Shen Yi lowered his eyes to the three protective formations on his body, a measure of oddness rising in them. This aunt and niece had taken it for granted he'd fight his way in?

His earlier sudden violent strike was only because he'd discovered something rotten in that tea-soup — it didn't mean Shen Yi was confident enough to think he could sweep clean the whole Zheng family by his own strength alone.

Take the simplest point. Up to now, the Zheng family hadn't started the mountain-guarding grand formation. Just as he'd seen back at the Lizhou Implement Sect — for a sect or a family, when an irresistible existence appeared inside, the first reaction was absolutely to open the formation and face the foe. The present posture meant that, by the strength he'd shown just now, he still hadn't truly threatened the Zheng family.

At the thought, Shen Yi took out the formation diagram Aqing had drawn in advance. "If they started this thing at full power, roughly what effect would it have?"

The formation came from the Xu family's hand, so Aqing knew it better than anyone. She immediately gave her answer. "Even a Spirit-Transformation early-stage cultivator, if it targeted him alone, could be trapped at least ten days; and should the other know nothing of formations, there'd even be a chance of wounding him."

"Of course, a formation is only a dead thing — a cultivator need only withdraw from the manor to shake it off."

With that, Aqing looked around in puzzlement too. The whole mountain manor was utterly silent, the Zheng clansmen seemingly vanished in an instant, wholly undefended, as though telling the three they were free to stay or go.

As though catching on to something, she cried softly, "I understand. Once the mountain-guarding grand formation opens, that means a house-extermination catastrophe has been met — and with such a vast momentum, it'd surely be noticed by outsiders."

"After all, the Zheng family has Xuanguang Cave at its back and isn't a soft persimmon; once this affair ends, by ordinary reason, they'd inevitably denounce…