"After meeting the descendant of an old friend." I slowly extended my hand. In an instant, the young man called Zichen was teleported before me. A thread of sword intent shot into his glabella, and I swiftly sifted through the torrent of karmic past he carried.
"You! What are you doing?!"
"Stop! Let go of Junior Brother Zichen!"
"Stop right there! Release him!"
Almost at the same instant, three half-step Tower Ascension cultivators closed in behind me. One reached out to seize me, while the other two tried to forcibly separate Zichen and me!
Yu Ningsui froze on the spot. Only after coming to her senses did she hurriedly cry out, "Don't..."
Yet Yi Duling, Mingyang, and Ling Bixia, all of whom had approached me, were completely halted by the law of time, unable to move in the slightest.
A moment later, I withdrew the sword thread. The young man did not display the listlessness of someone whose soul had been searched. Instead, his entire body was bathed in the radiance of Dao essence.
I glanced at the group of disciples rushing over behind him to save him and said, "I did nothing to him. I merely found it troublesome, so I used him to directly deduce his past. There is no need for you to be so nervous."
"A soul search?! You actually searched Master's soul! I'll kill you!"
"Evil cultivator! We'll fight you to the death!"
"A soul search will severely damage Master's divine sense! How dare you!"
Once the disciples heard this, they all reacted, each one filled with righteous indignation.
Yet the instant they tried to make a move, they discovered that they could not mobilize even a trace of the laws here. This threw them completely into shock and panic.
"Heh, soul-searching is such a