Huang Xie and Xiao Ming both looked at the marks on their hands with strange looks on their faces.
That was because these two marks were...two halves of a heart.
These were marks that a pair of lovers might get with each other.
Xiao Ming looked up at the two in front of them, but they just looked at her with a smile on their faces as if they weren't bothered by what they had done.
Xiao Ming wanted to say something, but the woman said, "Our time is running out, so we won't say anything else."
The way that she said this was almost as if she was trying to run away, but they didn't give Xiao Ming or Huang Xie any time to react at all.
The man raised his hand and said, "This is the way out. As long as you take this gate, then you'll be able to leave this tower of trials."
As he said this, there was this door of light that appeared in front of them.
After this door of light appeared, the man added, "We'll maintain the cover in this place, so you can discuss anything you want to discuss. We'll leave you to it."
Then with a knowing smile, he put his arm around the woman and the two of them started to fade. As they were fading, the woman looked at Huang Xie and Xiao Ming with a faint smile on her face that was just like the one that the man gave.
Before either Xiao Ming or Huang Xie could say anything to deny this, the two of them disappeared.
Xiao Ming and Huang Xie were left standing there in that room alone.
The two of them looked at each other with bitter looks on their faces, but they didn't say anything about how those two had left.
Instead, the two of them looked at the door in front of them for a bit before Xiao Ming said, "What should we talk about?"
Huang Xie looked at the door in silence for a few seconds before saying, "I guess we should discuss what we should do when we leave this place."
Xiao Ming gave a nod before saying, "But what do you have in mind?"
Huang Xie fell silent at this.
After a moment of silence, he finally said, "Well, there's something that I'm thinking of..."
...
There were less and less points of view that were available to watch in the square.
That was because more and more people had finished their run in the tower of trial.
It wasn't just one or two people that were able to make it to the end, there were many different people that were able to make it to the end.
However, they didn't have the same situation happen to them where they were brought to a separate space like Huang Xie and Xiao Ming. Instead, they arrived in a room that had a single statue in the center of it.
This room was just like the one that they had appeared in when they entered the tower.
This statue congratulated them on completing the tower before giving them a score.
All of them were surprised that the tower ended this simply, but there wasn't anything for them to say as they were sent out of the tower by the statue. They didn't even have a say in it as the statue sent them out as soon as it said that it was sending them out.
There was no mention of seeing their disciples at all.
It seemed like the Martial Might Sect had no intention of letting them meet their disciples, much less letting them meet them.
But many sects had misgivings about this.
After all, the Martial Might Sect had stated that only the top hundred would make it to the next round. That meant that most of the others had been eliminated by this second round.
Since they were eliminated, there was no need for them to be isolated by the Martial Might Sect any longer.
Yet there was no mention of the disciples being released.
Many of the sects even thought that their disciples were being held hostage by the Martial Might Sect for some reason, though they had no idea what that reason was.
So there wasn't anyone that left the square.
Instead, it was the Martial Might Sect group that seemed like they were planning to leave.
It was just that before they could leave...
"Where are our disciples?"
Someone took the opportunity to directly question the Martial Might Sect.
It was the sect master of one of the smaller sects who had asked this question.
It seemed like he had nothing to lose from asking this, but the others also moved a bit closer as if they were supporting this person. It seemed that many people had begun losing trust in the Martial Might Sect during this time.
The group from the Martial Might Sect wanted to ignore this, but they couldn't since they could see that there were many sects that were looking at them in the same way. They knew that if they didn't address this, it would be worse for them,
So the elder who was the host said, "They are currently being kept in an isolated place to help them recover from the Soul Tower of Trials. The Soul Tower of Trials is a place where one enters with the soul, so we have to take this step to help them stabilize their souls. Once their souls have been stabilized, we will send them out to you."
All of the sect masters and elders had looks of doubt when they heard this, but it was the Martial Might Sect that they were dealing with.
Still, that sect master asked, "How long will it take?"
The elder who was the host calmly said, "It'll only take a few hours for this to happen, so please don't worry. They will naturally return to your residences when the time comes."
This time, Lin Fan couldn't help being surprised.
After all, the fact that they were willing to return to the disciples wasn't a good thing for them.
Lin Fan knew that the two old men were keeping the disciples away so they wouldn't find out about what happened in the first trial.
But now they were willing to let the disciples return...that meant that they most likely came up with some kind of plan to deal with them first.
So Lin Fan couldn't help being worried not just for his group, but also the group of disciples.
It was just that there was nothing to gain from acting in haste.
So Lin Fan nudged the thing that was in his sleeve and wanted it to gather more information for him.