Seventh Master shone his flashlight around Senior Ma.
In its beam, we saw more.
At least a dozen Evil Buddha statues stood around him, and every one had its eyes dotted with cinnabar.
At first glance, the statues looked as though they had become possessed.
Besides the statues, red threads were wound around the trees, with paper talismans hanging from them.
"This is an Evil Formation."
"Many years ago, people from the organization used this Evil Formation to kill quite a few of us."
"The moment this Evil Formation encounters yang energy, it activates, and the people inside die."
Seventh Master explained it to us, his eyes already red.
If he had a way to break this formation, his eyes would not have been red.
That meant they had never found a way to break it back then, either.
"What about Senior Ma?"
I hurriedly asked, "Isn't Senior Ma inside the formation too?"
As soon as I asked, Seventh Master and the other two seniors' eyes filled with tears.
Senior Ma raised his head then, but his face was nothing like the one we had seen during the day.
Although Senior Ma was almost sixty, he had been sturdy and had not looked that old.
But now... he looked like an old man over a hundred, with almost no flesh left on his face, just a sheet of deathly pale skin stretched over bone.
"There's no saving Second Brother now..."
His eyes red, Seventh Master said, "He used dark magic to conceal those three young people's yang energy. Because one person has to die, once he dies, the formation will automatically stop working, and those three young people will be saved."
Hearing Seventh Master's words, we all froze.
That meant Senior Ma was certain to die!
There really were people