Xiao Wujian narrowed his eyes and spoke rapidly as he pondered:
"An evil demon slain by an Immortal and sealed within this Immortal Tomb?"
"The Immortal set up an array in this Immortal Tomb precisely to guard against the evil demon's rebirth. Now, though that Immortal has been dead for nearly ten thousand years, an astonishing remnant of power still remained, suppressing this place."
"How long had it been since the Immortal Tomb opened? Could the evil demon within... truly have been reborn so quickly?"
As he spoke, his gaze remained locked on the strange evil energy ahead, as well as Ding Shoudian's Nascent Soul within it.
Neither his cultivation nor his knowledge was lacking. Yet for the moment, he could not connect the strange evil energy before him with the evil demon that had been slain and suppressed within the Immortal Tomb.
After all, the higher one's cultivation, the more clearly one could see just how vast the power left behind by the Immortal's remains was.
"It is true that the evil demon was slain, and its corpse suppressed within this Immortal Tomb."
"But... the spiritual energy of the Hundred Thousand Mines has long been mixed with strange evil energy, forming an unusual Poisonous Miasma. Every cultivator who comes to the Hundred Thousand Mines is affected and eroded by that miasma. Indeed... when those with extraordinary cultivation appear, they even trigger the backlash of immense power deep underground."
"The source of that power could not possibly be... the Immortal's remains, could it?"
Su Shi'er spoke repeatedly, his words coming at a rapid pace.
Having come to the Hundred Thousand Mines several times, he considered himself more familiar with this place than most cultivators in the Immortal Cultivation Holy Land.
That naturally included Spirit Severing stage figures such as Xiao