Qu Mingdao had created this ensnaring formation entirely on his own, so naturally, he alone knew the secret of its array eye.
Even with famous formations known to many, the actual position of the array eye could be set at the caster's discretion once the formation activated.
There was no such thing as a formation having only one possible array eye position.
Only a moment had passed between the ensnaring formation appearing and being cleaved apart. Yet in that brief span, his opponent had already found its array eye. How outrageous was that?
Qu Mingdao suddenly began to understand why Shi Yuanmin wanted to capture Chen Fei personally. Chen Fei truly displayed a mysterious quality that ordinary Joint Aperture Realm cultivators lacked.
Qu Mingdao glanced at Chen Fei, then flashed over to a spot not far from Tong Linyun.
With the ensnaring formation broken, it could no longer stop Tong Linyun and the others. But Qu Mingdao could not simply let them leave, either, or Shi Yuanmin would surely call him to account afterward.
However, Qu Mingdao was only in the mid joint aperture realm. Trying to forcibly block Tong Linyun and the others was clearly unwise.
After all, if Tong Linyun tied him down while the other early joint aperture realm cultivators surrounded him, the chances of Qu Mingdao dying were far too high. He was not Shi Yuanmin; he could not ignore attacks from early joint aperture realm cultivators.
Qu Mingdao formed seals with both hands. Runes condensed out of thin air, then scattered in every direction.
Qu Mingdao had possessed exceptional talent for formations since childhood. Back then, he had even broken through to the Joint Aperture Realm through formations. Thus, facing Tong Linyun and the others now, he sought neither to injure nor to trap them.