Chu Zhiyuan returned to the small courtyard of the Heavenly Sword Branch Courtyard and paced with his hands behind his back.
Zhu Lingyun was still observing thoroughly. The eight Attendants pressed their palms together in pairs, then placed their other palms upon the array artifact.
Thick fog filled the air.
No one could see the Undying Evil Venerable statue anymore, nor could anyone approach it.
Most of the Imperial Court's experts had withdrawn, leaving only some Evil Extermination Department experts to guard the key checkpoints.
The golden light of the Undying Evil Venerable still flickered, as though it were breathing in and out.
Chu Zhiyuan could sense it growing stronger.
Only, compared to before, its rate of growth had slowed drastically and stretched over a longer period.
Now that the formation had been set up, no one could approach it. The Imperial Court likely would not dispatch experts or even Divine Artifacts.
When that time came, these eight Attendants would be the unlucky ones. Without treasures to protect their bodies, their lives would be hard to preserve.
He gathered his Spiritual Power once more and pushed his Super Sensation to its utmost, observing everything thoroughly.
As the perfect state advanced forward and reached its limit, his Super Sensation improved another step.
He saw more clearly than before.
For instance, he saw that all eight of them wore a string of dark-purple beads around their wrists, eighteen beads each.
Chu Zhiyuan concluded that these eight strings of purple beads were their life-preserving artifacts.
Yet these eight bead bracelets had actually deceived his Super Sensation. They appeared utterly ordinary, and he had failed to notice anything unusual about them.
The power contained within them was clearly of an extremely high level, one level above his own strength.
He had already reached the