"Elder Yuqing, why make things difficult for me? I was only passing through and stopped by for a look."
Just then, a young man's voice suddenly rang out from within the Formation Prison.
"Just a look cost the Nine Prefectures over eighty outstanding talents. If you had come prepared, would we not have been wiped out to the last man?"
Lay Buddhist Yuqing gave a cold laugh.
"You jest, Elder. With your cultivation and discernment, I refuse to believe you failed to see what those people intended."
"You are right. I did indeed see it."
"Then why did you not stop them?"
"Because I was waiting for you."
"What merit or ability do I possess to warrant the Nine Prefectures taking such enormous risks and paying such a price to lay this trap?"
"Because you are Su Chan. That alone is enough!"
After delivering those words in a voice like thunder, Lay Buddhist Yuqing formed hand seals once more, raising stone pillars from the sixteen outer mountain peaks.
In an instant, the area covered by the Formation Prison extended to the foot of Jade Gourd Peak.
Yet Xu Taiping's attention was not on the Formation Prison at that moment, but on what Lay Buddhist Yuqing had just said-"Because you are Su Chan."
The one imprisoned in that Formation Prison is-is Su Chan?!
The person Lay Buddhist Yuqing is willing to pay such a price to eliminate is also Su Chan?!
Xu Taiping's heart shook violently.
At that very moment, another sword cry exploded, and a streak of ink-black Sword Qi shot skyward from the Formation Prison.
Boom! Amid a tremendous crash, that streak of Sword Qi forcibly broke through the Formation Prison.
Viewed from afar, it was as though a black pillar had appeared between heaven and earth, its upper