Half an hour later, Yun Chao had mostly recovered. Although the wounds on his body still looked rather gruesome, he had suffered no lingering internal damage.
Looking at the unscathed Su Jiu, he could not help feeling defeated.
Perhaps Su Jiu noticed his dejection, for she said calmly, "This was a Twin Formation to begin with. Conditions on the two sides aren't necessarily equal. I was alone on my side, so the formation's power might have been comparatively weaker. That's why I barely got hurt. There were two people on your side, so you might have had to withstand enough power for two. You also had to protect Yun Huanling, which made things harder."
Even Yun Huanling, who was usually carefree to the point of thoughtlessness, could tell that Su Jiu was comforting Yun Chao. An incredulous expression immediately crossed his face, followed by an aggrieved pout. "Su Jiu, you've never comforted me!"
Su Jiu swept him with a cold glance and walked straight past him. Before she stepped into the formation, he distinctly heard that icy woman toss out a line that froze his poor little heart. "Do you even need comforting?"
Yun Huanling ground his back teeth and followed her.
Yun Chao felt considerably better after hearing Su Jiu's words. They might have been meant as comfort, but coming from someone like her, even that much was precious.
The moment Su Jiu entered this formation, she sighed. The way it had been constructed was far too obvious.
If she had failed to notice at first that the previous formation was actually two formations overlaid, this one was so obvious that even Yun Huanling recognized it at a glance.
"Why is it another overlaid formation?!"
In the world of formation arts, overlaying two formations was not as simple as