"You mean even a Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator could have all his spiritual energy sucked dry by an illusion realm?"
A golden Sect Master's Decree token hovered behind Ding Mingcang, the Sect Master's voice issuing from the Purple Talisman Stone at its center.
"Absolutely! This happened just three days ago... nearly a thousand cultivators across the sect had their spiritual energy drained at once! Had I not intervened in time, it could have become a catastrophe!"
Ding Mingcang embellished the story.
"And even then, Elder Chao still didn't destroy that illusion realm?"
"No. He didn't even arrest its creator to hold him accountable."
"Outrageous!"
An illusory image of the Sect Master's furious face suddenly appeared above the token.
As far as he was concerned, what illusion realm could possibly drain a Spirit Transformation cultivator's spiritual energy?
A monster had to be stirring up trouble!
"Elder Ding, I order you to take me on an immediate inspection of every peak in the Spirit Cloud Sect."
"If what you say is true..."
"Execute the creator of the illusion realm!"
"Strip Chao Wendao of his seat among the elders and exile him to guard the Demon Suppression Prison. He shall not leave for five hundred years!"
Hearing the Sect Master's decision, Ding Mingcang was overjoyed.
"I obey!"
Ding Mingcang first took the Sect Master to his own Numinous Ascent Peak.
To his surprise, the few Inner Disciples they encountered in the Martial Arts Hall at the summit were actually cultivating diligently.
He had specifically given Numinous Ascent Peak time off.
Ding Mingcang knew that the disciples of Numinous Ascent Peak secretly played with the Illusion Tower, and he had deliberately relaxed the restrictions over the past few days.
He had done so precisely to let the Sect Master see more disciples engrossed