Xia Jue curled his lips and nodded his agreement.
Beside him, Feng Qi rolled his eyes. He had already brought this up to Xia Jue through Divine Sense when the fighting began, but Xia Jue had ignored him as though he had heard nothing. Thinking it over now, what was there left to misunderstand? He had selectively ignored Feng Qi's suggestion simply because Su Jiu was meditating to recover from her injuries. He had been waiting for his little junior sister...
Whatever tangled emotions churned in Feng Qi's heart, Xia Jue had already begun issuing orders to the Enforcement Hall members and the others.
Before long, the group withdrew from the spot.
After they left, the slime on the walls became still again.
That did not mean, however, that Su Jiu and the others were out of danger.
After all, this black slime was everywhere in the cavern. Almost wherever they passed, the slime on the walls would come "alive" again, solely to intercept and kill them.
Su Jiu's group raced onward, swiftly dodging the attacks of the black slime around them.
Though the journey was dangerous, fortunately, it was not long.
By now, Su Jiu and the others could see the cage directly ahead.
It was truly enormous. Su Jiu estimated that it could hold several hundred people.
Yet this vast space actually held only one thing: the demon that had been controlling Demonic Qi through Divine Sense to attack them.
Yes, a demon. A purebred demon.
Su Jiu and Xia Jue had only identified its species after drawing closer.
Su Jiu did not know how Xia Jue knew this creature was a demon, but her own knowledge came from Little Pearl.
Upon seeing that pitch-black, winged creature, Little Pearl had cried out in her Sea of Consciousness.
It