The blood jade fell into the blood pool, causing splashes and ripples.
Except for Kou Beiyue's expression that changed drastically, the mountain ghost camp present had expressions of ecstasy and bright eyes.
According to the mission prompts, you only need to invest a piece of blood jade to summon the being in the blood pool. The mummy is already so terrifying, but the supreme being will only be stronger.
As long as the existence in the blood pool appears, the people in the mountain god camp will definitely die.
One second, two seconds, three seconds. The ripples caused by the blood jade disappeared, and the blood pool returned to calm, but the monster never appeared.
The expressions of everyone in the mountain ghost camp changed from excitement and joy to shock and confusion.
The little fat man's heart sank and he said loudly:
"It's still an illusion."
He quickly took out six small flags and threw them into the wind. The flag spread out with a "crash", and the black ripples rippled with excitement.
After the illusion was broken, everyone in the mountain ghost camp discovered that they had not reached the depths of the park at all, and the six-meter-high stone sculpture was still a hundred meters away.
And that piece of blood jade could have been thrown at the feet of the stone sculpture, extremely far away from the blood pool.
On the other side, the black-haired giant ape put away the dusty mirror.
He has used Princess Yin Yao's mirror twice. Although this item has no attack ability, it is very cost-effective.
As for the cost of "seeing through the world" attached to the props, Zhang Yuanqing has not felt it yet.
Thinking like this, Zhang Yuanqing glanced at Guan Ya's hot and plump figure, moved his eyes away without any nostalgia, and concentrated on fighting the mountain ghost.
Trampling Lingxiao screamed angrily, dived at high speed, and rushed towards the blood jade at the feet of the stone sculpture, trying to retrieve this mission item.
"Bang bang!"
Guan Ya, who was running wildly, took out his pistol and hit the blood jade. The bullet collided with the blood red jade and pushed it a long distance away, making Ling Xiao's pick up in vain.
Blood Rose, who also had a pair of long legs, rushed to the stone sculpture with a strong wind and pulled out her right leg.
Snapped!
He just landed on the ground and crushed Ling Xiao. In a hurry, he blocked his chest with his arms and staggered after being kicked.
Weiwozunzun and others saw their companions being besieged, but they had no idea of stepping forward to help. Instead, they dispersed and rushed towards the blood pool behind the stone sculpture.
"Jingwei, they still have a piece of blood jade!"
Guan Ya reminded loudly.
"Who should we stop?" Jiang Jingwei was anxious. She didn't know which one to stop.
"Only One One!" Guan Ya shouted, "Ha Yi and Bai Wu Tao both have blood jade, the last piece should be on Only One One's body."
There was no actual evidence for what she said, but Guan Ya believed in her conjecture.
The mountain ghost camp is composed of three major forces: the evil organization, members of the Dark Night Rose, and evil casual cultivators. With the evil organization as the leader, we can first rule out the possibility of the rogue cultivators controlling the blood jade.
With such an important thing, Hajime and the others, who are from an evil organization, will definitely have firm control over it.
Bai Wu Tao and Ha Yi, the former as the "captain" and the latter as the strongest, must both control one thing.
Among the remaining two pieces, there is one piece in the hand of Chusha Lingxiao. The last piece must belong to the master who is the number one in the casual cultivator list. This person represents the Rose of Dark Night.
"okay!"
The fire exploded, and Jiang Jingwei was like a blazing cannonball, shooting straight towards Weizun.
This woman. Seeing that the "hiding place" of the blood jade was exposed, the mountain ghost camp quickly made adjustments. The little fat man pulled Kou Beiyue and returned to help Tread Ling Xiao to deal with Guan Ya.
Hongwei and Jiuluoyu moved closer to "Only Oneself" and helped the top casual cultivator who had temporarily lost the Water God Seal.
"Papa pa pa"
Blood Rose's toes ignited with flames, and her whip legs were struck faster than the others, forcing Trampling Lingxiao back and preventing him from picking up the blood jade.
Facing the master ranked sixth on the wanted list, Zhang Yuanqing directly manipulated her to activate the explosive mode.
Trampling Lingxiao retreated continuously, seemingly in a panic, but he was not injured and was able to fight back calmly.
After enduring a fierce attack from Blood Rose, Treading Lingxiao snapped his fingers, and the dirty and smelly coat on his body flashed with black light.
