After entering the small door, the Nether Soldiers and Corpse Slaves did not continue pursuing them. They merely stood outside and howled, clearly fearful of this small door and not daring to charge in.
Princess Lanfei also retreated through the small door and asked anxiously, "What do we do now? All the Nether Soldiers and Corpse Slaves in the entire demon palace have been alarmed. If we go out, we'll undoubtedly die."
"I don't think this is going to be a good place either."
Ning Xiaochuan turned around and looked deeper through the small door. He sensed some strange sound coming from its depths.
Ning Xiaochuan felt that the world beyond this small door would be even more terrifying than outside.
Ning Xiaochuan said, "Why didn't they attack you? Could it be that they only attack those who take treasures from the demon palace?"
Ning Xiaochuan took out the crimson pill cauldron and set it on the ground. Sure enough, the Nether Soldiers and Corpse Slaves all calmed down, as though they could no longer see Ning Xiaochuan at all. Their gazes became vacant, and they each left.
Just as he had thought.
Before Ning Xiaochuan could breathe a sigh of relief, a huge, bloody claw suddenly stretched out from behind the small door, seized the Ancient Pill Cauldron, and dragged it inside.
"What was that?"
Ning Xiaochuan chased after it, his whole body wrapped in lightning as his speed grew faster and faster. He pursued the bloody claw and the cauldron for over a hundred meters before abruptly stopping, struck by a soul-shaking sight! This was a vast, dark space filled with a pungent stench of blood. At the center of the space floated an enormous heart, more than ten thousand times larger than an ordinary human heart, like