The Shui Xian Sect, one of the Ten Great Sects, belonged to the righteous path. Their sect's doctrine revolved around the "Abyssal Water transforming into the Sea, True Water being One."
Consequently, the entire sect possessed an extremely thorough understanding of various spiritual waters within the cultivation world. However, Ye Ao Han, a true disciple of the sect, had completely abandoned any pursuit of the True Water Way at this moment.
"Money! This is all money! Pure spiritual liquid, completely untainted and unpolluted, is the ultimate treasure for increasing cultivation and refining immortal crystals! And there's so much of it that it can form natural waterfalls!"
"If the Sect Master saw this, they'd probably go mad! This trip was worth it! Worth it!"
Ye Ao Han emptied his storage items meant for spiritual water reserves and frantically collected this high-purity waterfall spiritual liquid.
It wasn't just True Disciple Ye; among the cultivators who saw this spiritual energy waterfall, few were not driven to madness.
However, the highly concentrated spiritual liquid waterfall naturally created an environment of high spiritual pressure. Ordinary cultivators on the Dao path could not stay near the waterfall for long.
Therefore, those who lingered in the spiritual liquid waterfall were primarily Ascended Realm experts from various sects.
But these Ascended big shots had long lost their usual dignified demeanor. Each of them wished they could soak in the spiritual liquid, appearing lost in a drunken stupor.
"Get lost!! Your Lord Qi Sha is here!!!"
"Heavenly Wolf Killing Halberd!!"
Boom!!!
A crimson battle halberd light fiercely descended from the sky!
In just a moment, this crimson light expanded to a radius of a thousand li!
With a deafening explosion, this halberd rainbow forcibly sliced off a section of the waterfall flowing from the sky!
Within the area it passed, Ascended cultivators immersed in the wondrous spiritual liquid cursed and dodged.
"Damn it! This lunatic from the Zhan Mo Sect!"
"Quick, leave! Leave! This guy is going to siphon the spiritual liquid!"
"Where are our righteous sects? Come and save us!!"
Although they were all Ascended, the monsters of the Ten Great Sects were not something these smaller sects could contend with.
For a moment, streaks of rainbow light shot out from the section that had been cut off.
They couldn't afford to provoke him, but they could at least escape.
Seeing that no one dared to speak harshly, Qi Sha snorted dismissively.
Although he wanted to fight, collecting the spiritual liquid was more important.
With this thought, the battle aura formed by the Killing Halberd, under Qi Sha's divine sense, quietly transformed into pure immortal essence brilliance.
As if a great river, vast sections of the waterfall, covered by immortal essence, saw the crystalline spiritual liquid flow upwards into the sky!
There, Qi Sha, fully armored with only a pair of crimson eyes exposed, held aloft a gourd-shaped storage artifact.
Whoosh!
The spiritual river flowed back into the sky, and under Qi Sha's control, it all poured into that small, green-skinned gourd.
The moment the true disciple of the Zhan Mo Sect appeared, he suppressed the surrounding Ascended cultivators, forcing them to retreat, which showed how fearsome the sect's cultivators were.
However, Ye True Disciple, who was collecting spiritual liquid in another section of the waterfall, looked at Qi Sha with a rather playful gaze.
As a direct true disciple of the Ten Great Sects, Ye True Disciple was naturally not afraid of Qi Sha. Moreover, according to cultivators who had arrived earlier, this spiritual liquid waterfall had been flowing for several days, and its quantity was practically endless.
Ye Ao Han had no intention of fighting with a Zhan Mo lunatic for resources. Besides, did these brutes who only knew how to fight think that spiritual liquid was so easy to collect?
Sensing the gradually filling green-skinned gourd, the corners of Qi Sha's mouth under his helmet gradually curved into a smile.
Although fighting was exhilarating, this spiritual liquid was a treasure for restoring immortal essence and increasing cultivation.
Later, when he got tired from fighting, drinking a couple of mouthfuls of spiritual liquid would be a great pleasure.
Just as Qi Sha was contemplating how to stir up trouble and start a fight later, the space within the green-skinned gourd in his hand had already accumulated over thirty percent.
This was far from reaching the storage capacity of this storage artifact,
but,
Bang!!!
A violent explosion resounded through the sky, directly blasting Qi Sha, along with the war chariot beneath him, into the sea!
