Zhou Ke and Qian Wantong were collecting and organizing the barrier they had just broken through in the partition wall, while Zhou Zixing and Qian Ying went to the other side and began attacking the remaining partition wall.
Zhou Zixing slowly walked to the most secluded corner of the Great Hall, a shadowy place where the light was dimmest. He deliberately lingered there for a moment, True Essence quietly circulating around him as he prepared to counterattack, wanting to see whether a Black Shadow would suddenly appear there and ambush him.
But in the end, all was calm. Not a single Black Shadow rushed out to ambush him. Nothing happened at all.
He turned and walked to Qian Ying's side, then spoke in a low voice, his tone full of confusion. "Elder Qian, this is a little too strange. Before, whenever we stepped into any building, even in broad daylight, Black Shadows would appear and ambush them."
"Like in that cluster of buildings on the mountain path. It was clearly daytime, yet they still forcefully ambushed all five Martial Artists to death. The Black Shadows even used Puppets, hiding inside them to ambush them. But today, we opened the doors, investigated, tore down walls, broke through barriers, and made a fuss for over an hour, yet not a single Black Shadow appeared to attack us. Could that violent explosive sound late last night have been the scene of all the Black Shadows bursting and dying?"
Qian Ying's brows were also tightly furrowed, his heart likewise filled with doubts. Zhou Zixing's test just now had not drawn an attack from any Black Shadow, which meant there was not a single Black Shadow inside this Great Hall right now.
Ever since they had stepped into this barrier, the Black Shadows' ambushes had