At that moment, everyone instinctively turned to look at Liangqiu Chengfeng — including
"Young friend Chu Feng, I've miscalculated. This formation actually has two points for breaking it. If they cannot both be resolved, the formation cannot be broken."
"You need to retreat immediately, or you'll suffer a backlash."
Liangqiu Chengfeng explained his reason for urging Chu Feng to withdraw, afraid the young man might not understand.
After hearing those words, Chu Feng didn't appear particularly anxious. But the others present — the distinguished figures from the various clans — saw their expressions turn sharply to panic in an instant.
Liangqiu Chengfeng had miscalculated?
Chu Feng needed to pull out of the formation-breaking process right away?
Did that mean Chu Feng's attempt to break the formation was going to fail?
Did that mean they truly had no way to obtain the treasure inside the formation?
Yet, just as worry clouded everyone's faces, Chu Feng said to Liangqiu Chengfeng: "
With that, Chu Feng's palm swept across his Universe Bag, and an object immediately appeared in his hand.
"That is...?"
Upon seeing the object in Chu Feng's hand, Liangqiu Chengfeng — who had been anxious just a moment ago — froze, his gaze shifting. A look of utterly unexpected delight surfaced in his eyes, which had been filled with worry moments before.
Because the object in Chu Feng's hand was a stone.
It bore a striking resemblance to the stone Liangqiu Chengfeng had found within the barrier gate.
"Could that be...?"
The instant he laid eyes on that stone, a thought sprang to Liangqiu Chengfeng's mind. He suspected that Chu Feng had very likely also found a crucial object for breaking the formation inside the barrier gate.
And that object was this stone.
The moment Liangqiu Chengfeng had that thought, Chu Feng had already placed the stone into the formation's groove.
Hummmm—
In an instant, blinding light erupted, turning everything before everyone's eyes into a white expanse. Nothing else could be seen.
All they could hear were waves of shattering sounds exploding from the area where Chu Feng stood.
The thunderous noise reverberated for what felt like an eternity.
Everyone instinctively felt that Chu Feng might have succeeded — that the formation might have been broken.
They all wanted to rush to Chu Feng's side immediately, to be the first to claim the treasures within the formation.
But they were powerless to do so.
It turned out that the white radiance was not mere light — it possessed an immense binding force. Right then, every person present was bound.
They couldn't move at all.
At that moment, the only person here who was not bound was Chu Feng.
Not only was Chu Feng unrestrained, but the white glare did not obscure his vision either.
That power failed to bind him, and that blinding light failed to cover his eyes.
Because Chu Feng stood at the formation's core.
At that moment, barrier energy surged around Chu Feng — immensely powerful barrier force, powerful enough to annihilate every person present.
And that power was now serving Chu Feng's will, for it was all surging toward the space around him.
The reason for this lay in the two stones in Chu Feng's hands.
Those two stones were originally used to break the formation, but now they had undergone a tremendous transformation.