Whether it was making people disappear one after another aboard the Magic Ship or extinguishing the lights now, these were deliberate attempts to create an atmosphere of panic. The methods were crude-to put it plainly, they were tricks for frightening children.
Forget Celestial Persons of the sha ingestion gang devoration path; even veteran cultivators of the qi sea uniting spirit dao or the qi refining to immortality path would not have been frightened.
Everything the mastermind did was not merely ineffective. It exposed a lack of confidence and a fear of them.
Since the mastermind feared them, there was no need for them to be so cautious. They could simply blast a path open with their divine abilities and drag the culprit out.
That was better than shrinking back timidly and falling into the mastermind's trap instead.
The Seven-Hued Brocade was indeed formidable, perhaps even a True Lord's Treasure. But the mastermind had not used it to suppress them, which showed that it could not be used at will. Either there was an interval between uses or a limit to how many times it could be used.
"Brother, let this old man handle it!"
Qin Tianyi gave a dry cough and, in a rare display, volunteered.
His thirty-percent share of the treasures had been swept away. He had to put on a good showing now.
"Very well. I'll leave it to you, Brother Qin," Zhang Yuan said calmly.
Qin Tianyi raised his hand above his head, lightning erupting in his palm.
This time, the lightning in his palm was not the Azure Thunder he usually used, but violet thunder close in color to his Daoist robe, radiating terrifying power.
Violet lightning crashed down out of the void, surging in every direction around Zhang Yuan and Qin Tianyi. It blasted all