Patriarch Wuchen had not hesitated to greatly deplete the foundational reserves of the Penglai Realm, breaking through the Myriad Spirits Divine Baleful Array and escaping into the heavens!
In but an instant, he had shaken off Shen Mo's aura lock, vanishing without a trace...
Through the feedback relayed by the Devil Ancestor Soul General, Shen Mo sensed that Patriarch Wuchen had already returned to the Immortal Realm and hidden within the Immortal Court. Several immensely lofty and formidable powers were suppressing and dissolving his "heart-devil tribulation." The most conspicuous were the Buddhist power of the Faceless Buddha and the power of life and death from the Yang-Faced White Saint.
Shen Mo was not worried that the Devil Ancestor Soul General would be slain. Like the other seventh-rank Demon Soul Generals, its Great Dao was entrusted to the Soul Refining Banner.
So long as the Soul Refining Banner was not destroyed, it was practically an undying and indestructible existence.
Even if Patriarch Wuchen's "heart-devil tribulation" were dissolved and the Devil Ancestor Soul General were beaten until both form and spirit perished, Shen Mo could still recreate its soul body. It would merely consume a tremendous amount of mana and heaven-and-earth spiritual energy.
For now, he did not possess the strength to storm the Immortal Court, so after a brief probe, he withdrew his awareness.
Just then, the entire Penglai Realm trembled faintly, its presence between heaven and earth gradually growing fainter, as though it might vanish into the void at any moment.
The Penglai Realm was Patriarch Wuchen's Heavenly Immortal dojo, a Blessed Land he had spent a million years opening up. It possessed the characteristics of a Blessed Land, and this situation clearly meant that Patriarch Wuchen was casting a spell, intending to retrieve the entire Penglai Realm!
However, the