Heavenly Net Mountains.
The battle between the Three Great Sects and Subduing Dragon Temple ended ahead of schedule.
Chen Xuan had wiped out several hundred Grandmasters alone. If he were allowed to return to the disciple zone, the more than ten thousand Zhuqi Realm disciples there would also be slaughtered to the last.
Therefore, Subduing Dragon Temple requested an early end to the battle, and Gongsun Wuji sought the opinion of Guiyuan Sect's Supreme Elder, Zhong Yuan.
Zhong Yuan did not make things difficult for Subduing Dragon Temple either. Once they handed over all token credentials for entering the secret realm, he agreed to end the battle.
This would also allow Chen Xuan to head to the Martial Alliance sooner and prevent any accidents.
Although Martial Alliance envoy Gongsun Wuji had already warned Subduing Dragon Temple not to make a move against Chen Xuan before the Hidden Dragon Ranking selection ended, they still had to guard against the temple jumping over the wall in desperation.
Only once he reached the Martial Alliance would he be truly safe.
More than ten thousand Subduing Dragon Temple disciples withdrew from the battlefield and returned to camp. The disciples there had been waiting in restless anxiety, with no idea what had happened.
Their information still stopped at the point where Dao Child Jiang Daoxuan had emerged from seclusion, descended upon the battlefield, and directly entered the Grandmaster zone. Yet after returning to camp, the camp's Grandmasters and several Grandmaster elders all wore terrifyingly grim expressions.
An indescribable oppression hung in the air.
"The battle ended early. The formations in both the disciple zone and Grandmaster zone have been withdrawn. Why hasn't a single Dao Child or Grandmaster returned?"
"Who knows what happened?"
"Something must have delayed them. Dao Child condensed an Immortal Core and