Beneath Stone Lotus Island.
Tunnels like ant nests stretched in every direction, all extending and converging at the very bottom before an oval gate.
The deathly pale gate was round, with an S-shaped seam down the middle. Its sides were bordered by peculiar frames resembling purple crystals, faintly glowing violet.
Before the gate stood two purple rock bat monsters, identical to the stone sculptures Wei He and the others had seen before.
Just as the True Persons of the Haining Alliance and Xuanmiao Sect arrived on the island, a wisp of white smoke slowly seeped out through the crack in the gate.
The white smoke passed through the gate, through deep tunnels and passageways, over one stone chamber after another, one hidden passage lined with statues after another, swiftly reaching the deepest part.
At the very heart of the Yin Beast Relic stood a circular wall covered in enormous purple patterns.
At the center of the wall was a carved, blurred face.
The face seemed human, yet dense black snakes coiled around both sides of it.
Hiss.
The white smoke slowly clung to it, seeping into the human-faced sculpture.
Gradually, the face stirred. The black snakes at its sides, like long hair, also began to move slowly, hissing as they did.
The face slowly opened its eyes, and dense threads of white smoke crept from its mouth, eyes, and ears.
Countless streams of white smoke gradually shrouded the entire stone hall. An indescribable tremor slowly spread throughout the relic.
The white smoke was saturated with a poison far more potent than that of ordinary Yin Beasts.
This human-faced Yin Beast had existed here for over a thousand years.
It was vastly, vastly stronger than the Yin Beasts found in ordinary Yin Beast Relics. Even ordinary Perfected True Persons were mere