Sensing those abnormal auras, Wei Qing kept his expression perfectly neutral and didn't expose anything.
First, he was currently "Dian Dao," a Knight of Beauty—he shouldn't have the ability to perceive such abnormalities.
Second, he wanted to see what these abominations were actually planning… and whether Luofu's Qiongguan Array had truly improved.
Baiheng seemed not to notice anything. She kept chatting cheerfully with Liuying, talking about the snacks currently trending in Luofu, trying to coax this "shy little sister" to relax.
Liuying, too, only felt that things were a bit too crowded. Her perception wasn't as sharp as Wei Qing's; she assumed it was just the strict screening policy causing congestion.
The line crept forward.
Finally, it was the turn of those few Foxians with "wrong" aura.
The diviners operating the Qiongguan Array seemed to sense something off as well—their movements grew noticeably more cautious.
But clearly, these Borisin had no intention of submitting to screening.
The instant the array's light was about to descend—
The mutation exploded.
"Merciful Medicus, bless all living things!"
"You bow-worshipping hounds of that Demon Bow—die!"
The leading Foxian let out a frenzied roar. His disguise shattered like brittle glass.
Emerald armor burst from within his flesh; runaway Abundance power lashed out like crazed vines, whipping in every direction.
His accomplices struck at the same time, aiming straight for the Qiongguan Array's core baseplate.
At the perimeter, other deeply hidden Denizens also erupted into action, attempting to create chaos and tear open the Cloud Knights' defensive ring.
"Enemy attack! Protect the Qiongguan Array!"
Baiheng's reaction was frighteningly fast. The smile vanished from her face, replaced by a cold edge.
She shoved Wei Qing and Liuying toward a relatively safe corner. "You two—stay here, don't move!"
In the next breath she became a streak of light, twin blades out, catching a thorny Abundance lash that would have raked the array's foundation.
"Form up! Stop them!" a Cloud Knight officer bellowed. The soldiers snapped into formation.
Steel sang. Blades flashed like a forest, holding back the crazed abominations.
The Divination Commission erupted into pandemonium—metallic clashes, shouted orders, blood, splintering jade plates.
But these Denizens were stronger—and more suicidal—than anyone expected.
They didn't care about casualties. They slammed into the defense like moths into flame.
Worse—several of them began to swell grotesquely, their bodies inflating as if about to detonate into Abundance corruption.
"Not good! They're going to destroy the array!" Baiheng's face turned pale. She tried to break away to reinforce the core but was pinned by two elite Denizens.
One bloated abomination cackled and surged toward the baseplate—
"Impudence."
A voice rang through the hall—clear, commanding, with an unmistakable dignity.
"It's Imbibitor Lunae!"
"How is he here?!" a Borisin shouted in shock, recognizing the newcomer.
Dan Feng stepped into view.
With a simple lift of his fingers, a ribbon of blue-green radiance poured forth like condensed water, instantly binding the swollen abomination.
The creature's inflated body convulsed—then compressed, as if crushed by an invisible tidal weight. Its chaotic Abundance energy was forcibly driven back into its core.
It didn't even manage to scream before it vanished—erased into nothingness.
Dragon authority. Water dominion. Life and death in a single thought.
But the attackers weren't limited to one direction.
As Dan Feng acted, several other hidden Denizens launched from separate angles, still targeting the Qiongguan Array's vital nodes.
Their coordination was precise, clearly planned—using comrades' deaths to carve out fleeting openings.
Dan Feng's brow tightened slightly; their numbers and fanaticism exceeded his expectation.
He flicked his sleeve.
A colossal water-dragon surged up and swallowed half the charging Denizens.
Under Dragon power, their movements turned sluggish—like falling into bottomless mud.
"Ants shaking a tree," Dan Feng said lightly, and with calm, surgical motions he pierced through several more, snuffing their howls mid-throat.
Yet in the instant of that sweep—
A shadow moved.
A black blur burst from behind a pillar—an elite Borisin who had remained perfectly still until now.
He exploited the brief interval when Dan Feng's force was already committed, and drove a poison-soaked bone blade toward an energy junction.
At that razor-thin moment—
A silver arc arrived after but struck first.
"Clang—!"
A sharp metallic explosion rang out.
The aged Yingxing had appeared before the array without anyone noticing.
In his hands, a plain-looking forging hammer smashed precisely into the bone blade, stopping it cold.
"Luofu's things," Yingxing snorted, "are not for you to touch."
He rotated his wrist.
Heat surged. The second strike followed—simple, direct, and heavy as a mountain.
The elite Borisin barely managed to block, but was driven back step by step, eyes wide with horror. He clearly hadn't expected this seemingly frail old man to explode with such force.
Seeing the situation collapse, the Borisin's gaze went feral. He bit down on something in his mouth.
Veins bulged and turned a sickly dark green. His aura spiked violently—desperation ignition.
"Careful!" Baiheng shouted.
Yingxing didn't even blink. He scoffed. "Last gasp."
He slipped aside, letting the enemy's lunge tear past, and his hammer rose from below in a compact upward swing—striking the junction of chest and abdomen.
"Thud."
A dull, brutal impact.
The Borisin's forced surge deflated like a punctured bladder. The crazed glow in his eyes collapsed into disbelief, and he crumpled.
Yingxing shook the blood from his hammer and said flatly, "New alloy from the Artisanship Commission. It's made to crack your kind of cheap 'boosts.' How's the taste?"
By then, the riot was essentially over.
Cloud Knights moved in to mop up, bind survivors, and repair minor damage. The Qiongguan Array—shaken, but intact.
Dan Feng walked over. For once, the aloof expression on his face softened into a genuine smile.
"Good thing you were fast," he said. "Still sharp as ever."
Yingxing hooked the hammer back at his waist. "Couldn't let those trash touch the Qiongguan Array. Otherwise those diviners would nag for years."
"For once, I agree," Dan Feng replied, then his gaze slid toward the corner where Wei Qing and Liuying still stood.
He raised an eyebrow.
"And these two are…?"
His eyes lingered on the rainbow Mary Sue hair for a beat, and a trace of curiosity surfaced.
It was… very distinctive.
And after what just happened, everyone else in the screening line had scattered like frightened birds—only these two had stayed obediently where they were told.
Hard not to notice.
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