In the high sky tens of thousands of miles around the main island of Shengkui Sect, the originally clear weather suddenly changed, and patches of black clouds stretching for hundreds of miles floated from nowhere, pressing down and almost touching the sea surface.

The sky above the sea was dim, like twilight. The sea was roaring with strong winds and high waves, looking like a storm was about to arrive.

Yun Ni and the other two came to the square outside the secret room and looked up. They saw dark clouds rolling in the sky, with flashes of lightning faintly visible inside. Dozens of huge gold and black spiritual boats, like solid fortresses, were lined up at the front of the sea of clouds, densely packed with figures.

These spiritual boats were slightly different from the flying spiritual boats seen in the past. On them were built black platforms more than ten zhang high, engraved with various dense runes, looking like magic circle altars.

Seeing this, Bai Fengyi's expression changed slightly. She waved her palm, and a stone slab array appeared in front of her. After swiping her fingers on it a few times, she decisively ordered, "Pass down the order to activate the restrictions and prepare to meet the enemy!"

As soon as she gave the order, a rapid piercing sound rang out throughout the main island of the Shengkui Sect, including the eight surrounding array islands.

Immediately afterward, the spiritual patterns on the gray-white stone pillars standing in various places on the island lit up, shining brightly. All the array diagrams engraved on the ground and the magic circles inscribed on the buildings began to operate.

Amidst a series of "rumbling" sounds, the entire main island began to tremble violently, and the terrain and landforms began to undergo earth-shaking changes.

At the top of the highest mountain on the island, smoke and dust billowed, and the entire mountaintop slowly sank into the mountain belly, revealing a huge cave. Hundreds of organ flying boats with golden spiritual patterns all over their bodies rose into the air almost simultaneously, hovering in the high sky, ready for battle.

At the original river bend, the water flow was introduced into the lower part of the island through a suddenly appearing huge channel. Golden light also lit up on the exposed riverbed, and huge puppet beasts shaped like turtles emerged from it, their runes brightly lit, with a flow of green light, emitting a rich water spiritual power fluctuation.

In the dense forest on the second layer of the island, the sound of trees collapsing and breaking continued to ring out. Puppet beasts shaped like tigers and leopards, more than ten zhang tall, surged out from it, squeezed on the edge of the second layer, and roared silently towards the high sky.

Several True Immortal elders flew from all parts of the island to the square, each bringing dozens of disciples and hundreds of humanoid puppets to gather.

In some important areas of the island, True Immortal Realm elders also led disciples and puppet armies to move out, defending them strictly.

In less than ten breaths of time after the abnormality appeared, all the restrictions on the entire main island were activated, and all forces were mobilized.

At the same time, in the sea area around the main island, there were violent tremors, and the sea water surged, spinning wildly around the eight small islands, forming huge water vortexes.

White light shone brightly in the vortexes. The white round towers standing on the islands, like lighthouses on the sea, released circles of bright light, illuminating the entire sea area in a snow-white color.

Han Li and Lin Jiu had already returned to the square near the white tower and joined the Shengkui Sect cultivators stationed around.

Blue light flickered in his eyes, and he could clearly see the figures standing in the dark clouds in the high sky.

These people were all masked with black cloth and wore black cloaks, which were somewhat similar in style to the one Lin Jiu was wearing. However, their sleeves and collars were all embroidered with a layer of gold trim, and a cross pattern was embroidered on their chests.

Han Li was no stranger to this pattern. He had seen it on the Ten Directions Tower token he had obtained from Ping Yaozi.

"I didn't expect it to be people from the Ten Directions Tower," Han Li murmured with a somewhat complicated expression.

"Strictly speaking, they are not people from the Ten Directions Tower. They are just people who have been gathered by the 'Ten Directions Extermination Order'," Lin Jiu said after pondering for a moment.

"Oh, what do you mean by that, Fellow Daoist Lin Jiu?" Han Li asked with some doubt.

"As a major dark force in the Northern Cold Immortal Territory, the Ten Directions Tower is similar in nature to our Impermanence Alliance. However, they mainly do intelligence and assassination business. Issuing reward orders, wanted orders, extermination orders, etc., are all within their business scope. Their task publishing and receiving are not only for internal members, but for everyone. In other words, anyone who can afford the price can issue a task, and anyone who believes they have the strength can accept their task. As long as the two are involved, they are considered preliminary members of the Ten Directions Tower. Therefore, their organization is not as rigorous as the Impermanence Alliance, but the internal relationships are more intertwined and complex," Lin Jiu explained.

"In other words, people from the Impermanence Alliance can also issue and accept tasks in the Ten Directions Tower. These people are gathered together because they accepted that Ten Directions Extermination Order?" Han Li thought for a moment and then asked.

