"----!?"
The sudden voice startled all the Seven-star Professionals, who had been completely immersed in Wang Yi's explanation, making them tense up.
Only Elder Ling seemed to have detected the other party's presence a step ahead of them. He lifted his eyes and stared straight ahead.
It was at this moment that everyone belatedly realized they had already passed through the previous passage and arrived in a vast space.
It was a sacrificial ground.
It was a spacious yet eerie sacrificial ground surrounded by walls on all sides, with an extremely high ceiling, resembling a massive underground cavern.
At the very center of the sacrificial ground stood an altar.
The altar was enormous and extremely tall. Dark stains covered it in places, and it exuded a faint smell of blood, telling anyone who saw it how much blood had soaked into it in the past.
Especially at this moment, a huge mass of blood was suspended above the altar. Guided by a gigantic scarlet sword floating in midair, it was slowly being injected into the altar.
As the blood seeped into the altar, blood-colored patterns and cracks began to appear across it, as though something were about to crawl out from within. The air throughout the sacrificial ground became unusually oppressive and heavy.
Seeing this, all the Seven-star Professionals, including Elder Ling, tensed up.
Because they knew what this scene represented.
Wang Yi's expression changed drastically, and he shouted.
"Not good! That scarlet sword is the Blade of Great Sin! A divine artifact representing death!"
"It's guiding the 'blood' used as a sacrifice to break the seal!"
"Stop it, quickly!"
Upon hearing this, not one person present hesitated. They all erupted with astonishing momentum and aura.
However, just as the Seven-star Professionals were preparing to strike, several figures appeared before