Outside Dank City, inside an abandoned castle.
The formation on the ground was covered in tree roots. At its center, the defective Ancient God's Son had become completely wooden, frozen in the pose of roaring at the sky. All the black tentacles on its body had split open, and the eyeballs at their tips had widened to their limits, tearing apart the surrounding sockets.
The Ancient God's Son had fallen utterly silent. Su Xiao did not approach to inspect it. Recklessly stepping into the formation's range would be dangerous—the roots of the Rampant Growth of Madness recognized neither friend nor foe.
The plan could be considered a success, though its results were somewhat worse than expected. The original plan had been to severely injure the Ancient God inside the seal. Even if it did not reach the brink of death, its combat strength had to be drastically reduced.
Judging from the disturbance that had just appeared, the Ancient God inside the seal had indeed suffered a severe injury.
Su Xiao was not disappointed by this outcome. The Ancient God inside the seal had not directly touched the rag stained with the Undying Old Man's source blood or the roots of the Rampant Growth of Madness. Instead, it had touched both indirectly through the Ancient God's Son.
Even so, the commotion just now had been immense. This showed how dangerous the Undying Old Man and the Rampant Growth of Madness were.
Though the contact had been indirect, the Ancient God inside the seal had only been severely injured. Its strength might not have been affected much at all. This meant that the Ancient God inside the seal would be difficult to deal with. It had already accumulated power within the seal for several hundred years.
Overall, this test had gone fairly