Long Yaotian almost spat blood. If half the jade was lost, it would mean the Long family would have to invest a colossal amount of funds and more time to repair this formation!
After all, the Long family had emptied their coffers to build this Spirit Gathering Formation, and their available liquid funds were not much left!
"Is there no other way? What would be the consequences if this Spirit Gathering Formation is not stopped?" Long Xiao asked from the side.
"Uh... By then, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered in Canglong Valley will become increasingly dense, and it's very likely to form a massive tornado!
At that time, perhaps everything in Canglong Valley will be destroyed. Human strength cannot contend with the might of heaven and earth!"
After hearing Long Yaozu's explanation, Long Yaotian's head felt as big as a bucket. However, there was no time for him to think further, because even in the secret chamber, Long Yaotian could hear the increasingly fierce wind outside, as if the entire house was about to be blown away.
"Quick, hurry and stop this damned thing!"
Long Yaotian was a decisive person. He also knew very well that if he didn't make a quick decision to stop this thing, the huge whirlwind would tear apart the entire Canglong Valley!
"Alright, I'll go immediately!"
After Long Yaozu finished speaking, he turned and left the secret chamber. Long Xiao, following his father's orders, also took a few people and followed closely behind.
The formation wind in the valley had now reached nearly level 9. Without cultivation, people could be directly blown away in such an environment.
Upon arriving at the core of the Spirit Gathering Formation, Long Yaozu arranged for his subordinates to dig open the ground, revealing the piece of jade that formed the core.
Then he instructed his subordinates to drill holes around the jade and bury a large amount of explosives, before laying out the detonating wires.
"Retreat, retreat, retreat a hundred meters away, or there will be danger to your lives!" Long Yaozu shouted loudly.
Upon hearing this, everyone quickly retreated far away.
The detonator was handed to Long Xiao. Long Xiao gritted his teeth and pressed the detonator button.
"Boom!"
The buried explosives detonated, and the massive shockwave directly blasted the jade, which served as the formation's core, into powder.
This triggered a chain reaction. Centered around this piece of jade, the jade stones that formed the Spirit Gathering Formation were all impacted by immense energy, and then they all released their power, shattering into powder.
The abundant spiritual energy of heaven and earth at the explosion's center was also detonated. The massive shockwave formed a mushroom cloud, and the trees within a radius of nearly a hundred meters were all snapped in half. Even worse, the Long family's ancestral hall near the small square was also overturned by this huge shockwave, leaving only ruins!
Long Yaotian, Long Xiao, and others, hiding nearly a hundred meters away, still clung firmly to the ground, thus escaping death. Otherwise, the violent shockwave of the explosion could have directly swept them away!
More than ten seconds later, the smoke dissipated, and the raging winds gradually weakened. At this moment, the disheveled Long Yaotian and Long Xiao finally looked up, and the scene before them stunned them.
The small square that had served as the formation's core had disappeared, replaced by a huge pit. This pit was one meter deep and over ten meters in diameter. The scene looked as if it had been bombed by a giant aerial bomb.
The ancient trees around it, which were hundreds of years old, were also directly broken at the root.
What was even more unbearable for the two was that their family's ancestral hall had now become a ruin!
After all, the ancestral hall was the spiritual sustenance of a family!
The Long family's ancestral hall had a history of over a thousand years. Dozens of generations of the Long family had continuously maintained and repaired it to preserve it to this day. It could be said that this ancestral hall was already a cultural relic and the spiritual sustenance of the Long family!
But now, the ancestral hall was destroyed!
Long Yaozu knew he had caused a huge, colossal mess. He knelt down with a thud, his mouth agape, and then his eyes rolled back, and he fainted.
A while later, the Long family patriarch, Long Yaotian, also crawled out of the secret chamber. When he saw the scene before him, his eyes turned bloodshot, and he spat out a mouthful of blood!
"Heaven, why are you doing this to me? Ancestors, I, Long Yaotian, have failed you..."
Long Yaotian knelt on the ground and wept bitterly!
As the patriarch, failing to bring glory to the family and instead causing the destruction of the family's ancestral hall was simply a profound humiliation that would be recorded in the family genealogy!
Even if someone were to step forward now and ask him to resign as patriarch to atone, he would have no reason to refuse!
Long Xiao quickly went to Long Yaotian's side and kept patting his back.
"Father, you must pull yourself together. No matter what, it has happened, and we must face it proactively!"
"Uh... uh..."
Long Yaotian sat on the ground, gasping for breath, and then raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth.
"Yes, you are right. We must look forward!"
Despite the immense losses incurred and the destruction of the Long family's ancestral hall, Long Yaotian knew very well that this matter could not be abandoned halfway.
The effect of this Spirit Gathering Formation was still very significant. In just one day, more than a dozen disciples of the Long family who were stuck at bottlenecks had broken through. Given time, the Long family's strength would surely advance by leaps and bounds!
At that time, he would personally lead the Long family to glory. Compared to that, what was the destruction of an ancestral hall, or spending hundreds of billions of funds!
At this moment, Rong Yaozu was also woken up, or rather, he was splashed awake with cold water.
The people of the Long family now hated Long Yaozu to the core. They believed that this fellow was the culprit who destroyed the ancestral hall, unaware that Long Yaozu was now more wronged than anyone!
After Long Yaozu woke up, he struggled to stand up. He saw Long Yaotian in the distance and quickly stumbled over, kneeling down with a thud.
"Patriarch, I am guilty. It is all my fault. I am willing to die to atone to the ancestors!" Long Yaozu wept profusely, tears streaming down his face. His appearance indeed evoked some pity from Long Yaotian, making him reluctant to strike him dead.
"If you want to die, I can grant you that. However, the family's money cannot be spent in vain. I now demand that you quickly tally the losses and formulate a plan to rebuild the Spirit Gathering Formation!
You must remember that everything you have is given by the family. It's not that easy to die now!
Your mistake has caused immense losses to the family. Long Yaozu, I tell you, there will be no next time!"
"Thank you, Patriarch, for your magnanimity. Yaozu will do his utmost!"
Long Yaozu laboriously got up from the ground and picked up the compass that had fallen to the ground. Who would want to die if it wasn't absolutely necessary? He prepared to continue inspecting how much of the entire Spirit Gathering Formation was damaged.