“Sizzle! Sizzle!”
The surging yin energy continued to contract, one li, two li, three li. In a short time, it had contracted ten li.
Lin Xiao urged his Royal Sky Boat forward as well, advancing a distance, while the three Royal Sky Boats behind slowly followed.
Moreover, not only Lin Xiao and the others were watching the area where the yin energy was dissipating. Many from the Assault Emperor Alliance had also entered hundreds of li outside the Demon Sect’s core area, tensely awaiting the outcome.
Some people were drawn by the peculiar sensation in the void, their gazes fixed, falling into a special terror.
However, these individuals were directly ignored by Lin Xiao and the others.
Ten li, twenty li, thirty li…
The location of the Demon Sect’s core area gradually appeared in everyone’s sight.
However, the Demon Sect at this moment had already been reduced to ruins by the previous commotion, with a large pit appearing on the ground.
It should be said that this entire hundred li radius had likely become a large pit, an uneven one scarred by multiple waves of immense energy.
Fifty li, sixty li, seventy li…
Before long, the yin energy had contracted another seventy li, leaving only a thirty li radius.
However, within this seventy li contraction range, Lin Xiao and the others saw no corpses of anyone appearing in that distance.
This left everyone baffled. Could it be that all the Martial Emperors of the Assault Emperor Alliance had died in the most core area?
Eighty li, ninety li…
The yin energy’s shroud reduced to a mere ten li radius. Lin Xiao and the others still saw no corpses, nor the yin demon at any point within ninety li.
Ninety-one li, ninety-two li…
The yin energy continued to contract. The hearts of the Zhengxiu Alliance members tightened, their expressions extremely tense.
Lin Xiao did not advance further either, standing dozens of li outside the remaining few li diameter of yin energy. Only the skeleton hand continued forward.
At this point, beads of sweat even dripped from Lin Xiao’s face.
Ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine…
The yin energy was left with just the final one li radius, still contracting at the previous speed.
Even with only a one li radius of yin energy shroud, there were still no corpses visible around it.
However, Lin Xiao had no time to dwell on this issue. Instead, he focused his energy, calculating the yin energy’s contraction speed, and continued urging the skeleton hand forward.
A hundred zhang, fifty zhang, ten zhang.
The yin energy’s shroud was reduced to the final ten zhang. At this distance, there were still no corpses, no yin demon, and no Purple Corpse Puppet.
However, everyone had no time to consider too many possibilities. They tensed their minds, focusing on that final yin energy, vital energy surging within their bodies, ready to strike at any moment.
Five zhang, four zhang, three zhang…
“Sizzle!”
At this moment, the skeleton that had already approached the final yin energy shot into it, grasping towards the centre of the remaining three zhang radius of yin energy. In an instant, it seized a body.
However, even as the skeleton hand had grasped it, the yin energy did not stop contracting: two zhang, one zhang. Finally, a scene appeared in everyone’s sight.
Everyone saw the last strands of yin energy surging into a body.
And this body was precisely the Purple Corpse Puppet. Apart from the Purple Corpse Puppet, there was nothing else.
No yin demon, no Assault Emperor Martial Emperors, and not a single corpse!
Lin Xiao’s skeleton hand was gripping the Purple Corpse Puppet’s shoulder. However, for the Purple Corpse Puppet, that skeleton hand evidently served no purpose at all.
In this instant, Lin Xiao and the others, along with the Assault Emperor Alliance members who had managed to enter, were all stunned in disbelief.
Intense surprise and confusion appeared on everyone’s faces.
Where were the people?
How could there be not a single person, not a single corpse?
Could they all have been reduced to ashes?
If those Martial Emperors had been slain and blasted into ashes, that could still be understood.
After all, the yin demon was too terrifying. It was not impossible for it to reduce all the Martial Emperors to ashes.
But what about the yin demon?
How had the yin demon also vanished?
Such a terrifying yin demon could not possibly have perished together with the Assault Emperor Alliance group and turned to ashes, could it?
If the yin demon had also died, then who had absorbed that ten thousand li of yin energy earlier?
This made no sense at all!
After observing for a long while, Lin Xiao and the group of Martial Emperors could not make heads or tails of it.
“Could it be the underground palace?” Suddenly, Lin Xiao thought of this possibility.
According to what Li Renyou had said last time, the Demon Sect had an underground palace. The Assault Emperor Alliance’s grand plan was certainly in the underground palace, and Feng Youran would also be there.
Now, with the yin demon and the Assault Emperor Martial Emperors vanishing simultaneously, could the yin demon and the Martial Emperors have all entered the underground palace?
If the yin demon and the Martial Emperors had entered the underground palace, the situation would be dire. Even Feng Youran would be threatened.
But what puzzled Lin Xiao was that this entire area showed no sign of any entrance at all.
Under such intense battle conditions, did the Assault Emperor Martial Emperors still have the chance to enter the underground palace?
Even if they had entered, with the yin demon charging in, it could not be that not a single entrance was left behind, could it?
And just as Lin Xiao voiced this doubt, an extremely cold shout suddenly transmitted from underground: “Exactly!”
As the words fell, the ground ahead exploded with soil. Immediately after, a white-haired elder burst forth, a terrifying aura surging skyward.
The moment they saw this elder, everyone was instantly shocked.
Because they had never seen this elder before.
The elder wore a bronze-coloured hall robe identical to that of the hall master, though it was extremely tattered and ragged. His entire body was covered in bloodstains, clearly having endured a brutal battle.
His countenance was extremely aged, older than all the Martial Emperors of the Zhengxiu Alliance present, as if he had reached the twilight years of a Martial Emperor. That dishevelled white hair made him appear even more aged.
In this instant, an extremely surprising thought flashed through everyone’s minds. Could it be that the Assault Emperor’s grand plan involved this elder?
Was it this elder who had dealt with the yin demon?
Bang! Bang! Bang!
And just then, one body after another suddenly shot skyward from the hole ahead, waves of killing intent enveloping the area.
At the same time, in the periphery a hundred li around this region, light screens lit up, instantly enveloping the entire hundred li radius where they stood.
“Trapping formation!” Lin Xiao and the others furrowed their brows one after another. This light barrier was precisely the trapping formation they had triggered during their previous all-out assault on the Demon Sect. Unexpectedly, after the yin demon’s attack, this formation could still be used again.
Gazing at the figures bursting from the ground ahead, Lin Xiao and the others’ expressions immediately turned icy.
Those people ahead were none other than the Martial Emperors of the Assault Emperor Alliance. Shockingly, not a single one had fallen!
Although everyone was covered in bloodstains and all had suffered severe injuries, they could still fight on!
Moreover, the aura on each of them seemed even stronger than before.
What exactly was this situation?
Where was the yin demon? Where had it gone?
How were these people all still alive?
Not only were Lin Xiao and the Zhengxiu Alliance members baffled, even the Assault Emperor Alliance members watching from the periphery were dumbfounded.
Everyone was utterly perplexed.
