Chapter 40 Failure

Kunling Mountain Range, at the peak of the mountains.

In a spacious cave, the walls were covered with runes.

On the floor of the cave, a complex octagonal array of runes was also drawn.

At the center of the array sat a man with the appearance of a child yet with the hair of a crane, his age indiscernible.

In the northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest corners of the octagon, a child around three or four years old was bound, both boys and girls present.

These children were plastered with runes, eyes tightly shut.

In the remaining four corners sat four Daoist cultivators of varying ages, each wearing a Taoist robe and sitting with crossed legs.

The man sitting in the center suddenly issued an old voice, "Begin!"

The other four Daoists quickly changed their hand gestures.

All at once, the runes began to glow, detaching from the stone walls and forming a circle, suspended in mid-air.

Encircling everyone within the array.