Jiang Feng, fleeing in haste, accidentally became trapped in a formation.
When he looked back, the mysterious baleful essences had already swarmed over, and their speed was unaffected by the formation.
In the void, Mysterious Heart and Mount Tai Venerable watched Jiang Feng at the same time.
Mount Tai Venerable smiled faintly. "Isn't your first checkpoint a little too underhanded?"
"Using the formation to slow the intruder, then having the mysterious baleful essences affect their divine soul so they cannot draw upon their power to resist the mysterious baleful energy. Then using the power of that energy to swiftly dismantle the intruder's body."
Mysterious Heart Venerable glanced at Mount Tai but said nothing.
She could tell that ever since she had exposed Mount Tai's little scheme with a single remark, he had stopped hiding his desire to prevent Jiang Feng from obtaining the Worldstone.
Mysterious Heart understood that.
At this level of cultivation, who wasn't selfish?
Even blood brothers like Mount Tai and Tian Xuan would rack their brains and exhaust themselves fighting over a God-Sealing Tablet.
Still, Mount Tai's scheme was indeed rather dirty—disgustingly so.
In Mysterious Heart's eyes, it was even more despicable than the first checkpoint she had set!
Amid the mysterious baleful energy, Jiang Feng's thoughts raced:
I have to break the formation by force!
Jiang Feng knew that, at this point, there was no time to slowly deduce the formation's structure. He could only smash it apart with brute force.
Fortunately, this formation was merely Mysterious Heart's first checkpoint, intended to ensnare intruders. Its strength was not particularly great; its true killing moves were the mysterious baleful energy and those mysterious baleful essences.
Jiang Feng raised his right hand, and a long spear appeared in his grasp. Tremendous power surged from its tip!
The spear