"What... is going on..." Qin Lang and the others stared blankly at the sky, their minds utterly empty.
"I don't know either." Lin Chuan shook his head, his expression grave.
There really was an even deeper force behind Peony Fangshi. Lin Chuan simply had not expected the one who stepped in to save him to be that man in white from the Immortal Sealing Platform.
Buzz...
Terrifying ripples spread outward. As the man in white and the one beneath the Beauty Tomb vanished, the frozen space-time enveloping the entire Imperial Capital finally returned to normal.
"Huh? Where did they go?"
"Where's Peony Fangshi? How did he disappear?"
"What just happened?"
To the cultivators who had been closely watching the battle, it merely felt as though their vision had blurred for an instant. Then Peony Fangshi was gone, while Lin Chuan had already withdrawn the power of the three Primordial Scriptures and descended into the Imperial Capital. It was as though someone had secretly stolen a stretch of time from them.
Mu Yunshu and the other Tribulation Transcendence cultivators looked even graver. They warily scanned their surroundings, seemingly afraid that Peony Fangshi might suddenly emerge from somewhere and attack them.
Within the Imperial Capital, with Peony Fangshi no longer assisting them, the demonic beasts that had been forcibly summoned immediately returned to normal and ceased their attacks. Some of the more intelligent beasts had already begun communicating with the cultivators of the major sects, no longer willing to take part in the imperial family's conflict.
At the same time, with Peony Fangshi, the State Preceptor, gone, the imperial family had completely lost the will to resist. Almost the instant they realized that Peony Fangshi had vanished, the entire battlefield collapsed like a landslide. Aside from a portion of the remaining