Snap!
Inside the Gathering Wind Teahouse, Xu Taiping snapped the Blood-Colored Thread that had fallen from the sky and wound around his arm. Then he looked out the window toward Li Yezhu and murmured:
"So it came to this after all."
He had just been wondering why, when Xiahou Qingyuan held every advantage, the scene projected by the Lotus Eye still showed him suffering grievous injuries in the end.
Now he saw: Li Yezhu had threatened him with the lives of the Heavenly Hero Ferry's people.
The Blood-Colored Thread he had just snapped was precisely Li Yezhu's Origin Demon Seed Power, "Puppet Play." Once a Blood-Colored Thread formed from this Origin Demon Seed Power burrowed into someone's body, they would become his puppet, subject to his control.
Back in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, Li Yezhu had relied on this Origin Demon Seed Power to single-handedly control a military formation of three hundred thousand armored soldiers.
"Taiping, if you were the one Li Yezhu threatened today, what would you choose?"
Beside him, Fairy Lingyue asked Xu Taiping with some curiosity.
"I think I'd agree."
Xu Taiping answered after giving it serious thought.
"Trading half an incense stick's time for several thousand lives at the Heavenly Hero Ferry would still be worth taking a risk."
He offered Fairy Lingyue another word of explanation.
At least on the surface, Li Yezhu's Blood-Eyed Barrier would certainly break after half an incense stick's time. By then, even if Li Yezhu went back on his word and still tried to slaughter the ordinary people of the Heavenly Hero Ferry, he would no longer have the ability.
For throughout the Shangqing Realm's Five Heavens, every place not occupied by the Nine Abysses had been fitted with barriers and formations that suppressed Demonic Beasts.
Without the concealment of