"Why are those flood dragons and snakes up above making such a racket today? Could it be their birthing season?"
"Why don't we go up and take a look?"
"Don't you go doing anything reckless. Elder Luo warned us again and again never to provoke those demonic flood dragons. If we anger them, not even Elder Luo can save us."
"I know, I know. I was only saying."
The two demon cultivators guarding the water prison entrance were still chatting, while Xu Taiping, draped in the Concealment Cloak, had already arrived soundlessly before them.
"Shing!..."
With a brief blade cry, a flash of blade light as thin as a cicada's wing swept across their necks, and both heads rolled off.
At the same time, Xu Taiping reached out and seized their divine souls, drawing them into the Ghost-Sealing Talisman.
Since he had broken through to Profound Connection, the Ghost-Sealing Talisman's side effects had become negligible. What had once been a nightmare had now become a means for him to deal with demonic beasts.
"Clink."
After sealing the two demon cultivators' divine souls, Xu Taiping returned his blade to its sheath, then looked at the Ghost-Sealing Talisman in his palm and said:
"You were right about one thing just now. Sometimes, human hearts are more ruthless than you demons."
With that, he drew the Concealment Cloak around himself again and walked soundlessly into the water prison.
This water prison seemed to have some sort of water-repelling restriction in place. No water flowed into the entrance passage at all, and it was very dry.
"Thud!"
"Thud, thud!"
"Crack!"
Compared with outside the water prison, once he entered the passage, the sounds of whipping and beating, along with the groans, became much clearer to Xu Taiping.
There was also a heavy stench of