"Yu Chen!" Upon hearing the shout, Qin Fengming immediately turned around, his brows knitting tightly.
He saw no one else—only Yu Chen. This eased Qin Fengming's heart somewhat, but also left him utterly puzzled. Immortal Fairy Yu Tong had agreed to stop everyone, yet she had failed to stop Yu Chen, who was only at the Profound Tier peak.
"Stopping is impossible. If you have the means, then enter this mechanism formation." Qin Fengming's hands did not stop as he spoke coldly.
He and Yu Chen had made an agreement earlier, but Yu Chen had later joined forces with the Profound Ghost Saint Ancestor's heart-demon soul clone to capture and kill him. Naturally, the agreement between them was void.
Now that the altar was right before him, Qin Fengming would never give up. Moreover, he could already see an object placed on a square stone beneath the altar's statue.
As Qin Fengming spoke, the movements of his hands suddenly became even faster. He stepped forward at more than twice his previous speed.
"Fellow Daoist Qin, if you stop now, I guarantee that our previous agreement will still stand. I will let you obtain the mechanism formation scroll. Otherwise, once I come forward, you may not have any chance of surviving."
Yu Chen shouted, and the strange eight-clawed object in his hand suddenly began to hum loudly. A mass of azure firefly-like light surged abruptly, and streaks of Spirit Patterns shot out, flying into the forbidden light.
The firefly-like light flashed, and an ear-piercing hum immediately rang through the vast cavern, where the formation's radiance glittered. The sound was sharp and piercing, as though countless wind blades were howling through the void.
In an instant, the entire cavern's restrictions suddenly began to operate. Streams of terrifying restrictive energy wrapped around invisible