Although Dongfang Shitian and his group began intercepting Ye Luo and his group's siege, they had also considered the possibility that this operation was deliberately creating an opportunity for the Space Element Players of the Misty Pavilion alliance to trap them with Spatial Barriers. Thus, the moment they detected spatial fluctuations, they began retreating. Their Space Element Players even directly used Space Teleportation Gates to send away players who might be trapped by the barrier.
For a time, nearly all Space Element Players who had retained their skills cast Spatial Barriers. Then, most players such as Dongfang Shitian who might have been covered by the barriers were teleported away. Even players within 150 meters of Ye Luo and his group retreated one after another—this was the range Xian Xian Yu Shou's Spatial Barrier could cover, and avoiding it had practically become instinctive for many players. In their minds, Xian Xian Yu Shou might cast a Spatial Barrier at any moment, so escaping that range was safest.
It was worth mentioning that quite a few Space Element Players from the Dongfang Family and other Guild Alliances had used Space Teleportation Gates earlier to send top experts such as Dongfang Shitian over from Invincible City, especially since they had also transported other elites. Now, in order to evade the Spatial Barriers cast by the Misty Pavilion alliance's Space Element Players, nearly all their Space Teleportation Gates had entered cooldown. In other words, if they wanted to reach other strongholds immediately afterward, they would either have to use Teleport Scrolls or Teleportation Arrays. Naturally, that would take much more time—Space Teleportation Gates only needed one second to transport players, while riding a Teleportation Array or using a teleportation skill required ten seconds, not counting the time spent waiting for the array.
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