In a small town not far from Yuhua Sect, where several Grandmasters of the Three Great Sects and the imperial court had rented a courtyard to keep watch, they exchanged bewildered glances upon feeling the extremely terrifying pressure.
After a long while, someone asked in a hoarse voice,
"Was that the pressure of a Heavenly Being?"
"How could it be so despairingly terrifying..."
This was from a martial artist who had never seen a Heavenly Being. Those who had seen their Ancestral Heavenly Being retorted:
"No, this is not the pressure of a Heavenly Being. I've felt the pressure of a Heavenly Being from our Ancestor, and it's absolutely not like this, nor is it this terrifying. This is beyond human, possibly comparable to a Land Immortal.
But how is this possible? How is it possible?"
"Could it be that your Ancestor, out of care for you, didn't fully unleash his pressure, which is why your perception has a slight difference?"
It was precisely because Heavenly Beings had long become legendary in this era that most people did not have an accurate understanding of them. They even tried to imagine Heavenly Beings in the most powerful way possible, so someone immediately thought it was the Grandmaster who had seen a Heavenly Being.
That they hadn't fully and comprehensively experienced the pressure of a Heavenly Being.
But the other party immediately retorted:
"No, our Ancestor clearly told me that to let me feel the terror of a Heavenly Being, he would fully release his pressure on me. Moreover, my Ancestor is a peak Heavenly Being, one step away from becoming a Land Immortal."
"But how is this possible?"
"Yes, wasn't it said that the Heavenly Being of Yuhua Sect had just broken through? How could such powerful pressure be exerted? It can't be that the intelligence was wrong, right?"
"Could it be that they have more than one Heavenly Being?"
"Why don't you say they have Land Immortals too?"
"Enough, stop arguing. Send someone quickly to investigate how far the radiation range of this terrifying pressure from Yuhua Sect extends. According to ancient records, only the pressure of a Land Immortal can radiate for hundreds of miles. Our current location can generally be reached by the pressure of a Heavenly Being.
So, send someone quickly to investigate.
How far away did people feel the pressure?
Then the situation will become clear."
The Grandmasters present were not foolish; they knew that matters of personal perception were not easy to distinguish.
Therefore, they could only let facts speak.
After discussion, they quickly dispatched people, with Yuhua Sect as the core, to the villages and towns within hundreds of miles around Yuhua Sect to inquire if they had felt any pressure.
And at the first hint of dawn.
They received reports from their subordinates.
The news that people within hundreds of miles had been awakened by the terrifying pressure in the middle of the night sent their hearts plummeting. Immediately thereafter, they naturally relayed the relevant information back to the Three Great Sects and the imperial family.
As for themselves, they decided to wait patiently.
Awaiting a response from the other side.
Meanwhile, the sect leaders of the Three Great Sects and Prince Li, the Grand Tutor of the imperial court, who received the news, frowned for a moment, unsure if the situation was as reported or if it was a ploy, for example, Yuhua Sect simulating such pressure.
Just to make them retreat.
However, no matter how they searched the ancient texts, they could not find any method in this world to simulate such pressure.
Let alone simulate it.
They couldn't even find a way to amplify the pressure.
Reluctantly, they had no choice but to continue reporting the news to their Ancestral Heavenly Beings. After further consultation, they slightly altered their original plan. The preliminary stage would still involve the four Ancestral Heavenly Beings from the Three Great Sects to probe. If the other party was merely a paper tiger and their actual strength was very weak,
Then they would be killed on the spot.
At the same time, the imperial court would simultaneously deploy one hundred thousand armored soldiers, complete with crossbows and formations. If Yuhua Sect truly had more than one Heavenly Being, and their strength was even terrifying, then the army would be mobilized to eradicate the entire Yuhua Sect. Without eradicating them, the founding ancestors would not be able to rest in peace.
As the plan was finalized, the imperial court quickly used the excuse of eradicating the Demonic Cult to mobilize the army. This excuse was not entirely false, because in their plan, if they really had to use the army to eradicate Yuhua Sect, as soon as Yuhua Sect was destroyed, they would be branded as heretics who had colluded with the Demonic Cult.
The Three Great Sects were also secretly taking action.
For a time, the Demonic Cult was so frightened that they dared not move. Many elders of the Demonic Cult even directly withdrew their trusted confidantes and branch leaders back to the Ten Thousand Mountains.
Many sects that had been harassed by the Demonic Cult.
Cheered with joy.
Only the people of Yuhua Sect sensed that something was wrong. And soon, through their subtle actions, they guessed that the real target might be them, Yuhua Sect, and Yuhua Sect's additional Heavenly Beings.
In response, Yuhua Sect immediately began to prepare actively.
They had not expected that the imperial court would prepare to mobilize an army of one hundred thousand to encircle and suppress them because Yuhua Sect was suspected of having several more Heavenly Beings. But the situation had come to this.
Even regretting it was too late.
Therefore, they could only adopt a two-pronged approach.
First, all the Grandmasters and most of the Heavenly Being experts in their sect were ready to fight. Second, Ding Yun was to lead the other three alchemists and some elite disciples of the sect to leave through secret channels.
Even many ordinary disciples of the sect.
Had been dispersed in advance.
Ding Yun was naturally unwilling, because what was the difference between this outcome and her not producing the pills that helped them enter the Heavenly Being realm? Furthermore, their desire to protect her and the elite disciples first, and their attitude of not wanting to abandon even the ordinary disciples,
Moved Ding Yun greatly. The result of this emotion was that she decided to plant all the previously mass-produced secret manuals. In addition, she reprinted several hundred incomplete secret manuals, which could only allow people to reach the peak of Xiantian.
As these secret manuals all bore golden skill fruits and internal energy fruits, the golden mountain in Ding Yun's soul space had lost a peak.
Heartbroken, she immediately made a plan to ransack the homes of the Three Great Sects and the imperial family after this crisis was over.
To compensate for her losses.
In addition, Ding Yun, to show her significant contributions and sacrifices, specifically disguised herself as having white, withered hair, an aged face, weak vitality, and damaged origins, before taking hundreds of bottles of pills to see the sect leader, True Person Fei He.
Before he could even ask about her well-being, she directly said,
"Martial Uncle Sect Leader, these are the pills I refined with all my might. One hundred and thirty-two bottles among them can create another one hundred and thirty-two Heavenly Beings. The remaining more than six hundred bottles can create over six hundred more Xiantian experts.
With so many Heavenly Beings and Xiantian Grandmasters,
I think even ten thousand troops will be useless!"