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Countless brilliant bolts of lightning suddenly lashed down with savage force upon the wildly surging boundless Underworld River. They were like countless glittering serpents rearing up from the black river, then writhing chaotically through the pitch-black clouds.
Hong Yi's Purple Great Hand Seal, which had been reaching for the Blind Ferryman, seemed to be struck by an incomparably vast force and abruptly vanished from the river's surface.
"Hong Yi! What happened?!"
From a great distance away, True Lord Zhu also let out a shrill cry. At this moment, he merely screamed Hong Yi's name, no longer even calling him "martial nephew" as he had before. His terror was obvious.
"This is bad! Your spells were too powerful—they destroyed some of the formation's nodes."
The Blind Ferryman was facing Hong Yi's direction, yet he spoke urgently to the white-clad young woman and the others beside him.
Although the Nine-Bend Underworld River formation was stable, and only the Blind Ferryman knew where its nodes lay, ordinary people would have found it virtually impossible to enter the formation and destroy it even at the cost of their lives. But the white-clad young woman and Hong Yi were both earthshaking figures of the age. Every spell they wielded possessed heaven-destroying, earth-shattering power. By sheer accident, they had destroyed one of the formation's nodes.
The destruction of one, two, or even several nodes would not cause the entire formation to collapse, but it had already caused many parts of it to cave in!
The Nine-Bend Underworld River formation was formed from passages connecting countless spaces. Now that the formation had begun collapsing, the spaces within it became even more chaotic. Some passages that had originally led to one place might have changed and connected to somewhere else entirely. And when certain passages linked together,