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"What?" My heart tightened. I pulled out a paper effigy, chanted an incantation, and tossed it out. The paper scout shot toward the gale like a dart, but after only a few blinks, it was blown off to the side. No wonder Yinglong had been blown back out after charging inside.
Seeing this, Zhang Xiaofei said, "Judging by the direction of the wind, it seems to allow entry but not escape. And... Senior Brother, look at the sky and the ground!"
I looked up at the sky. The same hurricane encircled the entire city, like a gigantic ball of wind. As for underground, that had of course been sealed off as well. Escaping this place would probably not be easy!
Perhaps Du Juexian had been keeping an eye on Zu Ziyi the whole time and had chased after him when he saw him activate the grand formation. That was why Yun Bingxin said he had not come with us.
It was not only us who discovered that we could not get out. Duanmu Yao had noticed it too. After all, her group was the largest and had a wider range of contact. So when Long Yue withdrew Yinglong, she withdrew Ice Phoenix as well, then called over the Left and Right Envoys and the underground cultivators to discuss what they had seen. She immediately asked about the minions who had previously served under Zu Ziyi.
Those people had no idea what had happened either. They looked at one another, while the sharper ones guessed that he might have gone underground.
Xia Ruize, Long Xuantian, and Zhou Qiping had all vanished at this strange moment. Not a single key figure was present. Duanmu Yao was left like a mute chewing coptis—suffering in silence, with nowhere to voice her bitterness.
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