No sooner had Gao Xu finished speaking than that thing slammed into the ritual array again.
This time, the disturbance was even greater. Chen Chuan could clearly feel the entire expanse of air rising and falling like a small boat on the waves. Even the golden light of the talismans around them appeared somewhat scattered.
Gao Xu and Long Xian wore grave expressions. Though the ritual array was sturdy, if they allowed the thing to keep battering it without doing anything, it was hard to say how long it would hold.
Standing within, Chen Chuan looked around. After a brief moment of thought, he asked, "If this was drawn here by Ran Ming's Divine Energy, then this must have been arranged before his divine aspect was destroyed, correct?"
"Precisely," Gao Xu said.
Long Xian said, "Ran Ming had no ability to control Outer Heaven Demons. He must have done this around the time our Heavenly Lord aspects were destroyed. Later, Senior Brother Chonghua severed the Celestial Mystery Disk, so he could no longer have done such a thing."
"If that is so," Chen Chuan said, "then even if Ran Ming had successfully imprisoned or killed all of you, he would still have had to face that Outer Heaven entity. What method had he intended to use?"
"Senior Brother just used the hidden power within the Pufang Mirror to blast apart Ran Ming's spiritual aspect..." Long Xian looked at Gao Xu. "I imagine that was meant to deal with a situation like this."
Gao Xu pondered for a moment. "Senior Brother never mentioned this matter to us. I imagine Ran Ming did not know either."
Chen Chuan considered it. Ran Ming wanted to become Celestial Master, so he likely would not expose himself so early. Moreover, the identity of Celestial Master