Chapter 281: Will
At that moment, Bai Zihua, who had been halfway to the small courtyard where Shangguan Qingqing was, froze in place and looked toward what lay ahead, an expression of overwhelming shock filling his face.
The martial will that had descended was like a mountain range that could not be crossed. Even from a great distance, the faintest outflow of its presence had suppressed him so thoroughly that he could not move forward by even a single step.
"What... what has happened?"
Bai Zihua was shaken to his core, and felt a fear rising inside him that he could not suppress.
At the same time, every person throughout the entire Celestial River Blade Sect, just like him, was suppressed in place, their consciousness held under by that martial will, completely unable to command their own bodies.
...
Inside the small courtyard.
The figure of Shangguan Qingqing, blade drawn and lunging toward Linghu Yue, stopped abruptly at the courtyard gate.
She stared with wide, stunned eyes at the split token and the faint wisp of aura that had emerged before Linghu Yue, and her clear eyes went suddenly wide.