Chen Shi stared at the wellhead and said with some nervousness, "What kind of thing is going to crawl out? Are those withered bones?"
Houtu slipped away much too quickly in Emptiness World, leaving many matters unexplained.
Chen Shi gathered his wits and said in a low voice, "First of all, the white-bone horsetail whisk is one of the treasures suppressing the skeletons at the bottom of the well. Taking the treasure away will make it difficult to suppress those skeletons. Secondly, there will be the remains of great fiends taking the opportunity to break through the Wuji Diagram's suppression and crawl out from the well. We must guard the wellhead, beat whatever crawls out back down, and keep it up until the Goddess returns this treasure."
He frowned slightly. Were the skeletons in the well the remains of those great fiends who had charged into the heavenly court and shattered the Heavenly Mystery Codex?
He suddenly had a strong urge to return to the heavenly court. Although the heavenly soldiers' camp would be dragged out by Heavenly King Li to act as cannon fodder, there was at least still a chance of survival, because Heavenly King Li didn't get a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers swallowed in one gulp by demons every single time.
But staying here to guard this well was definitely far more perilous!
At that moment, the sound of water came splashing out of the well abruptly.
The thing in the well was clearly the Wuji Diagram formed from Primal Yellow Ancestral Breath—inordinately heavy, yet at the same time extraordinarily light. How could it make the sound of water?
Chen Shi's heartbeat spiked abruptly. Not daring to look directly at what was happening in the well, he inched closer instead, watching out of the corner of his