Seeing how grave and solemn Yue Qing was, everyone realized this mission would be extremely dangerous.
They picked up their Identity Tokens and used the time before departure to contact family and friends.
Chu Meiyan and Si Qiaonan stopped provoking Jiang Ping An when they saw him lose his temper.
Jiang Ping An found a place to sit and closed his eyes to rest.
He had no one to contact.
Demon Illusion Fairy had gone to Skyreach Holy Land, while his daughter, Jiang MiaoYi, had left on a mission two years ago and was likewise away from the Holy Land.
Over the final hour of waiting, several more people arrived one after another.
Led by Yue Qing, the dozens of Lord Gods passed through a Domain portal and traveled to the Spirit-Severing Cold Sea.
The Spirit-Severing Cold Sea lay beneath the Divine Ruins Holy Land.
This ocean was one of the five great Star Seas of the Dao Emperor Divine Domain. Larger even than the Holy Land, it held countless drifting stars.
The Spirit-Severing Cold Sea had two defining traits: it was cold, and it absorbed divine power.
The divine power within any living being that entered the sea would drain away, drawn out by the water.
The closer a living being came to the sea's heart, the faster its divine power drained.
Away from the heart, divine power still leaked away, but not quickly.
The Crimson Marrow Crystal Mine, their destination this time, lay on a shattered continent floating upon the Spirit-Severing Cold Sea.
It was far from the sea's heart, so the sea's power-draining nature had little effect on the gods who entered the area.
That was why many in the group heading to the Crimson Marrow Crystal Mine were conventional cultivators, rather than Soul Cultivators or Body