The Fallback
The explosion was intense, and Gao Xiao overestimated its blow. He only knew the mechanics on how to activate this circle through instructions hidden from the Chief's inner chamber but it didn't even occur to him, whether the receiver of past events was alive or dead after conducting this kind of ritual.
Fu Jin Hao on his side was a little restless, "Should it be all right if we do this? Did you forgot that the pearl was still in their hands?"
Gao Xiao didn't panic, even if it inflicted them, the pearl won't get destroyed. It had accumulated hundreds of years of spiritual energy from the moon enough to fend for itself from the catastrophe, at a worst-case scenario, it'll only turn into a mush color from its brilliant pearly white awhile ago.
"Just monitor the area after the fire subsided. Also, find the pearl on the ground and bring it to me by morning."