Although the spiritual qi inside the Life-and-Death Tree was fairly abundant, the surroundings were cold and gloomy. An unsettling presence lingered around them almost constantly.
The others assumed it was the demonic qi inside the Life-and-Death Tree at work, but Su Jiu had a vague feeling it was not that simple.
After Su Jiu placed a Silencing Talisman on that man, no one dared interrupt her questioning again.
Everyone behaved as meekly as quails, answering Su Jiu's questions readily and holding nothing back whenever they knew the answer.
After nearly an hour of conversation, Su Jiu finally understood how these people had entered this place.
Yet the way they had entered was utterly baffling.
Just as they had said, they had never entered the Demon-Subduing Land. Instead, they had ended up here because of a place that looked very much like an altar.
According to the disciple's earlier account, before coming here, they had been fighting demonic cultivators. After crippling them, the demonic cultivators had not killed them immediately. Instead, in a bizarre turn of events, they had thrown them into a great cauldron at the center of an altar.
The Bronze Great Cauldron was engraved all over with intricate, unfamiliar blood-red patterns that were deeply unpleasant to look at. It stood roughly twice a person's height, with an extremely spacious interior. Before they were thrown inside, all they could see when they peered into it was pitch-black darkness, like a bottomless abyss. None of them could possibly have imagined that the cauldron connected to another world.
Besides that, beneath the cauldron lay an enormous design that appeared to be a formation. It covered a vast area, its lines bright red, as though laid out in blood.
Once this disciple began recounting his experience, the others gradually followed suit. Their