Active Initiative

The night had reached its deepest, darkest hour, and this was also Willow Town's liveliest moment.

Amid the Willow Town residents coming and going along the brightly lit streets were Xuan Yunzi, Yunzhen, and several Players.

The seven of them had split up to act—they had been rushing around Willow Town, setting up talisman formations.

Although they had no idea how Taiqing Patriarch had done it back then, Yunzhen and Xuan Yunzi had quickly discussed and devised a new talisman formation. Once it was set up, they could close the net.

They had chosen to believe Lin Yu's account: Zhu Qiansi would pretend to resist, but would actually cooperate and voluntarily enter the sealing formation.

Since that was the case, the formation only needed to be capable of sealing a thousand-year-old demon and not look so perfunctory that it aroused suspicion.

With that understanding between them, the talisman formation was soon complete.

The seven who had finished setting up the formation returned to stand outside Apricot Grove Medical Hall. Xuan Yunzi nodded.

"With such a formation, once it's activated, even if that demon tries to resist, she may not be able to withstand it..."

Yunzhen said quietly, "Still, we must guard against the possibility that the demon is deliberately deceiving that lay practitioner... Perhaps the lay practitioner is trustworthy, but the demon may have said those things on purpose merely to make us lower our guard."

Among the crowd, Lin Yu heard what Yunzhen said but did not speak up to refute her.

After giving a few simple instructions, Yunzhen and Xuan Yunzi did not hesitate any further.

"Grand-Master, please preside over this talisman formation. I'll draw the demon out."

As Xuan Yunzi spoke, Yunzhen nodded and planted the Long Banner she had been carrying on her back in front