Xia Yimei secretly drew a cold breath. From the sound of it, demons, monsters, and freaks were gathered inside in droves. She had already arrived too late.
If she left now, it would weaken her momentum, and she would surely be besieged.
Without further thought, she tapped a finger against the mining foreman's back. A ghostly cold gleam rose in his eyes, his bones crackled like frying beans, his body shot up another notch, and his limbs thickened by a full circle.
Sleeping with one of Bliss Dao's demonesses never ended well. There were countless ways to use a cultivation furnace; the mining foreman's life had been set straight at last.
The mining foreman led the way, striding into the formation, with Xia Yimei close behind him.
"Brother, what do we do?"
"Heh, now I'm your brother? Before this, you kept calling me Second Brother."
"Second Brother, what do we do?"
"..."
Xiao He was speechless. They were already here—what else could they do? If they turned and ran now, did they believe dozens of blades would not come stabbing at them all at once?
"They're all Demonic Beings and crooked paths. No need to fear them—we are too. Let's go in and broaden our horizons."
He took the lead into the formation. Xiang Yuan followed, his vision wavering briefly. Once they passed through the eye-bewildering illusion formation, the view suddenly opened up before them.
At the center of the vast open plaza, sixteen silvery-white chains crisscrossed in the layout of a Bagua formation. Each chain was as wide as an arm and plunged deep underground. They were not physical objects, but constructs formed of energy, suppressing the surging radiance below and preventing the strange treasure from emerging.
No one knew when the formation had been set up. It had