Su Che kept running. The changes around him, and the demon he had struck without killing—only to draw untold numbers of its kin—gave Third Young Master Su an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Everything before him was like...
Like the Great Unity Wood-Splitting Divine Restriction within his Azure Emperor's Treasure Garden. It absorbed others' magical power for its own use, conjured all manner of illusions, and drew its victims into the Void formed by the restriction...
Could that Zhu Yan have awakened some hidden restriction in this underground cavern?
Yes. Gongshu Yun had once said that the South Sea Sect's records mentioned a mighty figure of the Celestial Master Sect sealing demons near Jiankang during the Medieval Era.
Could this be the place where those demons had been sealed?
Su Che cleared his mind.
Rakshasa Sea... the Northern Pole Origin Palace... the emperor's watchful attention... the Yin-Yang Dharma King's reincarnated body... Old Lion's bronze cauldron...
Was the reason they all refused to let go of this cavern that they wanted to release the Devil Sect cultivator sealed here by a master of the Celestial Master Sect? Or were they seeking some benefit from this Devil Sect ruin?
The Zhu Yan's disturbance had caused something to go wrong with the seal, and the long-dormant Divine Prohibition had begun operating again...
Or was the sealed Devil Sect master waking up?
At the thought of the most dangerous possibility, Su Che immediately began considering his options.
His last resort was the Azure Emperor's Treasure Garden. If he sent his true body into that Void artifact and had his Liu Yi avatar seek out the Yin-Yang Dharma King, he could escape this place with the Mount Zhong Association's help.
That course was safe, but he could not take it yet. What if the appearance of