Blood Rose's pupils suddenly blurred, her fair face turned black, and her limbs were paralyzed.
He stepped forward quickly, lunged, and punched his opponent hard in the face.
Snapped!
Blood Rose's head turned 180 degrees like a twist.
Trampling Lingxiao was not just beaten blindly. He took the opportunity to release the toxin, invade the enemy silently, and finally cooperated with the curse to explode together.
Curse plus toxin, double attack, completely shut down this Inferi.
Snapped!
Trampling Lingxiao drew out his whip leg and tried to kick away Blood Rose's beautiful head to completely eliminate the enemy.
Guan Ya arrived in time, raised her foot and deflected Ling Xiao's attack with a slight movement, then grabbed Blood Rose's shoulders and threw her backwards, out of the battle.
Although the Inferi of Yuanshi was refined with a level 3 bewitching demon, it had lost most of its skills and relied only on melee instincts and flame bursts. How could it possibly be the "Treader" who also had the pinnacle of combat power and was ranked sixth on the most wanted list?
The opponent of "Shattered Lingxiao".
Guan Ya had just thrown Blood Rose away, when Trampling Lingxiao behind him puffed up his cheeks and spat out a mouthful of highly paralyzing and highly corrosive gas.
While the poisonous gas enveloped this mixed-race beauty, Lingxiao brought together his sharp claws and stabbed Guan Ya's chest without mercy.
"Poison gas has no effect on me."
Guan Ya, who was wearing a protective suit, penetrated the poisonous mist and pointed his finger like a sword upwards, just in time to crush the numb tendons on Ling Xiao's elbow.
After stepping on Ling Xiao, his arm went numb and he lost consciousness.
His heart trembled, and he was about to retreat when he was punched in the lower abdomen. The intense pain made him instinctively arch up, and he spit out acidic water uncontrollably from his throat.
Guan Ya held his neck with one hand, grabbed his wrist with the other and locked it on his back. She raised her foot and kicked the opponent's calf hard, and at the same time pulled his neck forward.
A set of movements flowed smoothly, and before Tushi Lingxiao could react, he had already jumped forward and fell to the ground.
Guan Ya knelt on the back of his neck, summoned a large-caliber pistol, pressed it against the back of Ling Xiao's head, and said:
"Try using aphrodisiac gas in my next life."
Pull the trigger decisively.
The muzzle of the gun spits out fierce flames, and each bullet quickly tears apart the horny material covering the back of the head, releasing dark green liquid.
Suddenly, Guan Ya felt a sharp pain in her head, as if someone had hit her with a sap, but the pain did not come from the body, but from the soul.
The finger that pulled the trigger paused.
"Poison gas is useless to you. Attacks at the soul level can always work." The little fat man finally arrived, with vortexes emerging from the depths of his eyes, and he used the illusionist's signature skill - mental strike.
"Boss, come on, kill this woman, and you will become famous." The little fat man said loudly.
Kou Beiyue ignored him at all, took the opportunity to sneak up to the two of them, bent down and picked up the blood jade.
Treading Lingxiao also took advantage of Guan Ya's mental shock. He flicked his back and pushed the woman on his back into the air. He rolled quickly to get away, and met up with Kou Beiyue and the little fat man.
He did not take advantage of the situation to attack because he realized that this woman had defensive items on her body that would be unable to be broken through for a while, and attacking would only put him in danger again.
"Hoo, hoho."
Ling Xiao gasped lightly, staring at Guan Ya in front of him as if facing a formidable enemy, and stretched out his hand to Kou Beiyue beside him, saying:
"Give me the blood jade."
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the brainless young man handing over the blood jade.
When Chusha Lingxiao was about to pick him up, he suddenly felt a pain in the back of his head and heard a sound in his ears:
"puff!"
Immediately, his consciousness fell into endless darkness.
Kou Beiyue pulled out the saber stuck in the back of Ling Xiao's head and kicked the body over. Although he was at the middle level in level 3 (considering himself to be the top), the bewitching demon was the bewitching demon, an injured witch and Gu master.
Able to avoid his unexpected close attacks.
Moreover, Guan Ya broke through the horny defense on the back of his head, and Kou Beiyue could stab him to death with the handle of his knife.
