"A key?" Huang Xiao was rather puzzled by Zhuo Mengshen's words. What could a key do?
But a moment later, Huang Xiao understood. Zhuo Mengshen had been right.
Once Zhuo Mengshen poured his own force into the key, it emitted a blue-green halo.
The halo suddenly expanded, enveloping Huang Xiao in an instant.
Huang Xiao had no time to react, much less escape.
"What?" Huang Xiao discovered that he could barely move a step.
He was under an immense restraint, as though suppressed by powerful heaven and earth momentum.
Zhuo Mengshen was stronger than he was, and his heaven and earth momentum could affect him slightly, but it would not be very effective at suppressing him.
Yet the blue-green halo emitted by this key was different. Its pressure filled Huang Xiao with despair.
"Having trouble moving?" Zhuo Mengshen roared with laughter. "Although I don't know how this key does it, after studying it all these years, I've discovered that its ability to restrain people is astonishing. At least against opponents weaker than me, it's almost always effective."
Laughing heartily, Zhuo Mengshen walked slowly toward Huang Xiao.
He was not worried that Huang Xiao might escape his grasp. There had been no such precedent.
"Stop struggling. No matter how hard you struggle, this is all you can do. At most, you'll manage to drag yourself a few steps." Seeing Huang Xiao struggle incessantly, Zhuo Mengshen smiled.
Zhuo Mengshen soon reached Huang Xiao. Huang Xiao struggled to his feet, turned the Minghong Saber in his hand, and slashed fiercely at him.
With a clang, Zhuo Mengshen blocked with his sword, then swept Huang Xiao's Minghong Saber aside.
With a swish, the Minghong Saber flew from Huang Xiao's hand and embedded itself more than a hundred feet away.
"That saber of yours is