n Guards just now.Chūqíng and Ruoyān led twenty people in from the main gate, killing intent surging.Looking around, they saw a swing in the courtyard. A woman in a red dress was sitting on the swing...The great battle subsided, but not a drop of blood was spilled.

And at the very instant the enemy died, Lu Ye distinctly felt a mysterious force surging from some direction. It was as if in that moment, his physical cultivation had been replaced by something else entirely.

Stand-in puppet!

Xiao Wai has taken it over.

The five remained in the Xuanwu formation, their array's power unactivated. Each channeled their spiritual energy forward, appearing aimless and without direction.

After a few moments, Xiao Wai suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "This thing is reacting!" a cultivator from the Nine States. Lu Ye vaguely remembered that one of them was a short, ghostly cultivator.Now the whereabouts of these three remain unknown, whether they lived or died. They were s...