Kou Beiyue put the blood jade into the inventory, looked at the stunned little fat man, raised his chin, and said:
"I am a member of Yuanshi Tianzun! I am different from you thugs who commit crimes and commit crimes."
The words "I am Yuanshi Tianzun's man" seemed to contain magic power, causing the park where the battle was fiercely fought to suddenly fall into deathly silence.
The little fat man opened his eyes wide and slowly opened his mouth, his face full of disbelief.
That expression was like being deceived by the person closest to you.
Is this kid a spy arranged by Yuanshi Tianzun? Hongwei looked at Ling Xiao's corpse, losing a powerful teammate, and her face became extremely ugly.
Jiuluoyu stood with two swords and looked at each other with a slightly gloomy expression.
The mountain ghost camp has already lost two people, and now there is an additional traitor. The situation is changing, and the numerical advantage has been completely lost.
In the distance, Ah Yi, who was destroying the bronze dolls one by one, turned his head sharply and looked at Kou Beiyue, his hideous and ugly face twitching slightly.
Jiang Jingwei said happily:
"Hey, you are from Yuanshi? Sure enough, I thought you looked kind from the beginning, as if you were seeing a fire master."
You are the fire master, and your whole family is a fire master... Kou Beiyue was furious and felt insulted.
At this time, a huge figure flew across the dense forest and fell heavily beside the stone sculpture.
"boom!"
The ground trembled violently. It was the black-haired giant ape. At this moment, it was already scarred, with claw marks and penetrating wounds all over its body. Blood stained its hair red, and strands of it were stuck together.
The giant ape's aura had weakened to the extreme. It struggled a few times but failed to get up.
In full view of the public, the giant ape shrank in size, lost its hair, and regained its human body, transforming into the naked and bruised Yuanshi Tianzun.
The giant ape's injuries were synchronized to his body. From the chest to the abdomen, there were four or five penetrating wounds. Claw marks were all over the body, and the bones were visible.
"Dong dong dong"
The tall and ferocious mountain ghost, with its big belly, came slowly.
Guan Ya, Jiang Jingwei and Kou Beiyue's expressions changed slightly. It was obvious that the giant ape incarnated by Yuanshi Tianzun was defeated in the battle at the Saint Realm, and they would be forced to fight this monster next.
"Don't be afraid, it's already at the end of its strength." Zhang Yuanqing took out the diluted life liquid and injected it into the vein of his arm. He calmly walked to Tasha Lingxiao, took off his clothes, and while putting them on, praised Kou Beiyue:
"Good job."
The mountain ghost possesses the characteristics of a bewitching demon, which is perfectly compatible with Baiwu Tabu. On the other hand, the giant ape is an extension of the power of the wood demon profession and is incompatible with him.
Defeat is inevitable.
They were all of the same level of combat power. Shangui was at the end of his strength at this time, so he could be considered as taking away one of the opponent's trump cards.
As for the fatal injuries on his body, he could recover quickly by injecting a tube of diluted life liquid and using the powerful self-healing power of Night Travel God.
Sure enough, after the mountain ghost that came slowly crushed the few remaining bronze dolls, its body shrank and returned to its human form.
There are no taboos, just like being naked, not wearing any clothes.
"I originally wanted to kill Ha Yi at the critical moment, or to have no inhibitions and seal the victory in one fell swoop. After all, with my strength, I can easily attack them by surprise." Kou Beiyue said distressedly.
"No, you don't have to do things that don't match your abilities. If you can kill one person and grab the blood jade, you have already achieved success." Zhang Yuanqing patted his shoulder.
Kou Beiyue looked unconvinced.
He came naked without any taboos, stared at Kou Beiyue with cold eyes, gritted his teeth and said:
"Grandson, you hide it quite deeply."
Bai Wuji was embarrassed and angry. It wasn't until Kou Beiyue attacked and crushed Ling Xiao that he knew that this kid was a traitor. Before that, Bai Wuji had always believed that this kid was deeply hostile to Yuanshi Tianzun.
Zhang Yuanqing pulled up his trousers, rolled up his trouser legs, and mocked: "You are only allowed to place undercover agents, but you are not allowed to follow my example?"
Baiwuwu snorted coldly:
"Of course! Spy warfare is an art, and its playability is higher and more interesting than fighting on the battlefield.
