Outside the array.
At Lu Feng's signal, Jiang Ruoyun lightly raised her wrist. The long whip in her hand danced gracefully as it lashed toward the nearest vicious beast within the array.
Because she stood outside the array, the whip's force was unaffected before it entered. Only at the instant it touched the area covered by the array did it come under the pressure of the Four Phases, slowing and stagnating.
Yet the Four Phases' pressure required a brief moment to take effect. Though that moment came in an instant, it still could not match the speed of Jiang Ruoyun's whip.
Just before the pressure enveloped it, Jiang Ruoyun nimbly withdrew her whip, leaving only a streak of whip force crashing toward the selected vicious beast.
Under the spreading pressure, that force became slow and visible, like ripples spreading across water.
Had this force come from an enemy, Lu Feng could easily have controlled the array and erased it.
But with deliberate intent, Lu Feng immediately guided the array's force to meet it, merging it into the difficult-to-control force of the wind phase.
The next moment, upon the once tranquil "lake surface," the vicious beast Jiang Ruoyun had selected became like a small boat suddenly struck by a violent gale. Amid a circle of motionless vicious beasts, it abruptly floated up, breaking free of its slowly circling path and rushing toward the Source Opening at the very center.
Naturally, this was not something Jiang Ruoyun's single whip could accomplish. It was the result of the wind phase force stirred by her whip force.
If Lu Feng's strength had been sufficient, he would not have needed this external aid. He could have actively driven the force of the wind phase, turning drifting with the current into movement at his will.
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