Inside the conference quiet room, the Authority Priests and Grand Elders looked at one another, every face solemn, yet no one spoke.
At last, Second Grand Authority Priest Tong Na said, "Grand Elder Wu will brief you on the specifics.
"But, Ye Zhen, as someone specially authorized by His Majesty's Imperial Decree, you may know of this matter. But you must keep it to yourself and absolutely not spread it.
"A leak of information would be one thing. If it caused panic, that would be the real disaster!"
"Cause panic?"
Ye Zhen's pupils abruptly contracted. Those few words alone showed that the situation was even more serious than he had imagined.
"The formation passage within the third layer of Bloodlight Aura you brought back, as well as the Archaic Formation Patterns within it, are even more profound than the Archaic Formation Patterns emitted from the second layer of Bloodlight Aura.
"After I and the others consulted the secret archives of Great Zhou and the Ancestral God Hall, then compared and studied them carefully, we still failed to reach a definite conclusion.
"However, according to our Ancestral God Hall's research into Archaic Formation Patterns, the extremely strange formation passage and Archaic Formation Patterns within that third layer of Bloodlight Aura can serve only three possible purposes," Grand Elder Wu Lian said.
"What three?"
"The first possibility is the input of energy. Beneath this third layer of Bloodlight Aura, supreme blood essence and Negative Energy are being used to condense or nurture one, perhaps even several, Innate Spirit Treasures of immense power. Or perhaps dozens or hundreds of Houtian Supreme Treasures whose might rivals Xiantian Spiritual Treasures.
"Whether it is an Innate Spirit Treasure maturing into a Xiantian Spiritual Treasure or a Houtian Supreme Treasure, what is being nurtured here must be