An eerie silence instantly settled over the team.
What could Su Jiu say, other than keep her face expressionless?
She could hardly blurt out the young woman's secret feelings. If she did, she would probably face an even fiercer blaze of anger.
Honestly, she had no interest in watching other people's drama, and even less interest in becoming the lead in the middle of a disaster.
Now, apparently, she had been forced into the starring role.
Su Jiu sighed softly, suddenly feeling that the barrier was far more lovable than the people beside her.
Xia Jue, meanwhile, had been disengaged from the start. After making that remark, he had kept his eyes fixed on the barrier.
Su Jiu closed her eyes, and a faint layer of ice spiritual qi appeared over her palm. The temperature around her continued to fall. She slowly fed the spiritual qi in her palm into the barrier, only to find that its wall merely flickered, with no other effect whatsoever.
Su Jiu suspected that people outside could no longer enter the barrier.
But when Xia Jue saw its wall flicker, his expression immediately grew more serious. He reached out with one hand to touch the spot where Su Jiu had just injected her ice spiritual qi and discovered that he could not pass through it.
"Something has changed in this barrier. We probably can't get inside anymore," Xia Jue concluded.
Another disciple, who looked somewhat older and was at the mid Golden Core stage, said, "Impossible!"
As he spoke, he walked toward the entrance to Liu Household Village and found that an unidentified, transparent membrane really did block him outside.
Su Jiu knew that was the barrier's wall.
The female cultivator who had done nothing but roll her eyes once throughout the exchange suggested, "We'd