and asked, "Right, how can we get out? And the sun in the sky is so strange, why?"
The Anti-Soul Beast immediately explained, "The entrance and exit are two ways and we have to find another well exactly same as the entrance one to get out. The two wells have a kind of connection and are called Yinyang Wells, the one in the Fengdu City is the Yang Well, the entrance and the other, Yin Well, the exit."
"As for the sun in the sky, I don't know what its origin either, but I got to know it is different from the sun outside. It falls once a year, which lasts one month and this period of time is the most dangerous during the year, for the road will be wrapped by absolute darkness with the most yin. And it seems the sun is about to fall these days, the darkness is approaching. " The beast worried with a serious face."
Zhang Yan continued to ask, "Then where is the Yin Well?"
"It was located in the Luofu Mountain in the south, which, however, is the territory of the Ghost Emperor, so not everyone can live to find the well. Besides, I don't know where we are now and we can only rely on the Guiding Soul Chook or the compass to distinguish the direction."
The Beast patted the chook in its arms, "It's your turn now!"
But before the chook started to distinguish the direction, several beams of killing message had locked Zhang Yan. He looked over and found Ming Hai, Long Tian and some others from the Qingming School and the Qinglong School were staring at him too, waiting for the crowd leaving.
Sure enough, after a while, the Zhong people were heading for a direction, followed by a large part of the warriors who considered it would be safer to be together with Zhong Xu. The other few also left after deciding the direction with compass. Yan Luo came to Zhang Yan and asked, "Take care! I have to go."
To Zhang Yan's strange, the Meng families did not follow the Zhong people, but left alone.
Deciding to move as well, Zhang Yan asked the Purifying Lotus, "We are in the Huangquan Road now and how to find the Huangquan?"
"There are five mountains in the road, under the control of five Ghost Emperors respectively. The Huangquan is in the Baodu Mountain, located in the center of the road, so we have to go to the center." The lotus replied.
Therefore, he made the chook discern the direction and ran after it. The Reincarnation Ship, however, was at the Ghost Gate, opposite to the Baodu Mountain, so he had separated the crowd.
Ming Hai timed the chance right and ordered, "Catch up, and kill him!"
But the Qinglong elders advised after they noticed Zhang Yan was rushing opposite to the ship, "But he's running in an opposite direction to the Ghost Gate. If we can't pass the gate in time and find the Naihe Bridge, we will miss the Reincarnation Ship!"
"Don't worry! It's easy for me to kill a Xiantian-level disciple and we won't be late!" Min Hai set his mind up to take Zhang Yan's life, so he quickly chased after him.