The tunnel seemed to stretch on forever, yet it also felt as though time itself were rushing past. Ye Tian had only just managed to steady the turmoil in his mind caused by the spinning world when this dark passage suddenly came to an end.
The surroundings gradually brightened, and Ye Tian slowly adjusted to the illusion around him.
The place he stood in appeared to be deep within a stone cavern. Dense stalactites covered the ceiling, and droplets occasionally seeped from the cracks between them, falling all around with soft drips.
At the deepest part of the cavern stood an enormous stone platform. Quite a few young children lay sprawled across it, each no more than six or seven years old. They were naked, with only a tattered Animal Hide riddled with holes covering their most vital parts.
Around them lay a ring of foul-smelling powder, like a sealing circle enclosing the children. It had been evenly scattered around the stone platform and looked somewhat like an array.
No, it was not an array!
Ye Tian suddenly frowned and walked several steps forward, approaching the stone platform. Once he got a clear look at the powder, he realized it likely came from some peak of Integration Stage demonic beast and contained an immensely powerful demonic aura.
Setting aside how difficult it was to kill a peak of Integration Stage demonic beast, merely scraping such powder, rich with such powerful demonic aura, from its body was likely beyond ordinary people. Even less so in such a vast quantity.
The children had been enclosed within it. Could some kind of sacrificial ritual be underway?
Though Ye Tian did not know where he had arrived, he likely had not yet left the Demon Realm. The human race was weak within the Demon