The two left Xiqi, turning into two utterly inconspicuous streaks of flowing light. They did not dare pause in the slightest, fleeing for their lives straight toward the western lands.
Along the way, Shen Gongbao's ever-suspended heart pounded with unprecedented violence.
He kept looking back toward the east, afraid that in the very next moment, from the direction of Kunlun Mountain, a great hand that blotted out the heavens would cross the endless void and grind him and Burning Lamp completely into flying ash.
Daoist Burning Lamp's expression was likewise grave. He restrained his aura to the utmost, not daring to let even a thread of it leak out.
The might of a Sage was unfathomable.
Even though they had already left Xiqi far behind, neither of them dared guarantee whether Venerable Lord Yuanshi had already noticed their defection.
Only as they drew closer and closer to the western lands did the suffocating pressure weighing on their hearts ease by a few degrees.
As long as they could enter the Daoist field of the Two Sages of the West, they would truly be safe.
However, just as the two were about to cross that invisible boundary and step into the range of the western lands!
Above the Nine Heavens, the void twisted.
An enormous face, condensed from endless Jade Purity Immortal Light, looked down upon the two figures below like ants.
There was no expression at all upon that face, only endless cold indifference and killing intent.
"My Chan Sect treated you two far from poorly."
"And yet you dared betray the sect."
"Not good!"
On Daoist Burning Lamp's face, unchanged for ten thousand years, a look of utter horror appeared.
Shen Gongbao trembled all over, his entire body as if plunged into an ice cavern; even his Primordial Spirit