"Boom!"
Just as Xu Taiping, his attention divided between two tasks, was marveling at the sight before him, the scene within the third golden lotus in his sea of consciousness abruptly shattered.
And the instant that scene shattered, Xu Taiping once again saw the enormous white jade hand reaching out of the Gray Mist.
Clearly, the Primordial Lord had struck again, smashing the Lotus Eye's divination apart.
In an instant, Xu Taiping's sea of consciousness went pitch-black once more.
But this time, Xu Taiping remained perfectly calm.
Even after the scene within the Lotus Eye's Divine Soul Mark in his sea of consciousness shattered, he continued dividing his attention, keeping pace with the others as they walked toward the Gray Mist ahead while "staring intently" into his pitch-black sea of consciousness.
At last, when the group was only a few hundred paces from that region of Gray Mist, a flame suddenly flared to life with a boom in Xu Taiping's sea of consciousness.
Then, beneath Xu Taiping's gaze.
Another golden lotus slowly emerged from the flames, born anew in fire.
At this sight, Xu Taiping's taut heartstrings abruptly relaxed.
He even quietly exhaled a breath of stale air.
He had guessed correctly. The Lotus Eye had still left a fallback within this golden lotus.
Without hesitation, Xu Taiping once again opened the golden lotus formed from the Lotus Eye's Divine Soul Mark.
Immediately, an entirely new scene appeared within Xu Taiping's sea of consciousness.
In this scene, Great Elder Lou held the Bodhi Mirror Lamp high, dispersing the Battle Formation formed by the Heart Demons down its center and opening a path for everyone behind him.
But the instant everyone ventured deep into the entire Battle Formation of Devil Lords, the Hound Demon God whom Xu Taiping and the others