In a single day, more than a dozen prestigious top-tier Immortal Sects had been wiped out.
The news spread through the entire Cultivation World at breakneck speed. It had nearly reached the point where no cultivator above the Golden Core Realm was unaware of it. Even cultivators secluded deep in the mountains for solitary cultivation were summoned back by their elders to discuss countermeasures together.
Many people refused to believe it and secretly went to visit the ruins of the various Immortal Sects. After seeing them, their mouths fell wide open, and they could not even speak clearly. In the end, they simply fell silent.
What kind of terrifying power could create such a sight? More importantly, without exception, the mountain gates of all those dozen-plus Immortal Sects had suffered the exact same fate, transformed into enormous pits slowly filling with water. And now, a month had passed, yet there had been no movement whatsoever from the cultivators of those sects, making people suspect that they had all died.
After this incident, the Cultivation World was in an uproar. Everyone was in danger, weighing whether their own Immortal Sect could withstand such an attack. Even top-tier Immortal Sects such as Primordial Tri-Unity Peak and the Six-Element Metal Transformation Sect could not endure it. No Immortal Sect remained optimistic enough to believe itself the exception.
By now, most cultivators no longer dared to stay in their own Immortal Sects to cultivate in seclusion. They feared that one day, their sect might inexplicably become a giant pit, and they would not even know how they had died.
Some people investigated the full sequence of events and discovered that the dozen-plus Immortal Sects turned into pits shared one common trait: they had joined forces to seize all the "factories" belonging to an organization