Time rewound a short while.
Inside the Immortal Gourd Grotto-Heaven.
"The spiritual energy is so abundant."
Before a set of dilapidated palace ruins, Xu Taiping warily surveyed his surroundings while silently sensing the Heavens Spiritual Energy within the Immortal Gourd Grotto-Heaven.
Just moments earlier, he and another group of sect disciples had been drawn into the Immortal Gourd Grotto-Heaven together.
When he opened his eyes again, he was standing in the square before these palace ruins.
Then Lay Buddhist Yuqing had ordered him to wait here. He could only leave and venture deeper into the secret realm after hearing his command.
Xu Taiping looked around and discovered that twenty or thirty others had also been transported here.
At least a hundred and several dozen people were drawn into the Immortal Gourd Grotto-Heaven together earlier, but there are only twenty-odd here. That means over a hundred others were transported elsewhere.
As he silently pondered this, his gaze fell on the ruined palace behind him.
Though the palace was dilapidated, most of the damage had been inflicted by people. The traces of erosion left by time were not particularly severe, so a protective formation was likely guarding it.
At the center of the main hall stood a statue whose head had been sliced off. Its body was humanoid, but a snake's tail extended from beneath the hem of its robes.
At a glance, it was clear that the deity worshipped here belonged to the Demon Race.
Just then, a shaft of sunlight happened to stream through the broken dome, making the statue look especially uncanny.
For no apparent reason, Xu Taiping felt a chill over his body. Instinctively, he withdrew his gaze and turned it toward the main hall's damaged plaque.
Half of the plaque had been sliced away. On the remaining