True Solution to Cicada Shedding, the Cicada Cast Off Its Shell, Leaving Behind a Startled Legacy

Bang! Dao Xuanji shot to her feet.

The golden dragon throne beneath her exploded into fragments on the spot.

Jiang Nayi's mind went blank as well. He did not know whether the words "Heavenly Mechanism Puppet" had frightened him, or the explosion beside him had startled him.

His legs gave out, and he collapsed to the floor.

"This is only a preliminary appraisal!" Seeing this, Xi hurriedly added:

"There are no longer any Heavenly Secrets Practitioners on the Holy Mountain..."

"Er, no, there are no high-level Heavenly Secrets Practitioners left!"

"So, the ones we found were... maintenance workers maintaining the Holy Mountain's grand formation... who conducted the appraisal..."

Under Hall Master Xuanji's murderous gaze, Xi's voice grew softer and softer.

I'm just as scared, all right?! Xi roared wildly in his heart.

After ascending the Holy Mountain and learning this information, Xi had reacted much like Jiang Nayi. He had been frightened into collapsing within the Aberrant Division.

Leave the others aside for now...

Every member of the Dao Department had died violently!

And every one of them was suspected to be a Heavenly Mechanism Puppet! At the time, Xi had found the intelligence far too absurd. He had simply submitted it first, unwilling to think too deeply about it himself.

But looking at Hall Master Xuanji's reaction now, combined with his previous conjectures, perhaps the absurd one was himself? I'm too weak to comprehend the Dao Hall Master's realm! Xi was on the verge of breaking down, forced to acknowledge this fact:

If every member of the Dao Department had been a fake, then all those people he had encountered during his work—those people of flesh and blood, rich in emotion, who had even formed families and borne children...

Could all have been fake!

They could all have been