That glimmer represented the woman's last shred of hope, perhaps because of the child in her arms.
The child looked only three or four years old.
His eyes were huge, still holding a pure innocence. No blood threads from the Blood Demon Grand Formation were connected to his body, because he had been born after the Blood Demon Grand Formation had been completed.
Sikong Jing had long noticed that there were some children within the Blood Demon Grand Formation.
As long as they were under ten years old, none of them had been bound by the Blood Demon Grand Formation.
They were free. They were not formation foundations. The children had been born inside the Blood Demon Grand Formation.
At that moment, the old man whom the woman called Patriarch gave a miserable smile and said, "There won't be any more. We waited here for more than ten years, and at last, people came—but those called Chai Jiu and Chai Ren only wanted to kill us for sport."
"What hope can we possibly have? Not one of those who enters the formation is any good."
Just as Sikong Jing had thought, when they saw the Chai brothers more than ten days ago, they had been full of hope.
More than ten years had passed. At last, they had seen people capable of entering the Blood Demon Grand Formation.
Yet the outcome had proven that all their bitter waiting had brought them was even more terrifying suffering. At least over the past decade or so, they had not been controlled again, nor had the vitality and strength in their bodies been drained away.
But Chai Jiu had controlled them, thereby activating the Blood Demon Grand Formation.
The person ahead who had already been torn apart by the Five Demons had drained