Su Yunshang pressed her sword fingers down again and again, concentrating all the Ice Mountain Divine Palace's power on a single point. Yet the talisman patterns on the barrier merely flashed for an instant, and even the ripples were less pronounced than before.
"I can't break it." Su Yunshang withdrew her sword and took a step back, her expression darkening. "This array can withstand power far beyond the Void-Treading Realm."
Luo Shangdu tried as well. Her Innate Pill Flame slammed into the barrier, and a sea of purple fire scorched the ground around it black, but the barrier itself did not rise even a single degree in temperature.
"Senior Sister Su, this array's foundations were laid by someone at least in the Void-Treading Realm." Luo Shangdu withdrew her flames, her voice grave. "Possibly even higher."
Su Yunshang's brow furrowed.
The work of a Void-Treading cultivator.
The Void-Treading Realm was the ceiling of the Taiheng Dao Domain, yet here, surrounding a field of spirit rice, stood a grand array that even a Void-Treading cultivator might not be able to break.
Inside the barrier, the burly man had already run into the stone house.
Luo Shangdu leaned close to the barrier and strained her ears.
"Yes, people from Taiheng. Three of them, two women and a man... no insignia on their clothes. Not the Immortal Talisman Dao Domain's uniform, and not ours either... yes, one woman uses an ice-element Immortal Tower, and another uses pill flame. They don't look like ordinary independent cultivators..."
"Understood. Be careful over there too. Raise the grand array to its maximum strength. Don't let them slip inside..."
"The Third Team's spirit fields south of the Gray Forest Belt. Yes, the ones near the Withered Forest... forget the spirit rice for now. The people matter more..."
"Have you