The cultivation chamber doors swung open.

Li Luo, Yu Hongxi, and Chi Chan walked out to see Cao Sheng and Shen Jinxiao by the door.

Cao Sheng sprang to his feet with a smile for Yu Hongxi. "Cultivation over? I trust all went well?" Even as he spoke, he could sense that something was off. Chi Chan was staring daggers at Shen Jinxiao, who was behind him.

"Shen Jinxiao! It must have been you!" Chi Chan's water resonant power roared to life as she stepped forward. Wrapping him in a violent swirl of water, it formed a cocoon around him.

The water spun faster and faster as the cocoon contracted.

Crushing the space within.

Shen Jinxiao calmly...