No, impossible!
Yangshe Mao was shaken to his core!
Yet his Divine Sense reacted a beat faster than his body.
It swiftly swept behind him.
Then, to his horror, he discovered that the young cultivator in the Black Scale Robe, who should have been trapped within the formation, had somehow crossed it and was standing silently not far behind him.
Farther away, the members of the Yangshe Family and Lüqiu Household who should have been operating the formation to trap the young cultivator were now surrounded by a hazy gray spiritual light that cut them off from the outside.
"Th-this is Yuan Magnetism?!"
How could Yangshe Mao be unfamiliar with this sight? He immediately recognized his opponent's methods.
Horrified, he instantly shot backward.
The surrounding members of the Yangshe Family and Lüqiu Household also stared tensely and warily at this strangely dressed young mage with his utterly calm expression.
Yet he seemed not to care about them at all.
His gaze instead fell on Yun Shao, who was surrounded by several Fourth-Tier Mages.
At that moment, Yun Shao was equally shocked.
Her gaze swept across those hazy gray spiritual lights, and she was inwardly startled.
They felt rather familiar, yet she could not grasp what this young mage of mysterious origins actually wanted.
But that did not stop her from calling to him for help. Whatever the case, she needed to escape first.
She immediately cried out urgently:
"Mage, I belong to the Yun Family, one of the forty-nine families under the Yuan Magnetic Palace. These people harbor the savage ambitions of wolves and have betrayed the Yuan Magnetic Palace. Please help me escape these traitors! I, Yun Shao, will certainly be grate-"
Her voice abruptly vanished.
An azure spiritual light swiftly closed around her.
In an instant, it cut