As True Spirit Yuan Hao smashed the strange "Great Desolate Meteorite Crystal" into countless fragments with a single hammer blow, a sharp whistle erupted from deep within the crystal at the same time. The sound seemed to carry terrifying power, instantly sweeping across the sea of clouds around Cloud Gazing Platform and even erasing most of the spatial rifts nearest to it.
This unexpected release of energy briefly suppressed the number of demons and strange entities escaping from the Demon Suppressing Tower, and it immediately eased the battle pressure on the mountain-guarding disciples who were intercepting those monsters layer upon layer along the mountain roads near Queyun Palace.
Near Queyun Palace, Xuan Che led numerous cultivators in forming a defensive line, fighting fiercely against the enemies emerging from the rifts.
Over the past several hours, countless demonic beasts, corrupted evil cultivators, and out-of-control entities had escaped from the Demon Suppressing Tower into the outside space. More than ninety percent of the rifts had appeared over the sea of clouds near the main peak. The escaped creatures had charged all the way down from the mountaintop, nearly breaking through the defensive lines hastily organized by the Spirit Mountain guards in the beginning.
Fortunately, these escaped fiends were completely disorganized. More than half of them had barely any intelligence at all, while the rest of the rabble could not form any kind of "cooperative consensus" in such a short time. Even the Demon Suppressing Tower's breach had been a huge accident to them. In their haste, the creatures that had escaped simply ran down the mountain in a daze, without the slightest hint of tactics. Thus, once the mountain-guarding disciples recovered and quickly stabilized their positions according to the various emergency plans, the situation gradually came under control.
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