"Could this be where Miss Xiahou and the others are trapped?!"
Xu Taiping spoke with surprise and delight.
Back on the first layer, that Xiahou Clan disciple had said that Xiahou You, Xiahou Qingyuan, and the others were trapped within a restriction somewhere in the Third Layer of the Sacred Grounds.
That closely resembled what Xu Taiping was seeing now.
"Bang! Bang, bang!"
Just then, the Blightbone that looked like a fat baby suddenly raised his hands and began pounding hard on the mass of blazing flames before him. His half-human, half-skeletal face twisted with savage fury as he roared:
"Eat! I want to eat! I want to eat!"
For a moment, his pounding actually began to scatter the flames of that fiery restriction.
At the sight, Xu Taiping's heart immediately tightened.
"This Blightbone seems to regard Xiahou You and the others inside the restriction as food."
But there was something that let Xu Taiping breathe a little easier.
No matter how the Blightbone pounded it, the fiery restriction remained as solid as ever.
Just then, the Hunched Old Man suddenly spoke:
"Do not be impatient, Lord Star Lord. In a few more days, this restriction will open on its own. Then you will be able to feast on the flesh and blood within."
As he spoke, the Hunched Old Man hurled the corpse in his hands over with all his strength.
"Thud!"
The corpse, which appeared to belong to a cultivator, landed heavily beside the fat baby's feet.
Immediately, the fat-baby-like Star Lord Blightbone seized the corpse with a savage expression and tore it apart.
In just two or three mouthfuls, he devoured the corpse completely.
As he finished eating the corpse, he even sucked out the remnants of its divine soul and slurped them straight into his belly.