Elsewhere!
Just as that long-bearded Old Daoist activated the [Lesser Realm-Breaking Talisman], at the instant its vast fluctuations spread outward...
Billions of miles away!
At this moment, a group of cultivators emerged from a ruined grand hall with dejected expressions, secretly communicating with one another through voice transmission.
"Who would have thought that ancient hall looked intact and was even protected by a remnant formation! Yet there wasn't a single treasure inside."
"Fellow Daoist, that's not quite right!"
"You opened the jade bottles on those shelves earlier, didn't you? Though all that remains now is a pile of medicinal dregs, judging from those remnants, the Spirit Pills they once contained were anything but ordinary! At the very least, they started at fourth-grade Spirit Pills!"
"So what? They still couldn't withstand the erosion of time."
"That's true enough!"
"But how is Fellow Daoist Ji supposed to explain this to Senior...?"
At this point, the cultivators cautiously glanced from the corners of their eyes toward the hunched old crone.
From behind, she bore some resemblance to Venerable Zongbao.
And that was indeed the case!
That hunched old crone was precisely one of Venerable Zongbao's incarnations.
After sweeping his gaze over them, Ji Longzi discreetly withdrew his eyes and cautiously replied through voice transmission, "Though it was this Lord who summoned Master's incarnation, do not forget that all of you were the ones who discovered this hall."
"Only afterward did you contact this Lord!"
"This Lord had never intended to invite Master's incarnation to descend, but you kept insisting that there had to be treasures within this hall... So this cannot be blamed on this Lord, can it?"
"Hehe! Didn't we have no other choice?"
"Exactly!"
"Who could have imagined that the remnant formation's defenses would be so formidable? Even when we joined