Meanwhile, during Hai Bodong's breakthrough to Battle Venerable...
The personnel dispatched by Starfall Pavilion had also arrived. This time, Yao Lao had spared no expense.
He had sent twenty high-star Battle Venerable experts to serve as escorts.
Their sole task was to bring the Xiao Household's members safely back to Starfall Pavilion.
Still, a lineup like this was nothing unusual for Starfall Pavilion as it stood now.
After all, Starfall Pavilion now had three Dou Sheng Experts presiding over it.
It also boasted Yao Lao, formerly the Battle Qi Continent's foremost alchemist, and Yao Xuan, its youngest Ninth-Rank Alchemist.
Starfall Pavilion's reputation had soared. Not only had it attracted numerous Battle Venerable experts, but quite a few Half-Saint Realm experts had chosen to join as well.
Under the protection of such an escort, the Xiao Household's members arrived at Starfall Pavilion safe and sound.
Before their arrival, Yao Xuan had returned to Starfall Pavilion ahead of them.
Upon returning, Yao Xuan immediately released the Great Heaven Venerable's sealed soul from his Storage Ring.
The moment his soul was released, the Great Heaven Venerable began begging for mercy:
"Yao Xuan..."
"Please, let me go! As long as you spare my life!"
"From now on, I'll obey only your commands!"
Yao Xuan gave no answer. He merely raised his hand and rested it against the brow of the Great Heaven Venerable's soul.
He immediately used the Soul Search Technique, probing the Great Heaven Venerable's soul to uncover the locations of the Soul Hall's Heavenly Dipper Hall branches and the number of their guards.
Yao Xuan remembered that the Soul Hall had spent all these years collecting souls.
After purification, those souls were condensed into soul origin and stored within the Heavenly Dipper Hall's Heaven, Earth, and Human Halls.
Only once enough had