The group advanced through the passage for a while. Along the way, they could see countless enormous stones embedded in the walls, along with arrows that glimmered with blue light.
Accompanying them were skeletal remains scattered across the floor.
"These mechanisms should only have been meant for mortals."
Xiao Yunming studied an arrow lodged in the wall for a while, then clapped his hands and said.
Yang Zhaohui, the Demon Suppression Division's Banner Commander, asked in confusion, "Even that stone gate at the entrance—how could mortals possibly have broken in?"
"Not just the entrance!"
Jin Hefeng knocked on the stone wall beside him. This long passage was actually made entirely from Essence Absorption Stone.
Xiao Hong said calmly, "If there had been another way in, why would we have spent so long struggling with that stone gate?"
"As for these mechanisms..."
He pointed at a sharp arrow embedded in the wall. A scrap of cloth hung from it.
"Perhaps they were meant to prevent the craftsmen from escaping..."
As they spoke, everyone suddenly heard a tremendous rumble coming from deep within the passage.
Following the sound, they discovered that the pitch-black passage had suddenly begun to brighten.
As they advanced, the passage gradually grew wider.
They also saw the source of the light. It was a perfectly square hall, with countless candle lamps hanging on the walls and illuminating it as brightly as day.
Ahead of them, a gigantic figure as tall as the exit blocked half the light.
Its body was tall and powerfully built, its entire form grayish white. At first glance, its head resembled a tiger's, but its mouth was a jet-black bird's beak.
A pair of semicircular beetle wings extended from its back. Its legs ended in rough, slender eagle claws, while its normal-looking hands gripped