He is Watching!

Hao Xuan watched helplessly as the hammer struck him down.

The pain he experienced at that moment was not something that could be described with words alone. Hao Xuan felt like he had been punched back into his childhood before he had learned how to protect himself because...the very notion of resistance was beaten out of him in one blow.

With the first strike of the hammer, his consciousness was forced into the central Mind Palace. He did not choose to come here but it was the only place that could protect his soul.

In the outside world his body had remained unaffected. The hammer was a spiritual weapon created by the Emperor's soul power and as such, it did not harm the shell that housed him.

Mr. Hyde was thrown against the barrier while Jin Wang to the back wall. Neither of them really understood what was going on but they could feel the presence of another being around them, someone far more powerful than anyone here.