"Disciples of this island, remain calm and return to your cave abodes to stand guard."
A streak of light flew over, revealing Fang Qing.
"Are you the guardian of this island?"
Zhong Lingxiu swept him with his spiritual sense. "Foundation establishment middle stage? You deserve to die!"
In truth, he and Fang Qing had quite a history. Not only had their paths briefly crossed during the beast tide, but during the earlier attack on the fishery, Fang Qing had been pursued by him—and had made a tidy profit along the way...
But now, in Zhong Lingxiu's eyes, Fang Qing was merely an ordinary cultivator of the Azure Sea Sect.
Cold light gleamed in his eyes. Just as the Ice Soul Mystic Light in his hand was about to shoot forth, heaven and earth abruptly changed!
Buddhist chants resounded, and golden light shimmered.
Celestial flowers rained down, and golden lotuses rose from the earth.
At some point, raised platforms had shifted into place all around them. Celestial palaces stood in all four directions, countless voices chanting scriptures within them. A strange deity's golden body could even be faintly seen presiding over the scene.
"Spatial translocation?"
"A supreme third-order formation—a Forbidden Grand Formation?!"
Zhong Lingxiu sucked in a cold breath. "Someone laid an ambush for me? Ruan Zhixuan, Shi Tiexin... come out!"
Now that he was trapped within a Third-Order Grand Formation, he could not escape easily. A powerful enemy was certain to strike.
Not daring to delay, he hurriedly brought out his Life-Bound Artifact—another pearl gleaming with cold light. It was the artifact recorded in the Zhong Family's Profound Ice Mysteries Art—the Ice Soul Pearl!
This was not the pearl belonging to the Zhong Family ancestor. After going to the East Sea and reaching core formation, Zhong Lingxiu had painstakingly gathered