Xu Yi had stripped the marks from all the spoils he'd seized. At the moment, he had no handy test subjects.
He didn't want to waste any more spirit crystals to activate the Purple Domain Space, so he simply waited two days. Once the Four-Colored Seal had recovered, he activated the Purple Domain Space and chose a White Spirit-grade treasure: a black shield belonging to Brother Zhang. He restored the stripped mark, then, once the Purple Domain Space collapsed, tossed the shield on the spot and immediately fled into his flying vessel, drifting ten miles away in an instant.
He had no choice but to proceed with caution. If he really provoked that Silver Venerable, he had to make sure he could get away.
Huang Mei had been right again. The moment the black shield bearing Brother Zhang's mark appeared, thunderbolts descended from the clear blue sky without warning.
A bolt as thick as a water barrel struck the black shield, reducing everything within a hundred-zhang radius to dust.
"See it clearly now? This is the power of a formation, not a tribulation. That Silver Venerable holds a grudge. He can't come down for the time being, but he'd never leave himself without a backup plan."
Huang Mei sighed softly from beside the window.
Xu Yi wasn't nearly as calm. He mounted his flying vessel and sped straight for the Ancestral Court.
He had been away from the Ancestral Court and the Thearch Sect for nearly four months now, and his Ruyi Pearl had accumulated countless messages. As soon as he returned to the Ancestral Court, Elder Gong came to see him and briefed him, as a Golden Hall Elder, on the major issues to be discussed in the coming days. Then he informed Xu Yi that there would be