Kidnapping

Jia Ruyi activated the Family's Treasured Artifact. The world before him seemed covered by a layer of liquefied, distorted effects, warping out of shape.

The area Zhou You occupied was the focus. Like a wiped-away droplet of water, it stretched outward from where it had been, pulling away.

Though this Calamity Bewitching Treasure was not a weapon, its effects were even stranger and harder to guard against.

Just like the Qi Family's... Bailuo Heavenly Net.

Jia Ruyi thought that if there had been a volcano or rift nearby, he could have moved Zhou You into any deadly place.

A cold gleam flashed through the corner of his eye as he spotted the tip of a blade in a powerful martial artist's hand, and an idea came to him.

That blade possessed extraordinary killing power. Its forging had emphasized breaking through the body and inflicting damage, so it was too heavy and extremely slow to wield.

Why not push Zhou You onto that blade, break his golden body, and skewer him clean through?

With that thought in mind, he turned the Shrinking Ground Bronze Ruler in his hand and swung it toward the blade tip.

The distance between Zhou You, along with the area extending from him, and the blade tip instantly shrank to the size of a needlepoint.

Just as Zhou You was about to crash into the blade's edge, he suddenly pulled a soft pouch from his robes and shook it open into the wind.

That soft pouch looked somewhat familiar. It actually broke free of the Shrinking Ground Bronze Ruler's effect, rising into the air and dropping over Jia Ruyi's head.

Caught completely off guard, Jia Ruyi was netted together with the Shrinking Ground Bronze Ruler in his hand, and panic seized him at once.

"Not good!"

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