Ye Hu swept a glance over Su Che and the other two.
"Ling Zhenzi, are these the helpers you found? They hardly look up to the task."
Both High Person Jialeng and Gongshu Yun regretted their decision beyond measure.
From the look of things, those black-robed figures were all members of the Devil Sect, nearly all possessing Reverted Elixir cultivation. Behind them stood an old monster at the Void Step realm, holding the line. This place was plainly a nest of devil spawn.
They should never have coveted that meager fly-headed profit from the Rakshasa Sea. Today, they feared they would truly perish, body and soul erased.
"How many Holy Sect practitioners can you even find here in the Central Land?" Fei Xin chuckled darkly. "Why not direct them into the formation?"
"Fine, fine, fine. Since Elder Fei thinks they are suitable, I, Ye Hu, have nothing more to say."
Ye Hu swept his sleeve with effortless grace. "Gentlemen, feast your eyes."
He seemed to activate some arrangement. The thick fog within the hidden cavern gradually dispersed, revealing the place's original appearance.
This too appeared to be an underground cavern chamber, roughly a hundred zhang across. At its center stood a white-headed, red-footed ape monster. There was no need to say more—it was Zhu Yan.
Zhu Yan had clearly already been defeated. Devil Sect cultivators had bound its entire body in layer upon layer of vermilion chains. The chains' icy barbs had burrowed into its flesh and muscle, writhing ceaselessly like worms as they tore at its bones and sinews. The ends of those chains led to a massive set of Heavenly Demon Diagrams.
The diagrams were clearly formed from dharma power. Their characters twisted like serpents, each as large as a millstone, spinning rapidly on their own as they