Chen Fan's expression changed at once upon hearing this.
Mu Yunshui continued through voice transmission, "The reason Xian'er was able to carve formation patterns into her body was because someone wanted to harm her. The mother of one of the direct descendants forcibly carved a killing formation into her body, making her endure unimaginable pain. In the end, she survived with great difficulty!"
"What?"
At those words, Chen Fan's face beneath the straw hat abruptly darkened. A trace of savage fury flashed across it as he clenched his fists. He had thought the Qin Clan valued Qin Xian'er because of her heaven-defying aptitude and had controlled her formation core, but at least still allowed her freedom.
Yet he had never imagined the truth would be like this. Being confined within the Qin Clan was already the bottom line—yet there were actually clan members who wanted to harm her. It filled Chen Fan with rage. What he found even more unbearable was that someone had forcibly carved the patterns of a killing formation into her body. Though Chen Fan had never experienced it himself, he knew the power of killing-formation patterns. Even ordinary killing formations required sturdy divine mineral materials to bear their patterns and prevent collapse, let alone a killing formation of the Qin Clan's caliber.
An ordinary person would find even a quarter of the formation patterns unbearable and be tortured to death alive. Some would even explode outright!
How much pain had Qin Xian'er endured? What horrifying torment had she suffered before she finally survived?
"The Qin Clan..." Chen Fan slowly tightened his fists. He truly wished he could charge into the Qin Clan this very moment and reclaim Qin Xian'er's formation core. Yet Nine Palaces Elder had specifically warned him never to go, telling him to wait