Facing Qin Tai's sudden darkening expression, Jiang Nan and the others felt their hearts tighten. If they didn't answer this question well, there was probably no way to settle things peacefully.
An Emperor-level expert had been slighted. No matter who it was, they couldn't simply laugh it off.
Lan Xin and the others instinctively looked toward Bai Yang, wanting to see how he would defuse this sudden crisis.
However, Bai Yang's next move was both within and beyond Lan Xin and the others' expectations.
Bai Yang still wore a smile. But when he lightly tapped the ground with his toe, the earth trembled in an instant, and winds and clouds surged across the heavens!
The finely furnished courtyard shattered at once. An invisible force pulled Bai Yang and the others away from Qin Tai, widening the distance between them.
Only then did Lan Xin and the others realize what was happening: Bai Yang had turned hostile and attacked outright!
Before their eyes, a colossal Eight Trigrams Formation covered the world around them. Its trigrams unfolded into a world of their own, where lava surged sky-high and thunder rolled in raging storms...
Another Eight Trigrams Formation—one several times more powerful than the formation Bai Yang had set up outside the Tower of Eternity a year ago!
Ever since Bai Yang had deduced that Qin Tai, an Emperor-level expert, might be the mastermind behind the Abyss Realm's attack on the Light Realm, he had known that sooner or later they might face off. So he had been making preparations in secret all this time.
The war between the Abyss Realm and the Light Realm had turned countless places into lifeless wastelands. Bai Yang had chosen this spot because there were almost no living beings for thousands of miles in every direction. Even