Watching the bone spikes hurtle toward him like a raging storm, Chen Ping whipped the Star Nodule Club in his hands through fierce flourishes, weaving an airtight defense in front of himself.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.
In an instant, his rapidly spinning club blocked and shattered every one of the sharp yet not pointed bone spikes. This unfamiliar method of blocking made all three of them feel even more keenly how difficult Chen Ping was to handle.
Chen Ping glanced at Gu Lipa in front of him, then turned to look at Ning Dashan and Chen Nian on either side, and immediately noticed something odd.
All three of them actually had a triangular object hanging from their waists, just like the one worn by Ning Junping, the sect master of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. Or perhaps a triangular pyramid or tetrahedron would have been a more accurate description of the little pendant.
This pyramid-shaped pendant was only palm-sized, and its entire body was translucent.
But with just a little concentration, Chen Ping could make out what seemed to be rippling patterns on every face of the tetrahedron. They clearly resembled a Soul Tool's Core Array, yet were entirely different from the Core Arrays of straight horizontal and vertical lines he had learned.
Strange. Was this an ornament everyone in the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect wore, or some kind of Soul Tool specifically meant for self-defense?
Chen Ping silently wondered at the oddity. If it was an ornament, there was no reason Ning Junping and these three Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples before him would all wear it. But if it was a defensive Soul Tool, Ning Tian and Wu Feng should each have had one too.
Quietly keeping his guard up against the strange