The Shelter Seal was now sheltering on behalf of Heaven; it could neither be moved nor harmed. Helpless, the three Dao Ancestors could only return to Tianluo Palace first.
Founding Ancestor Ji Bang watched the three Dao Ancestors leave, snorted coldly, and also returned to Luoyi.
The true body of the Great Zhou Ancestral God returned as well, carrying the Nation-Stabilizing Dragon Sparrow Saber, the Nation-Suppressing Qiankun Seal, the Myriad Spirits Manifestation Mirror, and Great Zhou's Founding Empress, Lu Xiao Man. Only Ye Zhen's Shelter Seal remained suspended high in the sky.
It released streams of radiance, drawing upon the primordial powers of earth, fire, wind, and fire from the Primordial Continent, suppressing and repairing the calamities stirred across the Primordial Continent by the battle just now.
Within Tianluo Palace, the three Dao Ancestors sat facing one another in silence for a long while. Yet each formed hand seals, sending streams of flowing light from around their bodies into the light-and-shadow before them.
Before them, the Sun Moon Dao Ancestor's Yin Yang Cushion slowly rotated. The countless tiny cracks covering it gradually healed as it turned.
The Lightning Prison Dao Ancestor's Lightning Prison Mountain was also within that cluster of light and shadow. However, the shattered corner of its prison peak was recovering far more slowly than the Sun Moon Dao Ancestor's Yin Yang Cushion.
The Lightning Prison Dao Ancestor's losses in this battle were no less than those of the Sun Moon Dao Ancestor.
Compared to those two, the Qingli Dao Ancestor's Qingli Nine-Section Staff, his proof-of-Dao treasure, bore only a slight axe mark left by the Heaven Punishing Axe. It had nearly repaired itself already, and after being placed into the light and shadow, it fully recovered.
Watching the missing corner of his Lightning Prison Mountain condense into