After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

The black-haired youth threw his head back and laughed wildly, his voice shaking the heavens:

"You old man Zixiao! When you ascended to immortality, you sealed me in this desolate place. Did you ever foresee this situation today? Now that I, Huangxiao, have broken free of my seal, I vow to first exterminate all your dragon sons and grandsons, then enter the Immortal Realm and grind you to dust before I can quell my ten thousand years of hatred!"

After speaking, the young man who called himself Huang Xiao pointed to the last passage where no black light had escaped and said sternly:

"Dragon Balls, return quickly!"

After he finished speaking, the earth shook violently, and a beam of black light carrying a bead as black as night shot out of the passage at the speed of light.

At this moment, the enormous thunder dragon, which almost blotted out the sky, let out a deafening roar. A bolt of lightning, a foot thick, shot out like a dragon emerging from the sea, striking straight at the black bead, intending to prevent it from falling into the hands of the black-haired youth.

Huang Xiao snorted coldly, his five fingers slightly curled, and with a grab in the air, a huge ghost claw formed from dense black energy appeared out of thin air, suddenly grabbing at the lightning and actually destroying it.

The bead quickly flew to the young man, who swallowed it whole.

In an instant, his cultivation level surged, and he quickly broke through the Core Formation stage and entered the Nascent Soul stage.

Strangely, the laws of heaven and earth in this secret realm, which should have obliterated all beings above the Foundation Establishment stage, seemed to ignore it and showed no reaction.

At the same time, the shadow of the thunder dragon roared repeatedly, its voice like rolling thunder, booming and deafening in everyone's ears.

A massive dragon claw, carrying immense pressure, pressed down heavily, intending to obliterate the black-haired youth instantly.

"A mere Thunder Soul dares to block my path!"

Huang Xiao snorted coldly, and his enormous ghostly claw reappeared before him, colliding violently with the Thunder Dragon's claw. The Thunder Dragon's claw only lasted for three breaths before shattering.

The enormous demonic claw, however, was unstoppable, piercing straight through the Thunder Dragon's massive head. When it returned to Huangxiao's side, a purple bead formed from condensed lightning was now in its claw.

Huang Xiao glanced at it, then swallowed it, and his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds again, climbing from the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

The Thunder Dragon, having lost its Dragon Ball, became somewhat blurred in its massive body, and its enormous dragon eyes revealed a hint of weariness and dejection.

Under the continuous attacks of the giant ghost claw, it collapsed in less than a quarter of an hour, turning into countless bolts of lightning and disappearing into the world.

"Although it is only a soul, the lightning power in this Dragon Ball is enough to help me recover half of my strength."

Huang Xiao licked his lips, his cold gaze sweeping over everyone in the room, and slowly said:

"You juniors helped me escape, which is a meritorious act. As a reward, I will make you a part of my cultivation!"

Upon hearing this, everyone's expression changed drastically.

The Divine Sword Sect cultivator reacted the fastest, rushing into a nearby passage in an attempt to escape, while the burly man from Beast Taming Valley, who had lost his mind, continued to pursue him relentlessly.

The female cultivator surnamed Ling glanced at the few bolts of lightning left behind after the Thunder Dragon Soul dissipated, a greedy look flashing in her eyes, but in the end she gritted her teeth and fled into the passage on the other side.

As early as when Huang Xiao summoned the Dragon Ball, Huo Yu had already quietly led Long Yucheng into the passage behind them and disappeared without a trace.

Huang Xiao did not pursue the two. Instead, he glanced at the passage where Huo Yu had disappeared, a look of great interest appearing on his face, and walked over.

With a single step, his figure disappeared at the end of the passage.

The vast circular hall fell silent once more, and all the spirit pearls embedded in the dome shattered.

Only a few bolts of lightning left behind by the Thunder Dragon's soul were scattered around the hall, emitting a faint blue light, adding a touch of mystery and eeriness to the silent hall.

To everyone's surprise, in the midst of this silence, a figure staggered out from one of the passages—it was the Qiongshan Sect youth who had gone mad first.

At this moment, his eyes were clear and his expression was firm; there was no trace of madness left in him.

His cultivation level was no longer at the third level of Qi Refining, but at the fifth level of Qi Refining!

The young man glanced mockingly at all the surrounding passages, finally fixing his gaze on one of the bolts of lightning formed after the Thunder Dragon's Soul dissipated, his eyes gleaming with ecstatic joy:

"When the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits! I, Yun Liushui, would be impolite to refuse this ancient thunder dragon inheritance!"

Yun Liushui did not rashly absorb the lightning, but instead took out an item from her storage bag.

If Long Yucheng were here, he would recognize it at a glance as the spiritual vein embryo recorded in the "Record of Spiritual Objects of Qiongshan"!

Moreover, what is not recorded in the "Records of Spiritual Objects of Qiongshan" is that, in addition to being rich in spiritual energy, helping the holder to absorb spiritual energy faster, and being able to give birth to spiritual veins when buried in the earth veins, the spiritual vein embryo has another unknown function - that is, storing the soul body.

On the other side, Huo Yu carried the unconscious Long Yucheng and sped through the passage.

His figure was like a ghost, and his speed was astonishing.

With the sealing array's core completely destroyed, the array spirit, Thunder Dragon, also disintegrated, and the massive sealing array finally ceased operation.

The passage was frozen in time at the moment the dragon held its breath, but it was completely different from when the formation was in operation.

At this moment, all the hidden doors and side passages were exposed, and the once-feared restrictions had all lost their effectiveness and were now useless.

Before the spiritual energy in the storage bag was about to run out, Huo Yu decisively took out the teleportation jade slip.

This teleportation jade slip is different from a storage bag. It has no spiritual energy fluctuations and does not require spiritual energy to maintain. It is just an inanimate object that carries the teleportation array.

As long as enough spiritual power is injected into it, teleportation can be activated, completely unaffected by the strange spiritual-suppressing field when the dragon holds its breath.

However, Huo Yu was not in a hurry to activate the teleportation jade slip.

As he probed the jade slip with his divine sense, that strange power that distorted space surged into his mind once more. Activating the teleportation array under these circumstances would have unimaginable consequences.

At best, one might be deviated from the original teleportation target by tens of thousands of miles; at worst, one might be directly teleported into a spatial rift and instantly torn to pieces by the turbulent flow of spacetime.

Huo Yu originally thought that the distorted teleportation power was part of the formation, but now it seems that it must be caused by some kind of supernatural power of Huang Xiao.

This sealing formation has probably already begun to decay, and even the entrance to the ruins that was deliberately exposed to the world is very likely a trap set by Huang Xiao.

This was used to lure treasure-hunting cultivators to the location and help them retrieve the magical artifact that suppressed the array's core.