Using a Favor to Demand Repayment

Tai He looked at the suddenly shattered formation barrier, delight flashing across his face.

"Hao Kong, let's go."

As he spoke, a Minor Teleportation Talisman suddenly appeared in his hand.

The talisman activated!

The two vanished without a trace.

The moment the Wisdom King Demon-Locking Formation broke, Xiao Chan knew he would not be able to keep Tai He and Hao Kong here today. Seeing the two disappear, he did not attempt to track them.

This place was too close to the Boundary Mountain spirit stone mine. Once Tai He and Hao Kong escaped into Boundary Mountain and relied on its mountain-protecting grand formation, neither he nor Fa Yan would have any chance of killing them.

Xiao Chan lowered his gaze toward Hui Zhen below, clearly realizing that Hui Zhen was the reason the formation had been broken.

When the Shadow Gu ambushed Hui Zhen, he had already noticed it. However, he had been inside the formation at the time, fighting Tai He and the other man, and could not spare himself to lend Hui Zhen a hand.

He had also noticed that the pill pellet which ambushed Hui Zhen a second time had likewise come from the hand of a Gu insect.

Thus, from beginning to end, he had never seen the true face of the person who had ambushed Hui Zhen.

Xiao Chan felt utterly stifled. He had planned for a long time to use Fa Yan's nirvanic rebirth to eliminate the Nine Palaces Sect's Nascent Soul Cultivators. Success had been within reach, yet all his efforts had gone down the drain.

What was more, he did not even know who had ruined his plan.

Xiao Chan's spiritual sense swept over the places where the two Gu insects had appeared. Yet the two insects had long since crawled