After stuffing the square stone into Luo Zheng's body, the last bit of white membrane remaining outside him suddenly opened.
A flash of blue light darted out of the membrane. It was a thumb-sized bolt of lightning.
That was Lei Sha's true form...
Lei Sha had now shrunk to such a tiny size that the uncanny could snuff it out without lifting a finger.
But the uncanny seemed to have no intention of taking Lei Sha's life. After retracting the remaining white membrane into Luo Zheng's body, it simply strode away.
The thumb-sized Lei Sha had never expected the uncanny to spare it. After a moment of stunned hesitation, it abruptly realized that this was no safe place.
Its strength was now so feeble that anyone in the immortal realm could kill it!
Crackle!
Despite its diminished size, Lei Sha fled quite quickly, turning into a streak of lightning and vanishing from everyone's sight.
Within Luo Zheng's mind, both he and Primal Celestial Venerable were bewildered to see Lei Sha escape unscathed.
The uncanny was certainly no benevolent creature. Why had it let Lei Sha live?
"The uncanny's actions have been unpredictable from the very beginning. Let's wait for the Heaven's Mandate Civilization to decipher what it said first," Primal Celestial Venerable said.
After obtaining the square stone, the uncanny had let out a wail. To Luo Zheng's ears, however, that wail sounded like a low chant. Naturally, he would not let the uncanny's words slip past him. He quickly sent the chant into the World Within for the Heaven's Mandate Civilization to decipher.
Perhaps the Heaven's Mandate Civilization had grown accustomed to the peculiarities of the uncanny's language, or perhaps this utterance was simply short enough. Before long, they delivered an answer. "He said the name of this stone.