The long serpent monster was only the beginning. From the moment it burst out of the ground, the strata seemed to spew forth a tide of dazzling colors. Countless venomous insects and savage beasts churned out from within, without end.
At the Northern Peak position of the Five Sacred Peaks True Form Diagram, the records said it could "guard spirits, nourish things, and broadly subdue insects and beasts." Among its restraining arts was one for driving beasts and commanding insects, called the Grand Profound Nether Turbid Spirit Divine Seal. The beasts and insects within this divine seal were no ordinary creatures. The restraining art gathered all manner of vicious spirits, shattered and kneaded them into fragments, then catalyzed them into countless aberrant species never seen in the outside world, each incomparably savage and poisonous.
Zhao Ziyue blended the demonic aura he possessed into his blood and seeped it underground. This was, in truth, no different from poking a hornet's nest. Tens of thousands of creatures born from the restraining art surged out, flying or crawling, like a black cloud rising from nowhere. Some plunged straight into the Yin Illusion Fire. Though they did not die at once, they still had the strength to writhe, pounce, leap, and choose their prey to devour.
Even the two female cultivators were startled by this spectacle. Zhao Ziyue seized the chance, neither retreating nor dodging, but charging straight into the sea of fire ahead as he rushed to kill Miaoxiang.
His courage was commendable, but the disparity in cultivation was vast. Before he had forced his way even a hundred zhang through the Yin Illusion Fire, the gleaming green protective treasure light around him shattered. Even his protective true baleful aura failed to last two breaths. He let out a miserable groan. In the