"Huff!"
Flames blasted from Ji Yan's nostrils, making him look as fierce and formidable as a true behemoth of the Primordial Era.
"You handle the aftermath. I'll leave first!"
He sent a telepathic message to those behind him, then beat his wings with all his strength and departed with the great shaman.
Before long, he returned to the vanguard camp, just in time to receive several Spirit Tamers from the Azure Cloud Sect who had rushed over.
Their cultivation ranged only from the seventh to the ninth transformation, but every one of them wore black robes and looked inscrutable.
They were all interrogators from the Warrior Administration, special personnel whose bodies hosted a peculiar spirit creature known as the "Brain-Eating Worm."
They silently bowed to Ji Yan, then bound the captive with a golden Dragon-Binding Rope and took him into a tent in one corner of the camp.
With brisk efficiency, they forced the dwarf great shaman into a chair, then secured his hands and feet with Evilwood Shackles.
This magic treasure could seal magical power and the circulation of spirit qi, cutting off the surrounding Heaven and Earth Essence entirely.
The great shaman seemed physically frail, relying entirely on his powerful divine sense to wield divine abilities and spells.
Moreover, Ji Yan had already wounded him. He could only slump weakly in the chair and glare at them in anger, utterly powerless to resist.
"Let's get to work..."
Muttering quietly and ignoring the Otherkin great shaman's stream of curses, they each formed hand seals. Threads of spiritual light emerged and intertwined, manifesting thumb-sized, white, fleshy worms in midair.
Amid a faintly sinister aura of decay, the worms slowly wriggled through the air and burrowed into the great shaman's skull without encountering any resistance.
Then the interrogators sat cross-legged around