They emerged onto a wall halfway up an enormous circular hall. It stretched hundreds of zhang across, its far reaches lost to sight. The floor below was filled with humanoid Mechanism Beasts clad in black metal armor covered in mysterious blood-red patterns, each holding a round golden shield in one hand and a spear glowing faintly red in the other. They stood utterly motionless. Their appearance clearly set them apart from the other Mechanism Beasts, suggesting combat strength far beyond that of the ordinary ones.
"Th-this! What is this place? Aren't there way too many Mechanism Beasts?" Li Xiaoya was the first to rush to the front. The sight before him drew a startled cry from his lips. Then, seemingly remembering something, he extended his divine sense into the hall, only to discover that it was restrained and could not probe the situation below. He exclaimed again, "There's a god-sealing restriction here! My divine sense can't probe anything. No wonder I didn't detect all these Mechanism Beasts ahead!"
"What?" Hearing Li Xiaoya's cry, He Jin also reached the front. One look ahead made him suck in a breath of cold air. "Th-this! What is this place? How come I've never heard of it?" he stammered.
The others stepped forward as well. Seeing the densely packed Mechanism Beasts below, they felt their scalps prickle and exchanged glances, at a loss for words.
"Huh?" Li Xiaoya paused at that and asked in confusion, "You don't know what's going on either, Fellow Daoist He?" He had thought He Jin knew.
"Uh! If I'm not mistaken, we've hit the jackpot!" After pondering for a moment, He Jin suddenly gave a bitter smile. "We've...!"
Boom!! Just as He Jin was about to explain, an earth-shaking crash of something enormous hitting the ground rang out behind