The Phantom Vine King standing before the gathered inheritors was, of course, the Storm Ruins Spirit Clone in disguise.
Even though he possessed a high-grade Soul-type Supreme Treasure, Lin Yuan didn't want to expose his true self to danger. So he decided to use the Storm Ruins Spirit Clone as bait to draw out the assassins.
Deliberately revealing that he possessed a Soulless Clone was also a form of deterrence, meant to make anyone targeting him think twice.
Lin Yuan didn't want to be attacked every time he came to Bauhinia Island.
Just then, a powerful pressure descended, enveloping all of Bauhinia Island.
A Special Lifeform tens of thousands of kilometers tall, resembling an elk, appeared. Its head emerged from the sky and gazed down below.
At once, the tens of millions of onlooking inheritors descended to the ground and bowed respectfully. "Greetings, Island Master!"
The newcomer was none other than the Island Master of Bauhinia Island, Wood Guardian Beast God.
"Hmph!"
"A Top Universe Overlord actually came to assassinate Phantom Vine King—and did so on Bauhinia Island, the sacred ground of the Ancestral God Sect! They openly defied the orders of our sect. What incredible audacity!" Wood Guardian Beast God, who had always been mild-mannered, now spoke with a hint of anger.
"Venerable Thunder Eye, Venerable Golden Skeleton, and the other four inheritors have, effective immediately, lost the right to enter the Ancestral God Secret Region. They will also face the endless pursuit of our Ancestral God Sect!"
The tens of millions of inheritors below were shocked.
"Whoosh!"
A wave of divine power swept up the several treasures scattered on the ground below and shot them into the sky. Venerable Thunder Eye's Soul-type Supreme Treasure was among them.
It seemed these treasures now belonged to the Ancestral God Sect.