Li Luo heaved a sigh of relief. "Seems like my guess was right. The old lady was the way to dispel the ward. All four bowls were curses. If we drank them, we might have been unable to escape from the ward. In fact, things could have worsened. The old lady was simply a strange existence that we could not defeat with force. We had to get rid of her using the tea."
"Then it looks like we drank the bowls of tea for nothing!" Sun Dasheng cried sadly.
Lu Ming, on the other hand, didn't seem to mind her decision. "It was not really for nothing. If we hadn't figured out that the three bowls were cursed, Li Luo may not have thought about letting the old lady have the fourth bowl. After all, who else would have thought of that?"
After seeing what had happened to the three of them, there was a high chance the fourth bowl was another trap. From there, Li Luo had luckily managed to find the right answer.
It was perhaps a decision born out of desperation.
Li Luo did feel a little guilty. If he had figured out the trick to the realm sooner, Lu Ming and the rest would not have had to drink the tea themselves.
"How are you all feeling? Is everything..." Li Luo asked.
Before he could finish, he froze and his eyes turned solemn.
His eyes widened, and the trio had fl.u.s.tered looks on their faces. Their bodies suddenly began to expand rapidly.
Their skin was expanding as if air was being blown into them. They continued to bulge, and their flesh was separated from their blood. Finally, they turned into round human skin lanterns.
Their heads were at the top of the lanterns, and their pupils were like black vortexes. They had fallen into a deep slumber.
Right in front of Li Luo's eyes, the human skin lanterns began to rise into the air.