The fork at the end of the mine shaft suddenly opened up into a terrifyingly large natural karst cave.
A sweet, iron-rich stench of blood mingled with a pungent sulfur smell rushed toward them. Right in the center of the cavern, a massive blood-red formation, more than twenty meters in diameter, was deeply branded into the rocky ground. Countless bizarre runes writhed, emitting a faint red glow. At the intersection of the formation's lines, energy surged like boiling magma, converging on a raised stone platform at the very center.
Wei Xiaoyu lay flat on that platform, her body bound by invisible energy. Pale golden patterns slithered beneath her skin like living creatures, radiating a heart-palpitating, berserk aura. Her entire body resembled an ore thrown into a smelting furnace, being forcibly refined and drained dry.
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