Xingjue Zi and Xingchen Zi

Over twenty days ago, Tianjizi had fainted after calculating that the Book of Three Death Arrows had produced the opposite effect.

Yet through sheer force of will, Tianjizi had forcibly awakened from his coma and performed another divination.

This time, Tianjizi had not used the Mystic Turtle Spirit Armor, but instead a secret art—the Heaven and Earth Reversal Method—using events that had already been determined to seek a way to break the deadlock.

After channeling the secret art for two hours, Tianjizi had ultimately found the key to resolving the calamity: one person—Xingjue Zi.

However, after casting the secret art, Tianjizi had been too exhausted to continue. Without explaining much, he had passed the position of sect master to Xingjue Zi before fainting.

This coma had already injured Tianjizi's Primordial Spirit. By his estimation, it would take at least a year before he could possibly awaken.

By the time he woke, whether the Heavenly Secrets Sect had weathered this calamity or not, the matter should already have settled into dust.

But Tianjizi had never imagined that he would awaken after merely twenty-some days.

Shaking his head, Tianjizi staggered up from the stone bed in the secret chamber, then directly sent the image of the little dwarf to Xingjue Zi. "Someone has already entered the illusion array of the Floating Immortal Realm. Go take a look."

Though he wanted to teach this useless disciple a lesson, this was a critical moment with the dwarves' arrival at hand. Tianjizi did not wish to waste time saying anything more to Xingjue Zi.

However, Tianjizi soon noticed that Xingjue Zi's vital energy and blood were depleted. He should have possessed peak Tribulation Transcendence strength, having passed two heavenly tribulations and needing only one more to become a Mahayana cultivator, yet he was now merely