"Boom!..."
Not long after the Treasure's dazzling radiance flared, an explosion that seemed loud enough to rupture eardrums rang through the hall from the projection.
The sound even caused the barrier along the dome of the Abyssal Palace to light up automatically.
As the sound rang out, the Treasure's dazzling radiance swallowed the entire street within the projection.
Xu Taiping and Fairy Lingyue both frowned.
They already knew what Ye Chensha wanted to show them.
Neither spoke, however. They kept their eyes fixed unblinkingly on the projection, quietly waiting for the light within it to fade.
After roughly four or five breaths, the blinding white light within the projection finally receded like the tide.
But once the white light faded, what appeared before Xu Taiping and Fairy Lingyue was no longer a bustling street, but a stretch of ruins littered with broken walls.
At the same time, the rumble of collapsing buildings, the feeble cries of people buried beneath the rubble, and the piercing sobs of children sitting amid the ruins filled the entire hall in an instant, like a sudden summer downpour.
Suddenly, Xu Taiping's ears twitched.
Amid the chaotic clamor, he heard a child's barely audible voice-
"I caught it... I caught it... I caught the demonic beast... Everyone... doesn't have to be afraid anymore..."
Following the voice, Xu Taiping's gaze fell on a thick roof beam. His eyes shifted down a little, and he saw a tiny arm reaching out from beneath it, clutching a scrap of clothing tightly.
Around the massive wooden beam lay several small, mangled bodies.
Xu Taiping instinctively stepped forward and reached out.
But the moment he raised his arm, Fairy Lingyue, standing beside him, held it down.
Xu Taiping immediately realized that he had lost his composure.
"After sending back these images,