"Oh? Are you prison envoys discussing something?"
Just as Huaxia Country was about to decide on its candidates, a voice resounded within everyone's minds, sending chills through their entire bodies.
Inside the cave, where Zhu Huan, Wan Mo, and the priest had jointly erected barriers, a gaunt man slowly emerged from the depths. Yet not a single barrier had been broken. Wherever his feet touched the stone floor, the smooth white surface corroded away, exposing the rotten decay beneath.
"How is that possible?!"
The first to act the instant he appeared was unexpectedly Raphael, the timid one with the weakest strength.
A ring of text automatically wrote itself across Raphael's face. She floated up from the ground, her red lips moving faintly as though whispering in an unknown language.
"Forbidden Release: Elven Star Language."
Crystalline spheres of light abruptly emerged from Raphael's body. However, they were not aimed at Xie Min before them, but scattered in every direction, merging into the surface of the Stone Realm's land.
Xie Min temporarily halted his steps toward the group and looked with great interest at the golden-haired woman's Forbidden Release.
No one present dared act rashly. They slowly waited for Raphael to complete her move. In her Forbidden Release form, an elf's connection deepened to its utmost limit. The vital origins of all things could hear Raphael's call.
Everything within the Stone Realm—every stone, every blade of grass, every patch of clear water—produced glowing spheres from within in response to Raphael's summons. They floated toward the mountain ravine, numbering in the millions, perhaps even tens of millions.
The priest stared at Raphael in her current state. It was his first time seeing such an incomparably holy body.
One sphere after another reached the cave, ignoring the mountain's obstruction as they entered and approached