The uninformed Old Ancestor had also been casually abducted by Yang Tianni and Bukui Daoist.
At the thought of this, Sect Master Heaven-Imprisoning Seal and the Elders all panicked, at a complete loss for what to do.
The treasures in their home had been ransacked, and the Old Ancestor—the pillar that held the sea steady—was of unknown fate, dead or alive.
This sudden calamity was like a bolt of heavenly lightning, leaving them all struck dumb.
"Re... report!"
Just as the few of them wore faces of despair, a disciple came rolling and crawling into the main hall.
Sect Master Heaven-Imprisoning Seal, slumped in his seat at the head of the hall, jolted in fright. "What is it? Have those two scourges come back?"
The reporting disciple hurriedly shook his head. "No, Sect Master. It's the Second Elder, the Third Elder, and the others—they've returned!"
Heaven-Imprisoning Seal could hardly believe it. "What? They all returned?"
The disciple nodded. "Yes. All Twelve Elders have returned safely and unharmed."
"They're back, so why haven't they come to the hall? Hurry and summon them!" a Core Elder urged from below.
"Yes!"
The disciple hurriedly left the main hall.
Before long, the Twelve Elders entered the hall with stunned expressions.
"Wait, this really is our Heaven-Imprisoning Divine Dynasty?"
The moment the Twelve Elders entered the battered, ruined hall and spotted the Sect Master and several other Elders, they all froze.
Earlier, Yang Tianni had not made things difficult for them, so they had fled desperately toward the Primordial Realm.
But when they reached Exile Continent, they found that they could no longer locate their own sect.
The twelve people flew back and forth several times before finally stopping above a stretch of ruins.
Looking down at that scorched, desolate land, they found it difficult