When Dou Chang'an fell under Mu Hanyan's sword, the six of them were almost exhausted. When Mu Hanyan finally attacked Dou Changzhi, they didn't even have the strength to concentrate their thoughts to investigate. However, even if they were guessing, they could roughly guess Dou Changzhi's fate.

Even with the help of the six of them, Dou Changyi and Dou Changan could not withstand the power of Mu Hanyan's sword, let alone Dou Changzhi, the weakest among the three?

How was this possible? Back then, even the Ye Family's Grand Elder, the Patriarch, and three elders combined couldn't stop the powerful divine consciousness they gathered through the formation. Mu Hanyan was powerful, but in their view, at best, she was on par with the former Ye Family's Grand Elder. There was no way she could be stronger than the five most powerful members of the Ye Family combined.

But why was she okay? Why did their spiritual attacks have no effect on her?

"Master Zhu, thank you for your hard work. For me, Mu Hanyan, the five elders of the Zhu family and the patriarch worked together. I feel really honored." Mu Hanyan said with a smile, but there was clearly a hint of sarcasm on her face.

She wasn't in a rush to attack. While her previous successive inflicts of heavy damage on the three Dou family elders might have seemed like easy victories, in reality, each move had required her sheer effort. Like Zhu Xiangchen and the others, she was now practically exhausted. If the six Zhu family elders joined forces to attack her, she might not even have a chance to escape.

She had already taken the pill when she came up, and now it was a competition of who could recover faster.

"Mu Hanyan, don't be too proud too soon. You were lucky enough to escape before. But when you come to the fifth floor of the Soul Forging Tower, you won't be so lucky." Zhu Xiangchen saw the sarcasm on Mu Hanyan's face and said with shame and anger.

The Zhu family, overwhelmingly powerful against the Ye family, was already one of the most powerful clans in Lesser God Realm. Yet, it was truly humiliating that the dignified Zhu family head, along with five elders, could not defeat a young man in his early twenties. Mu Hanyan's words were like a resounding slap in their faces.

"Oh, could there be some mystery hidden in these fifth floors?" Mu Hanyan glanced at the formation beneath the feet of the group and said thoughtfully, "If I'm not mistaken, you relied on this formation to plot against the Ye family's Patriarch and Elder back then, right?"

"Yes, this is the Heaven and Earth Soul Tempering Formation, which was used by ancient powerful men to temper their souls. It took my Zhu family nearly a thousand years to comprehend the mystery of this formation. Back then, the Ye family overestimated their own strength and dared to become enemies with my Zhu family. We relied on this formation to condense our spiritual thoughts and severely damage their souls, making it impossible for them to turn over." Zhu Xiangchen said proudly.

"What about Yu Ziqi before, and those powerful people from various families who tried to comprehend the magic in the tower but died because of the so-called soul-tempering of heaven and earth, were they also the ones who did it?" Mu Hanyan asked.

"Nonsense, how can I allow others to sleep soundly beside my bed? If they sincerely submit to my Zhu family, it would be fine to let them gain some benefits and improve their strength, but how can I allow them to threaten the status of my Zhu family?" Zhu Xiangchen said with a sneer.

Mu Hanyan's questions were indeed nonsense, just to delay time.

However, Zhu Xiangchen's response was essentially nonsense to them, his purpose being the same: to buy time. Mu Hanyan had severely injured three Dou family elders, demonstrating immense strength. The six of them had already exhausted themselves after using their full strength twice to activate the formation. If they fought, they wouldn't have a chance of winning, let alone surviving.