"Hard to say. I can't be certain either, since I can't sense his aura at all."
"That can only mean two things — either he isn't here at all, or his strength exceeds everyone present."
"But what I can be sure of is that the person who helped them break through my Concealment Immortal-Avoiding Formation was that blue-robed man."
"That Demon Suppression Talisman must have also been bestowed by that mysterious blue-robed individual." Chu Feng said.
"It's no use. He won't help us." The Kong Heavenly Clan Master said.
"Why not? Why won't he help us?"
"Aren't we on the same side? Aren't we all trying to deal with that Chu Feng?" The Zhou Heavenly Clan Master said.
"So it really is me they're after?" Hearing those words, Chu Feng's brows furrowed tightly. With just that one sentence, he understood that the blue-robed man's true target was actually him.
"That fellow must be powerful — at least stronger than Senior Ying Mingchao. But with that kind of strength, why doesn't he just deal with me directly? Instead, he's secretly helping the Kong Heavenly Clan, using their power to deal with me?"
Chu Feng's mind raced, turning this question over and over.
He wasn't sure whether the other party was too disdainful to act personally, or whether he simply couldn't.
Or perhaps he simply found it amusing, treating the whole thing as some kind of game.
"Listen. Right now we can only rely on ourselves. Use me as the catalyst — employ that technique." The Kong Heavenly Clan Master said to the Zhou Heavenly Clan Master.
"What?" Hearing those words, the Zhou Heavenly Clan Master's expression froze, unable to believe what he had just heard.
And the five Supreme Elders of the Zhou Heavenly Clan behind him were even more alarmed, their faces draining of color.
"You really intend to use that technique? If we do, there will be no turning back." The Zhou Heavenly Clan Master said.
"I said I'll be the catalyst. If anyone dies, it'll be me. What are you afraid of?"
"If we keep dragging this out, we'll all die. And after we die, my Kong Heavenly Clan will fall, and your Zhou Heavenly Clan will be destroyed too. Have you considered that?" The Kong Heavenly Clan Master said in fury.
"Clan Master, you absolutely must not do this! We can't use that technique — our cultivation is insufficient. Even if you serve as the catalyst, with our level of cultivation, we'll still die! We'll all die!"
At that moment, one of the Zhou Heavenly Clan's Supreme Elders spoke in a panic.
"Silence! For the continuation of our clan, what does our sacrifice amount to?"
At the same time, another Supreme Elder of the Zhou Heavenly Clan began to reprimand the elder who had spoken against it, then turned to the Clan Master and said:
"Clan Master, do as the Kong Clan Master says. For our clan, sacrificing our lives is nothing."
"Clan Master, do it. We are not afraid of death."
"Clan Master, think carefully! Think carefully!"
After those words, among the remaining three elders, some offered opposition while others accepted.
And in the Zhou Heavenly Clan Master's eyes, a cold, ruthless light had already surfaced.
"Kong, from here on out, it's up to you."
After saying this, the Zhou Heavenly Clan Master let out a tremendous shout.
The moment his words left his mouth, a strange, ethereal light blazed to life from his Dantian.
"Ahh!!!"
In the next instant, the five Supreme Elders standing behind him simultaneously let out screams of unbearable agony.
"No!!!"
"Stop! Clan Master, stop!"
The elders who had previously pleaded for mercy cried out desperately, but they could no longer control their own bodies. It was as though they had already fallen completely under the Zhou Heavenly Clan Master's command.
Yet the Zhou Heavenly Clan Master showed no intention of stopping whatsoever.
"This formation!!!"
At that moment, Chu Feng noticed that both the Zhou Heavenly Clan Master and the five Zhou elders were now radiating a luminous light from their Dantians — and woven within that light were streaks of nine-colored lightning.
That nine-colored lightning had not been present before.
Most importantly, once that lightning was extracted, the Zhou Heavenly Clan Master and his elders looked as though something vital had been stripped away from them.
Their bodies were aging at a terrifying rate. Their skin withered and dried out, becoming utterly gaunt. The five Supreme Elders, in particular, had in the blink of an eye been reduced to something resembling desiccated corpses — as though every last drop of essence within them had been drained.
Even their physical bodies had shrunken noticeably.
"They're using a forbidden technique. This is their final gamble."
Chu Feng's heart sank, because he could see that the power being extracted from the Zhou Heavenly Clan Master and the others was converging toward the Kong Heavenly Clan Master.
At this moment, the lightning mark on the Kong Heavenly Clan Master's forehead was burning brighter and brighter, and bolts of lightning had begun to appear all over his body.
The lightning coiled around him like armor, enveloping his entire form — it was Lightning Armor.