And the exploding green-skinned gourd, originally a low-grade storage artifact, in the midst of the violent spiritual liquid explosion, briefly formed a spatial rift in mid-air.
Beyond the rift was a hazy chaos, and the spiritual liquid that had just been siphoned, upon contact with the chaos, formed the terrifying spiritual explosion that had just occurred.
For a moment, the cultivators who had stopped outside the spiritual energy waterfall looked at the gradually closing huge void in the sky with complex expressions:
"It exploded again, but the scale this time is a bit terrifying."
"Storage artifacts are rare enough. My mid-grade artifact, which I finally obtained, disappeared like this a few days ago. I wonder what grade of artifact exploded this time?"
"Heh, artifact? With this kind of fluctuation, it's at least a treasure!"
"Forget it, forget it. No matter how good the treasure is, it's gone with such an explosion."
The Ascended cultivators who had been driven away by Qi Sha were now soaring in another section of the spiritual energy waterfall. Upon seeing this spiritual explosion, they exchanged knowing glances.
Hmph, you think you're so arrogant! You drove us away as soon as you arrived!
Don't you think we're all Ascended too! If this spiritual liquid waterfall were easy to collect, would we have waited for you to come?!
However, these were just thoughts in their minds; they would never say them aloud. After all, this little spiritual explosion wouldn't kill a Zhan Mo true disciple. If they heard it, they might have to fight again.
On the other side, Ye Ao Han had no such concerns. The young-looking True Disciple Ye took out his recording jade tablet and kept taking pictures in the direction where Qi Sha had fallen.
"Haha, these Zhan Mo lunatics have degenerated their brains from fighting! Now they've become drowned rats!"
In fact, spiritual energy that had completely liquefied and was free from any cultivator's will or external contamination was an extremely precious resource.
Even Qi Sha had only received a small amount from his sect before undergoing his Ascended Tribulation.
It was known that Long Ji, as a master of formations, could only create a small amount of absorbable mist-like spiritual energy even with her meticulously crafted palace made of spirit stones.
Most cultivators' only experience with liquid spiritual energy in their lifetime was probably the little bit in their own dantian.
Therefore, most cultivators who arrived here immediately went mad.
They raised their storage artifacts and frantically collected this rare treasure.
But soon, they met with tragedy.
Amidst continuous explosions, the storage artifacts of various cultivators shattered one after another.
They could only watch their precious artifacts and the spiritual liquid they had painstakingly collected turn into dust with tears in their eyes.
After continuous experimentation, cultivators who came here tested and found that low-grade storage artifacts could store one-thousandth of the spiritual liquid's space; any more risked explosion.
Even low-grade storage treasures could only hold at most one-tenth of the space, and absolutely no other items besides spiritual liquid could be placed inside the treasure, otherwise, it might explode directly.
As for how they tested this, it could only be said that they got used to it from exploding too many times.
Even among the Ascended cultivators who were secretly laughing at Qi Sha, many "old friends" had provided the explosion data for the treasures.
Even earlier arrivals had gradually formed a tacit understanding, absolutely not telling later arrivals about the problem of spiritual liquid exploding.
After all, no cultivator could resist the temptation of this boundless spiritual liquid. Upon arriving here, the first thing they would think of was to take out their storage artifacts and collect a batch first.
The result was that every so often, the air would be filled with a happy atmosphere.
Of course, if one had acquaintances to warn them, or if they were not in a hurry and willing to wait to observe carefully, they could discover this problem.
But both of these were non-existent for the impatient Qi Sha. Therefore, Ye Ao Han was also seizing the opportunity to record this, as the black history of a Zhan Mo true disciple was quite rare!
"Heh heh, it's good to film it and show it to my junior brothers and sisters, so they don't always think that their senior brother isn't doing well outside."
"Look, the Zhan Mo true disciple, who is recognized for his astonishing combat power, has been knocked into the water by me!"
What? You say this is a trick? I have the recording!
As for saying this, wouldn't Qi Sha hear it?
Impossible. Qi Sha is not a Dharma Body. In this environment of dense spiritual pressure near the spiritual liquid waterfall, how could he hear my voice?
Only those insignificant sects that don't even have a Dharma Body dare not speak!
Just as Ye Ao Han was praising his own cleverness.
Boom!!!
A blood-red battle halberd light, shattering space, slashed towards True Disciple Ye from the sea!
