Red Dragon Wood

At Song Weizhang's words, everyone froze.

"What was it?"

Song Shihao pressed.

"I don't know." Song Weizhang frowned. "I only saw what seemed to be a reddish-yellow, oval, egg-shaped object."

Liang Zhaohuang had already activated Heavenly Eye Insight and looked into the earthfire. Yet with the earthfire and magma blocking his view, even Heavenly Eye Insight could only see a dozen or so zhang below. He could not find that "egg-shaped object" at all.

Everyone's expressions turned extremely grim.

Clearly, everything that demonic cultivator had done had likely been for the sake of sending that "egg-shaped object" into the earthfire and magma beneath this volcano.

The demonic cultivator's initial use of demonic qi to erode and control the cultivators of New Sea Commandery—even the disciples of the various clans—had likely served two purposes. First, to plant hidden agents among New Sea Commandery and its prominent clans. Second, he likely had not wanted to take the risk himself, intending for those hidden agents to send the "egg-shaped object" into the earthfire and magma beneath the volcano.

Disciples of the various clans often guarded the volcanic crater. If one of those hidden agents, eroded and controlled by demonic qi, had secretly delivered that "egg-shaped object" into the volcano without anyone noticing, no one would likely have discovered it.

By the time the matter came to light and caused harm, even if Liang Zhaohuang and the others realized something was wrong, it would probably have been too late to stop it.

But now, because of Liang Zhaohuang and the others' investigations and purification, the clan disciples and cultivators eroded and controlled by demonic qi had all been cleared out. That was why the demonic cultivator had been forced to personally sneak into the volcano and send that reddish-yellow "egg-shaped object" inside.

Of course,