Inside the side hall, Han Li pressed his back against the cold wall. The light screen of the Concealment Formation shuddered violently under Old Devil Xuan Gu's frenzied attacks, cracks spreading across it. He tightly gripped the Profound Water Deputy Token and the Sea Patrol Envoy's Jade Slip, his spiritual sense rapidly scanning the information within.
Apart from explaining Mysterious Bone's origins, the Jade Slip mentioned at the end a secret water passage leading straight to the outer seas. Its entrance lay beneath the Altar in this very side hall! But opening it required the Profound Water Deputy Token together with a specific incantation. The Profound Water Deputy Token was only a secondary token; the main token should be near the profound water true source. Anyone holding the deputy token would sense the main token once they came within a hundred li of it.
"My way out!" A sharp gleam flashed in Han Li's eyes. But how could he shake off the old devil outside the hall?
Just as the Concealment Formation was about to shatter, Han Li steeled himself and made an extraordinarily bold decision! He abruptly forced nearly half the profound yin fiend qi in his body outward, condensing it into a dark silver arrow. Rather than firing it at the old devil, he drove it viciously into a damaged formation foundation in one corner of the side hall! At the same time, he hurled the Filth-Spirit Nail he had obtained from the black-clad man at another formation nexus with all his strength!
"Brat! Get out here!" The light screen shattered with a crash. "Yan Li," controlled by Old Devil Xuan Gu, lunged inside with a savage grin, her ghostly claw reaching straight for Han Li's throat!
Yet at that very moment-
Hum! Rumble!
The entire side hall