"You started making preparations before entering the killing dungeon, right? You arranged for a bewitching demon with enough level but not enough brains to enter the dungeon together. Along the way, you two acted and cooperated with each other, and you really hid it from everyone.
Not to mention, I admire you a little, Yuanshi Tianzun, you are an enemy that sends chills down the spine.
"By the way, is your restriction on activating formations in order or time? If it is time, the first formation will be activated after you enter the park, and the second formation will be activated in about nine minutes.
"It's almost nine minutes until the second formation is activated."
"It doesn't matter what it is, you will lose anyway." Zhang Yuanqing faced off while paying attention to the direction of the mall.
As long as the third formation is activated, he will immediately throw out the heart of the forest, not giving the mountain ghost camp any chance.
He laughed wildly without restraint:
"No, you are the one who loses!
"Except for the Nine Leaked Fish, I am the only one who respects these chess pieces on the bright side. There are three chess pieces hidden in the Dark Night Rose in the Mountain God's camp. You have already killed the tone idiot. Guess who are the remaining two?"
There are two more? Guan Ya’s pupils narrowed.
"Despicable!" Jiang Jingwei's eyebrows stood up.
Kou Beiyue's eyes widened in astonishment. He thought that his ambush was flawless and that everyone had been tricked by him. He was on the fifth floor, but he didn't expect that the enemy was in the atmosphere.
He deeply realized that playing with scheming and tactics was not suitable for him. Fighting and killing were the most enjoyable, and he felt a deep hatred for this group of people without taboos.
City center mall.
In the center of the shopping mall, there is a six-meter-high stone sculpture. The world returns to fire, the undead knight, the soldier crossing the river, as well as the Taiyi Sect members and the corpses surround the stone sculpture and wait silently.
Tianxiaguihuo, who was silently counting the time, looked at Sun Miaomiao and reminded:
"Nine minutes have passed. Quickly put the heart of the forest back into the formation."
His brows were filled with excitement and expectation. The mountain ghost camp has not thrown the blood jade into the blood pool yet, which means that Yuanshi Tianzun and the others have survived.
As long as the formation in the shopping mall is activated, with Yuanshi Tianzun and their abilities, how difficult is it to activate the formation in the park?
Once they succeed, the mountain god camp will win, and all saints will have hope.
Seeing that his companions were looking forward to it, Sun Miaomiao hurriedly took out the emerald given by Zhao Chenghuang. As soon as he took the gem, a suction force was generated in the palm of the stone sculpture, pulling the heart of the forest.
Sun Miaomiao immediately let go and watched as the green halo swept towards her palm.
At this moment, a figure rushed out quickly, jumped up, intercepted the heart of the forest, and held it in his palm.
This is a fair-skinned and thin young man, who is clearly a Maoshan warlock.
The sudden change made everyone present stunned and unable to react. Sun Miaomiao's pretty face sank and she shouted:
"Maoshan Warlock, what are you doing?!"
She didn't understand the situation, but Maoshan Warlock was not allowed to intercept the Heart of the Forest at such a critical moment, no matter what the purpose.
Maoshan Warlock held the emerald tightly, narrowed his eyes and smiled:
"Miaomiao, I'm sorry, I can't let you activate the formation."
"Why?" Sun Miaomiao was shocked, thinking of a possibility that she didn't want to believe.
But Maoshan Warlock said it for her, he smiled and said:
"Because I am from the Night Rose."
The thin young man smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes.
Sun Miaomiao looked at the classmates with whom she had a close friendship. It was difficult to accept it for a moment. She raised her eyebrows and asked:
"No way, you can't be from the Night Rose.
"You are the seed cultivated by Taiyi Sect. There is no need for you to join Dark Night Rose. Everything they can give you, Taiyi Sect can give you!"
Maoshan Warlock was silent for a second and said:
"My father is a high-ranking member of Dark Night Rose. I was born as a member of Dark Night Rose, and this will never change. I'm sorry, I don't want to harm you, but I have no choice."
Before he became the Night God, he was already a member of the Night Rose.
His father is also a Night Walker God, and his descendant has a high probability of becoming a Night Walker God.
Therefore, a long time ago, he was fostered in an ordinary person's home and trained as a shadow child. Once he obtained the character card, he immediately joined the Taiyi Sect.
There are many descendants of Night Rose like him.
