When the great demon flew into the middle of the chaotic spatial layer, the radiance stirred up by its body suddenly vanished, and its previously expanded form rapidly shrank back to normal in the blink of an eye... Nor did it stop there. Over the next few breaths, the demon's body continued to shrink, dwindling straight down to thirty percent of its original size!
"Hmph, courting death..." Fairy Xingyue had initially looked somewhat cautious, but when she saw the great demon shrink, a mocking smile appeared on her face. She said to Xiao Hua, "Let's go. There's no need to watch any longer. The gate of Star Moon Palace has not yet opened. Entering now means only one road—the road to death!"
"Oh!" Xiao Hua nodded and drifted backward, though his gaze remained fixed on the great demon.
Sure enough, Xiao Hua had flown only a dozen or so zhang when the great demon's body suddenly began to sway within the spatial layer, like a kite whose string had snapped, tumbling endlessly in the wind. Each tumble shrank its demon body by another circle. Once it had shrunk to several zhang in size, it transformed into a phantom and fell onto the Chidi River!
Unfortunately, not a single ripple rose on the Chidi River. Who knew in what crevice of space that reckless great demon had been lost?
"Trying to enter Star Moon Palace before my Star Picking Tower? Truly laughable!" Fairy Xingyue still said bitterly. "If Star Moon Palace were so easy to enter, would the Four Great Families let my Star Picking Tower go in first?"
Xiao Hua smiled faintly without echoing her words. He was still pondering why the spatial layer was so strange.
At Fairy Xingyue's command, the disciples of Star Picking Tower all obeyed. Xiao