Xu Taiping exchanged a glance with Ping'an, then frowned.
"Sister Lingyue really did go down to look!"
Ping'an said nervously,
"I hope Sister Lingyue wasn't hurt."
Unlike Xu Taiping, Ping'an still did not know that Fairy Lingyue had already left this place for those battlefield ruins.
As the two spoke, the scene within the phantom image became completely clear.
In the image, Fairy Lingyue had one hand pressed against the ground, her expression looking extremely tense.
On closer inspection,
the spot beneath her palm was precisely where Xu Taiping had pressed his hand earlier, in front of the offering table.
Just then, Fairy Lingyue suddenly whipped her head around, looking through the phantom image at Xu Taiping and Ping'an with an extremely tense expression.
"Taiping, down below..."
"Bang! Bang, bang, bang...!!!"
Before Fairy Lingyue could finish, the stretch of ground beneath her hand suddenly began to shake violently.
It was as though something underground was frantically battering against it.
Xu Taiping and Ping'an's faces instantly tightened.
"Bang-!!"
Then, with a tremendous collision like a mountainside splitting apart, the ground beneath Fairy Lingyue's hand was forcibly knocked open.
Only then did Xu Taiping and Ping'an see that the ground beneath Fairy Lingyue's hand was actually a boulder a full four or five feet thick.
"Boom!!"
The instant the boulder was knocked aside, dozens of long, slender, rotting arms reached out, gripping the edges of the ground hard, seemingly trying to climb up from below.
But almost simultaneously, Fairy Lingyue shouted sharply,
"Rise!"
As her voice fell, swathes of rune-light abruptly lit up across the floor of the entire hall. Those vast swathes of rune-light finally gathered into long chains, enveloping the boulder like a great net.
"Smack!"
Fairy Lingyue forcefully pressed her palm down toward the stone again and shouted sharply