The secret chamber was anything but dark. Instead, it was covered in a purple glow that came from the oval embryo that pulsed like a heart where the idol used to be. It looked purple and red and was shielded by many gray hands of varying age and sex. They were the hands of the people who had been sacrificed. The hands were linked with their hearts while their souls had become a part of the embryo after being devoured.0

Lu Jin immediately jumped into the embryo, into the embrace of the countless hands. Then, he gradually got absorbed. Fiend qi poured out immensely like boiling steam, forming yet another dark-purple smokescreen that shrouded the embryo.0

An Jing just...0