The Follow-Up Move

Aftermath

In a stretch of void.

The Great Void shimmered hazily, transforming into an arc of light that revealed a passageway.

Faint phantoms of pavilions, towers, jade halls, and palace chambers flickered beyond the passage, vanishing in an instant—it was clearly a secret realm!

At that moment, two figures hurriedly fled from the passage, as though afraid the spatial passage would collapse the next instant and their bodies would be destroyed within a void storm.

Both cultivators were at the Nascent Soul realm. One had strangely ancient features and limped on one foot. He was none other than the Lame Immortal.

The other was a female cultivator in a green robe with bright-red cuffs. She was Zhan Hongxiu!

Zhan Hongxiu looked at the secret realm passage closing behind them and broke into a smile. "I did not deceive you, did I, Fellow Daoist? What do you think of that portion of Xuanli Origin Crystal?"

"Not bad, not bad. Even this old man never expected that Fellow Daoist would possess a secret technique for refining this crystal..." The Lame Immortal beamed. "When the secret realm opens again, there will be plenty of room for us to cooperate..."

He had met Zhan Hongxiu during the assault on Talisman Sword Island, and he had recognized this female cultivator as the notorious wanted criminal of the Eastern Sea Cultivation World.

But so what?

The major powers that had once sought Zhan Hongxiu's capture had either declined or been destroyed by now.

And Zhan Hongxiu herself had successfully formed her Nascent Soul!

Thus, even when she acted in her true appearance, she encountered no trouble.

In truth, under the former rules of the Eastern Sea Cultivation World, no matter what crimes a Core Formation cultivator had committed to become wanted, the wanted notice would be