As the formation array under their feet sprang into effect, the Sect Elders and Peakmasters who were all caught within the domain of the formation array discovered in an instant that they could no longer move their bodies. This was especially true for their legs, which felt as though they had been completely adhered to the ground. Lifting their legs seemed practically an impossible task at this moment.

Jun Xiaomo stood at the heart of the formation array and smiled grimly at them. As the red light shone from below, it imbued Jun Xiaomo’s appearances with an ostensibly eerie gleam, rendering her expressions peculiar and fearsome.

The Dawn Sect’s Sect Elders and Peakmasters glared at Jun Xiaomo as they immediately began to operate the spiritual energy within their bodies to resist the formation array’s restrictions.

As their spiritual energy begun to flow through their bodies more vigorously, they felt as though the restraints binding their body were gradually being loosened, and they began to be able to move again. Their hearts immediately leapt with joy, and they began to increase the amount of spiritual energy that they sent coursing through their bodies.

However, Jun Xiaomo was hardly flustered at all. She curled her lips into a smile as she made a few hand seals. In an instant, the red light on the ground began to congeal into extremely thin threads as they penetrated the skins of the Sect Elders and the Peakmasters and burrowed its way into their bodies.

“What the hell is this thing?!” The Fifth Elder’s eyes widened as he barked while attempting to do all he could to prevent the threads from entering his body. Even though his feet remained plastered to the ground, the Fifth Elder could already move his hands under the operation of his spiritual energy. That said, he discovered to his dismay that there was nothing he could do to these red threads – he could see them, but he couldn’t touch them at all.

The other Sect Elders were hardly as ill tempered as the Fifth Elder. However, they had in a similar fashion also revealed an anxious, focused look in the depths of their...