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The ground was covered with deep purple cracks, the sky filled as various death-type spirit beasts continuously flew out from the colossal city, and on the streets, mysterious steles suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Wherever the steles emerged, all living creatures found themselves unable to leave their vicinity.
"Damn it! What on earth is he trying to do!"
Realizing he was entirely unable to move beyond the range of the stele, Captain Chen cursed, while Yu Xian'er tried everything she could without success to break free from the restriction.
"What are you doing?"
A calm voice tinged with confusion rose from behind Feng Yuan. He turned to find the strange man who called himself Wei, whom he had met once before, looking around calmly, Feng Yuan said,
"Xiao Ji has been kidnapped. I'm looking for it."
"Oh?"
Wei's pale face showed a trace of curiosity as he spoke,
"You're going through all this trouble just because of that?"