Although obviously unaware of the gossip between the two women, Ying Five was now addressing Zhao Changhe on a related topic. “Based on my prior encounters, I suspected it might be similar to an invasion of vicious qi or something akin to Papiyas’s spiritual illusions. You specialize in vicious qi, and as for spiritual illusions, I prepared that Soul-Shackling Chain for you. But now, it turns out neither guess was correct. We’ll have to use space manipulation instead to isolate the space around us. Didn’t you mention earlier you’ve begun learning about space? Why not use that?”0

“…I don’t know how.”0

“Then who was just telling me he’d grasped the basics?”0

“…The technique my daughter passed to me is purely for killing.”0

“Just where on earth did you suddenly get a daughter… Never mind, I’ll teach you.”0

Indeed, Ying Five seemed to cope far more easily here than Zhao Changhe. This was because the disturbance here was passive—an ever-present consciousness interference that seemed to be a property of the space itself—rather than an active mental or spiritual attack that invaded one’s spiritual sea. If one could isolate oneself with...0