Inside the underground cavern dwelling.
The dim space was shrouded in swirling smoke and rising mist.
Holding the Spirit Slaying Blood Jade in his hand, Old Man Heavenly Mystery and the others raced through the underground cavern dwelling, following the sensing of the blood-red smoke drifting up from it.
"This Spirit Slaying Blood Jade can not only avoid the restrictions within the cavern dwelling, but can actually resonate with the Tai Ling Scripture? That kid who auctioned off the blood jade may have asked a steep price, but he was at least honest."
The Sect Leader of Zhao Kingdom's Feng Han Sect held the Spirit Slaying Blood Jade. When he followed the sensing of its smoky aura and detected a trace of the Tai Ling Scripture, he was overjoyed.
"Yes! This ancestor also thinks he was fairly honest!"
Suddenly, a gust of chilling wind swept past, and a sinister, terrifying voice sounded behind him.
"Who is it?"
The Sect Leader of Feng Han Sect hurriedly turned around.
Behind him, blood-red clouds churned as a figure resembling a dried corpse emerged from within them.
Endless savagery poured from his pitch-black eyes, while the pale white teeth in his shriveled mouth radiated an icy chill.
"Kaoshan Anc—"
At the sight of that terrifying figure, the Sect Leader of Feng Han Sect cried out. Before he could finish, the surging blood clouds swept over him, engulfing him in crimson radiance.
"Demon... Life... Grand... Art!"
Like a strange mutter from a nightmare, the blood-red light boiled. Faintly, miserable shrieks could be heard, as though someone within the clouds was struggling desperately.
A moment later, the blood clouds dispersed, and Kaoshan Ancestor's figure reappeared.
His shriveled body seemed to have filled out somewhat. He no longer looked like a skeleton, and his body had become