After killing the bandits, Huo Hai slowly exhaled. With his current strength, almost no one below the Spirit Emperor Realm could match him. He quickly gathered the belongings from their bodies, then left at once.
As for the Spirit Formation barrier that had trapped him, with no one controlling it, Huo Hai shattered it completely after only a dozen or so attacks. He straightened himself up and hurried away, soon disappearing from the area.
Huo Hai was not the first to leave. Ever since Spirit Emperor experts had appeared, people had been steadily moving away from the area, so his departure did not seem particularly conspicuous. In the air, the Celestial Star Sect's grand elder wanted to stop him, but thinking of the Moonlight Sect's third elder beside him, he could only reluctantly abandon the idea. He could not make his intentions too obvious. It would be troublesome if someone noticed something amiss.
Huo Hai possessed Star Shift, Dipper Swap, one of the Ancient Celestial Star Sect's secret arts that had guarded its legacy. If they could obtain the Star-Shifting Dipper-Swapping Movement, their sect's strength would rise dramatically. Even the grand elder himself would improve by a considerable margin.
The grand elder dared not reveal too much and could only seek Huo Hai out later. "A peak Spirit Emperor, Star Shift, Dipper Swap, and purple sword qi with tremendous power. There isn't much information, but it should be enough to narrow things down."
The grand elder had already decided to issue orders immediately upon his return, sending people everywhere to search for this man. Anyone who matched those characteristics was to be approached at once. Having finally found someone who possessed the Ancient Celestial Star Sect's inheritance-and a top-tier inheritance at that-how could the Celestial Star Sect let him slip