"Three-Star Seal!" Shen Luo changed his hand seal once more, and the Star Sealing Formation Diagram slammed down onto the ground, enveloping the black magic formation.
The black magic formation flashed, and most of it shattered. The drifting black light froze as well, completely sealed.
The darkness inside the hall remained, but its eerie aura was gone.
Somewhere beneath the palace, three gray-robed figures had gathered. A layer of gray restrictions surrounded them, concealing their auras.
The set of black formation flags still hovered around the tall gray-robed figure, but most had shattered and collapsed, no longer forming a proper array.
"To think Shen Luo has cultivated Fangcun Mountain's Three-Star Demonbane Divine Ability to such a level. He destroyed the Dark-Erosion Xuandu Grand Formation with a single strike." The figure swept a sleeve to put away the damaged formation and spoke in a grave voice.
Nine blood-colored banners floated around the other two, radiating blood-red light as thick as liquid that surged outward. Clearly, this was the source of the blood sea outside...
"What do we do now? Too many people have come. We can't catch them all in one net, and if we keep fighting, we'll likely expose our identities." The gray-robed woman looked at the gray-robed elder beside her.
"Leave. We've helped the You Su Strategist hold these people off long enough. The rest is for them to handle themselves." After a flicker in his eyes, the gray-robed elder spoke decisively and pointed with a hand seal.
The blood-red light on the nine banners suddenly withdrew, and the blood sea within the palace flowed back like an ebbing tide, vanishing without a trace in the blink of an eye.
The gray-robed elder swept a sleeve to put away the nine banners, then turned and sank deeper underground.
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