"Dead?"
The hall master leaning against the railing had his pupils involuntarily contract.
They should not have been able to see what was happening inside the grand formation from outside it, yet it was as though the formation's master had done this deliberately.
The grand formation appeared before everyone as if separated by a layer of crystalline ripples.
They also saw Chen Jinding take those three steps with perfect clarity.
Three steps later.
His body died and his Dao vanished.
"Did you see it clearly?"
Leaning against the railing with his arms folded, Shangguan Chuan looked at the not-so-tall cultivator who had appeared beside him.
The cultivator furrowed his brows and said gravely, "I didn't see it clearly. Fatty Chen's death was strange."
As he spoke, his gaze fell upon the grand formation in the distant sky, wrapped around a small world.
This was the very hall master who had bickered with Chen Jinding yet remained seated in the ship's cabin.
Now that the Yu Family's Seventh Master had arrived, how could he still arrogantly remain seated above?
"But one thing is certain: the Soul Banner suppressing that grand formation is indeed the artifact-spirit treasure that vanished from Myriad Things City back then."
A strange gleam flashed through Shao Ying's eyes. He lowered his voice and transmitted, "Brother Shangguan, have you never heard the legends of artifact-spirit treasures?"
Shangguan Chuan listened with an unchanged expression.
What cultivator of their standing had not heard the legends of artifact-spirit treasures?
They all said artifact-spirit treasures were connected to becoming immortal.
To him, that was nothing but hearsay passed from mouth to mouth.
If they truly had anything to do with becoming immortal, stronger cultivators would never have allowed them even to hear of artifact-spirit treasures, much less see them.
Later, he had