"Fellow Daoist Xu! We're trapped! These barbarians cannot be trusted—they mean to sacrifice us to the cannon!"
Tian Wenjing's furious voice transmission exploded in Ji Yuan's Sea of Consciousness, arriving almost at the same instant as Du Yu's fierce shout of "Attack!"
"The old man suspected these barbarians might have such a vicious scheme. I secretly buried three Bloodfiend Boundary-Breaking Talismans beneath this Lingshu Formation Platform!
"They're secret array-breaking treasures of the Elder Blood River Demon Sect, made to counter blood-sacrifice binding arrays like this!"
Tian Wenjing spoke in a rush, giving Ji Yuan no chance to think or respond.
He sounded as though he had seized the last lifeline at the brink of death.
"But activating them draws a vast amount of spiritual power in an instant. One person cannot sustain it.
"Fellow Daoist Xu, pour your Nascent Soul Origin power through the Gui Water pathway into the third array-pattern node on your left. Give it everything!
"Joined with my power, it will strike from within and without. We can detonate the talismans and blast apart these sacrificial shackles! The backlash will gravely wound that old ghost Du Yu!
"This is our only way to live!
"Once it's done, we'll split the Five-Element Jade and Demon Core equally! Act now!!"
The instant the transmission ended, Ji Yuan sensed three exceedingly faint points deep beneath his Spirit Pivot Position's platform, in the "hidden passage" Tian Wenjing had secretly reinforced. Each gave off a chilling destructive pulse and had just been activated.
That old fox really did have a backup plan!
But Tian Wenjing had no intention of giving Ji Yuan time to hesitate.
"No time! Trust me!!"
He barked another transmission and, without waiting for an answer, drove a surge of pure, immense power—far beyond what a Nascent Soul Early