Fear of Death, Plans for Departure (4k2, Please Subscribe)

But compared to him, the cultivators of the Spirit Immortal Path and Swordfire Palace reacted far more strongly.

After all, this concerned their very lives. The slightest misstep, and they would be buried here.

Yet faced with two Spirit Transformation Ancestors, neither sect's cultivators present dared utter a single word of refusal.

"Ancestor, can't we cast spells from afar? Must we enter the second floor of the pavilion?"

A Spirit Immortal Path cultivator swallowed and cautiously asked this question.

At this, Qi Yaoxian's expression darkened slightly. As one sent into the underground palace as a "suicide soldier," it was only natural for him to ask such a question, yet it inevitably challenged her authority as a Spirit Transformation Ancestor within the sect.

Now that she had already decided to have the sect's cultivators die in her stead, she naturally no longer entertained the sweet dream of winning the devotion of her disciples and descendants.

Still, after some thought, she explained.

"The Divine-Sealing Annihilation Formation is not merely a killing formation that destroys cultivators' souls and divine sense. It also possesses an immensely powerful defensive formation. The simplest way to break it is from within."

"If we wished to break it from outside, even if Spirit Transformation cultivators like us joined forces, it would likely take more than a month."

Her words fell.

The named cultivators from the Spirit Immortal Path and Swordfire Palace utterly gave up hope. After saying, "We obey," they followed the Nascent Soul puppets to the second floor of the pavilion.

Just as expected.

The instant these Nascent Soul cultivators from the two sects entered the pavilion's second floor, they seemed as though their throats had been gripped. They struggled to breathe, their faces first turning pale, then flushing purple-red.

These were precisely the symptoms of a