Had Jade Qilin not stubbornly urged her this time, with her cautious nature, she would never have so readily given up reincarnating and seizing a body within the clan to come to the desolate, uninhabited Cloudmist Desert.
Clearly... she had already trusted Jade Qilin so deeply.
Yet Jade Qilin did not answer these accusations. The coldness on his face remained unchanged, and he looked at the snake-scaled old woman as though he were looking at a dead person.
At the same time, while attacking Chief Chai with the spirit treasure banner embroidered with a sky full of stars, he formed several hand seals and struck them separately into the spirit-restriction formation upon the cave abode's gates.
In an instant, the cave abode's spirit restrictions transformed into a solid "seventh-tier trapping formation," completely sealing off Chief Chai and the snake-scaled old woman's escape route.
All of this happened within the span of a breath. Even with Chief Chai's seasoned cunning, it was difficult for him to mount an immediate countermeasure.
"Fairy Liu, tsk tsk, Chai has truly had good fortune to witness blood relatives of the same clan slaughtering one another here... But now is hardly the time for questioning. If you and I do not intend to join forces, Chai may still be able to escape with his life, but Fairy Liu, your prospects will be far worse..."
Elsewhere.
Witnessing this scene, Chief Chai maintained astonishing calm despite the haste of the moment.
With a cold sneer, he cast an icy glance at the cave abode's spirit restrictions that had become a "trapping formation." As he produced a defensive spirit treasure to shield the snake-scaled old woman, who was likewise within the Spirit-Seizing Soul-Devouring Formation, he spoke to remind her.
He had miscalculated. He had mistakenly believed that the bond