The change came so suddenly that the sect's cultivators had not the slightest preparation. To call it joy turning to sorrow was not wrong at all.
No one knew exactly what had happened.
Even the other Supreme Elder, Scholar Tianya, was staring in astonishment, almost unable to believe his own eyes.
He knew the Great Elder's character clearly. Although the man was a little withdrawn, he had always been kind to the disciples of the sect. How could he possibly commit such indiscriminate slaughter of innocents?
He had not even spared his own direct disciple. If Scholar Tianya had not witnessed it with his own eyes, no matter who told him such a thing, he would never have believed it.
Yet the facts lay before his eyes. Where was there time for hesitation? Screams still kept pouring into his ears. Though everything was wrapped in clouds and fog, the sect's elites were gathered here. If he delayed even slightly, they would surely be slaughtered to the last by the Great Elder.
That loss would be far too great.
No matter what, he could not allow such a situation to happen.
He would stop his senior brother first, then decide what to do.
That was easy to say, but when it came to actually doing it, his heart began to pound.
Although he, too, was an ancestor at the Tribulation Transcendence level, the gap between his strength and Zhuiling Ancestor's could not be measured by reason.
Something must have happened to Senior Brother while he was in seclusion, but at this moment, the spiritual pressure he was emitting was absolutely that of the Tribulation Transcendence Late Stage.
Trying to stop such a powerhouse was practically no different from a mantis raising its arms to block a chariot.
To say he was