Inside the secret chamber of the Lei family, candle flames flickered. Su Yao placed the jade tablet in front of a scroll, and the runes upon it shimmered in the dim light, undulating across the surface as if they were alive. Lin Yu crouched down, his fingertips tracing the contours of Longji Mountain on the scroll. "Look, the flow of this mountain range doesn't just match the pattern on the tablet; even the direction of the Spiritual Energy is identical." His voice was heavy with suppressed excitement, and as his sleeve brushed against the floor, a patch of fine silver powder was stirred into the air.
Qin Mo pinched some of the silver powder and held it near the candlelight; the powder erupted into a ghostly blue flame under the heat. "It’s 'Shadow-Peering Powder' from the Xuanyin Sect. Someone has been watching us in the shadows." Before he could finish, the bluestone tiles on the ceiling of the chamber suddenly collapsed, and a black shadow, carried on a foul wind, smashed through the roof. Su Yao reacted with lightning speed, drawing her soft sword to block in front of her, but the shadow suddenly split into seven, each figure assuming a different attacking stance.
"The Seven-Slay Shadow-Splitting Technique!" Lei Zhentian, head of the Lei family, hurried in, his lightning whip lashing out toward one of the phantoms. "This is a top-tier secret technique of the Xuanyin Sect; it can disperse the aura of the main body—be careful, the real killer is..." His voice cut off abru…
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