Ye Ao Han quickly put away his recording jade tablet and drew his隨身 (suíshēn - personal, carried) magic sword from his waist to counter:
"Damn it! Qi Sha, are you crazy?! We have no enmity! Why are you attacking me?!"
With a swing of his magic sword, spiritual patterns fluctuated, and the water-elemental spiritual energy in the heavens and earth converged.
In a moment, a water-blue sword light fiercely collided with the blood-red light!
Bang!
With a deafening roar, Ye Ao Han's magic sword strike, relying on the advantage of the vast sea, barely managed to neutralize the blood-red halberd light.
After the collision of the two powerful forces, the scattered aftermath caused the surrounding onlookers to quickly flee.
In the center of the spiritual liquid waterfall, a spherical void appeared due to the collision.
Ye Ao Han stood in the center of the void, looking confusedly at Qi Sha rising from the sea.
The war chariot, burning with blood-fire, slowly rose from the vast sea. Traces of the explosion still remained on Qi Sha's armor.
A trickle of crimson blood also flowed from the edge of his helmet. Although not dead, the unprepared explosion at such close range had still injured Qi Sha.
However, more than the injury, Qi Sha felt an overwhelming sense of displeasure!
Beneath the ghost mask, his crimson eyes stared intently at Ye Ao Han, who was standing in mid-air. Qi Sha spat out a mouthful of blood and said in a muffled voice:
"We don't have enmity! But I want to fight! Among everyone here, you look the most durable!"
"Stop the nonsense! Take this halberd!!"
With a fierce stomp of his blood-red battle boots on the blood-fire war chariot, Qi Sha, clad in ferocious armor, directly stepped into the air and slashed at Ye Ao Han with his halberd!
Hearing Qi Sha's words, Ye Ao Han's heart first relaxed, and then he became furious.
Qi Sha had indeed not heard Ye Ao Han's words, but Qi Sha genuinely wanted to fight Ye Ao Han!
The reason was simple: his gourd had exploded, he was unhappy and wanted to vent, and he thought Ye Ao Han looked like a qualified punching bag!
"I knew it! The Zhan Mo Sect are all lunatics!!"
"You think I'm easy to bully, you bastard!!!"
"This is the sea! No matter how strong you Zhan Mo true disciples are, can you suppress me here?!"
Ye Ao Han, looking at Qi Sha flying towards him with his halberd, was truly enraged:
"True Water Heavenly Unity! Four Directional Water Beasts Appear!"
Ye Ao Han threw his magic sword into the air, crossed his hands, and instantly formed thousands of hand seals.
As countless spiritual patterns flickered, the vast water-elemental spiritual energy near the spiritual energy waterfall was subtly mobilized.
The next moment!
Spiritual patterns as bones! Spiritual energy as divine essence!
"Roar!!!" Four roaring water dragons lunged at the approaching Qi Sha!
Leveraging the advantage of the vast sea and the abundant spiritual energy nearby, Ye Ao Han felt that this spell had reached the peak of his life.
Each of these spirit water-transformed蛟龙 (jiāo lóng - flood dragons) possessed the power of a peak first-level Ascended Realm cultivator. It even seemed that because this place was extremely close to the Hai Sect,
these magically transformed dragons were faintly imbued with a trace of dragon aura, thus their power increased by thirty percent out of nowhere!
As the four water dragons swallowed clouds and exhaled mist, they attacked from the sky!
The intimidating spiritual pressure even made the Ascended cultivators who had not yet left feel a sense of dread:
"Is this the true disciple of the Ten Great Sects?!"
"Fortunately, we didn't make an enemy of True Disciple Ye before. If one of these water dragons came at me, I'd probably be torn apart alive!"
"Hmph, the Ten Great Sects have been passed down for millions of years without interruption. Their spells and cultivation methods are the best, so it's not surprising they have this strength."
"Heh, True Disciple Ye is at least reasonable. It's a good thing for him to teach this kid from the Zhan Mo Sect a lesson."
"Fellow Daoist speaks wisely. Although the Zhan Mo Sect is known as the number one in demonic combat power, this is the sea! For Qi Sha to start a fight here is truly too arrogant!"
Just as a group of unorthodox Ascended cultivators were watching from the sidelines,
Below the four water dragons pressing down, Qi Sha, flying through the air, had an even fiercer look in his crimson eyes!
"Haha!! I was right! Only you here are qualified to fight me!!"
"But do you think these transformed dragons can deal with me?!"
"Who do you think you're looking down on!!!"
