Luo Yi watched the two leave, then slowly turned toward the Demon Abomination Race members standing before him, their faces pale with fear and their bodies trembling.
"All right, everyone. There's no need to worry. Once we return to the sect, I'll have someone arrange a place for you to stay."
After offering them a few words of reassurance, he gathered Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy at his fingertips and opened the Tianyan Sect's outer Defensive Array.
As the Light Barrier slowly vanished, the scene inside came into view.
The trip to Demon Calamity Island had taken roughly a month.
Compared to when he had last left, the Tianyan Sect's grounds had changed considerably.
Voices rang out everywhere. The sect brimmed with vitality, like the Great Sun rising in the east.
"Let's go!"
Luo Yi was pleased with how Chen Tai'an and the others had managed the sect in his absence. Smiling and nodding, he led the Demon Abomination Race members inside.
But they had barely taken a few steps.
Wei Beichen sensed more than a dozen Void Refinement auras suddenly appear within the sect, along with the aura of a White Jade Dao incarnation.
The Practice Array Disc fell from his hand. He abandoned his Array research, spun around in shock, and rushed out of the Array Hall.
"What's going on? Are we under attack?!"
With Sect Master Luo away, his first instinct was to head for the Ancestral Shrine deep within the Tianyan Sect and ask the Stone Man there to intervene.
But just as he was about to move, a familiar voice reached his ears.
"All right, don't make such a fuss. Those people will be members of the Tianyan Sect from now on, too."
Wei Beichen looked toward the voice and immediately saw the young man's