The cultivators instinctively followed Jiu Yan's order, halting in unison. Then they waited for the next command, but instead, absolute silence followed. Unaccustomed to this, they looked back blankly and saw Jiu Yan smiling slightly, only then realizing something was amiss.
Shifting their gaze once more, they saw that here, the sword humming and blade winds had abruptly receded, while the blizzard and giant waves instantly vanished. If the outer perimeter was a swirling tempest, this place was the eye of the storm, possessing its own hard-earned quiet and peace.
Given this, how could the cultivators fail to realize that this was clearly the nexus of the Sword Discussion Pavilion's sword array!
No matter the formation, it had to conform to the natural principles of things. The nexus was relatively less prone to changes, meaning this was the safest zone nearby. Unless the sword array collapsed, those fiends could no longer harm them.
Yet this was undoubtedly the most crucial and fatal location of the Sword Discussion Pavilion's sword array. How had they arrived here without even realizing it?
A group of over a dozen people, including several True Person cultivators, were all struck dumb.
Compared to those bewildered Void Stepping cultivators, the few True Persons saw things much more clearly.
In the eyes of Duanmu Senqiu, Shang He, and the others, Jiu Yan's command possessed an indescribable eerie quality. That direct connection to the human heart, akin to the technique of telepathy, temporarily welded the dozen or so individuals together to advance and retreat as one, resembling a strange beast with fourteen pairs of hands and feet.
Yet this alone was not enough to enter this place safely. Another oddity lay in the fact that, under Jiu Yan's guidance, they did not look as though they were being pursued