"It's that old elm tree!"
Upon seeing the change in that old elm tree, Old Martial God Zhu Huai's expression immediately hardened, and he blurted out.
Only then did everyone in the small pavilion finally react, their expressions changing dramatically as one.
Little Martial Aunt Lu Rushuang said gravely:
"Could that old elm tree be... be the Blood Ancestor's transformed body?"
Xiahou You drew a deep breath and said:
"Even if it isn't the Blood Ancestor, it must be connected to the Blood Ancestor's origin blood. Otherwise, Yuanlingzi couldn't possibly wield the power of ghost wax."
At these words, Zhang Moyan immediately felt his scalp prickle and said:
"If it really is connected to the Blood Ancestor, this Dragon-Slaying Assembly is in trouble!"
While everyone in the pavilion discussed this, humanoid red candles began lighting up one after another in the projected image over the Dragon-Suppressing Platform.
In mere moments, dozens of candles had lit up in the broad clearing before the old elm tree.
As the humanoid candles lit up, blood began seeping ceaselessly from the old elm tree, now covered in blood-red elm leaves, and tightly closed eyes began appearing in dense clusters across its trunk and branches.
Upon seeing eyes sprout all over the old elm tree, Xiahou Qingyuan, who had been observing all this time, suddenly declared with absolute certainty:
"This old elm tree is the Blood Ancestor."
He interlaced his fingers on the table and continued in an extremely grave voice:
"And right now, he is drawing on those Dragon-Slaying Persons' power to awaken little by little!"
Beside him, Xiahou You added:
"From the looks of it now, Yuanlingzi and the Blood Ancestor behind him had been plotting from the very beginning to lure all those Dragon-Slaying Persons here, turning them into blood food for