The moment the surging aura from within the cave collided briefly with the puppet beast god's body, it was immediately dispersed. Everyone present changed expression in unison, their eyes flashing with disbelief.
Although everyone could not sense the terrifying vastness of the energy contained within that strange fluctuation, they had experienced it firsthand. Its power was no weaker than an attack from a Mahayana cultivator.
The reason Lin Tao and the other three had survived earlier was likely that they had severed their spiritual connections in time, breaking free from the rune-driven state, and afterward had not foolishly tried to withstand it head-on by deploying defensive methods.
Even so, the backlash from that strange fluctuation had still acted upon them.
Now, a puppet at the Profound Spirit realm had actually endured the formation's backlash. The shock this caused in those who had personally experienced the formation's attacks was beyond words.
"On this puppet beast's body, there is clearly the inverted Xuanyuan Five Spirits Array that Fellow Daoist Qin mentioned. But if such an array can withstand the backlash from the Sumeru Array, then we should naturally be able to rely on it to endure the formation's attack head-on as well.
"If that is truly the case, wouldn't attacking the formation ourselves allow us to disperse its energy even more quickly than using a puppet to draw out the formation's energy and attack it? With Fellow Daoist Qin's intelligence, surely he could not have failed to think of this."
Watching the scene produced when the formation bombarded the puppet beast, Zhang Shihe's expression was filled with shock. Then a sharp glint flashed through his eyes, and he spoke those words.
None of them were dull-witted. Hearing the song of the worthy, they understood the elegant meaning behind it. They immediately realized