By the time Ying Xuan Zi swept over from the main hall, the four hall masters had already retreated inside the sect gates.
An aura of the Reincarnation Realm, brushing against the mysteries of reincarnation, spread out as Ying Xuan Zi landed before the gates.
He raised his hand, condensing his Reincarnation Realm Origin Power into a wall that blocked the poisonous mist.
The mist churned outside the wall. Each time it corroded a layer, Ying Xuan Zi replenished it, but gradually, he could no longer keep pace with its erosion.
His brows knitted.
"Where is Ying Huanhuan?" Dugu Bo looked at him from within the mist and asked again.
"The Dao Sect does not have the Ice Ancestral Talisman," Ying Xuan Zi said. "Ying Huanhuan is not here either."
Dugu Bo watched him in silence for two breaths, the poisonous mist surging around him. "Then I'll wait here until she returns."
With that, the mist spread rapidly until it surrounded the entire Dao Sect, then slowly rose until it completely covered the sky overhead.
The instant the emerald dome closed, the light within the Dao Sect dimmed. The mist blotted out the sky, turning the sunlight filtering through it a murky green.
"I will wait only one month."
Dugu Bo withdrew into the mist after speaking. It stopped spreading, too. No one could leave anyway.
The silence lasted for a while before Qi Lei finally lost patience. "Sect Master, we must find a way to warn Huanhuan not to return."
Ying Xuan Zi did not answer immediately.
Of course he had considered that. He knew Ying Huanhuan's temperament better than anyone. Beneath her mischievous exterior lay a stubborn, one-track mind.
If she learned that the Dao Sect was surrounded, she would never take a detour. She would charge back,