Chapter 806

Within less than a day after the matter was exposed and the Spirit Stone Crisis leaked out, news spread throughout the entire East Sea Cultivation World through every conceivable means of communication.

Then... the masses were in an uproar.

All lower-level cultivators underwent a drastic change in expression upon hearing the truth. Their faces filled with disbelief, and they even instinctively assumed it was nothing but groundless nonsense.

After all, the higher-ups of the Immortal Alliance had endorsed this matter. It covered the entire East Sea Cultivation World and involved countless sects and aristocratic families of every size—even the Nine Great Immortal Sects had entered the fray.

So many capable figures, so many brilliant minds, and even those High Order Cultivators who had lived for hundreds or thousands of years... they had all joined in.

How could such a thing possibly be fake?!

But when someone took the lead in storming every Immortal Alliance garrison on the Ten Thousand Dao Spirit Islands and discovered that the vast quantities of spirit stones and spiritual materials collected there, along with an unknown number of Storage Rings counted in the tens of thousands, had all vanished without a trace, countless people fainted on the spot.

They realized that they... might truly have been deceived.

At this moment, nearly every cultivator fell into dead silence.

One had to know that, for this so-called grand feast, they had not only pawned off every last possession they owned, but had also used contracts to barter away their futures in life and death, even the futures of their descendants, all to gamble for a future, to gamble for hope.

Yet now, not only were their futures and hopes gone, they no longer possessed a single spirit stone. No matter how much menial work they did in the