At the critical moment, the man suddenly shook a square inkstone from his garment and flung it onto the ground. Yang Xiao felt his footing give way beneath him, stumbled in his forward charge, and nearly fell to the floor.
As the inkstone hit the ground, an eerie force visibly corroded the surface, turning it into a thick, pitch-black hue, as if he was now standing within an enormous inkstone.
Ink remained in the inkstone, the dense, black ink engulfing his instep like something alive, relentlessly crawling up Yang Xiao's calf.
This inkstone was one of the Magic Artifacts of Pingxi Marquis, which he had seen used in their previous encounter. Yang Xiao was caught off guard and suffered greatly then, and if it weren't for Daoist Qingfeng's timely arrival, his life would have been forfeited.
