Elder Xu let go, and Black Mountain fell to the ground with a thud.
The old man crouched down and stared into Black Mountain's eyes. "An innately incomplete Sea of Consciousness?"
He muttered to himself.
"Or has someone tampered with it?"
Black Mountain lay on the ground, maintaining his "Who am I? Where am I?" expression.
Elder Xu stood and paced a few steps, his expression shifting uncertainly.
The Blood Invocation Contract was the lowest grade of contract. For someone with profound cultivation, altering or overwriting it was not difficult.
He himself could do it, for instance.
But to slip into his courtyard unnoticed, erase the contracts on seventeen demonic beasts, and leave no trace...
This person's cultivation was probably considerable.
But what was this person after? These demonic beasts?
What a joke. What did Fourth Tier and Fifth Tier demonic beasts amount to in the Immortal Realm?
He pondered for a long while, and the more he thought, the more something seemed wrong.
Unless...
This person had not come for the demonic beasts.
They had come for him.
Elder Xu's expression changed slightly.
He waved a hand, and all the cage doors opened.
"All of you, come out."
The demonic beasts hesitated, but obediently came out and formed a line.
Red Wind was among them, head lowered, trying to look as ordinary as possible.
With his hands behind his back, Elder Xu slowly paced before them.
His gaze swept over every demonic beast before finally resting on the gray wolf.
The gray wolf shuddered all over.
Elder Xu raised a hand, and the gray wolf, too, was lifted out from a distance.
Soul Search.
The gray wolf's eyes instantly rolled back, and its body convulsed violently.
Three breaths later, Elder Xu released it, and the gray wolf collapsed limply