"Ah, isn't this Elder Ji Lan of Jingping Village?" The moment Xiao Hua landed before the fissure, he saw an old man blocking the gap, his face likewise steeped in intoxication!
Xiao Hua considered for only a moment. He lifted Zi Ming from his back, tore off her Soul Nest, used soul sense to send her into it, then tucked the Soul Nest into his robes. With his other hand, he seized Elder Ji Lan by the neck, shot into the fissure, and flew with a roar toward the collapsed passage behind him...
Outside the Netherworld Path, the earth beneath the plaza shook violently, and every palace trembled. Everyone present, including Ji Man of Houtu Village, was struck dumb with alarm!
After a moment, when the shaking lessened somewhat, Ji Man rose into the air and spread out her soul sense, preparing to investigate its cause. Then, with another rumbling crash, the ground shook again. This time, the tremors were unmistakably coming from within the hall gates behind her! Even the gates themselves had begun to cave in!
"Yellow Springs Hall!!" Ji Man's heart tightened. She looked up at the night sky—midnight was truly close at hand!
"Not good!" Without another word, Ji Man plunged through the hall gates. All the other soul cultivators also rose into the air and swarmed into Yellow Springs Hall like a nest of hornets.
By the time everyone reached Yellow Springs Hall, Ji Man was already standing in midair. The skeletons that had filled the hall had turned into a pool of bloody waves. Fierce impacts surged from within, shaking all of Yellow Springs Hall and making the earth quiver violently.
"Quick!" Ji Man was already waving the bone staff in her hand. The Gate of Yellow Springs had opened, but when a soul