Master of Strange Dao

However, the more he struggled, the more attention he attracted.

Accompanied by a rumbling noise, the stone walls behind the passageway crumbled consecutively, as a ferocious evil dragon with pitch-black eyes roared forward.

The trapping array didn't even last for the blink of an eye before it shattered with a bang.

The Black Robed Man, trapped inside, faced the death aura and the evil dragon head-on. His body suddenly disintegrated, turning into dust. All his thoughts, all his means, were utterly useless in the face of such pure power.

Everything was engulfed in the death aura and completely dissipated.

The evil dragon returned to the massive cavern, the madness in its eyes slowly subsiding as its consciousness gradually fell into silence.

He coiled into a massive snake array, supported by the death aura, quietly suspended in the vast cavern, slowly sinking into slumber.

Hiding within the formation, Yang swallowed a piece of black stone from the Jade Tomb and absorbed some of the death aura, shrouding his entire body quietly as he sneaked out, following the direction the evil dragon came from.

He didn't believe only the Jinyi Wei had come; there must be more people on the way, just not as aggressive as the Jinyi Wei.

He needed to hurry, but first, he had to ask how Yu Ziqing was doing.

The evil dragon's return was much faster than expected.

Not long after he stepped out, he saw Lou Huai approaching.

"Uncle Yang, I'm glad you're alright. Have you seen my big brother?" Lou Huai was the first to ask, with a face full of concern.

"No, I haven't." Yang opened his mouth and spat out a storage bag, selecting something from it, and then took out a jade scroll and crushed it.

A few breaths later, he sensed something. According to the method Yu Ziqing had devised, one of the jade scrolls he refined also shattered.

That number expressed the meaning "I'm fine."

"He's fine for now, so let's not worry about him. We need to hurry."

"In a while, can you keep that big guy asleep, can you do that?"

"What big guy?" Lou Huai looked bewildered.

"The big guy who just rushed in."

"…" Lou Huai looked horrified and immediately shook his head: "Uncle Yang, I think you're overestimating me. I'm just an ordinary human devil."

"Don't worry, he's already asleep. I need you to keep him asleep. His consciousness is already blurred; it shouldn't be too difficult for you."

Lou Huai wanted to flee. When he dissipated his form and transformed into a devil without physical form or divine soul, and was brought by Yang to the cavern, upon seeing the enormous evil dragon, he wanted to escape even more.

Putting aside the fact that he was a devil, he was actually just a third-tier righteous cultivator.

Plucking chestnuts from the fire, pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth, wasn't supposed to be done like this.

Yang gave Lou Huai a look, and then went off to quietly activate the big array.

Daoist patterns, demon patterns, dragon patterns, began to silently emerge on the stone walls, enveloping the entire cavern, transforming it into a massive spherical shape.

As those patterns began to fly off the stone walls, linking with those suspended points in mid-air, the evil dragon that had just fallen asleep seemed to sense something, its eyelid twitching slightly.

Yang glared at Lou Huai, and Lou Huai gritted his teeth: Damn it, let's go for it.

Heavenly devils could go harm the living ninth-tier strong; he only needed to keep a ninth-tier who was already dead and whose consciousness was blurred asleep. Why couldn't he do it?

Were human devils inherently inferior to heavenly devils?

That was the way it was before, but now that I, Lou Huai, am here, it's not necessarily so.

Lou Huai turned into a cloud of black mist and slipped into the evil dragon's nostril.

Moments later, the evil dragon, whose eyelid had been twitching, calmed down once more, falling into a deep sleep, not breathing, as if it had truly completely died.

Yang secretly breathed a sigh of relief and fully activated the formation there.

Every inch of space within the cavern began to reveal interweaving daoist patterns, demon patterns, and dragon patterns, harmoniously filling the entire space, bit by bit.

As the formation slowly spread over, Yang walked to the front of the evil dragon, pried open its mouth, and directly climbed inside.

The next moment, the entire cavern was filled completely, the evil dragon totally enveloped.

The death aura on the evil dragon's body also gradually began to drift away in all directions, and the death aura in turn enveloped the entire formation inside.

...

On the other side, Yu Ziqing received Yang's message, confirming Yang was alright. He was also more certain that he was in a real illusion realm and still within the Evil Dragon Tomb.

If completely isolated from the outside world, he might not have sensed the jade scroll breaking.

Moreover, it was also certain that Yang was probably not daring to be distracted; otherwise, it would have been more convenient to contact using the Seventh Floor ring.

At this moment, Yu Ziqing similarly didn't dare to be distracted.

He hid behind a giant stone pillar, concealing his presence. He saw a shark demon swimming towards him, and behind it were demons from the sea following.

These were all after him.

It was completely different from the last scene.

The living beings here could all see him and would all think he shouldn't appear here.

Because this was the Dragon Clan's Dragon Palace.

When the pursuing sea demons had gone far, Yu Ziqing hadn't yet relaxed when he saw beside him a mural on the wall moved.

The mural depicted a great sea clan demon, valiantly fighting.

At this moment, that great demon cautiously turned its head, looked at Yu Ziqing, and whispered,

"Go right, take a left at the first passage; it's safe over there."

Yu Ziqing wanted to say something, but the great demon in the mural quickly covered its mouth, making a shushing gesture.

"Don't speak, trust me, it'll be safer there. If you don't go, they'll find you and me soon."

After saying this, the great demon in the mural immediately returned to its original posture, not moving at all.

Yu Ziqing was silent for a moment, glanced to the left, faintly heard the sound from afar, and immediately sneaked to the right.

If there's an opportunity in the future, see if he could learn the Shadow Great Escape from the Shadow Department.

That escape skill was indeed quite useful.

Following the great demon's guidance in the mural, after turning into another passage, a team of searching sea demons passed by shortly after. They indeed didn't search in this direction.

Following the passage forward, not long after, from the dome above, another mural of a swimming fish came to life.

The swimming fish slid down the wall from up above, gesturing with its mouth towards a direction for Yu Ziqing.

"Go that way, quickly, they'll realize soon."

Yu Ziqing didn't move; he watched the swimming fish, like a painting, cruising along the walls.

"Aren't you the one I saw on the previous floor?"

"No," the swimming fish shook its head immediately, seeing the vigilance and distrust in Yu Ziqing's eyes, it sighed: "Don't worry, I won't harm you, nor do I have the ability to harm you."