The outermost elder was a slightly plump middle-aged cultivator. His black robes nearly blended into the night. Just as he prepared to inspect the surroundings, a slender right hand suddenly reached out from behind him and fiercely clutched his throat.
"What..." The middle-aged cultivator shuddered in alarm and was about to resist when he discovered an extreme chill surging from that hand. In an instant, all his movements froze, and even the flow of spiritual energy within his body was greatly affected.
"Ice attribute!" Realizing that his attacker possessed the rare ice attribute, the plump cultivator's expression immediately changed. He was a water-attribute cultivator; not only did water hold no advantage over ice, it was instead restrained by it. The drastic drop in the speed of spiritual energy flowing through his body already proved this point.
However, just as he tried to use other means to break free of the ice-attribute seal, an intense feeling of weakness rose from within him, as though something were rapidly draining away. Though he could not clearly sense what it was, the feeling of being siphoned dry was like his life force was slipping away.
"You..." The plump cultivator's body trembled as he rapidly weakened, leaving him utterly incapable of resisting this sudden and bizarre technique.
Behind him, Mu Yuyi had already stepped out of the Tenseigan Passage. His left hand tightly gripped the middle-aged cultivator's neck, while the terrifying chill formed by Ice Release had turned him into an ice-blue statue. In his other palm, a blue sphere of light rapidly condensed. Its source was none other than the chakra forcibly extracted from the middle-aged cultivator's body.
Although cultivators could neither sense nor use chakra, chakra did exist within their bodies. What Mu Yuyi was doing now was using the Tenseigan's ocular power