Within an ordinary courtyard in Immortal Inquiry City, the people from Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land had long since stopped watching Qin Huaian's direction. They had also sealed the formations around the building.
In Immortal Inquiry City, every courtyard generally had its own independent defensive formation. Once a formation was sealed, people generally would not use their divine sense to spy within.
"Elder Sun, Qin Huaian shows no sign whatsoever of damaged Immortal Essence Power. It seems that brat did not use that powerful divine ability of his to break the formation. What do we do now?" a cultivator asked.
"Send this news back to the Violet Thorn Mountains first," Elder Sun instructed.
He then continued, "We leave Immortal Inquiry City immediately. Don't let Qin Huaian discover us."
This time, they moved with great speed. Not a single person objected to Elder Sun's decision.
One person swiftly activated a voice-transmission formation. After sending the news from here to the branch in the Violet Thorn Mountains, their group entered a teleportation formation within the building and teleported directly out of Immortal Inquiry City.
This inconspicuous courtyard was a secret teleportation point of Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land. It had been established from the outset to ensure that if anything unusual happened at their base, they could enter Immortal Inquiry City through this secret-realm teleportation point—or leave from Immortal Inquiry City.
Now, this teleportation point finally came into use.
A flash of light passed over the teleportation platform, and the group vanished.
Above the ruins of Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land's base, most cultivators did not dare approach rashly, but several people still flew toward Qin Huaian.
"Haha, congratulations, Brother Qin, on breaking free of the formation! Who would have thought Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land would be so sinister, so shameless as to lure