Shen Luo returned to his residence, and Nie Caizhu followed him all the way out of concern.
He sat down in the house, frowning slightly.
"Cousin, you have already won the trial, what are you still worrying about?" Nie Caizhu asked.
"I was thinking about the toad monster. Its cultivation is far superior to ours. It is very strange that it appeared in the trial." Shen Luo said.
"It's indeed a bit weird, but the toad spirit is a monster imprisoned in the Hualien Secret Realm. There may be a problem with the restriction, allowing it to escape." Nie Caizhu said.
"If it's just a coincidence, it's okay. But if someone did it deliberately, then the meaning will be different." Shen Luo said.
"In that case, I will go see Master later and ask her to look into this matter." Nie Caizhu was a little stunned when she heard this, and said after a slight hesitation.
Seeing this, Shen Luo nodded.
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Inside Mount Putuo, in a large hall.
Fairy Qinglian, Taoist Huangtong, Wei Qing, and several other elders gathered here. Fairy Qinglian looked indifferent, and the others did not speak either, as if they were waiting for something. The atmosphere was a bit depressing.
A moment later, two figures walked in from outside the hall. They were Zhou Yu and a gray-haired old man.
"How is it?" Fairy Qinglian asked immediately.
Although these words were incoherent, Zhou Yu and the gray-haired old man clearly understood them.
"Junior Brother Zhou and I have checked. One of the seals that imprisoned the Toad Spirit was loosened, allowing the Toad Spirit to escape during the trial." The gray-haired old man bowed and said.
"Master, please rest assured. Elder Wuhuan and I have already reinforced the center of the formation. The toad spirit was also severely injured by Uncle Wei. It will never escape again." Zhou Yu also bowed and said.
Taoist Huang Tong and several other elders nodded when they heard this, and their tense expressions relaxed a little.
"Elder Wuhuan, all the restrictions in the Hualien Secret Realm were set up by you, and the instruments you used to set up the formations were of the highest quality. Why did the eye of the Toad Spirit's restriction formation suddenly loosen? And it happened to be during the trial." Fairy Qinglian suddenly spoke.
"Master, do you mean that there is something fishy about this matter?" Huang Tong asked.
Zhou Yu's heart skipped a beat and he secretly thought that something was wrong.
The reason why the toad spirit came out was that before the trial started, he took the opportunity to check the Hualien Secret Realm and tampered with the toad spirit's restrictions.
However, Zhou Yu was not worried about anything. He did this under the guise of an ordinary disciple who was investigating the secret realm. That person didn't even know why he was doing it.
Moreover, after the trial began, Zhou Yu found an excuse to transfer the man away from Putuo Mountain. Now he was thousands of miles away, and there was no way he would be able to find out.
"I checked it carefully. The eye of the forbidden array showed signs of being corroded by poisonous substances. I think it was the toad spirit who deliberately used the poison to corrode the eye of the array, which caused the restriction to loosen." said the gray-haired old man.
"Zhou Yu, what do you think?" Fairy Qinglian looked at Zhou Yu.
"My formation skills are far inferior to Elder Wuhuan's, and I didn't notice anything unusual about the restriction." Zhou Yu was stared at by Fairy Qinglian's calm eyes, and suddenly he felt inexplicably panicked and said with his head down.
"Really?" Fairy Qinglian sneered.