Fang Qian was dead, and the demon soul had dispersed, but a stifling heaviness still lingered in the air.
Li Ru had already brought up the person she had seen swept into the well by the black qi and was trying to save them. Even after she fed the unconscious mortal a pill, however, they would probably need several days to wake.
"You should have read the Message Talisman I sent earlier." Su Jiu addressed those words to Xia Jue.
The others exchanged bewildered looks, clearly having no idea what Su Jiu meant.
Xia Jue briefly explained the contents of Su Jiu's earlier Message Talisman to his companions.
One male cultivator looked stunned. "How is that possible?"
"If that's the case, doesn't it mean we can't touch the medium even if we find it? How are we supposed to break the barrier, then?" They had assumed that cutting off the outside supply of life force would cause the formation's core to collapse without a fight, but they had completely forgotten the large number of mortals and cultivators trapped in Liu Household Village. They were more than enough to nourish the formation eye.
"This heretical cultivator is truly vicious."
Su Jiu pursed her lips. "Whatever the case, we need to move faster. We've already intervened and killed Fang Qian, who was using the villagers as nourishment. These media won't receive any more life force. The formation eye will probably soon discover that no more energy is coming in from outside. When that happens, I'm afraid it will start draining the life force of the people or things around it."
Whether the formation eye would actually drain the life force of its surroundings was only Su Jiu's conjecture for now, but they had to prepare for the worst. Besides, if the heretical