Johnny Is a Man of Principles

"How could this be? Wasn't he sealed by Junior Brother?" Xingjue Zi murmured in the secret realm.

First came a blinding flash, then shockwaves that set the trees of the secret realm swaying. After that, an incomparably massive roar drowned out his murmur.

Unlike Xingjue Zi, Tianjizi seemed to have anticipated this situation long ago. After the thunderous blast, he merely shook his head slightly. "If the Heavenly Secrets Sect's calamity could be resolved with nothing more than a Ten Absolute Seal, then it would not amount to much of a calamity."

A look of realization appeared on Xingjue Zi's face. He suddenly remembered that, after Junior Brother had used the Ten Absolutes technique to seal that dwarf yesterday, Master had gradually transferred the sect's disciples away from the mountain-protecting formation.

Looking back now, Master seemed to have foreseen this outcome long ago.

Tianjizi rose from his healing meditation and looked up at the sky. He said to Xingjue Zi, "The celestial signs... changed long ago."

Xingjue Zi did not immediately answer Tianjizi. He looked toward the sky with him—ever since more than a month ago, the celestial signs had become utterly chaotic.

Today, Xingjue Zi seemed to have glimpsed something, but in the next instant, the celestial sign he had just perceived vanished without a trace.

Xingjue Zi did not watch for long before his gaze unconsciously drifted toward the flames of the mountain-protecting formation in the distance.

The next moment, Xingjue Zi abruptly vanished from where he stood, transforming into a blood-red rainbow that shot outward. The blood-red rainbow was incomparably swift, catching up to that blue starlight in the blink of an eye.

Then the starlight disappeared. Only a blood-red rainbow returned along its original path, bringing back Xingchen Zi, whose face was utterly vacant and despondent.