Cailian did not linger. After instructing the two otherworlders to keep a close watch on Zhong Jinxiu, she left the Earth Hall.
Not long after she left, Tang Yan activated the Stars-Shifting Array. His figure flashed, and he entered the Earth Hall directly.
Before the two otherworlders could react, Tang Yan drew them into God's Domain.
Zhong Jinxiu, whose eyes had remained tightly shut, suddenly opened them and looked toward a corner of the Great Hall, her gaze full of confusion.
She had still been able to sense the two otherworlders' auras a moment ago. Why had they suddenly vanished?
Before she could wonder for long, the two otherworlders reappeared, looking just as they had before, as though they had never left.
Zhong Jinxiu blinked. The two had not disappeared. Thinking the formation imprisoning her had caused an illusion, she gave it no further thought.
Tang Yan walked slowly to the center of the Great Hall and stopped before the iron cage.
With his understanding of the Formation Dao, he could tell that the iron cage had an alarm formation attached to it.
Damage to either the iron cage or the formation would trigger a disturbance at the other end.
A woman sat inside the iron cage.
Her hair was dry and coarse, streaked with a few strands of silver, falling over her thin shoulders like a tangle of withered grass.
After twenty years imprisoned here, her skin was pale and her face haggard, suffused with endless exhaustion.
Her cheeks were sunken, leaving her features gaunt.
Cold, heavy iron rings pierced her frail shoulders and had already fused with her flesh.
Tang Yan's heart clenched hard.
This is my mother.
The body's original owner had longed for her for sixteen years.
He had longed for her for five.
The bond