Outside the main peak's cave abode, the atmosphere was so heavy it seemed ready to drip water.
Yun Xiao had already chosen to enter seclusion. The cave abode's stone doors crashed shut, sealing off the inside from the outside.
Faint traces of Dao resonance still lingered upon those stone doors, left by Lin Feng's fingertips as they brushed across them. Like an invisible seal, they proclaimed the importance of this place.
The sisters Bi Xiao and Qiong Xiao stood guard at the entrance like two anxious wife-watching stones, not even daring to breathe too loudly.
Time trickled by, drop by drop.
Bi Xiao was ultimately the more impatient one. Unable to hold back any longer, she began pacing anxiously on the spot. Her exquisite skirt swayed back and forth with her movements, stirring up the spiritual mist blanketing the ground.
"Second Sister, what do we do?! Elder Sister... she'll be all right, won't she?"
There was a tremor in Bi Xiao's voice that even she had not noticed. Her lively beautiful eyes were fixed on the tightly shut stone doors, as though she wanted to see through them.
"She's been in there for so long, and there hasn't been a single sound! This Inner Demon... it sounds terrifying just hearing about it!"
Qiong Xiao also furrowed her delicate brows, her peerlessly beautiful face full of worry, though she was steadier than Bi Xiao.
"An Inner Demon is inherently the most perilous barrier on the cultivation path." Qiong Xiao's voice was low, carrying a trace of helplessness. "Ordinary Inner Demons are nothing more than invasions by external evils or disharmony in one's Dao arts; there are still signs to follow. But Elder Sister's condition this time is completely different."
Qiong Xiao paused, her tone growing even heavier.
"It is a demonic