The Demon-Subduing Formation had never experienced anything like this before.
Now that it had been empowered and reinforced, such a thing should have been even less likely to happen.
Yet it had happened anyway.
In the end.
Even Wen Zhong could not hold on. He was blown away by a violently raging force of qi, and more than half of his cultivation was stripped away. Wen Zhong was utterly horrified:
"What the hell is this?!"
Many of the Gods and Buddhas who had been blown away were terrified and trembling:
"This thing seems even more terrifying than Demonic Qi. The moment I came into contact with it, I felt my cultivation rapidly drain away, my life force plummet, and even my soul seemed to be peeled away. It's too terrifying. If this qi hadn't carried a berserk storm that blew me away, I might already have died beneath its assault!"
Wen Zhong questioned them in detail.
Only then did he learn that all the Gods and Buddhas who had been blown away had felt the same way. He immediately ordered everyone to withdraw from the formation and retreat far from the Devil's Cave!
Tathagata Buddha and the Jade Emperor did not blame Wen Zhong. They had also seen that something was wrong. Even they might not be able to withstand this qi. Forcing the Gods and Buddhas to confront it head-on would have been a foolish choice.
Retreat!
Tathagata Buddha and the Jade Emperor aided Wen Zhong and accelerated the Gods and Buddhas' evacuation from the Demon-Subduing Formation.
Without the Gods and Buddhas presiding over it, the Demon-Subduing Formation swayed precariously, as if it might collapse at any moment.
Especially beneath the onslaught of the storm.
The formation held for only a few breaths before collapsing into ash.
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