Under the secret training of Dark Night Rose, he quickly emerged in Taiyi Sect and became the most outstanding new force under Sun Miaomiao and Zhao Chenghuang.
But Maoshan Warlock knows that the meaning of a traitor's existence is to betray him at critical moments.
The day has finally come.
After entering the killing dungeon, he has been looking for opportunities to inflict heavy damage on the Mountain God camp. Originally, the most ideal opportunity was the Mountain Temple. However, when he arrived, the Mountain Ghost camp had been destroyed by Yuanshi Tianzun, and as the Mountain God camp, he could not
Touch the staff and miss the opportunity.
When the mummies are being surrounded and killed, both camps are in danger, and it is not a good time to rebel.
So he continued to lie dormant and did nothing.
When the final mission started and when Yuanshi Tianzun made arrangements for the guardian formation, he knew that the opportunity had come.
Sun Miaomiao pursed her lips. She recalled all the details after entering the dungeon, and she found that Maoshan Warlock was more silent, more restrained, and extremely low-key than before, as if he was afraid of attracting attention.
The only time he acted out of the blue was when he asked Yuanshi Tianzun if he was the descendant of the Demon Lord.
Now that I think about it, this is also the order of Dark Night Rose. Since the Taiyi Sect pays so much attention to the descendant of the Demon Lord, Dark Night Rose must have secretly ordered the secret agents in the organization to investigate.
In the shopping mall, there was silence at first, and then an uproar. Everyone in the Taiyi Sect stared at the Maoshan Warlock in disbelief. They never expected that the famous and highly anticipated talent in the sect would actually be a traitor.
Tianxiaguihuo was the first to react, his hands burst into flames, and he snorted coldly:
"Dark Night Rose is such a disgusting organization. I won't be surprised when Yuanshi Tianzun becomes one of yours. Besides, it doesn't even take a minute to kill you as a night wandering god."
There was a crash of footsteps, and eight people present gathered around him.
The Maoshan Warlock didn't panic at all. He looked at the crowd and said with a smile:
"Undead Knight, why don't you come over?"
Following his call, a stern and unsmiling young man in the crowd stepped out of the queue and stood beside the Maoshan Warlock. A light flashed in his hand, revealing a pitch black sword about one meter long.
Maoshan Warlock looked at the crowd again: "With the combined strength of the two of us, can we delay you for one minute? Oh, no, half a minute!"
Bob Ran was furious:
"Undead Knight, are you also a traitor?"
Are there two more spies in the third formation?
Guan Ya's thoughts turned around and she was the first to identify the Undead Knight among the nine people. As a casual cultivator and a night wandering god, this person had the highest probability of being trained by the Dark Night Rose.
But she couldn't guess who the other person was.
Along the way, only the tone-deaf person showed abnormalities, and was caught by Yuan Shi.
If other traitors had stayed on their toes, it would have been impossible for their identities to be revealed, because Night Rose had special hiding methods that could evade lie detectors and even physical examinations would not detect them.
Guan Ya looked at Yuanshi Tianzun with anxiety in her eyes, but found that his expression was calm, no surprise, no dignity.
Zhao Chenghuang put away the soldier puppet storage box, walked slowly over, stared at Baiwu Tabu, and said calmly:
"If you are talking about the Maoshan Warlock and the Undead Knight, then Yuanshi Tianzun and I would have known about it a long time ago."
Bai Wujiu's face changed, and he smiled and said:
"Maoshan Warlock? Why didn't you say it was Sun Miaomiao and you wanted to deceive me? What's the point? It seems that nine minutes have expired and you have lost."
Zhao Chenghuang looked grim and said:
"When I was at the Mountain Temple, I knew that Maoshan Warlock was a traitor, and the person who told me about it happened to be the Undead Knight."
The smile on Bai Wusu's face slowly disappeared.
Zhang Yuanqing said "Hey" and then said:
"The Undead Knight is a Night-Wandering God, the third-ranked Night-Wandering God on the casual cultivator list. How can we unconditionally trust him?"
Zhao Chenghuang took over the conversation:
"So, at the Mountain Temple, after you retreated, the Undead Knight and I used the spirit servant as a medium to speak frankly in the woods. He told me that he was from Dark Night Rose, and his superior was the Maoshan Warlock.