Under the mask, Qi Sha's voice was very muffled, but the battle intent within it was increasingly astonishing:
"Break for me! Seven Kill Formation!!"
With a fierce stomp of his red battle boots in mid-air, the air let out a tangible explosion.
With a deafening roar, Qi Sha took seven steps, each a thousand zhang!
The long halberd in his hand had completely transformed into blood-red light.
Qi Sha, taking seven steps and seven stomps, his small figure directly pierced through the four fierce water dragons!
After piercing through the water dragons, Qi Sha snorted coldly, and the blood-red light on his halberd quietly receded.
And beneath Qi Sha, the four ferocious spirit water dragons suddenly erupted with countless blood-red slashes!
The next moment, to the stunned gazes of Ye Ao Han and the surrounding Ascended cultivators,
Bang!!!
Those ferocious four spirit water dragons all exploded simultaneously!
His crimson eyes filled with astonishing battle intent, Qi Sha raised his long halberd, pointing it at Ye Ao Han above.
Beneath the ghost mask, his voice, indistinguishable as male or female, buzzed:
"Show me your full strength! Otherwise, I'm afraid I might accidentally kill you!!"
Ye Ao Han's expression turned cold. He pointed his right hand to the sky, and the magic sword, which was spinning rapidly in the air, suddenly transformed into light and flew towards Qi Sha:
"Good! My greatest skill as Ye Ao Han is sword manipulation! Qi Sha! Watch this!!"
Qi Sha's eyes lit up at his words. He stared intently at the incoming blue magic sword, holding his long halberd ready!
But the next moment,
Qi Sha merely waved his long halberd lightly, and this blue magic sword was directly cut into two pieces from the middle.
Judging by the feel, it wasn't even as good as the water dragons just now? xxs
In his confusion, Qi Sha looked up at True Disciple Ye.
But where was True Disciple Ye? It was precisely when Qi Sha was distracted that
Ye Ao Han had directly fled.
Behind a spiritual liquid waterfall, Ye Ao Han carefully concealed his aura.
After a while, seeing that Qi Sha was not pursuing him, Ye Ao Han gasped for breath, his eyes filled with lingering fear:
"Are you kidding me?! This guy is at the same level as me, the first level of Hua Hong?!"
"This is the sea! I mobilized the power of heaven and earth! That was my strongest attack ever! And this guy directly shattered it?!"
"Master! I shouldn't have disbelieved you! The Zhan Mo Sect are all lunatics!! From now on, I will definitely avoid them, I can't afford to offend them!"
In that instant, when Qi Sha broke through the dragons and swung his halberd at him, Ye Ao Han almost wet himself.
Good heavens, although he had long heard that the current Qi Sha had the destiny of "Sha Po Lang" and his combat power was unmatched among the younger generation of the demonic path.
He never expected him to be so terrifying!
"Fortunately, I'm smart. Hmph, this Zhan Mo lunatic is indeed obsessed with fighting. As soon as I said it was my life's ultimate technique, he immediately entered a focused state, staring only at my magic sword, not even noticing that I had escaped."
"Alas, my poor magic sword! Hmph! Qi Sha, is it? A gentleman never forgets revenge for ten years, you just wait for me!!"
*Snap...*
Suddenly, a hand encased in crimson armor patted Ye Ao Han's shoulder from behind.
In an instant, Ye Ao Han shivered, almost falling to his knees!
Although he still couldn't sense the aura of the person behind him, he recognized this crimson armor!
"Qi... Qi Sha... you.... I...."
True Disciple Ye was very panicked, so panicked that he now desperately wanted to kneel down to this gentleman behind him.
He truly feared that the next moment, this great lord behind him would swing his halberd and slice him into mincemeat!
However, the expected attack did not come.
Behind him, Qi Sha casually tossed the short sword he had cut into two pieces in front of Ye Ao Han and then turned and left.
From beginning to end, Qi Sha didn't even bother to say a word to this fleeing weakling.
And Ye True Disciple, looking at his broken magic sword, finally recalled the instructions his sect master had given him before he went out to travel:
"Little Ye, our Shui Xian Sect excels in the Great Dao of spells. With every move, we can overturn heaven and earth, and we have few rivals at the same level."
"However, if you encounter a true disciple of the Zhan Mo Sect, absolutely do not resist!"
"Those lunatics are battle maniacs. The more you resist, the more excited they get. They might even get carried away and kill you directly!"
