With the Demon Suppressing Tower's seal restored, the channels that had been leaking from the containment zone into outer space were finally blocked off completely. No more new black rifts appeared above Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.
The battles of all sizes were still continuing in various places, and the "prisoners" who had already escaped were being dealt with swiftly.
Outside Queyun Palace, smoke billowed into the sky. With the help of the Thunder Titans and the kingdom's army, the mountain-protecting disciples held the most heavily pressured line of defense. After killing large numbers of demons and vicious beasts charging up the mountain paths, Xuan Che began leading people through the mountain to hunt down the scattered containment subjects still fleeing.
Near the Ten Directions Pavilion, True Person Yuan He led several hundred inner sect disciples in guarding the enormous mechanism known as the "Mountain-Suppressing Pass." Controlling the great formation of Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain, the Mountain-Suppressing Pass was shaped like a gigantic bell and stood tall atop a stone platform. Spiritual light drifted across its surface, while deep, solemn tolls constantly sounded from within. On the plaza surrounding it lay the corpses of hundreds of vicious beasts, along with many demons and living anomalous entities that could not be directly destroyed. After being sealed again, they had been shackled and were waiting to be sent back into the Demon Suppressing Tower.
In the bamboo forest halfway up the mountain, where spiritual energy was abundant, packs of black wolves shaped like phantoms threaded through the shadows. Working together with the mountain patrols in white Daoist robes, they searched every suspicious hiding place.
The reconnaissance drones controlled by Dorothy flew over the mountains, checking whether any concealed leaks remained in the sea of clouds. The Spirit Mountain cultivators flying on swords passed