Sima Jue was the second person Wang Qi called by name. He sat down before Wang Qi—or perhaps "collapsed into a seat" would have been more fitting—and uneasily glanced around, as though searching for suspicious traces of spells.
Wang Qi was somewhat impatient. "Didn't I just ask a few questions? You're the same. Just answer honestly. I'm not going to do anything to you."
"Mm..." Sima Jue shuddered again.
Wang Qi rapidly asked several questions. Then, he once again spread out his Primordial Spirit Domain. "This might hurt a little. Bear with it."
The instant the Primordial Spirit Domain's ability to temporarily alter the flow of spiritual energy in a region unfolded, Sima Jue nearly burst into tears. Yet before long, Wang Qi had used the Primordial Spirit Domain to analyze many things within his body.
"Mm, looking at it this way, the cultivation of My Dharma is One had indeed been obstructed, and his mana had also undergone a slight qualitative change..." Wang Qi wrote down his conclusion. Then he called out, "Next, Lady Huansha."
The former Devil Sect member nearly fainted upon hearing this. But under Wang Qi's urging, she still sat before him with the expression of someone marching calmly toward death.
Zhuang Xue Ling was puzzled once again. "What exactly is wrong with them? Though I heard Fellow Wang once participated in that battle and defeated the Ancient Method Cultivators... isn't their reaction far too exaggerated? Fellow Wang was only one of those who stormed Linghuang Island. Why are they so terrified of him?"
Zhuang Xue Ling's clearance level had originally been low. Before the Heavenly Sword fell upon Divine Capital, he had merely been a Sky Spirit Ridge cultivator managing the surrounding living-being protection zones. It just so happened that he had previously been responsible