Means of Restraining True Intent

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After the hum, the cultivators of Chuyun Pavilion suddenly felt the surrounding space tremble. Then, a blood-red shadow surged out of that dark crimson command token.

The instant the blood shadow appeared, an irresistible and immense resentment crashed into their hearts like mountains roaring and seas howling.

"Ah... Aah!!!"

"No! Don't come any closer!!!"

Outside the sect's grand formation, every Chuyun Pavilion cultivator below the Spiritual Connection Realm had their minds crushed by that resentment in an instant, breaking down on the spot and screaming wildly.

The Chuyun Pavilion cultivators above the Spiritual Connection Realm, along with the four True Persons, were not faring much better either.

Though they could barely resist the invasion of that resentment with their Spiritual Sense, the crushing pressure still made their state of mind sway unceasingly, impossible to calm.

"What in the world is this thing?!"

"No, if this continues, these stewards and disciples will suffer a mental collapse!"

Sensing that the situation was far from good, one of Chuyun Pavilion's True Persons took the initiative and cast a spell, summoning a curtain of light to envelop the Chuyun Pavilion cultivators below.

He then formed several Magic Seals, summoning a flowing-cloud Dharma sword before him. With a single slash, he sent it hurtling toward the surging blood shadow, intending to weaken its influence at the source.

But to do that, he first had to touch the blood shadow's true body with his Spiritual Sense.

This Chuyun Pavilion True Person did not yet know what the strange thing before him had transformed from, so he merely took it for some kind of Soul Seizure, heart-devouring spiritual technique.

Yet just as his Spiritual Sense locked onto the blood shadow and the flowing-cloud Dharma sword split the sky, a chill of dread crawled up from the