"What? How could that be!?" Xia Ruize was aghast, his face filled with disbelief. He had just expended no small amount of effort to keep the Grand Array operating in an orderly manner, and had even specifically sent people to stabilize the situation in the Immortal City. Yet now they were telling him that the Immortal City had crashed into them. How was that possible?
"Cult Master! It's true—the Immortal City really did crash into us! The immortals who went to stabilize order in the city couldn't even get inside!" A core loyalist hurriedly confirmed the matter, though his news had clearly arrived a step late.
"The divine beasts of the Eastern Immortal Alliance... What about the divine beasts from the other Immortal Alliances? And the elite tribulation-transcending cultivators inside... the immortals from every faction..." Xia Ruize's eyes widened.
The loyalist shook his head, his face filled with sorrow. "They're trapped inside the Grand Array and can't get out at all. It's now like a furnace of molten lava in there, burning everything to ashes. I'm afraid they..."
"This... this is impossible... What exactly happened? Explain it in detail!" Xia Ruize pressed anxiously.
"I don't know either. The disciples outside said that the Whale Turtle suddenly went berserk for some reason, its eyes turning blood-red. The land on the mountain atop its back split apart, and lava erupted just like that. In the end, the entire area within the Immortal City's formation turned into a sea of fire. The immortals inside were burned to ashes or vaporized... And the Whale Turtle seemed to have gone out of control. It charged straight into the sky and crashed into this place..." the core loyalist continued explaining.
I couldn't help feeling shaken to the core. This was probably the true checkmate hidden by