Elder Hong felt that Lie Xingkong had made a good point. Even if they didn't want to kill Xu Yi, plenty of others did. They might as well strike first.
Never mind all the treasures the man surnamed Xu had. Just the eight Swift Body Talismans he'd used, and the body-tempering secret art that surpassed the Great Witch Body Technique, were enough to make nearly every powerhouse unwilling to let him go.
Outside the arena, rumors swirled. Within it, all was quiet as snow.
Xu Yi's plan had finally paid off. Everyone thought he'd only set up the Rain Praying Formation, not knowing that he had quietly buried all the Dark Yin Jade he'd obtained beneath the deep snow.
Since he'd piled it all together at once, the Dark Yin Jade lay hidden beneath the snow like a snowdrift. And with the Rain Praying Formation flags to obscure it, even Old Demon Zhong's senses had detected only the flags, overlooking the great mass of Dark Yin Jade.
Dark Yin Jade was of the extreme yin. Rainy weather was ideal for drawing lightning.
The Rain Praying Formation could bring rain, but not lightning. Only when paired with Dark Yin Jade could it produce that effect.
Once his plan was in place, Xu Yi had no time to keep playing the game of head-on collisions with Old Demon Zhong. When Old Demon Zhong relied on his astonishing speed to clamp him in a tight embrace, Xu Yi summoned iron essence into his palm and drove his power into it. The iron essence turned into a cord and instantly bound Old Demon Zhong.
Xu Yi's ultimate purpose in plotting for a storm was still to make use of the iron essence's wondrous properties.
After being refined by the Yin-Yang Two Qi, the iron