"What is this?"
Elder Liu, who had been watching from the sidelines, suddenly panicked.
"Why has that thing come out again?"
Elder Liu urgently shouted at the surrounding students, "Everyone, get away from the center immediately!"
As he shouted, he hauled back several students who had been watching the spectacle near the Black Hole.
The others could not see what was inside the Black Hole. All they could hear was a series of hisses, and they craned their necks curiously.
At that moment, Xiao Fan met those icy eyes. In that instant, he was certain that he was their target.
Xiao Fan wanted to go over and take Yue Yao away, but he could no longer spare the attention.
Near his heart, a mass of invisible flame abruptly appeared within Xiao Fan, far more powerful than the Heart Fire provided in the Cultivation Room earlier.
Xiao Fan could only hurry to absorb as much of it as possible. Under his full efforts, wisps of invisible energy peeled away from the invisible flame.
Meanwhile, the Invisible Fire Python trapped in the center of the Black Tower grew increasingly agitated as it sensed the Heart Fire within Xiao Fan weakening, slamming again and again against the layers of seals placed around it.
The resulting tremors were so violent that even the formation could not completely contain them.
"This shouldn't be happening. How did it come to this?" Even Elder Liu's awareness could only vaguely "see" the Invisible Fire Python's general outline. Sensing its increasingly violent aura, he was at a loss as well.
If that thing gets out, it'll probably spell disaster for the Inner Academy, won't it?
Yet no matter how he thought about it, he could not understand why it had become so uncharacteristically agitated at this moment.
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