"Fine, then watch this servant girl's..." Before Xiao Hua could think further, Bai Haojiao's voice came. The vortex abruptly expanded, and the light within it flared brilliantly!
After a moment, the light stopped growing brighter, and the vortex stabilized as well.
"Fellow young friends!" Xuan Cheng cried out in delight. "Quickly, enter the treasure vault! This Five Elements Evil Slaying Formation Diagram can last for three hours!"
"Yes!" Everyone was overjoyed. They emerged from their spheres of light one after another and landed beside the radiance, beaming with delight.
Before them was a hole several feet across, precisely where a cluster of ripples lay beneath the Crossing River Arhat's feet in the Eighteen Arhat Formation Diagram. Around the hole, the Sanskrit script forming those ripples churned violently, trying to gather toward the center and close the breach. Yet water-blue Water Spirit Qi spread outward in all directions like corrosion, offsetting the formation diagram's attempt to heal itself. Looking elsewhere upon the Five Elements Evil Slaying Formation Diagram, it was much the same as this water-element formation diagram: all of them emitted intense elemental energy fluctuations that covered the Buddhist formation below, severing the connections between its parts and weakening the power of the Sanskrit script around the hole.
The light emerging from the hole was somewhat reddish, carrying even a faint scorching heat. Moreover, the entire Buddhist formation blocked everyone's divine sense, Buddhist consciousness, and all manner of Clear Sight Techniques. No one could see what lay within.
The instant Xiao Hua landed beside the light, his brows unconsciously furrowed. This aura carried a trace of fishy stench, identical to the smell he had encountered while cultivating on Lava Island!
Could this Western Sea Relic Treasure... be within molten lava? With that thought, Xiao Hua swept his gaze over Xuan