After flying like this for a full half hour, the entire space gradually grew heavy, as though some strange pressure were pressing in from all directions, squeezing into Xiao Hua's flesh! The passage ahead had almost completely vanished, leaving only dense devilish qi and crimson blood-shadows!
"Fellow Daoist Xiao..." Ancestor Hongmeng's voice came again, thick with unease. "This is bad! There really is something wrong with this poor Daoist's jade pupil..."
"Mm..." Xiao Hua nodded. "The passage recorded within the jade pupil should lead to a rift in the Devil Realm, not to another location in the Myriad Monster Realm!"
"Then what do we do? Shall we... shall we turn back before reaching the Devil Realm?" Ancestor Hongmeng asked tentatively. "Even if this is a genuine passage, it leads to the Devil Realm. We humans... cannot possibly enter the Devil Realm, can we?"
"If it is the Devil Realm, then we should follow them even more closely!" Xiao Hua said coldly. "The moment we discover any unusual movement from these two Great Sages, we act at once! Then we find a way to seal this spatial passage. We absolutely cannot allow the Devil Race to invade the Three Great Continents again! The Three Great Continents have already reached the end of the road; they cannot suffer another blow while down!"
"What... what if this devilish qi... can kill the World-Ending Strange Insects?" Ancestor Hongmeng asked hesitantly. But immediately after saying it, he regretted it. "Forget it. If devilish qi could kill the World-Ending Parasites, the Black Armored Five-Horned Dragon would have had its tail sticking straight up long ago. How could he possibly be here exploring the way with us?"
"So we absolutely cannot allow this spatial passage leading to the Devil Realm to be exposed!" Xiao Hua's tone was