Lianjiang Stone himself did not expect that this deep dive into the Divine Tomb could be so smooth.

Just upon arriving at the Divine Tomb, he unexpectedly encountered that strange bird beside Yang Yaotian.

Previously, he had clearly seen the existence of that strange bird deep in Yang Yaotian’s memories.

The sky quickly turned completely dark.

The blackness was like a huge iron curtain covering the high sky.

The eerie owl with a human head and bird’s body flapped its wings, letting out strange cries from time to time, its eyes like green lights in the night.

Flap, flap!

Its body quickly landed on a low wall, its pair of green eyes scanning the occupants inside the courtyard, uttering an eerie laugh.

"It’s dark, the ghosts are here, the Nether God needs offerings again. It’s dark, the ghosts are here, the Nether God needs offerings again..."

Strange sounds continuously emanated from its mouth, croaking harshly and echoing all around.

Inside the room, a family of divine demon descendants living here immediately showed fear, quickly huddling together.

"Mother, don’t sacrifice me, don’t sacrifice me."

A child with three eyes on the forehead cried in terror, sobbing loudly.

Beside him, a man and a woman, both adults, were also terrified to the extreme, showing threads of pleading, looking towards the owl eerily laughing on the wall.

"Sir, have mercy, have mercy on us, we only have this one son, spare us, please spare us, we are willing to work like cattle and horses for you, we are willing to establish a shrine for you, have mercy!"

The man and woman both knelt to the ground, crying in terror.

"It’s dark, the ghosts are here, the Nether God needs offerings again. It’s dark, the ghosts are here, the Nether God needs offerings again..."

The strange owl with a human head and bird’s body continued to laugh eerily, repeating its previous words.

Ignoring the terrified wails of the family of three in the room, its oily green eyes, like soul-stealing hooks, stared intently at the three inside the room.

The three in the room cried even more miserably, sobbing loudly.

The eerie owl chuckled lowly, seemingly finally bored of waiting, suddenly flapped its wings, rose from the wall, and swiftly rushed towards the room.

"It’s dark, the ghosts are here, the Nether God needs offerings again. It’s dark, the ghosts are here, the Nether God needs offerings again..."

A formless yet powerful spiritual power surged from its eyes, instantly enveloping the family of three inside the room, attempting to directly absorb all of their souls.

But just at that moment!

Suddenly, an even more terrifying spiritual power surged from one side, vast and mighty, crashing hard into the strange owl’s spiritual power.

Whoosh!

In one encounter, the formless spiritual power that had just surged from the strange owl’s eyes began to quickly disappear, as if being sucked away, completely absorbed by the spiritual power that appeared out of nowhere.

Not only that!

This powerful and terrifying spiritual power rolled over and completely submerged its body.

The strange owl with a human head and bird’s body immediately showed a look of astonishment as if it couldn’t believe its spiritual power was directly absorbed by someone.

Before it could respond, that powerful spiritual power struck it hard.

Ah!

An extremely sharp scream burst from the owl’s mouth, blood dripping from the corners, feathers shedding, its body flailed violently, rapidly falling from mid-air.

This spiritual power was so overwhelming that it had no chance to even turn and escape before suffering severe damage.

The family of three inside the room widened their eyes, all showing a look of terror.

"Envoy!" 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

"Envoy, are you okay?"

The man and woman, both divine demon descendants, quickly crawled on the ground towards the strange owl.

But just then, the breeze flashed.

A burly and tall figure appeared lightly in the courtyard, with a faint smile, looking at the strangely shrieking owl on the ground, reached out with a fair hand, grabbed the owl’s legs, lifted it from the ground, smiled gently, and instantly disappeared.

Only the two divine demon descendants were left, looking in disbelief at the empty scene before them.

Has the Nether God’s envoy disappeared?

Has the Nether God’s envoy been captured?

How could this be?

...

In another direction.

Daoist Master Xuan was quietly waiting.

Suddenly, a gust of wind swept by.

Jiang Shi’s figure reappeared, holding the strange owl with a human head and bird’s body in his hand, as if holding a dead chicken, spoke with a smile, "Tell me, where is Yang Yaotian?"

"Who... who are you people?"

The strange owl cried out miserably, hanging by its legs, head down, moaning in pain.

"Oh, still unwilling to speak more?"

Jiang Shi chuckled, "If you’re unwilling to speak, then don’t blame me!"

"No, don’t kill me, I’ll tell!"

The strange owl hurriedly yelled in panic, "Yang Yaotian is hiding in a cave to the east of the town, I am willing to take you there, I am willing to take you there!"

Jiang Shi smiled slightly, "It’s a pity I don’t quite believe you, so just sleep for now!"

Buzz!

The Soul Devouring Power had already surged out, instantly enveloping the strange owl, directly striking its soul into a daze, soon causing it to float out of its body.