"It looks somewhat like a talisman formation that developed its own consciousness. That would explain things." Patriarch Kongji had also seen through some of the clues.
All three old monsters were rare powerhouses within the several realms, and to have cultivated to their current heights, they had weathered countless battles.
Once the three gathered together, piecing things together with a word from one and a word from another, they roughly reconstructed what had truly happened.
The only difference was that Lu Xiaotian had not escaped with the aid of the grand formation. Instead, he had used himself as bait and entered the jade qilin beast's mouth of his own accord.
Without outside interference, with Lu Xiaotian's projection avatar already having burned away most of its strength, it would only be a matter of time before the jade qilin beast forcibly digested it.
Including Mu Xia, their lives and deaths would eventually rest on a single thought from the talisman beast.
However, by comparison, Lu Xiaotian would rather let Mu Xia place herself in such a perilous situation than allow her to fall into the hands of Thousand Tribulations Punishment Lord and the other powerhouses.
"The purity of the jade qi here resembles the vanished Annihilation Origin Lightning Jade Pool. And it seems to be the highest-grade kind.
"If this really is that thing, capturing Mu Xia this time will be subject to many more uncontrollable variables." Worry clouded Jade Radiance Hall Venerable's face.
"The Annihilation Origin Lightning Jade Pool? That's something that only occasionally appears in the Pasturelands. How could we encounter it here?"
Thousand Tribulations Punishment Lord looked astonished. The Pasturelands were vast, and the power of thunder and lightning within them was distributed extremely widely. Since they bordered many lower realms, turbulence often arose between the different realms,