The night was as deep as water.
Mingdu City was ablaze with lights. Prayers for blessings poured out from every household, like a hundred rivers converging into the sea and merging into a booming hymn that shook heaven and earth and resounded throughout the city.
Under the Temple's orders, the hundreds of thousands of people in Mingdu City were divided into five shifts. Each shift had at least one hundred thousand people, who had to pray for two hours before the divine statues sent down by the Temple.
This was meant to continuously replenish the energy consumed by the White Pagoda Fulfilled-Wishes Treasure Vase Blessing Formation and maintain the formation's operation.
Everyone's lives had been thrown into disorder.
Under the Temple's coercion, no one had dared complain at first.
But as Li Fei blockaded the city gates day after day and the White Pagoda Fulfilled-Wishes Treasure Vase Blessing Formation remained active, the resentment in people's hearts gradually grew heavier.
The formation had to collect everyone's faith and mental strength, and the prerequisite was sincere devotion.
But as resentment deepened in people's hearts, their sincerity during prayer naturally grew thinner and thinner.
As a result, the energy collected by the formation decreased every day.
With the common people providing less energy, the experts inside the city had to expend more of it.
Although everyone took turns each day and had ample supplies of pills, after such a long time, they were gradually finding it difficult to hold on.
The pills provided by the Temple could replenish the energy they expended, but pills capable of restoring Mind Power or replenishing the life essence of their Implants were extremely precious and scarce. They could not be supplied without limit.
Thus, the experts' mental exhaustion and the deterioration of the Implants within their bodies