The idle chatter before the battle had merely bought Xu Yi time to secretly activate his incantation.
The changes in the sea and sky when the battle began had not been caused by the Duo Luo Treasure Fish breathing. They were an unusual phenomenon brought about by the activation of his formation.
Fortunately, Feng Jiu's senses weren't keen enough to detect the tiny formation flags. Otherwise, how could the formation have trapped him?
Feng Jiu said, "Demonic power can conceal one's tracks, but the principle behind it is that this Demon Domain is already saturated with demonic power. Once the Consciousness Repository Palace is opened, demonic power can perfectly mimic the power in the Demon Domain, making it useful for concealing one's tracks. But if we were in the Northern Sacred Court's world, where there isn't such demonic power, the concealment wouldn't work."
Xu Yi cupped his fists. "If not for Brother Jiu, how could I have learned these secrets? I've had my doubts cleared today, all thanks to you. I have one more question. Could you tell me why A Li was injured? I remember A Li was caught up in our battle. The waves towered to the heavens, and the mountains roared as the sea raged, yet A Li wasn't hurt. How did you manage to injure him?"
Feng Jiu said, "A Source Demon can only avoid harm and the ravages of the energy we just unleashed while fused with its source. But when a Source Demon is dispersed throughout an entire body of water, any attack on it is dispersed throughout that same body of water. Unless some peerless expert refined the entire body of water, it would be all but impossible to harm it. The reason I could injure the Source Demon was that I sensed