"Come out quickly!"
Chongming, who was waiting outside, reacted faster. But by the time he voiced his warning, the lights shooting from all directions had converged in the air and were gradually forming a spherical barrier.
Yaohua instinctively tried to run out of the light, but she was a step too late. The barrier closed in the sky.
Dense ancient secret inscriptions rose from under her feet. The golden radiance almost submerged her lower body. Even Rong Chu couldn't bear the power of the formation and floated out unsteadily.
"What is this?" She was startled. At the moment, her spiritual energy was being drawn out from under her feet as if being pulled by a thread. She tried to lift her foot, but there seemed to be something firmly holding her down. She couldn't move at all.
"It's the Life-Draining Formation." Rong Chu held his head. Although he had been transformed by the superior god, the time was too short. Now being suppressed by this formation, he could only struggle to prevent his soul from scattering.
"The formation eye is refined from the bones of an ancient great demon. It can drain the vitality of the people in the formation in the shortest time."
Mo Qing had consumed a lot of spiritual energy earlier. Now he was half-kneeling on the ground, barely holding on to a stone pier to keep from sliding down. Beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. He didn't even have the strength to speak.
Yaohua grabbed his hand and tried to give him some spiritual energy, but it was like throwing a clay ox into the sea.
Rong Chu gasped for several times before continuing, "Moreover, after the vitality is drained, the people in the formation will also be absorbed like nutrients until the people inside completely disappear. Only then will the formation break on its own."
The power of this formation was so great that it was likely that the master of the formation had used this method to harm many people.
The three of them were trapped in the formation. Only Chongming outside might find a glimmer of hope.
But since this was a trap, once the prey was in the net, how could the hunter not appear?
"Master, you should leave here quickly."
Chongming was checking if there was any way to break the formation when he suddenly heard Yaohua calling him. The little phoenix was clearly extremely scared, but she forced a smile. Even the phoenix flower on her head dimmed a bit.
"Although the Life-Draining Formation is powerful, it's not impossible to break." He comforted her through the barrier. "I will find a way to save you."
But now her master's spiritual energy was completely suppressed. What method did he have to save them?
As soon as this thought came to her mind, she saw Chongming cut his palm with a dagger.
A gorgeous red flower bloomed on his cold white hand. Yaohua's eyes ached.
"Master!" She felt as if the knife had cut her own body.
Mo Qing weakly raised his head. Seeing Chongming's action, he opened his eyes wide.
If he could do it all over again, he would never have taken the initiative to offer help to that "girl".
Chongming stretched out his intact hand, wanting to touch her head. But separated by a barrier, he had to take it back. "Don't worry."
His blood-stained hand was pressed on the ground. The dust on the ground dirtied Chongming's hand.
"God Chongming," Rong Chu murmured. "Is he going to use his divine blood to draw the formation over, shift the formation core, and forcefully rescue us from the formation?"
The tears Yaohua had been holding back suddenly rolled out of her eyes.
He didn't have to suffer all this.
The high and mighty god, for her training, had lost his spiritual energy, cut his palm, and was trapped in the Life-Draining Formation, suffering all kinds of hardships.
Chongming used his hand as a brush, moving like a swimming dragon. When half of the talisman pattern was drawn, Yaohua felt that the power of the formation had weakened a lot. She could even lift her foot.
Mo Qing also seemed much better. The first thing he did was to break free from Yaohua's hand. "Sister, I'm fine."
He did look much more energetic. Yaohua looked at Chongming again.
Her master's palm was bloody and mangled.
She bit her lower lip. "Is there really no other way?"
Could the red light in her body be useful?
That red light could dispel the black mist. Would it be useful against the Life-Draining Formation with the bones of the ancient great demon as the formation eye?
But now she was in this formation. How could she activate the red light in her body?
"There's a finger bone under the millstone."
A cold, emotionless voice suddenly rang in Yaohua's ear.
It was the system!
Since it had struck her with lightning, the system had never appeared again. She thought it had left.
Yaohua quickly walked to the millstone.
It was just a few steps, but she walked sweating and gasping.
"Little princess, the faster you move, the more spiritual energy the formation will absorb."
Yaohua nodded casually. Her little hand groped under the millstone. After searching around, she finally felt something smooth that didn't seem like an ordinary stone in a groove.
In the Thunder Dream Swamp, although she had seen many white bones with her own eyes, she had never touched them.
This was the first time she had touched one.
Yaohua was afraid, but looking at her master who was still drawing the talisman, her elder brother who was struggling to come over, and Rong Chu who was worried beside her, the fear in her heart disappeared instantly.
What was there to be afraid of?
Watching the people she cared about suffer and die right in front of her eyes, that was what was truly terrifying.
Yaohua firmly grasped the thing and pulled out her hand.
The moment she pulled out her hand, wisps of red light gathered on her hand and firmly wrapped around the white bone.
At the same time, the pressure from the Life-Draining Formation was reduced by more than half.
It worked!
Yaohua calmed her mind. "Brother System, what else do you know?"
As long as the system helped, this Life-Draining Formation could definitely be broken!
But the system refused to speak again.
Helpless, Yaohua could only walk around slowly, looking for suspicious things everywhere.
"No formation can appear out of thin air." Looking at the finger bone, Rong Chu cheered up. "As long as we can find the formation eye and destroy it, then this formation will break on its own!"
With Chongming outside sharing the pressure of the formation and the finger bone Yaohua had found as the foundation of the formation, Mo Qing could move freely inside.
"Master, stop drawing. We're much better now. We believe we can hold on until we find the formation eye."
Chongming retracted his hand. His originally calm face had lost all color. He looked like a figure carved from ice and snow.
Yaohua felt heartache. She quickly squatted down and continued to look for suspicious things.
Big tears splashed on the ground. She lowered her head and suddenly saw a crack in the floor.
It seemed as if there was something moving inside.
She quickly called Mo Qing and Rong Chu over. "Come and take a look. Is there something hidden inside?"
Mo Qing leaned over. As soon as his eyes were close to the crack, he let out a scream and fell backward.
"I... I saw a pair of white eyeballs!" Mo Qing was still scared.
"I'll go down and take a look." Rong Chu turned into a puff of white smoke.
Yaohua was a little worried. "What if there's something down there that's bad for you..."
"It can't get any worse than it is now." He calmly got into the crack.
Yaohua nervously clenched her hands and stared at the crack. After a while, Rong Chu came out.
"There is indeed a person inside." He hesitated before speaking. "A little kid who is about to starve to death."