Since Su Jiu and Chu Luohen had already locked down the formation's transformations while they were outside it, breaking it now proved considerably easier.
With Ning Fan, who could innately sense the presence of darkness stones, helping them, their progress was faster still.
Each time Ning Fan located a set of darkness stones, another courtyard collapsed. When they reached the seventh courtyard, however, something unexpected happened.
The woman with ill intentions died.
At the time, Chu Luohen and Su Jiu had been setting up a formation and did not know what had happened.
But Elder Gu Family Head and Silver Snow knew exactly what had occurred.
The woman's sudden death had startled even the man.
Su Jiu stepped forward to examine her. The woman seemed to have died from the dissipation of her spiritual qi.
But how could a perfectly healthy person suddenly lose all her spiritual qi? Could something have gone wrong with her spirit root?
One glance at Su Jiu told Silver Snow that her imagination was running wild again.
"Stop looking. She died at your senior brother's hands, and she hardly died unjustly."
"What happened?"
"While you and that brat were setting up the formation, she suddenly jumped out and went mad. Your second senior brother used a secret art."
Su Jiu frowned. "Did that secret art harm my second senior brother?"
Silver Snow raised an eyebrow, then suddenly laughed. "I thought you would first ask what that woman had done.
"But your second senior brother is perfectly fine. That secret art should be part of his family's heritage, created specifically for his constitution. You can rest easy about him."
Su Jiu lowered her brows slightly. "There was already something wrong with that woman's character. Anything unexpected happening to her along the way was well within my