The corner of the Four-Sided Seal had barely appeared when the Wheel behind Yuan Yu began to shake violently.
Level seventy-five Soul Power still surged through his body, and the Rock Pattern had already drawn in the surrounding earth element. The ground on the rear mountain split open in a series of cracks. Stones of every size floated into the air, circling the still-incomplete image of the seal.
Tang San stepped back twice. Blue Silver Grass wrapped around Xiao Wu's and Ning Rongrong's waists, pulling them beyond the reach of the Soul Power fluctuations.
Liu Erlong took a step forward instead.
"Don't let it scatter."
"I'm working on it."
"Thinking won't help. Give it something to anchor to."
Yuan Yu glanced at the empty Wheel Axis at the center of the Wheel, then abruptly sent the Sun Wheel Blade back in with a reverse grip.
Hilt up, tip down.
The Sun Wheel Blade stood once more at the center of the Wheel, and the light extending from the Rock Pattern immediately found an anchor. The image of the Four-Sided Seal began to solidify from the bottom of the Wheel. Its base was nearly a meter wide, its surface covered in heavy markings connected to the Rock Pattern.
It had not separated from the Wheel.
Half of it was still light and shadow, while the other half was wrapped in earth and stone, as though a single corner had only just emerged from the Martial Soul.
Zhao Wuji rubbed his chin. "A brick growing out of a blade?"
Yuan Yu glanced at him. "Teacher Zhao, you've seen rectangular bricks, but never a square seal?"
"If it can smash someone, does it matter what you call it?"
"Seal sounds more expensive," Flender chimed in from behind.
Ning Rongrong crouched at the edge