Chun Xiaobai curled his lip. No longer bothering to hide, he swaggered straight up the mountain.
Early the next morning.
Cinnabar Glow Peak hosted an unprecedented "sculpture" appreciation gathering.
A dense crowd now stood beneath the tree where Chun Xiaobai had hidden the night before.
At its center were thirty human-shaped "statues," neatly arranged in rows.
Some disciples were frozen mid-stride, some had expressions of terror fixed on their faces, and others had their mouths wide open as though about to shout... in short.
Apart from Senior Brother Xu, who knelt on the ground with his face down, everyone else was standing.
A white-bearded old man stood before the "sculptures," stroking his beard, his face full of disbelief.
"How extraordinary! Truly extraordinary!"
"To think someone could apply a sealing array to the human body with such ingenuity!"
This man was none other than Dan Chenzi, the Peak Master of Cinnabar Glow Peak.
His alchemy was renowned throughout the Southern Heaven Realm, his medical skills had likewise reached the very pinnacle, and he was a Golden Core True Person who had been famous for over five hundred years.
He had initially assumed these disciples had fallen victim to some profound Immobility Spell, but after spending the entire morning trying to undo one, he had gotten nowhere.
Only after exhausting every trick he knew had he discovered, to his horror, that these people had actually been sealed!
And sealed from the inside out!
Had he not just consulted an old friend, he would not even have recognized it as the work of an array.
Ordinary arrays, even rare Sealing Formations, could generally only seal inanimate objects.
Even the rare secret arts capable of sealing living people merely restricted their movements. They could never turn human bodies rock-hard like this!
"Marvelous! Truly