"What is this...?" Nangong Wan asked curiously.
"This is a Spirit-Sealing Pillar!" Lin He explained. "It's usually used to seal away rare spirit herbs and keep their spiritual energy from leaking out. It can also suppress a vicious ghost, preventing it from transforming and escaping."
"Then what's underneath it...?" Xin Ruoyin frowned at his words.
"A very formidable vicious ghost is sealed beneath it. He was a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator in life, but after his physical body was destroyed, he had no choice but to turn to the ghostly path. Once we go inside, make sure you stay behind me."
Hearing that he had once been a Nascent Soul cultivator, both women grew solemn and followed closely behind Lin He.
The Spirit-Sealing Pillar was certainly heavy, but that posed no problem for Lin He. He easily pushed it over, revealing an underground passage steeped in sinister yin energy. The three immediately entered and arrived in a Square Hall.
Lin He first looked toward the jade-white skeleton beside the pool. It lay half-reclining at the water's edge, a small emerald arrow embedded in its head, pinning it firmly to the ground. Xin Ruoyin, meanwhile, looked at a three-colored lotus in the pool. Seemingly recalling something, she exclaimed, "Could that be the legendary seven-glow lotus?"
"Hmph, seven-glow lotus?"
With a casual wave of his hand, Lin He sent more than a dozen fireballs flying toward the seven-glow lotus in succession. Just then, a black shadow suddenly shot out from beneath the pool and immediately destroyed every fireball.
Xin Ruoyin and Nangong Wan immediately recognized the shadow's true form: a pitch-black, strange snake with a fleshy horn on its head.
"This is a trap. The Demon-Crowned Snake was deliberately disguised as a seven-glow lotus to lure people into picking it. Then this