"What a fine monk! When it matters most, he's no one to rely on! The moment he sees danger, he flees without even a warning! He doesn't care a whit for the patch of Peach Paradise we worked so hard to open!"
Consort De's voice changed outright, her pitch rising sharply. Only then did she realize Brahma Tathagata had already fled, and she gritted her teeth in secret.
Despite her words, the Sage Consort did not linger. Her Mind Thought dispersed, and her projected Incarnation began to dissolve. The thought and will she had sent here were about to return.
The others were just as quick to act—
The towering figure formed a Hand Seal. The dazzling colors that had covered his body vanished, replaced by streams of Qi and Blood that surged from 108 points across him. They converged, ready to break through space and depart!
The figure glimmering with Starlight hesitated briefly, then sighed and pointed at his head. The specks of Starlight scattered across his body gathered above it and formed a star. Its radiance was blinding, its edge sharp and unyielding. It tore his projection apart!
Then the star trembled, about to break through space as well!
The stooped figure, by contrast, swept a hand out and tore away the golden light draped over him. He straightened his back, revealing a body just as tall and the face of a ruddy elder. Then he flickered, turning into a cloud of mist that was about to disperse.
"Trying to leave?"
In the void, Chen Cuo's will had already sensed the changes around the Stone Pavilion and seen the thoughts racing away. With a turn of his mind, the rolling River of Time took shape around them. A Violet Star burst from it, circled by two Divine Dragons!