What Is This?

She lowered her head, her long hair falling loose and concealing her face, making her expression impossible to discern.

By now, Gu Sheng and Gu Yuanyuan had silently slipped close to the entrance of the main hall, hiding behind the shadows cast by massive stone pillars.

Gu Sheng's gaze pierced through the dim light and landed clearly on the man in blue and the girl imprisoned in shackles.

When his eyes swept over the girl, the Chaos Spirit Embryo seated cross-legged in the depths of his Sea of Consciousness suddenly trembled!

An extremely faint yet exceptionally familiar soul fluctuation came from the girl!

This fluctuation... carried the aura of the Spirit Emperor's God-Opening Dao!

Though it was incredibly faint, nearly completely sealed by those shackles, Gu Sheng could never mistake it!

This was the supreme soul secret art he had created in his previous life! How could this girl...

Just as Gu Sheng's mind trembled slightly, the girl imprisoned in shackles seemed to sense something. She abruptly raised her head, her hollow gaze piercing through the darkness and staring straight toward the stone pillar where Gu Sheng was hiding!

Her lips moved soundlessly.

The next instant, an extremely faint spiritual message, as soft as a mosquito's buzz yet filled with desperate urgency, seemed to cross space and enter Gu Sheng's Sea of Consciousness directly!

The transmission was exceptionally well concealed. Clearly, she had used some secret technique to evade the blue-robed man's notice!

"Senior... save me! I am Bai Zhi, a core disciple of the Great Desolation Sacred Academy! The Boundless Sect... the Boundless Sect intends to activate the Thousand Souls Sacrifice Array! They imprisoned us to use us as sacrifices!

They spread news of the secret realm's opening to lure more martial artists of the sect realm here... to