Kong Deming was absent.
Jing Hongchen collapsed when he learned the news.
He mobilized Mingde Hall's forces and frantically suppressed Du Busi, delaying Du Busi's retreat.
The losses were immense.
All he wanted was to hold on until Kong Deming arrived and capture that brute who had attacked Mingde Hall.
Yet Kong Deming was not in Ming Capital.
Watching Du Busi continue to break through, Jing Hongchen lost all his strength and options.
The artillery bombardment gradually eased.
Sensing the reduced firepower, Du Busi immediately crushed a Storage Soul Tool. An Aperture formed and teleported him to Elder Qilin's side.
Only five people had accompanied him on this trip.
They had all gathered here now.
Du Busi unleashed the power of his Gold-Grade Second Awakening, smashed through Mingde Hall's blockade with one punch, and left with the five of them.
Su Fan looked toward Ming Capital.
He seemed to see flames soaring into the sky.
Even from several hundred kilometers away, he seemed able to feel the earth-shaking roars.
After waiting for a long while, he finally sensed movement from the Aperture.
"Mingde Hall really does have a spatial blockade, but it still can't withstand the sect master's brutal bombardment."
Once the blockade was broken, the Aperture Su Fan had left behind could teleport again.
The group had already teleported to the Black Market.
Through the Aperture, Su Fan vaguely sensed some information from distant Ming Capital.
Whether teleporting dead objects, living people, strong or weak individuals, Aperture Teleportation consumed varying amounts of Soul Power.
The least-consuming method was naturally vibration.
One Aperture vibrated, transmitting information to nearby Apertures.
This expenditure could cross vast distances.
Using this, Su Fan could sense how distant Apertures were being used.
Through those vibrations, he seemed to sense the blazing flames soaring into