It turned out this entire realm had long since fallen into the Watchers' hunting grounds. The so-called "Watchers of All Heavens" were merely a perfect disguise, used to sift out and erase local cultivators attempting to awaken.
When the squad commander produced the "alliance invitation" personally written by Chu Qing, the false masks within the Divine Hall were instantly torn apart. The leader of the Watchers, who had once appeared benevolent and kind, turned as gloomy as dark water, while an eerie Dharma ring flickering with blood light emerged behind him.
"Lowly expeditioners, what you have brought is not merely an invitation, but the seeds of your own destruction." The Watcher leader sneered coldly, his voice carrying an unquestionable verdict. "Since you have touched the taboo, then forget everything completely."
He formed seals with both hands and chanted a bleak, obscure spell of logic. It was an exceptionally vicious forbidden art of "consciousness deletion," intended to erase every trace of the target's knowledge of "Chu Qing" from the very roots of their souls.
[Rule Deletion: Initiating soul scan. Locking memory anchors related to 'Chu Qing'.] [Karmic Formatting: Clearing the stream of consciousness. Forcibly replacing all logical sequences involving Shiji Dao Field with 'void blankness,' and implanting the cognition that 'the Watchers are sacred'.]
In an instant, a black storm of rules swept through the entire expedition squad like a blade. The Stone Ridge Sacred Guards responsible for the alliance felt piercing agony in their minds. Their memories of Chu Qing's heroic bearing and the warmth of Stone Ridge Immortal City truly began to peel away like scraps of torn paper.
"And with the laws of defective goods like you, you dare touch my Dao Fruit?"
A calm but cold shout, as though it had crossed the endless ages