Ten thousand meters underground, inside the Underground Tunnel.
Boom!
With a violent explosion, Demonic Qi surged through the Demon-Suppressing Pool ahead in the Underground Tunnel. A Saint Martial Grandmaster died on the spot.
Everyone's face turned grave.
Many stumbled back in fright. The weaker Saint Martial Grandmasters and True Martial Realm Experts retreated even farther.
"The higher your cultivation, the more fiercely the Demonic Qi corrodes you."
Jiao Hong's face darkened. "Saint Martial Grandmasters are almost certain to die!"
After forcing Liang Shaoyu down and realizing he had not self-destructed, Jiao Hong had ordered several lower-layer Saint Martial Grandmasters and more than a dozen True Martial Warriors into the Demon-Suppressing Pool.
The outcome had surprised him.
Of the Saint Martial Grandmasters, only one had not exploded. All the others had died.
As for what happened to the one who had not exploded, the Demonic Qi was too dense for them to find out.
But the True Martial Warriors...
Half of them had not exploded!
They still could not tell whether those warriors had survived, but their odds were clearly much better.
"True Martial Realm cultivators suffer less corrosion from the Demonic Qi?" Elder Lü of the Five Poisons Cult frowned, unable to grasp the pattern behind the pool's Demonic Qi.
Jiao Hong shook his head and said coldly, "It isn't just cultivation. How a person uses their True Essence matters greatly too."
"The more practiced a True Martial Warrior is in using their Heart Soul, the more adeptly they wield True Essence, and the better their chances of resisting the Demonic Qi."
"As for Saint Martial Grandmasters, entering means almost certain death!"
Understanding dawned on many faces.
No wonder only one Saint Martial Grandmaster had entered without exploding, while all the others had died on the spot.
Yet more than