Many disciples of the Divine Sect did not know that deep within the belly of Tribulation Crossing Peak lay a "Tribulation Crossing Tower."
The Tribulation Crossing Tower was usually sealed shut and only opened in times of war.
The entire Tribulation Crossing Tower was protected by a layer of barriers, impregnable as a fortress.
That was because inside the Tribulation Crossing Tower lay the "barrier cores" of the nine-layer barrier around Taiyi Peak Lake!
At this moment, all the barrier spirit threads across Taiyi Peak Lake converged here. Of the Divine Sect's roughly fifty Three-Origin Tribulation Elders, twenty were stationed here.
With one hundred million sentient beings, the power of the nine-layer barrier had already reached saturation. Thus, they no longer needed Tribulation Elders to provide power within the barrier cores.
These twenty "Three-Origin Tribulation Elders," together with Human Origin Sect Master Jian Wuyi and the two Divine Hall Masters, Xuanyuan Xiao and Xuanyuan Yu, were mainly responsible for controlling the barriers and distributing their power.
Of these twenty Tribulation Elders, thirteen came from the Ancient Xuanyuan Clan, five from the Taiyi Sword Clan, and the remaining two belonged to neither of the three great clans.
Clearly, not a single Three-Origin Tribulation Elder from the Taiqing Fang Clan was present.
This was the result of Fang Taiqing voluntarily avoiding suspicion.
The stability of the barrier cores was of utmost importance. As the suspected Taiqing Fang Clan, having none of his people participate in the barrier cores was also a way of proving loyalty to the Exalted Deity.
Among the Divine Sect's two hundred and fifty thousand Tribulation Elders, at least eighty thousand bore the surname Fang. This showed just how important the Taiqing Fang Clan's status within the Divine Sect was.
This battle required only that the Taiqing Fang Clan