"What's going on with these guys?" Xian Miaomiao asked, her face filled with shock.
At this moment, Chu Feng wore a grave expression. As a Spirit World Master, he naturally understood what was happening.
Every member of the Dark Hall carried a self-destruct force within them. If anyone tried to forcibly remove their masks, or if they themselves attempted to speak words they shouldn't, that self-destruct force would be triggered, causing their bodies to explode and killing them on the spot.
Most importantly, even though Chu Feng had already deployed a barrier formation along with his own oppressive aura—combining both powers to suppress that force—he still felt powerless against the self-destruct force.
This meant... that within the Dark Hall, there existed a Spirit World Master even more powerful than Chu Feng. And not just by a small margin.
"Chu Feng, what are they doing here?" Xian Miaomiao approached with Xiao Hong.
Chu Feng began carefully observing the location. He wanted to know what these people were trying to unseal here—what could possibly be so important that they were willing to sacrifice the lives of the entire Royal-level Spirit Insect clan to power the unsealing formation.
However, even as he observed, Chu Feng didn't dare use his full power. After all, he knew that within the Blood-Devouring Killing Formation, an Ancient Fierce Beast was sealed, and he feared that what lay beneath them might be exactly that beast.
The moment he laid eyes on the unsealing formation, his very first thought had been that the enemy intended to release the Ancient Fierce Beast.
"This is bad." After observing for a while, the frown that was already on Chu Feng's brow deepened further. He turned to Xian Miaomiao and asked: "Miaomiao, do you know where exactly the Ancient Fierce Beast is sealed?"
"No." Xian Miaomiao shook her head, then asked: "Chu Feng, what's wrong?"
"There's a formation eye beneath this array. If I'm not mistaken, this formation eye is connected to the formation that seals the Ancient Fierce Beast—because I can already confirm that it is the eye of the sealing formation."
"So what you said is most likely true. There really is something terrifying sealed here. It must be the Ancient Fierce Beast."
"However, this formation eye is too deep. I can't determine exactly where the Ancient Fierce Beast is sealed."
"But what I can confirm is that the Dark Hall has set up this formation specifically to release whatever is sealed here," Chu Feng said.
"Then it must be the Ancient Fierce Beast. There's definitely an Ancient Fierce Beast sealed here. What do we do? How can they be so wicked?"
"I need to notify my Ancient Spirits immediately," Xian Miaomiao said.
"Is there still time? Didn't you say your Ancient Spirits have been guarding this place all along?" Chu Feng asked.
"That's true, but recently my father has redeployed a significant number of forces, so the guarding power here is much weaker than before. If the Ancient Fierce Beast is released now, our current forces probably can't hold it back," Xian Miaomiao said.
"Your father redeployed forces—was it to search for the Dark Hall's whereabouts?" Chu Feng asked.
"Yes." Xian Miaomiao nodded.
"This is bad. We've walked right into a trap." Chu Feng's eyes went wide with realization. Clearly, the secrets the Ancient Spirits knew were also known to the Dark Hall. Everything—all of it—had been orchestrated by the Dark Hall deliberately.
"No, I have to go notify them right now." Xian Miaomiao turned to leave.
"I'm afraid it's too late." Chu Feng grabbed Xian Miaomiao.
"Then... then what do we do?" Xian Miaomiao suddenly understood. If the Dark Hall had truly come prepared, going back now to notify and then mobilize forces would indeed be too late.
"Since it's too late, we can only seize the moment and do what we must," Chu Feng said.
"You mean... continue searching for the Ancient Immortal Blossom?" Xian Miaomiao asked.
"Exactly. Otherwise, didn't we come here for nothing?" Chu Feng said.
"But the Ancient Immortal Blossom is extremely hard to find, and with the Dark Hall here, isn't this place dangerous too?" Xian Miaomiao said.
And what Xian Miaomiao had voiced was exactly what Chu Feng was worried about. Setting everything else aside, this formation alone had been laid by a Dragon Pattern Spirit World Master.