"If you absolutely must get into a conflict and cannot win, run immediately! Those arrogant fellows won't kill fleeing weaklings."
Ye Ao Han collected his broken sword with a complex expression, gaining a deeper understanding of the demonic sect ranked first among the Ten Great Sects.
Among the Ten Great Sects, the Zhan Mo Sect's strength was unparalleled, recognized as the number one sect.
Their sect's cultivation emphasized "Battling Heaven and Destroying Earth, Only I Am Supreme."
Unlike most other sects that widely opened their doors to recruit disciples from all over the world, the Zhan Mo Sect followed a path of complete elite cultivation.
For millions of years, there were even instances of single-lineage transmission, from one master to one disciple.
And the reason why they were so few in number, yet managed to continue to this day and be recognized as the number one among the Ten Great Sects.
The reason was simple: the inheritors of this sect could fight! And not just fight ordinarily!
A thousand years ago, the current Zhan Mo, "Ni Cang Tian," had a duel with the Lord of the Great Zhen Dynasty in the primordial Western Wilderness. That battle shook the stars and terrified the earth.
The Ascended cultivators who witnessed it were still deeply moved when they recalled that battle.
In the end, Ni Cang Tian narrowly lost by one move. According to their agreement, he would no longer oppose the Great Zhen from then on.
And the Lord of the Great Zhen, through this battle, solidified his reputation as the number one person in the world.
This was also one of the reasons why the Ten Great Sects had become increasingly powerless in the face of the Great Zhen's encroachment over the past thousand years.
However, within a hundred years, the rise of the Zhan Mo true disciple, Qi Sha, had also given the Ten Great Sects a glimmer of new hope.
No matter how strong the Lord of the Great Zhen was, he would eventually ascend!
When that time came, the ruler of this land would still depend on the younger generation!
The reason why the Zhan Mo Sect was called a demonic sect was solely because the sect's cultivation sought only "Battling Heaven and Destroying Earth, Only I Am Supreme."
In simple terms, they were a group of battle-crazed individuals, either fighting or on their way to fight every day.
For example, the true disciple Qi Sha, upon his arrival, had driven away a group of Ascended cultivators, actually hoping that these fellows would unite and allow him to experience the joy of fighting one against many.
As a result, Qi Sha's fearsome reputation was too great. Even among these Ascended cultivators, there were those at the second level of Hua Hong, yet they dared not confront Qi Sha.
And the spiritual liquid was indeed tempting, leaving Qi Sha with no choice but to collect the spiritual liquid first before considering finding someone to fight.
But Qi Sha never expected the storage artifact to explode when he stored too much spiritual liquid!
Qi Sha, who was blasted into the sea at that time, was not angry or heartbroken about the artifact.
Instead, he felt a joy that gave him a reason to fight!
Yes, for Qi Sha, fighting required a reason.
Although he was from the demonic path, he was also reasonable!
As for whether being unhappy counted as a reason, Qi Sha thought it did, and that was that.
It was just a pity that Ye Ao Han, as a true disciple of the Ten Great Sects, was truly disappointing to Qi Sha.
Qi Sha, clad in crimson armor, returned to the blood-fire war chariot. This time, Qi Sha didn't even feel like collecting spiritual liquid.
"Alas, I can't defeat a Dharma Body yet, but among Hua Hong, I have no rivals!"
"That kid Qin Su is also a coward! I provoked him so much at the last auction, but he didn't even make a move. Hmph, the Crown Prince of Great Zhen? Trash!"
"I've basically fought all the true disciples of the Ten Great Sects. Only that 'Human Bone Monk' was a bit interesting."
"But that guy is too disgusting. After the last auction, I hit him a little too hard, and now he runs away whenever he sees me."
"As for that woman Miao Yu, she's only good at seductive tactics, which makes it hard for me to go all out when fighting her."
"Su Xing'er, that girl is too smart. Alas, fighting with her is meaningless!"
"Those young ones from the Qian Ji Sect, they are too fond of ingenious tricks. If I break their toys, they'll cry. How boring, how boring!"
"And that kid from the Xian Shui Sect, not to mention him. He usually acts like a master, but at the critical moment, you actually run away?! My eyes hurt!"
"Speaking of which, if Ling Long, this true dragon, were to ascend, she would be a top-tier combatant. But according to my master, she has an incomplete body and insufficient potential, and will likely not even survive the great tribulation. I'm afraid I won't have the chance to fight her."
