Inside the Main Hall at the rear of the Starfall Pavilion.
Xiao Fan, Xiao Yan, Heavenly Fire Venerable, Iron Sword Venerable, and the others had already taken their seats.
Venerable Feng still had to settle the experts gathered out front and had not yet freed himself from those duties, so he was absent.
Everyone seated there belonged to the Starfall Pavilion. Heavenly Fire Venerable had followed Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan all the way from Jia Nan Academy to the Central Plains, while Iron Sword Venerable shared a bond forged through life and death with Yao Lao and Venerable Feng. Naturally, Xiao Fan trusted them both.
He therefore concealed nothing and told the two of them that the Hall of Souls' experts had set out.
Heavenly Fire Venerable's and Iron Sword Venerable's expressions darkened at Xiao Fan's words.
They exchanged a glance, each seeing the gravity in the other's eyes.
Although Heavenly Fire Venerable had awakened in the Magma World, his last trip to the Dou Saint Ruins had taught him how terrifying the Hall of Souls was. As a Dou Zun expert who had long been renowned in the Central Plains, Iron Sword Venerable naturally understood just how fearsome that faction was.
Otherwise, with his fiery temper, he would have charged straight into the Hall of Souls with sword in hand when Yao Chen first disappeared.
Now, hearing that so many Hall of Souls experts were marching together toward the Starfall Pavilion, both men knew that the pavilion's greatest crisis had finally arrived.
Yet Yao Chen was still in seclusion, attempting to break through to the Dou Sheng realm, and no one in the entire Starfall Pavilion could match the Third Heavenly Venerate's Half-Saint strength.
If they could not find a way to withstand the Third Heavenly Venerate, he