"Damn it, aside from Jiao Mu Jiao Linghu Piran, I really can't let anyone else know about this! That fellow is the Hall Master's trusted confidant. Most things the Hall Master knows, he likely knows as well. Besides, he isn't far from me—he can get here in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea! Forget it, him it is. The fewer people who know about something this embarrassing, 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 air before vanishing from sight.
Who would have thought that after the flying crane departed, half a day passed without it returning, as though a meat bun had been thrown to a dog.
"No way!" Taishi Zhanran, growing anxious from the wait, could not help but be startled. He thought to himself, Could it be... Linghu is in trouble too?
Just as he was thinking, boom... A tremendous roar sounded from the distant horizon. Scarlet clouds of light burst forth, and the clouds above the formation rolled like waves. Through the clouds and rosy glow, Taishi Zhanran clearly saw that the Crimson Star, which had previously hung motionless in midair, was moving again. Like a massive cannonball, it shot toward the distant, pristine Haoyue Moon!
"Crimson Star Engulfs the Moon?" Disbelief appeared on Taishi Zhanran's face. "Damn it, those Daoist sect cultivators really are formidable. They actually broke the Crimson Star Chain Formation? Then... wouldn't the strange treasure atop the Crimson Star have fallen into their hands? Ah, what a terrible waste!"
Whoosh... Just as Taishi Zhanran smacked his lips, wearing the mournful look of someone watching fine cabbage get chewed by pigs, snow-white radiance poured down from the