Chen Yuan had little damn idea how good he was at drawing hatred.
Yanzhou had indeed fallen into Wang Xuangan's hands, but without Chen Yuan, how could the Dingnan Army have been defeated?
More importantly, after the uproar Chen Yuan had caused in Capital City, Emperor Zhao Guang had marked him down.
Thus, when the upheaval in Yanzhou occurred, Zhao Guang's first reaction had not been to recapture Yanzhou, but to kill Chen Yuan, who had been jumping up and down stirring things up there. Two teams of Hidden Shadow Bureau martial artists had arrived long ago, but they had remained concealed, searching for the best opportunity.
Now that Chen Yuan was heavily depleted and Vajra Prajna Temple had struck again, this was the perfect moment to deliver a killing blow!
Of the Hidden Shadow Bureau's two teams, one held black spheres and scattered around Chen Yuan as fast as they could. An eerie black light suddenly erupted from the spheres, becoming black threads that extended into the sky and underground.
Almost instantaneously, those black threads became a great net, sealing off every avenue of evasion around Chen Yuan.
In an instant, the power of heaven and earth was cut off. Chen Yuan immediately felt as though his entire body were trapped in an extremely strange, viscous state, and even his blood and qi were being continuously suppressed.
At the same time, the peculiar skulls held by the other Hidden Shadow Bureau team opened their mouths in unison, and strange howls suddenly rang out.
The sound seized souls and snatched spirits, sending waves of hallucinations through the mind as the power of the Primordial Spirit began to shake and suffer relentless bombardment.
These were the Hidden Shadow Bureau's Search Heaven and Plumb Earth and Soul-Severing Spirit-Seizing. Their effects were practically