Under Kunpeng's rapid flight and search, a purple sphere soon appeared before our eyes. It floated there in space, and no one knew how long it had remained there. The strange sight made my heart jump, and I immediately flew toward the sphere, which was roughly the size of a bed, without regard for the danger!
The sphere gave off not the slightest trace of aura, as if it had isolated everything. I hurriedly reached out and touched its surface. Just as I had guessed, there was no power within the sphere. It should merely have been some kind of isolating barrier, since we could not see inside from the outside. I quickly knocked on the barrier.
"Qingcheng? Are you inside?" I asked, but I did not try to break it open. This grand formation was far too mysterious. If I tried to destroy some critical node, something irreparable might happen, so I had no choice but to proceed cautiously.
Bang, bang, bang.
I gently knocked a few more times and tried to send my voice inside.
Only after there had been no response from within for a long time did I try to use the Star Sword to slice through a small connecting point in the sphere. Then I peered inside.
What I saw was completely beyond my expectations. A graceful woman dressed in purple lay quietly on her side inside the sphere, as if she had fallen asleep and simply had not woken up in time!
"Qingcheng! Qingcheng!" I hurriedly called out. At that moment, I could no longer care about anything else. I immediately activated the Star Sword and sliced the sphere cleanly in half, then swiftly flew inside and arrived before Xue Qingcheng!
Her face was deathly pale, as though she had been asleep for a