The Method Was Right, but What if the Players Wouldn't Obey? Form the Alliance Under Heaven!

Unfortunately.

The Ark of Life still ended in collapse!

It had held together for a remarkably long time.

But in the end, the ship could not withstand the World-Destroying Flood!

The ship's ribs began shattering one after another. Players lying on their sides were squeezed between the upper and lower layers of planking until they could barely breathe. Some shouted that the water level was almost high enough and they just had to hold on a little longer. Others called for the brothers behind them to brace the ship.

But the Ark's collapse was irreversible.

The flood punched through the bottom first. Law Fragments disintegrated hundreds of thousands of players at once, washing their True Spirits out of the game world.

Then the cabin caved in, the ribs snapped, and the stern broke apart.

The Ark came apart from the center outward, faster and faster.

The five Saints stood on the collapsing Ark. Above them, the mountaintop drew ever closer yet remained beyond their reach. Below them, the flood gradually swallowed the players.

Daoist Zhunti tossed the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree into the air. Its seven-colored radiance spread into a great net, trying to draw the shattered hull back together. But the flood held too many Law Fragments, packed too densely. The net had barely touched the water before it was torn to shreds.

Jieyin chanted an incantation, sending layers of Buddhist light toward the bottom of the ship to fill the breach. The Law Fragments in the flood shattered each layer in turn. He could not fill the gap nearly as fast as it widened.

Taishang Laojun summoned a Divine Ability that revolved slowly above the Ark, trying to draw the Law Fragments away. But there were simply too many. His Divine Ability diverted some, not all.

Venerable Yuanshi