No matter what Red tried he couldn't get out of the sealed state. Red heard the chatter that this individual named Roy used an object called a Snail Seal.
Suddenly, Red felt something within his storage ring. He saw the identity tablet of the soul cultivator which had been confiscated by the Chiba Clan Young master when he captured him suddenly glowing like a sun. It disappeared from his ring of its own volition and appeared in Red's hand, glowing like a miniature star.
When Roy saw that he got shocked and a little scared. One of the people from the conferred kingdoms were shocked. "He is from the Prime Soul Hall! That's an identity tablet from their hall!"
The tiny stone tablet suddenly emanated an overwhelming power that instantly put everyone in the garden under immense pressure and paralyzed them. A wisp of force pulsated from the tablet and broke the seal on Red. A corporeal form of a woman came out of the tablet amd looked at Roy who had been holding the snail shaped stone in Red's direction that began to crumble. The woman looked extremely young and frighteningly beautiful.
"Unexpectedly my apprentice has come across a Demon Sealer! To attack our Prime Soul Hall, it seems you demon sealers have forgotten the truce. Die!" The pressure became a pin prick in Roy's direction and his head exploded.
When the others saw that, they immediately prostrated before this powerful woman. Although the soul only had a wisp of this woman's soul, her power seemed without ceiling. The soul wisp had remained dormant through all the events and even the death of its apprentice, but awakened only when it came across a demon seal.
The other groups immediately begged for mercy. "Sovereign, We are not with that man's family! We did not know they were demon sealers! They are there!" They pointed at Roy's group. The woman who emerged from the tablet simply snorted and they remaining group who had arrived with Roy exploded as well.
Then the soul turned to look at her apprentice, now that she had awakened, the soul wisp would dissipate soon, so she had to take the opportunity to give her apprentice guidance. But when she turned, she saw that the tablet was being held by a clown faced man, who looked nothing like her apprentice!
"You! Who..." However, before she could say anything, another powerful force invaded the garden. Unlike the soul wisp, it was vastly more powerful and boundless. The soul wisp in the tablet in Red's hand was instantly obliterated and the tablet disintegrated.
"There shall be no killing in my abode. Who ever breaks this rule should better have prepared their wills already." A majestic voice of another woman sounded out. Red was shocked. This was definitely the Senior Flame Tribulation that the cauldron used to belonged to.
In a distant planet somewhere on the outer edges of the Galaxy, inside a cave a woman opened her eyes. A trace of blood leaked from her mouth. It was the beautiful woman whose soul wisp had been wiped out just now. "Is my apprentice dead? Just what power was that in the end? To dare to fool me, that clown must die."
The others who had been prostrating were now stunned. They began apologizing to the clown. "Sir Soul cultivator, we did not realize that you were from the Prime Soul Hall. We apologize for not stopping that fool earlier." However, Red, who was equally stunned by what had occured didn't speak. If they thought he had a powerful identity it was even better for him. Lana too was shocked by Red's identity. No one dared to mess with him anymore and left him alone, for they knew that the expert had seen their faces.
Everyone decided to focus on who the voice was. Red spoke out. "The expert who acted just now, to attack my...uhm...master... is probably a senior called Flame Tribulation."
"Senior Flame Tribulation? I have a good understanding of famous experts, however, I am unaware of such an exceptional individual." One of the people clasped their hands to the clown and commented. They were too afraid to offend him in any way now. "I have not either. Since she is alive and called this her abode, we can only move forward and find out her purpose." Red said. When others heard that they had fear in their hearts. They had just ruined the herb garden of this expert.
Red looked at the tree. It had several fruits that looked like plums hanging. He was surprised why no one had touched that tree despite ruining the garden.
"Is there something unique about this tree? How come you didn't pick it?" Red asked.
"It isn't that we didn't want to, but that we couldn't. There is a barrier around the tree which we cannot bypass."
Then a voice boomed out again as that terrifying presence of Senior Flame Tribulation filled the garden again. "Pick up one fruit and one fruit alone. Then I will allow you in for the final test." And the barrier then dissipated, and out of reverence, everyone picked only one fruit before they were teleported away.
Red too did the same. When he opened his eyes, he was lined up perfectly along a circle along with all the others, including Lana and the other three who had been transported earlier by the cauldron earlier. Everyone was frozen in place. They could move, yet they were fixed in a single position.
"Why can't we move?" A few panicked. However, a voice emerged from the center of the circle, it was an extremely old woman sitting on a throne. Her body looked very frail, and she appeared to be heavily injured.
"Don't panic. I am selecting a successor. I need to see whose physique is most suitable for my techniques and inheritance." The old voice boomed calmly.
When the visitors heard that, they were excited. Looking at the state of the expert, they guessed that she was probably at her death bed and wanted to choose a successor.