"That's right. This order is a sect extermination order issued by the Ten Directions Tower, which costs a lot. Once issued, it is almost within the entire Immortal Territory, gathering forces to launch an attack on a certain sect or family. All those who participate can keep everything they obtain within the destroyed sect, and naturally, they don't have to worry about being held accountable afterward," Lin Jiu explained with a trace of solemnity in his eyes.

Hearing this, Han Li understood the terrible thing about this order, which is that it has a strong temptation for the huge group of rogue cultivators, especially some Mahayana stage cultivators who are stuck in a bottleneck due to lack of cultivation resources. They watch their lifespan slowly slip away, so how can they not take the risk once?

Once such people join them, due to the protection of the Ten Directions Tower, they have no worries. They are often more brutal than most people, and they are more ruthless when attacking these sects and families. On the one hand, of course, it is to plunder more cultivation resources, but on the other hand, why not to vent the accumulated resentment and jealousy?

Moreover, the Shengkui Sect has been in business for so many years, and it has accumulated a massive amount of resources and wealth just by selling puppets. I am afraid that in everyone's eyes, it is a piece of fat that cannot be fatter.

While the two were talking, they suddenly felt the ground under them shaking wildly. The grooves embedded in the ground were filled with almost substantive white light, as if silver slurry was flowing.

A series of "rumbling" sounds came from below the entire island. Huge cracks began to appear on the ground around the square, separating the area near the white tower.

The separated area was raised madly to a height of several hundred zhang.

Han Li flew out and looked towards the island from the high sky, and he was shocked to find that a central area of the entire array island had been separated from the island and turned into a huge stone puppet.

It was shaped like a warrior, with a body of stone as white as jade, but as hard as steel. It held a silver giant knife hundreds of zhang long in its hand, covered with spiritual patterns, emitting bursts of amazing sharp fluctuations.

The other array islands around were also in the same situation at this time, all turned into giant puppets nearly a thousand zhang high. Some of them looked like wild giant apes, some looked like stone-armored giants, and some looked like snowfield wild wolves... In short, they had different forms.

Moreover, the colors and shapes of the spiritual patterns on these puppets were also different. Some were dark yellow circular shapes, surrounding the torso in circles, some were red long strips, like red ribbons, wrapped around the arms and body, and some were jet black, like tattoos engraved on the chest.

At this time, at the front of a spirit boat with a black body in the dark clouds in the high sky, three figures were standing side by side.

On the face of the person in the middle, there was an extremely long and deep scar, starting from the corner of the left forehead and extending along the forehead to the right eye, and then being covered by the masked black cloth as it went down to the lower cheek.

On his right stood a slender young man with a sword at his waist. He was not wearing a cloak hat, but only masked with a black cloth. The exposed half of his face was as white as jade, his thick eyebrows slanted into his temples, and his eyes were bright and energetic, looking outstanding.

The aura on these two people was extremely strong, and they were both Golden Immortal Realm cultivators.

As for the one standing on the other side was a big man nearly ten zhang tall with a yellowish complexion. Although he was wearing a cloak, he could still see a circle of dark cyan metallic luster on his forehead, obviously wearing some kind of metal forehead protector.

Although this person was only a True Immortal Realm peak cultivator, the fact that he could be listed in the same place as these two Golden Immortals was enough to show that his identity was unusual.

"Hehe... Fellow Daoist Lu Ji, are you satisfied with our Ten Directions Tower's arrangements this time?" The scarred-faced man smiled and looked at the sword-wielding man next to him, and asked.

"This time, spending so much to find your Ten Directions Tower, I am looking at your influence. It is indeed a bit unexpected to be able to gather so many people this time. But the cultivation level of these people is too messy, right? Just like a rabble army pieced together, how much combat power can they have?" The sword-wielding man replied indifferently.

Apart from the three of them, among the two or three thousand people on these warships, there were only forty or so True Immortal Realm cultivators. As for the others, most of them were Mahayana stage cultivators, and there were even many Fusion Refinement stage cultivators. From the perspective of cultivation level, it was indeed very chaotic and mixed.

"Hehe, these people are mostly rogue cultivators in the mountains and fields. Which one of them has not grown up in years of fighting? If they are at the same cultivation level, how can their combat power be weaker than those Shengkui Sect guys who only know how to manipulate puppet techniques?" The scarred-faced man said with a smile.

"Is it a bit inappropriate for the two of you to be chatting here at this time? Fellow Daoist Xue Han, I have a task assigned by my master to come to this Gu Yun Continent. Let's finish this matter as soon as possible," the yellow-faced man suddenly said.

"Fellow Daoist Chong Luan, don't worry. Just now it was just a tentative attack. At this moment, the whole picture of their defense has been displayed, which is basically consistent with the information collected before. We just need to follow the original plan. But after we break into the Shengkui Sect, Fellow Daoist, don't forget what we agreed on earlier," the scarred-faced man said with a smile.

"Fellow Daoist, rest assured," the yellow-faced man said lightly.