"Boom!"
Almost at the very moment he flew away, an exceptionally violent surge of spiritual energy suddenly spread from the golden-roofed hall. The instant that aura appeared, Xu Taiping instinctively felt his scalp prickle, and thoughts of fleeing the area immediately kept rising in his mind.
But before he could act, something resembling a tongue suddenly extended from the Golden Hall overhead, swiftly wrapped around Nie Shu, who had turned into a cloud of demonic mist, and dragged him into the hall.
A heart-rending scream followed from atop the golden roof.
Without question, that scream came from the white-haired Demon Venerable-no, the white-haired Devil Master, Nie Shu.
"What... exactly... was that?"
Xu Taiping gazed up at the golden roof, only voicing his bewilderment after a long while.
Because he was too far away, and a strange power shrouded the sight before him in a blur, he had not seen clearly what that thing actually was.
He had only made out its rough outline.
So he turned his gaze toward Lin Buyu beside him.
Lin Buyu shook her head.
Clearly, like Xu Taiping, she had not managed to see what it was either.
"No one knows what that is."
Longyuan finally spoke.
"Junior Martial Uncle and the two of us encountered it once many years ago. We were even closer that time than we were now, but even so, we couldn't make out what it actually was."
Chengying picked up the explanation.
"All we know is that whenever a Devil Master or a transformation realm existence appears in this secret realm, that thing will certainly come out and devour them."
Longyuan added.
"So that was why you weren't worried at all about Nie Shu obtaining the Demon Lotus."
Understanding dawned in Xu Taiping's heart.
"Could that thing be a restriction set