"Alliance Leader, what do you mean by 'direction'...?"
Spirit Crane steadied his breathing, which the Heaven and Earth Four Symbols had pushed to its limit, and spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Lu Ze's Fortune must be severed... even if only once."
Heart Demon's voice was cold and resolute.
Every activation of the Heaven-and-Earth Four Symbols Formation, every deduction it made, took a tremendous toll on the Heavenly Spirit Body at its center.
Heart Demon knew this would be the final deduction, so the questions he asked were exceptionally difficult.
Why couldn't it deduce the Spell Lu Ze used to control the course of an Illusion Realm? How did Lu Ze's Illusion Realms so easily break through cultivators' emotional defenses? Why had Lu Ze's cultivation advanced so quickly...?
Every question sank like a stone into the sea, without an answer.
Not only could the formation see nothing—
It had nearly triggered a backlash.
That meant the answers to those questions all involved power on the level of the Heavenly Dao.
Heart Demon was puzzled. The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao shared its source of power with the Heavenly Dao, but its power was limited.
Yet Lu Ze, who had become entangled with it, was bound at every turn to karma of that magnitude. It defied belief.
Heart Demon reached a conclusion:
The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao was recovering far faster than the outside world imagined.
Otherwise, Lu Ze could never have become entangled in such immense karma.
The conclusion was enough to drive anyone to despair.
As the Heavenly Spirit Body's energy neared exhaustion, Heart Demon, all hope gone, posed one final question:
"We've exhausted every scheme to make Lu Ze fail... does it mean anything?"
At last, the formation gave an answer.
"It does."
A cold smile touched Heart