"Hiss!"
Just as Elder Shi's body slammed into the door, she heard a faint sound in her ears. There was none of the thunderous boom of a shattered formation. Other than its powerful warning function, the formation here could ordinarily be broken by Elder Shi with a light tap of her finger.
"Elder Hu!"
In that brief instant, Elder Shi's features were no longer blurred. She reverted to the appearance of an old woman with a head full of silver hair. Her eyes flew wide in fury, and her voice shot toward the sky!
She was violently bounced back by the door, but along with that shriek, the weakness within her body seemed to be magnified without end. Her staggering body suddenly stiffened. She abruptly clutched her head with both hands and let out another scream.
Elder Shi felt her soul suddenly seized by an invisible giant hand and fiercely squeezed. Amid her screams, she toppled headfirst to the ground, and her body never moved again!
From the moment she entered the room, felt unwell and retreated, was bounced away by the door, and fell motionless to the ground, only a single breath had passed. Everything returned to silence. It had all happened so suddenly that it felt utterly unreal!
A powerful Integrated Body Middle Stage Cultivator had instantly lost all life from her body. Forget escaping this room—even her Nascent Soul, the hardest thing to capture, had not been given the slightest chance to flee.
Because above her fallen body, a black giant hand rapidly materialized. Within that hand was a struggling phantom, identical in appearance to Elder Shi. It was unmistakably her soul body.
In the span of a moment, her soul had been forcibly torn from her flesh. This defied the normal workings of heaven and earth's