With the teleportation point at its center, a cloud of rubble and dirt flew everywhere, thick dust obscuring the sky and the sun. As the dust gradually cleared, a crater several feet deep and over ten feet in diameter appeared before their eyes. Broken bricks and tiles littered the ground.
"What a cunning girl." Looking at the deep pit in front of him, Du Tiancheng stomped his feet and said with a long sigh.
"Senior, let's quickly set up a formation to catch up." Guan Xiu Jin didn't think too much about it and said to Du Tiancheng urgently.
"I'm afraid it's too late." Du Tiancheng said with a depressed look on his face.
"Why?" Guan Xiujing and others were stunned and looked at him in confusion.
"This teleportation point has existed since ancient times, and it has a history of millions of years. It has experienced storms and turmoil, but it has not been damaged. Do you know why? It is because this teleportation point itself is a formation, and it is extremely sophisticated. It can gather the power of heaven and earth to repair itself. Mu Hanyan just set up a self-destructing formation. Although it is not enough to destroy the teleportation point, it can disrupt the power of heaven and earth and make it unable to repair itself. At least in the short term, this teleportation point can no longer be used." Du Tiancheng explained.
At this point, he actually began to admire Mu Hanyan. If it were anyone else, in that life-or-death situation, they would have definitely put all their efforts into setting up the teleportation array to escape. However, she remained calm and composed, even while setting up the teleportation array, she also laid out a self-destructing formation, which showed how meticulous and calm she was.
"Ah!" After hearing his explanation, Guan Xiujing and others exclaimed, and then their expressions became gloomy and confused.
Despite such meticulous preparations, with both Guan and Liu families sending out their experts, Mu Hanyan still managed to escape. What should they do next?
"What's wrong? We just want to let them escape for the time being. There's nothing to worry about. Rebellion against the emperor is intolerable to heaven and earth. Do they really think they can escape to the ends of the earth? Gather your men now and follow me to chase them later. We will surely catch them all in one fell swoop." Du Tiancheng said.
Guan Xiujin and the others gave a wry smile but remained silent. If they could attack openly, with the tens of thousands of priests in the Temple of Life, Mu Hanyan, no matter how powerful she was, would never escape. The problem was, their actions themselves violated the temple's laws, so how could they dare to recruit more men?
"What's going on?" Du Tiancheng asked curiously when he saw that they were all speechless.
Guan Xiu Jin still didn't answer. He had already started thinking about how to cover up what happened today and how to get rid of this old man.
"Chief Priest Guan, do you have something to hide? I came here in a hurry and haven't told you in detail. My current identity is a guest of the Dou family and a nominal disciple of Lord Dou Nanshan. Qingyun should call me senior brother. This time I came to the Temple of Life, one is to travel, and the other is that I was ordered by my master to come to visit Qingyun and supervise his cultivation." Du Tiancheng is also an old and shrewd man. Seeing that Guan Xiujin was slow to speak, he guessed that there was something else behind today's incident, so he said to Guan Xiujin.
"So that's how it is!" Guan Xiu Jin was overjoyed when he heard that.
You have to know that the deeper the roots of a priest family, the more important the concept of family status is. Guan Qingyun became Dou Nanshan's disciple, which means he is half a member of the Dou family, and the same goes for Du Tiancheng.
Although conflicts of interest are inevitable within these ancient families, and it is not uncommon for brothers to kill each other for power, when facing external enemies, they are united in fighting against the enemy, helping only their relatives and not those who are not their friends. It is precisely for this reason that the family has been able to survive hundreds of thousands or even millions of years of ups and downs and continue to be passed down to this day.
Since Du Tiancheng and Guan Qingyun are brothers in the same school and are both half-members of the Dou family, how could they possibly turn their elbows outward?
"Senior Du, this is what happened. A few days ago, my Life Temple sent people to the Black Wood Prison for the hunting trial. The leader was the right priest, Lord Zhao Xinghong, and Mu Hanyan was also among them. Lord Zhao and Mu Hanyan had some past grudges, and some disputes arose in the Black Wood Prison..." Guan Xiu Jin no longer had any scruples and recounted in detail the whole process from the grudge between Zhao Xinghong and Mu Hanyan to today when he and the Liu family joined forces to kill Mu Hanyan.
Of course, there was no lack of dirty water on Mu Hanyan in their words, calling her despicable, shameless, insidious, vicious, narrow-minded and mean-spirited. In short, all the slanderous words that could be thought of were thrown at Mu Hanyan without hesitation.
According to him, after Mu Hanyan plotted against Zhao Xinghong with despicable means, she stole the five-colored soul bead from him. When they found out the truth, she refused to return it because there was no evidence. She also set up a trick to get a few heavy penalties from them. In the end, she destroyed his Guan family's ancestral magic sword and seized the position of right priest.
Today, he joined forces with the Liu family to clean up the mess and reclaim these five-colored soul beads, as well as the Liu family's sacred artifacts that Mu Hanyan had previously stolen using the same despicable means. However, he hadn't expected that Jiang Ruchu, Kong Renhe, and the others, blinded by greed, would be bribed by Mu Hanyan, catching them off guard.
In detail, there are actually many things in his words that do not stand up to scrutiny. Even if every word he said was true, it is still a violation of the temple laws for him to brazenly gather people and attack the chief priest of a temple, who is also the right priest of a higher temple, without any real evidence.
However, Du Tiancheng obviously hadn't given it much thought. Upon hearing this, he flew into a rage and said, "Such a despicable villain is actually able to hold such a high position! And Jiang Ruchu and others, as high priests of a temple, don't even have the ability to distinguish right from wrong. They actually assisted the evil for a little bit of profit and colluded with her! This is a disgrace to my temple and a disgrace to all my priests!"
Guan Xiujin and the others breathed a sigh of relief. As they had suspected, these people from top priest families only cared about their relatives and not others, so why would they care about the laws of the temple? And luckily Du Tiancheng was a muddleheaded person, otherwise, it would not be so easy to get away with it if it were someone else.
"The monk can run away, but the temple cannot. Since she is the chief priest of Huayu Temple, she will most likely return to Huayu City. Chief Priest Guan, you guys take a rest first. We will go to Huayu City soon." Du Tiancheng said immediately.
"No, Senior, please don't. With your strength and status, you shouldn't be interfering in matters outside of the Lesser God Realm. If things get out of hand, I'm afraid it will be implicated." Guan Xiujin was shocked and hurried to dissuade Du Tiancheng. Although in terms of seniority, due to Guan Qingyun's relationship, Du Tiancheng should actually be considered his nephew, but the strong are respected, so how could he dare to act like someone else's elder?
"Master Guan is right. We must not let our affairs implicate our seniors." Even Liu Taian, who was seriously injured and had just recovered a little after taking the elixir, struggled to stand up and followed suit.
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