Wei Yunqing's words made the cultivators waiting nearby for news gasp sharply. Those close to the fallen cultivators instantly had reddened eyes.
At that moment, another Huaxian Sect cultivator inside the Spirit Gathering Formation opened his eyes as well. Venerable Minghong then sent him out of the formation. He looked at the other Spirit Transformation Venerable guarding them and said,
"Venerable Huanning, this time, the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers was controlled by evil cultivators. We became pawns in their scheme to unseal an evil artifact and Evil Souls. This was a chain of interlocking plots by the evil cultivators!
"Whether it was us Nascent Soul Cultivators sucked into the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers or the Spirit Transformation Venerables, we would all ultimately be caught between a rock and a hard place. After discussing it, the cultivators of our Five Regions decided to fight to the death and never let the evil cultivators' scheme succeed.
"Fortunately, Fellow Daoist Ranxi provided high-grade protective barriers. Otherwise, forget ten years—even one year would have been difficult for us to endure. That Sealed Land contained nothing but Evil Souls and Evil Qi, along with the elusive evil artifact Longya. It was said to be one of the three great evil artifacts of ancient times, once the weapon of the Evil God. Any cultivator injured by it would be corrupted in a very short time.
"At first, the Evil Souls we faced only possessed Golden Core stage strength. But the Evil Souls that awakened afterward grew stronger and stronger, from Golden Core to Nascent Soul, then Deity Transformation evil souls. There were even Evil Souls with Void-Traversal Realm strength. We could only burn through the resources in our hands and survive battle after battle.
"After some companions were injured by Longya, they threw their