Star Seer said nothing. He even gave a rather "gentle" chuckle.
Yet that very gentleness made the same thought rise in the minds of every Heavenly Secrets Pavilion disciple present.
We're done for.
Everyone went deathly pale at the same instant. Some had even begun sneaking sidelong glances toward the Yun Clan and the North Pole Ice God Palace, frantically calculating whether it was still possible to switch sides.
"Mmph." Elder Hu, who had previously proclaimed himself pavilion master, looked up blankly. Seeing Star Seer before him, he became rather excited. The Mind-Clearing Talisman over his mouth had not yet been removed. He seemed to want to say something, muffled sounds emerging from his throat.
Fu Sanyuan acted with lightning-fast reflexes, moving almost the instant Elder Hu raised his head. Three Mind-Clearing Talismans flashed with spiritual light and plastered themselves precisely over Elder Hu's mouth, layered so tightly that not a single gap remained.
Please, stop yapping! This was not one person's heartfelt plea. It was the shared plea of everyone in the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion at that moment.
If he "yapped" out some earth-shattering nonsense in front of the Star Lord... no one dared imagine what would follow.
Star Seer still did not speak. His white-veiled face revealed neither joy nor anger, and the fingers forming his hand seal turned slightly.
The vast power of the Celestial Stars thundered down. The brilliant starlight of the Nine Heavens Galaxy flowed past every Heavenly Secrets Pavilion elder. The blood-red Demonic Runes crawling over their bodies seemed to have some aspect of their karmic cognition altered the instant they touched that stellar power. The very root of their "existence" was erased, and they rapidly dissolved and faded.
Starlight fell upon Fu Sanyuan. He felt a cool touch at the center of his