Visitors from the Abyss

Blue sparks of lightning cursed energy rapidly condensed around the arrow's fletching, poised to fire.

The old man's gaze sharpened, and he quickly gripped the Special Grade Cursed Tool, the Ford-Guardian Spear, which had been planted in the ground.

Lu Ping did not fire immediately. He had to wait for his opponent to reveal an opening before he could be certain of killing him in a single strike.

Otherwise, if the opponent activated that bizarre technique, Solitary Prison, again to neutralize this attack, he would nearly exhaust his last remaining means of killing him.

Moreover, he had noticed a crucial detail.

Since the other man knew he was a sorcerer who had inherited the Ten Shadows Technique, why was he not surprised that Lu Ping was fighting without summoning shikigami?

Or had he specifically kept something in reserve to deal with his shikigami?

A technique like Mitarai Shizuru's cursed-energy threads, which could seal off and kill shikigami, would be manageable. But if it were some kind of body-stealing or curse-type technique, that would be troublesome.

Whether it was close combat or archery, neither truly matched a shikigami user's fighting style.

Summoning shikigami and joining forces to overwhelm an enemy was the conventional approach.

With that thought, Lu Ping directly probed, "Your technique—if I'm not mistaken, it can not only imprison cursed spirits, but also seal shikigami.

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"That's right." The old man nodded and admitted it without hesitation, as though the person before him were already dead.

"The essence of Solitary Prison is 'imprisonment.' The targets it can imprison are not limited to wild cursed spirits; they also include fully manifested shikigami. Once sealed inside, a shikigami can no longer be summoned by its original method."

His gaze turned somewhat regretful.

"What a pity. You didn't summon a single shikigami