But just then, the phantom image projected from the Spirit Mirror began to clear, and everyone looked up together.
Then, within that image, they saw a woman and several cultivators desperately holding off the Blightbone charging at them.
Boom!!!
Amid a deafening roar that tore through the air, a Blightbone shaped like an enormous bird suddenly swooped down from above, shooting straight toward the woman like a gigantic arrow.
At that moment, the woman was fending off another Blightbone and had no attention to spare.
Boom!!!
But at that critical instant, a gray-robed old man suddenly flashed in front of her.
Then the old man thrust both palms out together at the Blightbone hurtling toward them like an arrow.
Bang!
Amid the tremendous crash, although the Gray-Robed Old Man's palm shadows stopped the incoming Blightbone, both his hands burst apart.
And not just his hands.
A mass of black vapor enveloped his entire body.
In an instant, the golden light originally radiating from his surging magic power abruptly dissipated.
The old man had likely been contaminated by that creature's Blightbone power.
Yet, as though he had not noticed, the old man kept his back to the woman and roared:
"Chao Ci! The Message Talisman won't hold out much longer! Keep transmitting! You must tell the Cultivation World what's happening here! Otherwise, the entire Cultivation World will face a catastrophe!"
Upon hearing the old man's words, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage beside them suddenly looked astonished.
"Chao Ci?!"
Hearing this, Xu Taiping asked curiously:
"Elder Ding, do you know the woman in the mirror?"
But before the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage could answer, the woman's voice came from the Spirit Mirror again:
"We even suspect that Heavenly Calamity-level Blightbone have already been bred within the Jade Pool Secret Realm!"
Everyone's heart jolted at