But at that moment, the Sect Master and elders in the distance had their spiritual senses locked firmly onto her. She could not move at all.
The moment she moved, she would expose Chun Xiaobai.
When that happened, even if he managed to survive this tribulation, he would hardly escape the hungry, watchful eyes outside the sect. In the end, he would be snuffed out in his cradle.
Now she was caught between a rock and a hard place!
Meanwhile, Chun Xiaobai followed the Disciplinary Elders and retreated in one go to a hill three hundred li outside the sect gates.
The hill was already a sea of people, with no fewer than tens of thousands of Outer Sect disciples packed into a dark mass.
He stood among the crowd, craning his neck along with everyone else to look toward Green Bamboo Peak.
Gradually, however, everyone began to sense that something was wrong.
To their horror, they discovered that the terrifying tribulation clouds blanketing a hundred li of sky had actually... actually drifted leisurely right over their heads!
Moreover, the lightning churning within those clouds had grown from bucket-thick bolts into purplish-black lightning pythons as thick as doorframes, radiating a destructive aura that made their very souls tremble!
"Wh... wh-what... what's going on?"
On the hill, the tens of thousands of disciples went deathly pale. Utterly dumbfounded, they stared blankly at the endlessly churning tribulation clouds overhead, which radiated boundless destruction.
They were not the only ones stunned. Even the experienced Manager Elders wore vacant expressions, completely unable to make sense of the situation.
More... more importantly, the tribulation clouds that had originally covered a hundred li were now expanding at a rate visible to the naked eye!
At the same time.
Several hundred li from the Outer