Qian Renxue (39)

"Thank you." After Bibi Dong finished speaking, she turned to the three of them. "Let's go."

"Wait." Tang Wulin suddenly spoke, staring at the pitch-black stairs as a glimmer of golden light flashed through his golden dragon pupils. "There's something down there. Something extremely powerful, and... it's alive."

Before he had finished speaking, a deep, low roar, as if it had come from beneath the Nine Hells, rang out from the depths of the stairs.

That roar contained such pure malice and hunger that all the Soul Devouring Trees in the forest began to tremble, leaves falling like rain.

Edwin's expression changed.

"Impossible... The Seal there should still be intact... Unless..."

"Unless what?" Qian Renxue pressed.

Edwin looked at Bibi Dong, his eyes filled with terror. "Unless your teacher can no longer suppress 'it.' Rakshasa, if your teacher really is still alive, then she may already... no longer be who she once was. The power of the Abyss is eroding everything, including those who once tried to control it."

Bibi Dong's body trembled slightly.

But she did not hesitate. She was the first to step onto the stairs leading downward.

"No matter what she has become, I have to see it with my own eyes."

Qian Renxue, Tang Wulin, and Dai Chengfeng followed close behind.

Behind them, the crack in the Tree King slowly closed. Edwin's face gradually blurred, and in the end, only a faint sigh remained:

"May true light guide you out of this eternal darkness..."

Darkness swallowed everything.

The stairs were long, so long they seemed to have no end. The four of them could only rely on Qian Renxue's Holy Fire for illumination, but even that light could only brighten an area a few meters around them. Farther away was pure darkness, darkness that could absorb