The Demon Race Appears

"Some things are better left untold. Telling him would only bring him more trouble. Besides, I know you won't kill him!" the Seven-Colored Exquisite Heart said with certainty.

"I'd like to know what gave you the confidence to think I wouldn't attack this human. You know that, as a member of the demon race, what I hate most is humans!" As the woman's voice rang out, countless pale-white tentacles silently spread from both sides of the passage Lin Chuan occupied, creeping toward him.

Yet at that moment, the Seven-Colored Exquisite Heart softly transmitted a few words, causing the restless tentacles to abruptly freeze before slowly retracting.

The next moment, the Seven-Colored Exquisite Heart transmitted another message, but the other side fell silent. It was not until roughly the time it took an incense stick to burn that the woman's voice sounded again.

"Fine. If it is truly as you say, then I'm willing to make this deal!"

"Then it's a deal," the Seven-Colored Exquisite Heart said softly.

Lin Chuan continued cautiously forward along the labyrinth's passage. It seemed as though nothing had changed, yet in truth, everything had begun to change.

In the dark passage, a cultivator sat cross-legged, concealing all of his aura as though he did not exist at all. He wore a black robe embroidered with red clouds, giving him a rather mysterious appearance.

He had sat cross-legged here for a long time, waiting. As for what he was waiting for, even he himself did not know.

But just then, several faint voices drifted over from a fork in the passage.

"What's going on? I feel like I've descended nearly thirty kilometers from the surface to get here. That's completely different from what our demon race elders said!"

"That's right. The elders of my clan also told