Shi Hen still obeyed Huo Lian because he hoped to use Huo Lian's strength to barely keep the Pang Family in check.
Huang Xiao's appearance, in particular, had given him tremendous hope.
Back then, Huo Lian had only slightly weakened the Pang Family's power. If Huang Xiao became Hall Master, with the support of Huo Lian, the former Hall Master, another such effort would surely wound the Pang Family to the bone, and might even eliminate their influence in the Demon Hall.
Shi Hen was loyal only to the Demon Hall.
An hour later, Shi Hen could not help inwardly breathing a sigh of relief.
He saw the people working to break the formation stop one after another. They still could not break through the formation here.
"Supreme Elder, the time has not yet come. The formation's might is still present, and we lack the strength to break through it," the leader of the formation experts said apprehensively.
Pang Ji stared at him for a long while before saying, "You have done well."
The leader looked at Pang Ji in surprise.
He had thought the Supreme Elder would reprimand them severely. After all, they had failed to break the formation.
To his surprise, the Supreme Elder had actually praised them. This did not seem like the Supreme Elder's temperament at all. It was astonishing.
"Continue," Pang Ji said again.
"But... but what we just did had little effect," he said, bracing himself.
"Hmm?"
"Yes." His expression changed, and he hurriedly called everyone back to breaking the formation.
Even if their formation-breaking methods had little effect on the formation.
The Supreme Elder was here, and he had spoken. They had no other choice at all.
"Supreme Elder, you are wasting time," Shi Hen said.
"It will have some effect, surely," Pang