Lin Bai's thoughts stirred as he sensed the location of his flying sword.
He called the flying sword back with his mind, but although it flew toward him, it seemed as if heaven and earth lay between them. In the short term, the flying sword could not return to Lin Bai's hand.
Lin Bai turned again and walked toward the direction where Ye Suxin had disappeared.
But after taking only a few steps, Lin Bai stopped once more. He discovered that he had already forgotten the direction in which Ye Suxin had vanished, because the darkness around him was all exactly the same—the darkness where the sun never shone.
No matter which direction Lin Bai walked in, it felt as though he were merely treading water in place.
It was as if he could never escape this cage of darkness.
"Is it a formation?"
A gleam flashed through Lin Bai's eyes. Immediately, light flickered above his brow, and a black radiance spread out.
Lin Bai raised his wooden sword and suddenly cleaved downward at the space ahead.
"Martial Soul Secret Method—Break the Restriction!"
With a single sword strike, Break the Restriction could tear apart any formation between heaven and earth.
Yet the instant the sword strike left his hand, Lin Bai felt no joy.
The Break the Restriction sword strike seemed unable to split apart the darkness before him.
"Stop wasting your effort!"
Just as Lin Bai was puzzled, an aged voice suddenly rang out from within the darkness.
At that moment, Lin Bai looked up and saw the Black Cat once again emerging from the darkness, its entire body shrouded in black aura.
"You're the one behind this, aren't you?" Lin Bai looked at the Black Cat and asked indifferently.
The Black Cat walked to within ten steps of