He Buxian originally thought that he and the Grand Elder were thinking of the same person again. He was about to remind them that their Palace Master had never been to Red Sun Immortal Realm, but the Grand Elder suddenly raised his head.
The energy contained within the fragments of the Heaven-Mending Stone does not belong to Lin Yu. In He Buxian's view, it must belong to someone else, but He Buxian does not know who that person is at present.
The Grand Elder looked at He Buxian, and He Buxian looked at the Grand Elder.
Suddenly, a strange look began to flicker in the old elder's aged eyes. He Buxian couldn't quite put his finger on what was wrong, but he just felt that this old fellow seemed to have become a different person.
Could it be that I've become younger?
He Buxian was puzzled. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that the Grand Elder's eyes usually looked old and frail, but now they were full of energy and looked quite young.
Before He Buxian could discern anything from the elder's gaze, he suddenly felt the world undergo a dramatic transformation in an instant.
The originally quaint courtyard and gray-blue floor tiles suddenly began to distort, and everything around them turned white.
The few leaves remaining on the ground also changed their appearance in this dizzying world, suddenly flying into the air and soaring straight up to the heavens, turning into goose feather snow.
In an instant, the entire world was covered by thick snow, and what appeared before He Buxian's eyes suddenly transformed into a snow-capped mountain that never blooms.
Everything around them changed, turning into the color of snow, even the once radiant elder.
He Buxian watched in disbelief as this extremely bizarre scene suddenly unfolded. The Grand Elder seemed to be petrified, frozen in place, his entire body visibly stiffening.
Everything around him seemed to stand still, and He Buxian could feel the snow pressing down on him relentlessly.
They are tiny snowflakes, but they feel as heavy as a thousand pounds when they fall.
"Uh..." He Buxian felt the pressure on him increasing, his body gradually stiffening, until only a faint trace of life force remained.
Even before this, He Buxian had emitted a cyan light, which was the light from the Hongmeng Token, but He Buxian did not notice it at the time.
If it weren't for the power of the Hongmeng Token, He Buxian would probably be as immobile as the Grand Elder of the Red Peak Staff by now.
He Buxian had become the only conscious being in this area. He could feel the energy inside his body flowing at an extremely slow speed.
Compared to the flow of spiritual energy he usually controlled using his cultivation techniques, the speed at this moment was far too slow.
This was a stark contrast to He Buxian's usual energetic demeanor, and he could feel that the flow of spiritual energy within him was gradually slowing down.
"What's going on? What's stopping my spiritual energy flow?"
"What's wrong? What's wrong with me?"
He Buxian couldn't help but ask. The environment put him under immense mental pressure, causing him to blurt it out.
Of course, it's not entirely his fault; the things happening right now are just too strange.
The change happened almost suddenly, and everything that changed in between gave him no chance to react.
He Buxian was at a loss. It seemed as if only she and the Grand Elder remained in the world, and now the Grand Elder had become like a stone statue, unable to answer her questions.
Then, a chaotic force appeared.
"It's finally here!" He Buxian held his breath and tried to fight against the power of chaos, but found that after his spiritual energy flow slowed down, he was no match for this power.
In the blink of an eye, the chaotic power flowed into his heart and lungs through his seven orifices. While He Buxian was busy using the last of his spiritual power to fight against this power, a slight cracking sound suddenly came from not far away.
"Crack... Bang..."
He Buxian turned his eyes away in confusion, and then he saw a scene he would never forget.
The elder, who had already turned into a stone statue, exploded just like that, his body turning into fine powder, as if nothing was left behind.
That flesh and blood body was torn to pieces, scattered on the ground like stones, and submerged in the snow.
There wasn't even a trace of flesh or blood; it looked extremely eerie.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye. He Buxian had no idea what had happened, nor did he know the reason why.
Just then, the scene before him suddenly changed dramatically. He Buxian realized that it was actually the disciples of the Red Peak Gang who had arrived.
The moment the Red Peak Gang disciples arrived, the silent pressure vanished, and He Buxian suddenly regained his ability to move.
The chaotic energy that had just invaded her body actually flew out from her seven orifices again, but apart from He Buxian himself, no one could detect this chaotic energy.
For the disciples who rushed in, all that appeared before them was the already deceased Grand Elder and He Buxian, who stood there dumbfounded.
He Buxian was an old acquaintance of the Red Peak Gang disciples. He used to come to the Grand Elder's place often a while ago, but he hasn't been coming as often lately.
The disciples looked down at the Grand Elder, then at the bewildered He Buxian, and exclaimed incredulously, "It was you who killed the Grand Elder!"
"You wicked scoundrel! The Grand Elder treated you with kindness, yet you committed such a heinous act against him!"
"What have we, the Red Peak Gang, ever done to wrong you that you would so cruelly kill the Grand Elder!"
"If we let you leave here alive today, then we will truly be unfilial disciples!"
"No matter what, you must pay for the Grand Elder's life!"
The Hongfeng Gang members were furious and glared angrily at He Buxian.
Completely bewildered by the barrage of insults, He Buxian finally managed to find his voice. "Which of you saw me kill the Grand Elder?"
"The Grand Elder treats me well, don't I know that? Why do I need people like you to remind me?"
"To say I killed the Grand Elder is utterly slanderous! I didn't even know what happened!" He Buxian was utterly speechless, his eyes gradually turning bloodshot.
The Grand Elder had just died right before his eyes; how could he possibly feel good about it?
Do you think we're all fools who would believe your nonsense?!