Xiao Bai~ Your creditor's come looking for you!!
Whether because Shangguan Ce had died or because Hao Shuai had barged in, the red light source was undergoing an astonishing transformation.
Scorching air spilled out from the central red flames. One after another, the eight stone carvings of fiends surrounding the flames lit up.
An eerie red light filled the entire space. When the eighth fiend carving lit up, the desolate howls in the hall gradually turned into shrill wails that filled the whole place.
At some point, a scorching wind had begun blowing through the hall.
Almost at the same time, a deafening boom rang out. All the carvings blazed with light. In an instant, the red light seemed to take on solid form, surging up from the fiend carvings while retaining their original shapes. It transformed into a flat image of condensed red light and rose into the air.
The fiends, each with a hideous appearance, seemed to come back to life. They threw their heads back and laughed within a massive, flame-shaped ring of blood-red light. By then, the darkness in the hall had been completely driven away, and the dazzling ring illuminated every corner.
The red ring began to rotate slowly, gradually picking up speed. The wind in the hall grew more and more violent along with it. At the very center of the storm, Hao Shuai's clothes snapped in the wind.
The red ring finally rose to the ceiling and spun faster and faster beneath the plain stone slabs. Red light scattered down like rain, like blood raining from the skies of hell.
"Boom!"
After spinning so rapidly that it was almost impossible to follow, the red ring suddenly came to a complete halt, without the slightest warning. The next moment, the massive stone slabs above