He opened the box. Although the Crimson Spirit Fruit was gone, a trace of spiritual energy still lingered on the wooden box.
He held the wooden box up before him and discovered that when its spiritual energy encountered the surrounding demonic energy, it glimmered faintly, as if repelling it. That put him slightly at ease—at least with this wooden box, the demonic energy would not invade his body for the time being.
After walking for about another hour, the passage suddenly widened, opening into a broad clearing ahead.
In the light of the Glowing Coral, the lines on the ground grew increasingly dense. Black mist faintly seeped from those lines—the very source of the demonic energy.
Lin Taichu slowed down and carefully examined the lines.
The lines he had seen outside had been scattered, but here, they connected into one mass, like a gigantic net covering the ground.
At the center of the lines stood a circular stone engraved with intricate patterns. Black demonic energy seeped out from the cracks in the stone.
A Yan pointed at the stone and lowered his voice. "What is that? All the demonic energy is coming from there!"
Lin Taichu took two steps forward. When he was still three zhang away from the stone, he suddenly felt a powerful pull—not drawing in people, but the demonic energy around it. The patterns on the stone were slowly rotating, and with every turn, more demonic energy leaked out.
He suddenly understood. This stone was the core of the seal!
The lakebed seal the King had mentioned must have been this Formation made up of lines and stone.
Now that the Formation had loosened, the patterns on the stone were turning, creating cracks in the seal. That was why demonic energy was leaking out and drawing the