Everyone present was an expert. The moment Yu Ci released the purple light, people knew it was neither true qi nor true baleful intent. They judged correctly; the power Yu Ci unleashed was the brooding purple qi contained within the True Return Purple Smoke Warm Jade. This trick of "Condensing Qi into Light" was something Yu Ci had learned from Elder Zhu when making a deal with him, used specifically to rouse the efficacy of the True Return Purple Smoke Warm Jade. The brooding purple qi possessed no lethality, but it had the effect of repelling evil. It might prove effective against flesh-and-blood puppets, so Yu Ci brought it out to test it.
It did not seem like much from afar, but drawing closer, Yu Ci discovered that the flesh-and-blood puppet serving as the formation eye was as tall and robust as a small hill. It was only roughly molded into a human shape with greatly simplified limbs, but the rune patterns carved into the special outer ceramic plates were complex to the extreme, with mercury-like fluid rolling within the lines.
At that moment, the purple light reached the target.
The emitted purple light looked like light from afar, but to Yu Ci, it felt more like a layer of translucent light gauze. It began to disperse barely twenty feet away from his body, consuming and being consumed by the surrounding yin demons, but it finally landed on the flesh-and-blood puppet he had locked onto.
A layer of radically different, sickly green smoke "poofed" up, hissing sharply as it clashed with the air. With his sharp eyes, Yu Ci instantly saw the radiance of the ceramic plate's runes dimming at a visible speed. Knowing he had a chance, he immediately let out a whistle.
This was the moment to show