The crimson sun steamed the earth like fire, and even the chirping of insects was unusually sparse.
Amid the ruins of Auspicious Jade City, a few locusts crawled out and hopped from side to side before disappearing into the wildly overgrown brush. A few faint chirps sounded, then silence soon settled over the world again.
In the distance, beneath an inconspicuous leaf, an ordinary stone lay quietly.
A fine layer of python markings could be seen on the stone, and a veil of emerald radiance enveloped it.
It was none other than the Grotto-Heaven Stone Spirit's true body, concealed through a special secret art.
Within the Grotto-Heaven, several figures sat cross-legged, waiting.
The Grotto-Heaven Stone Spirit's spirit projection was also fully activated, its gaze grave.
Ye Jingcheng and Ye Qingfeng led the group, with the Jade Qilin Dragon, Purple Luan Eagle, and Spirit-Hearing Toad beside them.
A month earlier, Ye Jingcheng's Fire-Type Shed-Shell Clone had already entered seclusion in Soul-Repelling City. He had also arranged for cultivators to send the news back to the Fog Valley Secret Realm through the Void Spirit Teleportation Gate.
By now, the Sand River Battlefield had become a complete boiling cauldron of chaos. In fewer than ten days, the human race had already lost two Void Refinement cultivators and dozens of Spirit Transformation cultivators.
Thus, Ye Jingcheng's true body had brought the Jade Qilin Dragon and Purple Luan Eagle to meet the Spirit-Hearing Toad, Ye Qingfeng, and Ye Jingzhong on the Wildlands Continent. They had then ventured deep into Jade Soul Race territory and arrived here.
To avoid stirring the grass and startling the snake, the Ye Family had not set up a single teleportation array this time. They had even used the Heavenly Ghost Spirit-Hiding Art to conceal their auras.
It could be said