Two groups of people rode side by side, speeding along at a gallop as each fended off the onslaught of the Great Xia fierce soldiers.
An immortal of the demonic path beside Ning Gongfu burst into hearty laughter, "These two aren't reincarnated old hands at all—they actually reported their real names!"
Treading on black smoke and chanting incantations, Ning Gongfu conjured a large placard hanging high in the air, bearing the names of Zhong Wuwang and Wen Wuyu prominently upon it, and laughed, "You two aren't locals, are you? To actually be unaware of the spellcraft of our Huaxia Divine Continent and still dare to state your names!"
Seeing this, Chen Shi felt his heart leap, Fulou Village spellcraft.
Spellcraft was a native heterodoxy of Huaxia, falling outside the pale of the Azure Palace heterodoxies. He had never learned it, nor had he found the time to consult the villagers about it.
Yet he knew full well the terrifying power of this spellcraft. Back after the fall of the Shang, Shang Dugong and several other practitioners of witchcraft and spells had relied on this very heterodoxy to slay no fewer immortals!
Ning Gongfu bowed into the void, but Chen Shi and Fairy Xiaoduan remained safe and sound.
Ning Gongfu only felt his vital blood surge, his internal organs turning upside down, and his heart ached to the extreme.
This was the backlash caused by the spellcraft failing to take effect.
Generally, there were two reasons for this phenomenon: one was that the target's cultivation and strength were simply too strong to be cursed to death, causing a Daoist magic countershock; the other was that the targets had used false names, leaving the spellcraft without a target so that shooting an arrow without a target resulted in a backlash.
Panic gripped