At that thought, I reached out to touch the stele.
Almost instantly, the stele before me dissolved, and a faint glow swallowed me whole.
Everything around me disappeared, leaving only a dim light.
The voices of Mao Jing, Pan Ling, and Zhang Yuchen kept ringing in my ears.
"Jiang Ning, Jiang Ning!"
"Brother Jiang, Brother Jiang, wake up!"
"Brother Jiang, Brother Jiang!"
Hearing their voices, I struggled to open my eyes.
Sunlight shone on my face, making it hard to keep my eyes open. An overwhelming sense of exhaustion and weakness ran through my entire body.
Their three faces came into view.
"Ou Doudou, he's awake, he's awake..."
"Brother Jiang, what happened to you just now?"
"Jiang Ning, what happened just now? Your true qi went haywire, and the meridians around your heart nearly burst."
After hearing that, I noticed a bloody taste in my throat and felt liquid trickling from my nostrils.
"I... I just... I saw a great fiend..."
I answered weakly.
At those words, shock instantly spread across all three faces.
"What? A great fiend?"
"N-no way. There's a great fiend here?"
"What exactly happened?"
"..."
All three were bewildered. Pan Ling took out a tissue and wiped beneath my nose. I had a nosebleed.
Mao Jing helped me sit up.
I nodded repeatedly.
"Th-this isn't an ordinary stele. Beneath it... beneath it, a Red-Eyed Great Fiend is sealed."
"A Red-Eyed Great Fiend?"
"Really? We... we didn't sense anything."
"..."
All three were astonished.
I kept nodding.
"It's true. Just now, I think I entered the intent realm beneath the stele. It was similar to when I entered the trial intent realm my grandmaster left on Mount Heng.
"I saw a red great fiend there..."
"Damn, I never imagined there was something like that under here!"
"This