Regardless, at that moment, nothing was stopping the black smoke from spreading further as it moved to quickly follow it's master's orders as it could now freely enter their spiritual points if they were not strong enough to protect themselves from it.

He did not know that a wraith could produce black smoke of this large a scale. The enemy had set up a boundary spell and also controlled an army of YinYings. 

'He is really strong.' Wei Jiayi already knew that. He was just reminding himself of how dangerous his enemy was. 

Regardless, they were now enveloped with the smoke and with its pitch-black color. Wei Jiayi doubted they would be able to still see a thing if not for the rays of light and the fireb.a.l.l.s that danced around them. 

The whole s.h.i.+zi Empire was really nearing its end, and surely even though the citizens might survive, there would be nothing left to return to. 

He could feel the sinister element within it and Wei Jiayi could feel it growing stronger, the closer it got to the cube prison that still hung in the sky. 

Despite all this, Gao Lan Mei was not moving and just continued to repeat her chant, louder every time despite her not being able to use any spiritual energy to even protect herself. 

Wei Jiayi knew that he was in charge of that. Thus, he had already covered them with his spiritual energy as a defence. He was also using this chance to share some with Gao Lan Mei to aid her with the ritual. He could feel her struggle and stubbornness to persist still, and he did not want her to fail again. 

How many beings had given their spiritual energy to raise the purification wall? Some had even done it while maintaining another protection wall for the s.h.i.+zi Empire so that the citizens could evacuate.

Even Wei Jiayi gave his spiritual energy, making him almost unable to fight in the same footing with the YinYing leader.  

Especially Gao Lan Mei who just recovered from Impurity Madness needed to step up her limit. He had seen her struggles, and it hurt to know that it was all wasted.

With this thought, Wei Jiayi forcefully suppressed his selfish desire to get her out of danger. If Gao Lan Mei was not giving up despite her already being at her maximum, he did not have the right to do so as well.  

He was just worried that it would be too late to stop the power of the prism within her storage ring that caused her right hand to be unusable. 

Gao Lan Mei's chant turned weaker, but she did not stop. Wei Jiayi immediately noticed that something different was happening. 

The sinister elements surrounding them due to the impurities suddenly felt weaker as well. Wei Jiayi could also sense the temperature falling low. Then. it all became silent. 

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Before long, he heard a loud beating sound of something familiar next to his ears. 

'Beating heart?' He thought to himself nervously. Wei Jiayi looked at Gao Lan Mei to see that her eyes were still closed, her mouth still moved like she was still chanting.

"Thump! Thump!" 

The beating continued, and it was the only thing he heard before he felt someone looking so intently at them that it made the hair at the back of his neck stand up. 'Who is that?!' Wei Jiayi opened his mouth to shout, but no sound came out. 

Wei Jiayi looked around, but only saw chaos. Blurry figures were fighting not far from them, but he heard no sound coming from them. He got more surprises as the movement of all the elements around them, even the black smoke, slowed down for a bit before moving very fast! 

It was like time decided to slow down in a second before it doubling in speed after. 

They seemed to be inside a separate s.p.a.ce, and Wei Jiayi could not believe it. If a being was controlling a s.p.a.ce, one would feel the difference from within not outside!  

He had seen the s.p.a.ce Gao Lan Mei created with the underground transportation circle, and he was fascinated by it. Now, Wei Jiayi had witnessed another form of s.p.a.ce that could possibly bend time. 

How awesome would that be, if it was really the case! 

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