"Trying to run? Not so fast!" Jian Fan said coldly, staring toward the altar in the Life Seizing Arena. He looked at the two black-robed envoys and Lang Yue and the others, silently asking what they thought.
"After them!" one of the black-robed envoys replied, his face livid.
The other injured black-robed envoy had also put aside his resentment toward Jian Fan and the others for standing by and doing nothing. He gave a slight nod.
Lang Yue and the others naturally agreed. They had already been planning to kill Li Yi, and they couldn't bear to give up that humanoid crystal, either.
In an instant, Jian Fan and the others flew onto the altar in the Life Seizing Arena. A beam of light enveloped them from above, and they disappeared.
"Hmph. We're going after them too." The Thousand Fire Monarch's eyes blazed as he barked an order to his subordinates, then gave chase.
In the blink of an eye, more than half the people remaining in the central hall had left.
"Li Yi asked me about the Life Seizing Arena from the very beginning. And from the looks of it, he knows about the other trials, too. He chose the Life Seizing Arena at the last moment, so he must have made preparations." The Woman in Red stood in the central hall, her expression shifting as she hesitated. In the end, she decided not to follow.
The Life Seizing Arena was exactly what its name suggested: a perilous place that took people's lives. As one of the Nine Trials of the Yellow Springs, it was indeed dangerous beyond measure.
It rained there all the time—crimson rain that stained the mountains red, the water red, the plants and trees red, and everything else red.
"Red," or rather "blood," was