Sikong Jing nodded. He was quite confident in his ability to stay hidden, but then he gently shook his head again.
"I'm afraid it still isn't safe..."
"I'm worried those mysterious powerhouses might point out our location. I don't know whether, with my current abilities, I can hide us completely."
What worried him was not the Deep Demon Giant Tusk, but the God-Devouring Demoness and the others.
At that, the Mystic Jade Emperor frowned, then chuckled softly. "Those mysterious powerhouses probably won't bother with us."
The moment he finished speaking, Sikong Jing recounted everything that had happened at Fire Rock Mountain.
At once, the Mystic Jade Emperor's smile froze, and disbelief filled his eyes.
The reason Sikong Jing had not immediately fled the Hell Array was not only to protect the severely injured Mystic Jade Emperor. He had also wanted to properly discuss the intentions of those mysterious powerhouses with him.
To see whether the latter knew anything, or held any other hidden secrets.
The Mystic Jade Emperor had clearly said that those mysterious beings could not possibly appear in any form.
Yet they had all appeared because of him.
Even now, Sikong Jing still cared deeply about the God-Devouring Demoness's final words... One day, would he too be locked up here?
Yet after thinking for a long while, the Mystic Jade Emperor muttered...
"Such a thing has never happened before. I once wandered into the territory of a mysterious powerhouse, and he told me that those of them who were tightly locked down had almost no room to move."
"Whether it was the power of their spirit shadows or their true energy, neither could reach beyond a hundred-meter radius."
"Though they could sense the changes on the seventeenth level, not even a wisp of their consciousness could emerge. At