Because they were teleporting within Coiled Dragon Mountain, the distance was extremely short. Even Nuo Yeqing, at the Foundation Establishment stage, felt no particular discomfort. By the time Xiao Hua stepped out of the teleportation passage, Nuo Yeqing had already steadied himself in midair with Liu Qingyu's support!
However, the moment Xiao Hua stood in midair and looked around, his expression changed drastically!
This space was enormous, likely several hundred li across. In the distance, lights of different colors flickered, accompanied by varying fluctuations of magical power. They were clearly different restrictions.
Below Xiao Hua and the others, nearly a hundred thousand children sat cross-legged. As Wen Zhou had said, the youngest were two or three years old, while the oldest were no more than fourteen or fifteen. These children were divided into forty-nine regions arranged in seven by seven. The regions appeared somewhat disorderly, yet were in fact orderly. There were also some Wen family disciples among them. Most of those disciples had cultivation around the Foundation Establishment stage. Unlike the children, they were not seated cross-legged, but stood in various places. Yet strangely, they stood there like clay statues, utterly motionless. A few were even frozen in the posture of lifting a foot to walk!
Looking around the space, although layer upon layer of radiance flickered and illuminated it, faint crimson threads of blood seeped out behind the light, spreading like mercury pouring over the ground!
More particularly, beneath the children and in the other regions, dense blood seals of devilish patterns—imperceptible to ordinary cultivators—appeared clearly before Xiao Hua's eyes.
Xiao Hua's expression changed sharply. Without the slightest hesitation, he waved his hand and took out the Kunlun Mirror, urgently shouting, "Nuo Yeqing! Obey my command! Do not resist! We have fallen into an ambush!"
As he spoke,