The two cautiously felt their way forward, avoiding three Bloodflame Double-Headed Hounds along the way. None of them had simple auras; all three had actually reached the Fake Core stage. According to the clay figurine's spiritual sense transmission, there were five such Fake Core-stage spirit beasts in total. However, the Blood-Banishing Gourd was too domineering. Even the Bloodflame Double-Headed Hounds could not approach it too closely, or they would likewise be affected by the Blood-Banishing Gourd. Although the Bloodflame Double-Headed Hounds had relied on the Blood Fiend Cores condensed within the Blood-Banishing Gourd to form Fake Cores, the Blood-Banishing Gourd could affect their divine senses and drive them mad, causing them to kill everything around them indiscriminately. They would not even recognize their master.
Yet what they truly had to face was a group of Blood Servants.
"Later, I'll take down the Blood Servants and buy you some time. I've tampered with the formation here. Even if the Blood Gourd Wicked Disciple is alerted, it'll still take him some time to get here. As long as you can use the Jade Toad to draw out the vital blood from the Blood-Banishing Gourd and remove its suppression of me, the Blood Gourd Wicked Disciple will lose his strongest method. It'll be much easier for me to deal with him when I return." After avoiding the Bloodflame Double-Headed Hounds, the clay figurine quickened its pace considerably.
The space within the mountain was quite vast, faintly resembling an underground castle. One man and one clay figurine, one before and one behind, turned through several bends and traveled over a dozen li before finally entering the third layer of the formation.
Yet farther in, the mountain was already completely smooth and radiant. Aside from a pool of clear water, there was nothing inside. Lu