Several muffled beast roars, steeped in murderous fury, rang out from deep within the dark red miasma.
The grand elder's party had withdrawn swiftly. The violent lightning Soul Power radiating from the two Soul Douluos they left behind shone like beacons in the night, drawing every high-ranking Soul Beast within dozens of miles of the basin.
Huo Yuhao concealed his aura and hid in the narrow patch of shadow beneath the dead tree, slightly contracting the range of his Spirit Detection to avoid alerting those overlords.
In just half an incense stick's time, the dense forest along the basin's edge erupted into a frenzy.
More than a dozen enormous high-ranking Sub-Dragons, exuding the pressure of ten-thousand-year beasts, emerged from different directions. They brutally smashed through the ancient trees in their path and charged straight toward the two Soul Douluos, who had already been reduced to skeletons.
These predators, accustomed to running roughshod over the core region, rushed into the basin. The moment their eyes fell upon the eerie pool of blood suspended in midair, every one of them stopped moving.
It was as though some far more terrifying superior being had pressed a pause button.
The thick-skinned Sub-Dragons hissed quietly, their limbs restlessly scraping at the black stone underfoot. Obvious greed churned in their eyes, mingled with unconcealable fear.
They instinctively craved the pure blood essence spilling from the blood pool, yet not one dared enter the hundred-meter radius directly beneath it.
For Soul Beasts with keen senses, that Time Law spanning space and time was deadlier than any poison.
After pacing anxiously around the basin's outskirts for over an hour, the high-ranking Sub-Dragons ultimately dared not take even half a step across that forbidden boundary. They merely lashed their tails in frustration before dispersing.
Huo Yuhao quietly watched those