After leaving the Profound Residence, Zhang Yu sped southward in a streak of light. Based on the location Yun Chen had provided, he roughly determined the area of that place of suppression.
After searching for less than half a day, he arrived before a low earthen hill. He then took out a talismanic edict he had previously obtained from Yun Chen and offered it up into the sky.
The talismanic edict moved without wind, drifting toward the distant sky. He rode the wind after it.
After traveling more than a hundred li, the talismanic edict dipped downward. Yet it did not land on the surface; it passed straight through it.
Zhang Yu gave it a glance and knew this was likely due to an array concealing the place. He pressed down his escape light and passed through the ground, entering a place thick with baleful intent.
Red and black baleful intent surged and rolled like a raging river thundering past. Entwined within it was a blackish-purple hue that made one profoundly uncomfortable.
He walked forward along the stone platform hanging alone above the abyss. Before long, the platform came to its end, and opposite him appeared a vast cavern with no visible ceiling above and no visible bottom below.
Directly ahead floated an enormous jade disc. Chains wrapped around a human figure shrouded in baleful intent. That was undoubtedly the corpse of Patriarch Yuan Tong.
He sensed the baleful intent on both sides. Its power was indeed immense, yet this was merely the residual qi that had leaked out after Patriarch Yuan Tong's death.
According to Yun Chen, Patriarch Yuan Tong's corpse had been imprisoned here for fear that this baleful intent would contaminate the entire landmass. Now that Zhang Yu saw it for himself, those words had not been