"How did you all end up trapped by the Elephant Kui Emperor?" Fang Yun asked.
Tian Songshi said helplessly, "Mingyuan and I originally met up and planned to explore this Ancient God Treasure Pavilion together, but we never expected the Elephant Kui Emperor to discover us. We had no choice but to flee all the way here. When we arrived, we happened to see Nie Shoude and Yun Yangzhao inside the Treasure Pavilion. We wanted to get them out, but it was already too late. We couldn't abandon them, so we established the Four Seas Realm, hoping to hold the Elephant Kui Emperor back for a while and bring the two of them out. You saw the result: instead, the Elephant Kui Emperor forced us into the Treasure Pavilion too."
"Thank goodness for you, Void Sage Fang. Otherwise, we would have been in grave danger," He Mingyuan said.
"Indeed. Had you arrived a quarter of an hour later, we would probably have perished and gone to the Yellow Springs," Yun Yangzhao said.
None of the three said a word about killing Nie Shoude.
"So that was what happened."
As Fang Yun spoke, he surveyed the Treasure Pavilion.
There was nothing unusual about the Treasure Pavilion itself. It spanned over a thousand zhang and was extremely spacious. A stone table stood in the center, bearing eight vessels that resembled both cups and bowls, arranged in eight directions. At their center stood a wide-mouthed, narrow-necked, potbellied water bottle, its surface marked with fine cracks.
This bottle and its eight bowls were clearly not of human design. They had been carved entirely from gray-black stone, with blue or black flecks scattered across them. The workmanship was crude, their surfaces anything but smooth, covered everywhere in coarse grains.
Yet these crude objects seemed like