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Jiuluoyu narrowed his eyes and said: "Why did he tell you! He just admitted it like that?"
Zhao Chenghuang first glanced at Yuanshi Tianzun, and then replied:
"I told him that if he abandons the darkness and turns to the light, he will be allowed to join the Taiyi Sect and enjoy the same resources, reward props, money, and the guide to the Night Walker God dungeon as I do.
"I will give him whatever Dark Night Rose can give him. I will ask my great-grandfather to give him whatever Dark Night Rose cannot. Not only will I give him resources, but I also promise to take his family to Beijing, live in a Taiyimen courtyard house, and enjoy the protection of Taiyimen.
"I learned this from Yuanshi Tianzun."
Zhang Yuanqing sneered and said: "Fart, I obviously learned this from you and Sun Miaomiao."
Without any taboo, he ignored the two people's double act and said coldly:
"He just agreed?"
Zhao Chenghuang's face remained cold and cold, and he said:
"Of course he has to agree, because I signed a contract with him."
As he spoke, Zhao Chenghuang opened his palms, and a roll of ancient parchment appeared in his palms.
A contract is different from a polygraph. The former is a transaction. Firstly, both parties must have a relatively equivalent exchange. Secondly, it needs to be based on a detailed and accurate matter. The most common ones are sales, pledges, and each party pays
The corresponding chips must be written clearly and clearly.
Finally, using the essence and blood as a guide, a contract was reached.
Empty contents such as "not harming the interests of Taiyi Sect" and "promise not to be a member of Dark Night Rose" do not constitute contract standards.
Therefore, in some specific matters, the contract can be used as a lie detector, but most of the time, it does not have a lie detector effect.
"If you don't sign the contract, I will kill him. He has no choice." Zhao Chenghuang said.
The content of the contract is that when the Maoshan Warlock betrays the Mountain God camp, the Undead Knight is responsible for killing him.
If this happens, everything Zhao Chenghuang promised will be fulfilled after leaving the dungeon. If it doesn't, the undead knight will be backlashed by the contract and die.
By betraying the Night Rose, he can obtain more abundant resources, clear the killing dungeon, and be promoted to a saint.
If you choose die loyal, you will be killed on the spot.
Everyone knows how to choose.
As for why he didn't just kill the Maoshan Warlock directly, and when he couldn't detect lies, he killed a seeded player with a very high status. Even Zhao Chenghuang couldn't convince the public.
In multiplayer dungeons, people's hearts are the most important.
As an outsider, the Undead Knight's accusations cannot convince the official practitioners.
"No, I'm not a traitor!"
After the undead knight finished speaking, he suddenly rose up and slashed down with the long black sword in his hand.
With a "pop" sound, Maoshan Warlock's head rolled off his neck before he could react. Under the huge pressure, a fountain of blood several meters high spewed out from the carotid artery.
He never expected that the undead knight, who was also a member of the Night Rose, would switch sides at this time.
His spirit body immediately broke away from his body, floated in the air, and roared that only the Night Walker God could hear:
"Undead Knight, how dare you betray me?!
"Dark Night Rose will not let you go, your whole family will die."
Before he finished speaking, darkness surged in the eyes of the undead knight, and he opened his mouth to swallow the spirit body of Maoshan Warlock.
Then, he picked up the heart of the forest on the ground and threw it at the stone sculpture, causing it to return to the formation.
In the city center shopping mall, a green light pillar rises into the sky, creating a spectacular scene.
In this way, all the formations in the three directions of the blood pool, southeast and west, are activated.
Zhao Chenghuang looked at the pillar of light rising into the sky and said:
"It's you who lose!
"Yuanshi, what are you waiting for?"
Zhang Yuanqing immediately took out the Heart of the Forest. At the same time, seeing the failure of the Maoshan Warlock, the situation was reversed, and the mountain ghost camp had no way out, Bai Wu Tao made an immediate decision, fiercely grabbed a bamboo stick, and shouted:
"gather!"
Hongwei, Little Fatty, Ah Yi, and Weiwo all grabbed an identical bamboo stick.
In an instant, a hazy star map lit up beneath everyone's feet. The background was the deep night sky, dotted with countless bright stars, and in the center of the map was a blazing sun.
At this time, Zhang Yuanqing let go of his hand and allowed the stone sculpture to suck away the gem in his hand.