"What?" Everyone stared wide-eyed in disbelief. They had attacked the barrier for so long without breaking through, yet how had Dong Santong simply gone inside? Had the barrier stopped working? They all extended their divine sense toward it, only to be stunned.
"What's going on?" Zhang Cai was equally bewildered. When he probed the barrier with his divine sense, it was still there.
"Hahaha! Can't catch me now!" The white light that Dong Santong had become took human form as soon as it entered. He pulled a face at Zhang Cai and laughed.
"Bah! How did that brat do it?" Utterly frustrated, Zhang Cai fiercely formed a hand seal. A beam of golden light shot out and struck the barrier.
Boom! The barrier churned and shook under the blow, looking as though it would burst open. But Five-Colored Light flashed, and it was instantly restored to its original state.
"Pah! Useless!" Zhang Cai spat crudely and cursed.
"Er, Fellow Daoist Zhang, what's going on between you two?" Liu Zhengran asked curiously. The others also realized something was amiss and, at Suoluo's signal, withdrew their treasures.
"It's a long story. Best not to mention it." Looking rather embarrassed, Zhang Cai waved a hand, then added, "Wasn't there supposed to have been a massacre at the Zhang Household? What's the situation now?" In fact, when he had chased Dong Santong out that day, Dong Santong had proved slippery as an eel and managed to flee quite a distance. But who was Zhang Cai? A genuine late Golden Core stage cultivator. After tracking him down, he had given the brat a thorough lesson and left him in a sorry state. The red and blue swellings on Dong Santong's body were all Zhang Cai's handiwork.
During their chase, however, Dong Santong had suddenly discovered