Life-Saving Stone Hook

Sinister, greedy.

That gloomy voice vanished into a patch of phantom shadow. The Shadow Space that had just unfolded slowly closed, shrinking into a single point before disappearing completely.

That fellow had misunderstood.

Even now, he still believed Anfuni was the controller of the Elemental Embryo.

Li Ziran could clearly sense that the Shadow Crescent Moon did not seem to possess any particular surveillance ability.

But something was still wrong. When he had first come into contact with the Demon, he had clearly been able to sense Shadow Elder monitoring him.

Yet within the entire Elemental Embryo, Shadow Elder had seemed as deaf and foolish as an idiot.

What puzzled him even more was that both Polo Bart and Gegwu had been able to plot against Shadow Elder. Shadow Elder had even known nothing at all about Sandrew's escape plan.

The Shadow Crescent Moon was not omniscient or omnipotent.

Especially where Li Ziran himself was concerned, he could feel it more clearly than ever. As his spiritual power shattered and reassembled, the Shadow Crescent Moon's ability to control him seemed to be weakening.

At the very least, just now, Puppet Art had not turned him directly into a puppet.

Shadow Elder had disappeared—or rather, it was more like he had fled. Yet that sinister smile lingered in Li Ziran's mind like a nightmare that would not disperse.

He seemed to have even more unusual methods.

Sizzle!

Just then, a strange sound abruptly rang out in the room. It was not loud, yet it made their scalps tingle like the wailing of ghosts.

Not only Li Ziran, but Anfuni and Gegwu also noticed the sound, including the Spatial Mantis in the corner.

They instinctively looked toward its source. It came from a crack in the stone overhead, but they could not