"Damn it, aside from Jiao Mu Jiao Linghu Piran, I really can't let anyone else know about this! This fellow is the Hall Master's confidant; he probably knows most of what the Hall Master knows. Besides, he isn't far from me and can arrive within the time it takes to drink a cup of tea! Forget it, him it is. The fewer people who know about something this humiliating, the better!" At this critical moment, Taishi Zhanran actually thought of Linghu Piran.
Having made up his mind, Taishi Zhanran activated the scroll, and a flying crane shot into the sky and vanished.
Who could have known that after the flying crane departed, half a day passed without it returning, like a meat bun thrown at a dog—gone without a trace.
"No way!" Taishi Zhanran, growing increasingly anxious as he waited, could not help but be startled. He thought to himself, Could it be... that Linghu is in trouble too?
Just as he was pondering this, "Boom..." A tremendous roar erupted from the distant horizon. Scarlet clouds of radiance burst forth, and the clouds above the controlling formation rolled up like waves. Through those clouds and crimson glow, Taishi Zhanran clearly saw that the Red Star that had previously hung in midair had begun moving again, like a colossal cannonball hurtling toward the pristine white Haoyue!
"Red Star Assaulting the Moon?" Disbelief appeared on Taishi Zhanran's face. "Damn it, those Daoist sect cultivators are truly formidable. They actually broke the Crimson Star Linked Formation? Then... wouldn't the exotic treasure on the Red Star have fallen into their hands? Ah, what a terrible waste!"
"Whoosh..." Just as Taishi Zhanran smacked his lips, his face full of regret as though fine cabbage had been devoured by a pig, snow-white brilliance poured down from