Thousand Star Pearl!

The Sacred Moon Sect Leader and Lin Bai charged into the forbidden grounds one after the other.

The Sacred Moon Sect Leader looked utterly panicked as he fled in disarray toward the place where the Thousand Star Pearl was kept.

Inside a mountain cave.

The Sacred Moon Sect Leader stumbled in miserably, his face full of alarm. He saw a fist-sized pearl floating above a stone platform inside the cave, radiating a captivating light.

"The Thousand Star Pearl!"

"The Thousand Star Pearl!"

When the Sacred Moon Sect Leader saw the Thousand Star Pearl, immense delight appeared in his eyes.

The Thousand Star Pearl was the Sacred Moon Sect's supreme treasure, bar none.

Once the Thousand Star Pearl was activated, it could not only open the Sacred Moon Sect's Mountain Protection Formation, but its power would also condense into a Thousand Star Barrier. Ordinary Human Core Realm martial artists would find it difficult to shatter.

Within the Thousand Star Barrier, let alone Human Core Realm martial artists—even Earth Core Realm and Heaven Core Realm experts would probably be unable to break it easily.

That was why such wild delight appeared on the Sacred Moon Sect Leader's face when he saw the Thousand Star Pearl.

Once he obtained and activated the Thousand Star Pearl, the Thousand Star Barrier it condensed would be enough to let the Sacred Moon Sect Leader stall until the time limit of Lin Bai's Great Barren Art ran out.

Once the Great Barren Art's time was exhausted, Lin Bai would enter a period of weakness in which he would be powerless even to truss a chicken.

The Sacred Moon Sect had originally evolved from the Barren Sect, so it understood the advantages and drawbacks of the Barren Sect's inherited secret art very well.

"The Thousand Star Pearl!"

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