Fourth Heavenly Venerate

"Hmm?"

Just as the Heavenly Snake Mansion was filled with excitement, a low voice carrying obvious surprise rang out from the enormous, dark abyss below, which continuously emitted a bloody scent.

That voice seemed to possess some kind of magic power. Instantly, it drowned out the cheers, causing the atmosphere to become tense once more.

Immediately afterward, countless people heard strange "gurgle... gurgle..." sounds suddenly rise from within the abyss. The sound was thick and dense, as though tens of thousands of tons of blood were rolling, boiling, and flowing at the bottom of the chasm. The scalp-numbing bloody aura accompanying it became several times denser once again!

An aura far colder, more evil, and more powerful than Shi Tian and those Hall of Souls Venerates emerged slowly from the bottomless abyss like an awakened ancient fiend, locking onto Lin Ming and Qing Lin in the sky.

Under countless gazes mixed with fear, suspicion, and shock, the sound of liquid flowing up from the bottom of the pitch-black abyss grew louder and clearer.

The sound was viscous and heavy, as if it were not ordinary water, but some... living liquid with life of its own, churning away!

After a while, a dazzling blood-red color suddenly emerged from that bottomless darkness and spread upward at tremendous speed!

At first, it was only scattered spots of scarlet. In the blink of an eye, they connected into one expanse. Finally, when the blood color rose level with the edge of the abyss, it slowly stopped.

What appeared before everyone was a boundless, horrifying blood sea, thick and scarlet enough to make one retch!

The blood sea was not still. It slowly writhed and surged, as though countless invisible giant hands were stirring beneath it. Enormous bubbles occasionally rose on its surface, releasing an