"So vicious. Such a vicious restriction, with not the slightest trace of the glorious righteous path. It probably wasn't the work of the righteous path. If the Heavenly Court stood behind the Imperial Decree Platform, that wouldn't make much sense."
Huang Mei sent him a thought.
Xu Yi's face darkened as he sent back, "This restriction is meant to lock cultivators down. It's powerful enough to control everyone. If the force behind the Imperial Decree Platform isn't the Heavenly Court, but some demonic heretics, then with a terrifying restriction like this, there's no need for all this smoke and mirrors. If they want us trial-takers to do something, they can just give the order. Who could possibly disobey?"
Huang Mei's face was dark as he sent back, "I can't say. Things are getting more and more bizarre. But whatever's going on, the most important thing is to find a way to remove the restriction so it can't control us."
Xu Yi raised an eyebrow. "Do you have a way?"
Huang Mei sent him a thought. "How would I have a way? We can only keep testing and see if we can separate the restriction in the immortal soul from the soul itself. Even having it cling to the flesh would do."
Xu Yi agreed wholeheartedly. He immediately opened the Four-Colored Seal Space again and fled inside.
As soon as he emerged from the Purple Domain Space, Xu Yi let its disintegrating power draw the restriction out of his body.
Once the restriction in his soul had been stripped into strands of light, Xu Yi drew those strands back and drove them into his body again.
Then he wrapped himself in Cloud Crane Pure Qi and let the qi disperse. To his surprise, the strands were still being stripped away from