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Barely steadying himself, Ming Xingyun looked toward the distant northwestern sky, where faint but fierce fluctuations of Titled Douluo-level soul power were coming from. He understood at once-great, his older brother Ming Xiangyun had probably been intercepted too. Things were looking grim.
Their intelligence had been laid bare. Damn it!
In that brief interval, his mind finally caught up.
From the moment Chen Zhang and the others entered the manor, this had been a trap!
Chen Zhang's seemingly pointless provocation, those two high-ranking Soul Douluos, Zhu Yanfeng and Xia Yun, stepping out to show their faces as targets, even Li Xunhuan putting on airs and slowly sipping his tea-all of it had been a performance for him!
Everything had served a single purpose: diverting his attention so that he unconsciously overlooked the one person he should never have ignored-Ximen Wenlan.
In Blue Star terminology, beneath layer upon layer of meticulously designed cover, Ximen Wenlan, who should have registered as a threat, had successfully achieved a kind of psychological "cognitive invisibility."
This allowed her to circulate the secretly transmitted Profound Art of the Ximen Family's Hong Lian Great Dao Treasury cultivation method without interference-the "Great Dao Treasury" of Gather Momentum and Nurture Essence.
Blades were renowned for explosive, overpowering attacks, but building momentum mattered just as much.
One of the supreme secrets of the Hong Lian Great Dao Treasury was precisely this secret technique, which required a long period of "nurturing momentum" before it could erupt.
It gathered countless strands of blade intent into the unseen and stored boundless blazing power beneath restraint, like a dormant volcano. Only when it finally erupted could its might surpass its normal limits and soar to unimaginable heights.
That was