Qi Sha, the Zhan Mo true disciple who appeared to be silent and battle-hungry, was now inwardly criticizing the top young generation on this land.
One of the reasons why the Zhan Mo Sect had a bad reputation was that these Zhan Mo lunatics disliked fighting the weak and preferred to fight the strong and the stronger.
Therefore, the experts from other major sects and imperial dynasties were their preferred targets.
And how could a sect that would fight you just because they were unhappy and looked like they wanted to kill you have a good reputation?
After inwardly criticizing the contemporary prodigies, Qi Sha leaned against the edge of the war chariot helplessly.
Looking up at the sky, at the vast sea sky curtain from which spiritual energy waterfalls continuously flowed, Qi Sha under his mask couldn't help but sigh:
"Loneliness! Can't someone capable of fighting come? I really want to experience the feeling of failure!"
And in the eyes of the Dao path cultivators gradually returning from afar, this battle-scarred Zhan Mo true disciple,
Beneath that ghost mask, his crimson eyes were filled with a pressure that made people tremble!
"Hiss! The Zhan Mo lunatic lives up to his reputation!"
"Too terrifying. Those four water dragons, even our sect master probably couldn't withstand them, and this guy just chopped them up?"
"Shame on the Dao of Spells! Is there no one who can deal with this Zhan Mo lunatic?"
"Shh! Speak softly, be careful that lunatic hears you!"
Listening to the chirping of the Dao path cultivators from afar, Qi Sha's mood worsened, but these guys were too weak!
Without any deep-seated grudges, if he were to fight them, Qi Sha would truly be ashamed to death!
"It's just that I've advanced too quickly. What kind of 'Sha Po Lang' destiny, I cultivate even while lying down. Why couldn't they let me stay in the Dao path longer!"
"Alas, I can no longer experience the joy of fighting against Ascended Realm cultivators while still in the Dao path."
Just as Qi Sha was lamenting in his heart,
Boom!!!
Amidst continuous spatial shattering sounds, divine ships shattered space and crossed over.
The time for the celebration was drawing near, and the major sects were about to officially appear.
But Qi Sha merely raised his eyes and continued to stare blankly, bored.
No choice, they were all old acquaintances he had fought before.
The Great Zhen Dynasty, Dao Xuan Sect, Yu Xian Sect, Mo Fo Sect, Qian Ji Sect, Si Ji Hui, and other primordial top forces arrived one after another.
Divine ships floated in the sky, and cultivators rode their swords over the vast sea. In the blink of an eye, nearly ten thousand cultivators had gathered here.
And the lowest cultivation level of those who could come here was the late stage of the Dao path.
Even more than half of the Ascended Realm cultivators from the entire primordial land had come to this place.
As the sun gradually rose higher,
Under the expectant, doubtful, or disgusted gazes of the assembled cultivators, when the great sun hung at the highest point of the sky,
The milky white spherical Hai sky curtain quietly changed!
Hum....
At the edge of the sky curtain, which was as vast as a continent,
A thin black line suddenly appeared from top to bottom.
The next moment, under everyone's gaze, the black line gradually widened,
And a gate tens of thousands of zhang high slowly opened!
As the gate opened, a refreshing fragrance, accompanied by gradually rising melodious music, slowly unfolded before their eyes.
The Hai Sect, one of the Ten Great Sects, the only top-tier sect where humans and demons coexisted,
After thousands of years, once again opened its doors to the entire mainstream cultivation world.
...
Under the expectant gazes of the assembled cultivators, the first thing to appear from the gradually opening gate was an extremely dense spiritual mist.
It seemed that due to the vast difference in spiritual energy between the inside and the outside, this excess spiritual energy had poured out the moment the gate was opened.
And the Dharma Body cultivators who tried to peek inside were disappointed and shook their heads at each other.
The spiritual energy density here was too great; their spells and techniques could not penetrate its reality.
Just as everyone hesitated about their next course of action,
A silver rainbow light suddenly shot out from the spiritual mist!
When the light stopped again, it was a peerless maiden of immortal beauty, standing gracefully in the sky.
Ling Long looked at the cultivators from other sects outside the Hai Sect, a beautiful smile appearing on her face. She bowed and said:
"Thank you all fellow Daoists for coming today!"
"Please follow me inside! The ceremony is about to begin!"