The core of the planet was in upheaval. The terrifying black shadow within the Annihilation light sphere let out an earth-shaking roar, and the entire space trembled and cracked beneath its fury! Chains of laws clattered as they tightly bound the crystal coffin and restrained the light sphere below, as though preventing the shadow from breaking free completely.
"Leave! Hurry!" The thought transmitted by that remnant fragment of Xuan's soul was filled with desperate urgency.
"Captain! The seal is about to collapse! That thing is coming out!" Yun Yi's face had gone pale as he threw all his strength into maintaining the formation against the terrifying pressure leaking out. Bao Bao flickered wildly with silver light, huddling tightly beside Li Wuyang.
Ahead lay an unknown terror about to awaken, while behind them, the Taotie Demon Lord's pursuit was about to arrive. Retreat seemed like the only rational choice. Staying here meant certain death!
Yet as Li Wuyang looked at the lifeless crystal coffin pierced through by chains, then at the faint silver light at Xuan's brow that was about to go out, his heart felt as though it were being torn apart. He had gone through untold hardship to reach this place—to find Xuan's true body! Was he supposed to stand by and watch her remain suppressed, perhaps even be seized or destroyed by the Taotie Demon Lord?
No! Never!
A mad idea instantly took shape in his mind! He would gamble! Gamble that the seal could hold a little longer, that the black shadow could not break free at once, and that he could exploit the brief gap before the Taotie Demon Lord arrived! He would... try to sever the chains and take Xuan's coffin away!
"Yun Yi! Bao Bao! Return the way we came immediately and wait outside