The ancient voice wafted through the crack of the door, sounding like someone with a throat condition, yet it was strangely steady and powerful.
Chen Ke and Xu Jing looked at each other. Since the other party was so composed, they must have set a trap.
Antagonists always talk too much before they die. For Xu Jing and Chen Ke, before descending to the bottom of the academy, they didn't take the villains of this era seriously; after all, there was no large-scale Spiritual Energy utilization in 1859.
As Transcendent Spiritual Ability Users, they were overwhelmingly powerful compared to any armed unit of this era.
However, once they reached the underground, and saw everything before them, they realized things weren't so simple.
Even though the human authority had not yet extensively utilized this power, they had clearly discovered it, and the actions of many small groups were much faster and more aggressive than those of the state machinery.