"It's over. The Heavenly Court got what it wanted after all!"
At this sight, the Red-Haired Ghost God and the Thousand-Armed Asura immediately lost all desire to fight on.
They had witnessed what happened to Venerable Lianwu earlier, and had little appetite for remaining locked in a stalemate with the enemy's mighty cultivators.
They would never risk their lives against the Heavenly Court's Spirit Transformation cultivators for a mere immortal root.
Thus, in the blink of an eye, they each employed an escape technique, turning into streaks of red and black light as they withdrew from the summit of Shici Mountain.
The Heavenly Court's experts naturally noticed, but merely alerted one another through voice transmissions without attempting to stop them.
Their objective had never been to deal with these mighty cultivators of the Netherworld Sect, but to obtain what the Heavenly Court wanted.
Since their opponents had sensibly withdrawn and no longer stood in their way, neither side had any reason to keep fighting.
This benefited them both.
The tree stump seemed enveloped by some mysterious power of the void and began gradually shrinking.
Venerable Xiaoyao was personally compressing it until it became the size of a root-carving ornament commonly found in a study.
As one of the Two Friends of Wandering Immortal Island, Venerable Xiaoyao specialized in the power of the Space Dao taught by the Wandering Immortal Island Secret Art. When he attained Spirit Transformation, the origin he mastered was also that of the Space Dao. Casually opening a void in his palm and turning it into a minor cave heaven to capture enemies was a skill he had long since honed to perfection.
A moment later, he used Universe in the Sleeve to tuck the shrunken stump into his robe, sealing it completely.
This act marked the