"Heh heh heh..."
That eerie laughter rose from deep underground, echoing across the vast void in an endless, unbroken stream.
Strange, terrifying, hair-raising, and deeply unsettling.
At that moment, the people in the sky were like ants on a hot pan, thrown into utter chaos.
They were gripped by panic, terrified of being killed by that fearsome sealed entity. They scrambled to find somewhere safe, and some of the bolder ones even fled to the side of the Chu Heavenly Clan elder.
Most of them had lost their wits from sheer terror.
Only Chu Feng, Wang Qiang, and the others kept their eyes fixed unblinkingly on what lay below.
No — in fact, it wasn't just Chu Feng's group. There was also the Chu Heavenly Clan elder, Chu Banruo.
Chu Banruo was watching with intense concentration. Even when those from the Hundred Refinements Mortal World scurried to hide beside him, he paid them no mind.
But compared to the unease on Chu Feng and the others' faces, Chu Banruo's face was actually filled with excitement.
Whoosh— Suddenly, a streak of golden light shot out from deep underground.
At the same time, a figure flew up from the depths below and landed on the ground.
Through the rolling thick smoke, people could clearly make out its appearance.
At first, their hearts clenched — after all, instinct told them this was... the sealed entity.
But once they got a good look at it, they were somewhat bewildered, because this sealed entity was nothing at all like what they had imagined.
In their minds, it should have been a grotesque, abominably terrifying colossus.
Yet what now appeared before their eyes was a small figure, barely three feet tall.
That was right — its appearance bore some resemblance to a human child, but it was clearly not human.
Its body was yellow, emitting a faint golden glow.
Though it had a human head, a human neck, and a human torso, it... did not have human hands or human legs.
Instead, tentacles grew from its body — they looked like flower vines, yet they were not flower vines, for they clearly had the texture of flesh.
Over a dozen of these bizarre tentacles grew where legs would be, supporting its body.
Where arms would be, there was one tentacle on each side, resembling arms but without hands.
As for its face, it had six eyes, though they were quite small — each one roughly half the size of an ordinary human's.
Its ears were normal, though slightly pointed. It had no visible nose, but it did have an enormous mouth — practically the size of a hippopotamus's.
Its mouth was filled with sharp, pointed teeth.
The reason Chu Feng could see all this so clearly was that the creature's massive mouth was currently wide open.
It was laughing heartily, seemingly celebrating its freedom, yet its laughter was utterly eerie.
But rather than dwelling on its bizarre appearance, Chu Feng was trying to sense its aura. However... he couldn't sense anything at all.
Forget figuring out what cultivation realm it was in — if this creature hadn't been standing right in Chu Feng's line of sight, he wouldn't have even known it existed.
Because it had absolutely no aura.
"It's it! It really is it! I succeeded! I succeeded! Hahaha!!!"
Just then, Chu Banruo suddenly burst into an ecstatic laugh.
Looking toward the sound, Chu Feng noticed that Chu Banruo was holding a scroll — a very ancient-looking scroll.
"What's that?"
Using his Heavenly Eyes, Chu Feng could see the contents of the scroll. It bore an illustration.
The illustration depicted exactly the strange creature currently standing below them.
Besides the illustration, there were also several lines of text.
"Evil Ginseng King — sealed within the Hundred Refinements Mortal World. Release it. Once it has grown, consume its flesh and blood to attain eternal youth and prolong one's lifespan by ten thousand years."
The rest of the text detailed the exact location where the Evil Ginseng King had been sealed, as well as what kind of formation could be used to unseal it.
"So he unsealed this thing to extend his own lifespan?"
In that moment, Chu Feng not only learned that the terrifying sealed entity was called the Evil Ginseng King.
He also came to understand the intentions of this Chu Heavenly Clan elder.