Yet when they reached the center of the basin and he looked down from midair, Jiang Hao could not help sucking in a sharp breath.
An enormous formation appeared before his eyes. The faint white light within it was the culprit that had drawn all the people and beasts here. Inside the formation, over a dozen kinds of Heavenly Treasures were piled in stacks, each roughly ten pieces high at a hurried glance, holding Jiang Hao's gaze fast.
Among them were five Heavenly Treasures he recognized: gold essence, immortal vine wood, seven-tribulation earth essence, the Lava Heart, and black crystal stone.
As the formation operated, energy was drawn out of these Heavenly Treasures strand by strand and gathered in its intricate lines. The mysterious white light radiating through those lines suppressed the black stone statue at its center.
The black stone statue looked bizarre. It resembled a human yet had a beast's body, eight arms and eight legs, two wings and two tails, a blue face and protruding fangs, and eyes glaring wide in fury!
Jiang Hao noticed that the Ancient Arcane Beast Black Tortoise, which had witnessed this scene, suddenly dared not approach, as though wary of something.
By contrast, that crazy woman Li Sanfeng feared nothing. She rushed up to the formation, reached out, grabbed a treasure, and stuffed it into her robes.
Buzzz!
The instant she took something, the formation suddenly shuddered, a buzzing rumble exploding like muffled thunder.
Deep and restless!
Affected by the buzzing, Black Tortoise suddenly flattened against the ground again and howled in agony, as though something was disrupting its mind.
It was not just Black Tortoise. Big Hen and even the other beasts were all the same, screaming and rolling wildly across the ground.
Caught off guard, Big Hen plunged headfirst with