The black wind howled as Wei Ming, wrapped within it, madly charged toward the treasure vault's exit.
The warning from the Fortune-and-Misfortune Gu still thrashed wildly in the depths of his soul. A bone-piercing sense of danger clung tightly to him. Wei Ming knew his current situation was extremely perilous, so he did not dare hold back in the slightest.
The power of his Natal Gu erupted in full, and the Heaven-Stealing Gu Secret Art was unleashed to its limit.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
Several humanoid phantoms, impossible to distinguish between real and false, split off from around him and scattered in flight, shooting through the air in different directions.
This was a top-tier concealment and escape art of the Heaven-Stealing Sect. It used falsehood to pass for truth, splitting into forms to lure the enemy, and was specifically meant for handling the deadly danger of encirclement and slaughter.
As long as he could deceive the formation's lock-on and delay his pursuers, his true body could seize the chance to escape this deadlock of encirclement.
But just as all the phantoms stepped beyond the treasure vault's barrier, the entire world suddenly sank.
Buzz—
Heavy, majestic golden spiritual light carrying absolute suppressive force crashed down and spread across the land.
The formation patterns, which had previously lain dormant as faint lines, completely awakened. Golden light blazed ten thousand zhang high, sealing off all directions.
The Qian Household's hidden killing formation was finally fully activated.
The Profound Coin Spirit Suppression Array.
With an extraordinarily rare Golden Money Gu Spiritual Molt as its core formation eye, it did not specialize in slaughter and attack. Instead, it excelled in trapping, suppressing, and sealing all souls and Gu power.
The scattered phantom clones could not even last half a breath. Crushed by the spirit-suppressing force, they