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The feeling of being remotely locked onto by seven fully formed sword arrays was certainly not something Yu Ci wished to experience.
As the focus of attention, Zhai Que'er looked calm and unruffled, even with the leisure to raise an eyebrow. Yet the continuous ringing of the Nine Ghost Heart Bells around her wrist made it clear that she was truly struggling, forced to draw upon the treasure's power to hold them off.
Beside her, Dragon Scar and Black Robe received the same attention. The former, concerned for Zhai Que'er's safety, remained somewhat restrained. Black Robe, however, had never been a peaceable sort. A suffocating heaviness spread around him, and the restless fire intent he stirred had already released the Heart-Eroding Ignorance Devilfire. Whoever got hit by that thing, even if they did not die, would only have to wait to be devil-tainted in the current environment!
Black Robe's utterly unrestrained methods immediately threw the situation into chaos. Those cultivators who knew its terror retreated outward, and the Seven Star Sword Array nearly responded on instinct. The tacit understanding they had shown when clashing with the Blade Ant army formation was gone; their fragile alliance crumbled just like that.
Yu Ci was actually somewhat displeased, because it had greatly affected his "Talisman Diagram" experiment, which had already reached a critical stage... Fine, that could be set aside for now. What he wanted to know more was how the one stirring up trouble behind them would react.
After secretly notifying Little Five, Lu Ya, Ye Chi, and the others to prepare for contingencies, Yu Ci also began adjusting Gui Yan's position.
Wan Tengshan's eyes were cold. Unmoved by the chaos, he locked directly onto Zhai