"Boom!"
Almost at the same moment that intense fear arose in Xu Taiping's heart, an immensely majestic Aura Fluctuation spread from Li Daoyan.
But what made Xu Taiping's hair stand on end was that the terrifying Aura Fluctuation spreading from Li Daoyan was no longer as clean and pure as before. Instead, it brimmed with a dreadful, sinister presence.
"No, surely not?"
An exceedingly terrifying thought suddenly surged into Xu Taiping's mind.
Almost as soon as that thought arose, scales formed from Black Crystal began burrowing out of Li Daoyan's body, one after another.
In just a few short moments, they covered both his arms completely.
At that moment, the terrifying conjecture in Xu Taiping's mind became reality-Li Daoyan, who slew the Primordial Lord's True Body, has been possessed by the Primordial Lord, and this is the Primordial Lord's final contingency.
At the same time, Li Daoyan's voice suddenly rang out in Xu Taiping's mind-
"Little fellow, you see it now, don't you?"
Sounding somewhat weary, Li Daoyan continued:
"From beginning to end, everything within this Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven has been a deception, a deception meticulously plotted by this Primordial Lord."
"Apart from the thirty thousand soldiers of the Treading the Sea Army who first stumbled into this place, all the Human Race cultivators who later entered the Golden Court Inner Grotto-Heaven were lured here by the Primordial Lord itself."
Hearing this, Xu Taiping's heart jolted.
But immediately, all his shock turned to confusion.
He promptly asked through voice transmission:
"Senior, why would this Primordial Lord lure Human Race cultivators here to slay itself?"
"And what does that have to do with you being possessed by this Primordial Lord now?"
Just as he was about to ask Li Daoyan why he said that, he heard Li Daoyan suddenly shout