The sudden Seven-Colored mist of light within the Military Exercise Parade Ground lasted less than a quarter of an hour before completely dispersing.
All the Phoenix Spirit Race members who regained consciousness, especially those Dao Realm experts, wore lingering fear on their faces.
Without a sound or any warning, these Dao Realm experts had been hypnotized and drawn into a surreal illusion. The Seven-Colored Bead Spirit was simply too terrifying.
One had to know that, as Dao Realm cultivators of the Phoenix Spirit Race, their primordial spirits were innately stronger and more resistant to such soul secret arts.
Yet before the Seven-Colored Bead Spirit's soul secret art, they had been like infants facing an enemy, utterly incapable of resistance.
How could they not be afraid?
Their sole consolation was that Lord Seven-Colored Bead Spirit was the Xiantian Spiritual Treasure that safeguarded their Phoenix Spirit Clan, not their enemy.
As the seven-colored radiance blanketing the grounds faded away, the Phoenix Spirit Queen looked expectantly toward the mass of seven-colored light formed by the Seven-Colored Bead Spirit in the sky.
In truth, from the very beginning, the so-called individual investigations by the Military Affairs Department, along with the Imperial Guard and Phoenix God Palace priests assisting in the investigation, had merely been supplementary measures—or rather, a smokescreen.
All of it had been meant to divert the attention of the soldiers and civilians within and outside the Military Exercise Parade Ground, allowing them to relax without realizing it and thereby cooperate with the Seven-Colored Bead Spirit's secret art.
When the Seven-Colored Bead Spirit cast this soul secret art under such circumstances, its effect was practically no different from searching the souls of everyone present.
In fact, before appearing above the Military Exercise Parade Ground, the Phoenix Spirit Queen and the Seven-Colored Bead Spirit