(Third update)
But!
Black Skeleton had celebrated too soon. (,)
Suddenly, the round cauldron shook. White light flashed, then appeared several dozen yards away from Black Skeleton. Amid another flicker of white light, Li Xiaoya and the other three emerged, holding hands.
"Impossible! How did they get out?" Black Skeleton's laughter stopped abruptly, and he cried out in shock. Before his words had faded, Dong Santong pointed a finger, sending a gleaming white sphere shooting toward him.
"Hmph!" Black Skeleton snorted. Black light flashed in his eyes, and with a bang, the white sphere burst apart. Dazzling white light erupted like a miniature sun, catching Black Skeleton off guard. He hurriedly shut his eyes, then snapped them open again amid a flash of black light.
Whoosh!!!!!!! At some point, Blue Ice had released the Flying Boat again. Behind it, Li Xiaoya had unfurled his Heavenly Feather Wings and was beating them relentlessly. In an instant, they had flown nearly a hundred yards. When the cauldron had sucked them inside, they had discovered that it contained a world of its own, formed by restrictions. Without another word, Dong Santong had activated his heaven-defying Divine Ability that ignored restrictions, grabbed everyone's hands, and brought them out. Taking so many people at once had consumed considerable Magic Power and Divine Sense. Another strange restriction inside the cauldron had forcibly returned Blue Ice's Flying Boat to its original form as soon as it entered. Upon emerging, Dong Santong had immediately thought to use a Flash Technique to buy them some time, leading to the scene just now. But Black Skeleton was a Spirit Communion Stage cultivator. The Flash Technique had merely discomforted him for an instant before he recovered.
"These fellows are far too strange. They actually escaped my treasured cauldron?" Black Skeleton exclaimed.