The fluctuations left by the dissipating giant bird made Lin Ming's eyes narrow slightly.
His Emperor Realm Soul followed the trail of those fluctuations, extending in that direction.
And within his Soul Perception, in that direction, in that extremely deep place, a terrifying aura was now slowly... spreading out!
That aura was extremely faint at first, so faint that if Lin Ming had not possessed an Emperor Realm Soul, he probably would have found it difficult to detect.
But as those fluctuations merged into it, that aura began to grow denser bit by bit at a speed visible to the naked eye!
The strangest part was that there was not the slightest trace of vitality in that aura!
It was an aura of... deathly stillness, an ancient and desolate aura that had slept for who knew how many tens of thousands of years!
Just like that, within Lin Ming's perception, it slowly, as though awakening from slumber, spread outward bit by bit from deep underground!
At first, only Lin Ming could sense that aura.
But as time passed, that aura spread more and more densely, more and more intensely. Gradually, it was no longer limited to Lin Ming's perception, but began to spread toward the entire Demon Phoenix Realm!
The first to notice it were the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan elders with higher cultivation.
One by one, they stopped weeping, looks of uncertainty and shock appearing on their faces as their gazes all shot toward that direction—the place even deeper than the Demon Transformation Grounds.
Immediately afterward, more and more Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members sensed that aura.
They all raised their heads and looked in that direction, the grief on their faces gradually replaced by shock and doubt.
Was that not the Demon Transformation Grounds? Was that not the