Madam Bi had still been trying to find a weakness in the formation's restrictions when her vision suddenly went black. After a dizzying whirl, she found herself out of the lotus formation and suspended in midair, with a man and a woman standing before her.
These two were precisely the targets they had meant to deal with, yet the tables had suddenly turned, and they were the ones trapped.
Startled, she nearly fell from the sky. Just as she steadied herself, another figure appeared beside her.
After being trapped in the center of the lotus, Elder Liu had tried every means of escape, but none offered any hope of success. He knew that not only had their plan fallen apart, but they had become birds in a cage, their lives held in someone else's hands.
Though frantic inside, he remained perfectly calm on the surface. He began by claiming there had been a misunderstanding, hoping to ease the tension with Lin Yun.
But before he had said more than a few words, he felt something similar to what he had experienced when first falling into the formation. His vision blurred, and when he reappeared, he was standing before Lin Yun.
A flicker of hope instantly rose in his heart. He thought there was still room to negotiate, but before he could speak, Lin Yun said, "One each. Deal with the old ones first, then the young ones."
His heart abruptly tightened at those words, and a sense of danger surged through him. He immediately opened his mouth and spat out a streak of red light, which transformed in the blink of an eye into a fiery cauldron hovering above his head.
At the same time, he did not forget to summon a Spell Pellet before his chest, poised to strike.