"All of you, get the hell out!"
Kui Leihan's final blow had blasted them from the small town into the turbulent flow of shattered space.
Jinren's wisp of residual spiritual consciousness and half of his Heavenly Mechanism body had not suffered the slightest injury.
On the contrary, he could sense an invisible "Nian" protecting him, shielding him from the storms within the spatial torrent.
Zhu Yike, Aunt Xiang, and the others were likely the same.
Perhaps they would ultimately be scattered to every corner of the continent, recuperate and rebuild, then return to face the Holy Spirit Hall...
Kui Leihan's actions before and after had to be called somewhat contradictory.
But at the very least, they proved that he stood neutral—at minimum, he was not an enemy.
Perhaps, from a certain perspective, what he had been trying to do was send those on Saint Slave's side somewhere safe.
Unfortunately, Dao Qiongchang seemed to have calculated everything long ago? When the Heavenly Secrets Dao Runes seeped into the spatial torrent and illuminated every scene within, when that cry of "Great Shift Technique" rang by their ears...
Whether it was Jinren, Aunt Xiang, or Zhu Yike, who had awakened from the lingering lightning, they all realized that things had gone terribly wrong.
"Buzz!"
The light before their eyes shifted.
Everyone—even the White Robes who had been blasted into the torrent after Kui Leihan—randomly landed amid a mountain forest.
"This is..."
Jinren's Heavenly Mechanism Puppet had already lost all ability to fight.
His remaining spiritual consciousness was also insufficient to cover the entire forest and determine where they were.
But since they had landed here due to Dao Qiongchang's Heavenly Secrets Art, this was surely no friendly place.
"Buzz!"
As he pondered, the surrounding forest—grass, trees, flowers, stones, every last bit of scenery—lit