Seeing Firestone Venerable hesitate to advance out of fear, the remaining ancient demons also began harboring their own thoughts. Frowning inwardly, they released puppets and cautiously sent them forward to probe.
But very soon.
A strange scene appeared.
The moment these puppets entered the "secret chamber," they seemed to fall under the control of some bizarre spirit restriction. They involuntarily plunged headlong into the blood pool, only to be instantly "devoured" and vanish without a trace.
At this sight, the demons' expressions changed slightly, and they all retreated several steps in unison.
"This secret chamber is strange?" Seeing this, Wei Tu also felt a few more traces of dread in his heart. The look he gave the Redfeather Ghost Insect King grew subtly colder.
Had these puppets not tested the way for him, he might have rashly entered this place out of consideration for cooperating with the Redfeather Ghost Insect King... and the outcome would likely not have been good.
These puppets were his warning from the overturned cart ahead!
Whether it had been unintentional or deliberate, the Redfeather Ghost Insect King had not warned him at all about the dangers within this "secret chamber."
—It was not as simple as it had made itself appear.
At this moment, the Redfeather Ghost Insect King seemed to sense Wei Tu's displeasure. The divine sense it used to communicate with Wei Tu carried noticeably more agitation.
"The strangeness of this blood pool has nothing whatsoever to do with me. I, too, was trapped within the blood pool... There seems to be something else hidden inside it. By my estimation, it is highly likely to be the remnant souls of those immortals who fell in the Radiant Victory Realm..."
The Redfeather Ghost Insect King explained, once again pointing the source of danger toward