Severed Qi Forges an Unbreakable Body

Seven people arrived, all dressed in black official robes.

Their leader was a middle-aged man with a goatee. He ignored Fang Xun entirely, fixing his gaze on the black mist nearby.

"How strange. We clearly severed the connection between Imperial Tomb Heaven and Great Qian." As he muttered, he tossed an ocher ruler into the center of the black mist.

The yellow ruler grew in the wind, reaching several thousand zhang in height in an instant.

It crashed down into the black mist.

Then, without slowing, it soon rose beyond the area covered by the mist, standing like a lofty tower.

Li Shun could clearly see that, under the yellow ruler's suppression, the black mist's outward spread had visibly halted.

The middle-aged man took out an ocher brocade pouch, aimed its opening at the black mist gathered ahead, and chanted under his breath.

It was as though a gale swept past, and then the black mist was slowly drawn into the pouch.

In just an hour, the black mist covering Langya Replica Commandery vanished without a trace.

Only—

The area the black mist had covered had become a dead land, all vitality extinguished.

"Ah, rebuilding this will take quite some effort." The middle-aged man sighed.

"May I ask, my lord—" Seeing that the disaster had been resolved, Fang Xun was about to speak.

"You six, get started." Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man acted as though he had heard nothing. He merely gave the other six an order, then turned into a streak of light and departed.

Fang Xun stood there awkwardly.

"Please don't take offense, Commander Fang. That's simply how our master is," one of the young men said.

After a brief conversation, Fang Xun learned who they were.

The middle-aged man with the goatee was named Guo Guanyu, a warden