The rogue cultivators were naturally delighted to have escaped with their lives.
Yet once they took in their surroundings, they no longer seemed quite so delighted.
By now, however foolish they were, they knew the Enforcement Hall disciples had not been deceiving them. They really had arrived in the Demon-Subduing Land, from which no one returned alive.
Their joy instantly sank into utter dejection.
Perhaps that saying really was true: life was a series of ups and downs and downs and downs and downs...
"This is sending me to my death!" someone wailed indignantly.
"I haven't lived long enough yet. I don't want to die here."
"How did we end up in this godforsaken place? My Dao Companion is still waiting for me to come home..."
In an instant, complaints of every kind filled the air around them.
Through her Otherworldly Eyes, Su Jiu saw the negative energy emanating from these people form wisps of black smoke that drifted into the formation, then dissolved and vanished.
The formation, however, seemed considerably brighter than before.
This was a formation Su Jiu had never seen, which meant it might be even more obscure than the Thousand-Absolute Demon-Summoning Formation...
But just what sort of formation required the blood of the Merfolk Tribe and a Phoenix to activate?
While Su Jiu was lost in thought, someone beside her suddenly rushed over. "Please, you have to get me out of here! Once I'm out, I'll reward you handsomely!"
The man sounded extremely sincere, though his performance might have been more convincing if his eyes had not kept darting about.
In fact, this male cultivator had only chosen Su Jiu after looking everyone over. He thought that, as a female cultivator, she ought to be the easiest to talk to. Besides, female cultivators were usually softhearted,