Different Paths

"What a joke?!"

True Lord Wan Hai, the Immortal Alliance's deputy alliance leader and the highest-ranking figure at Wolong Pass aside from Heavenly River Venerable, stared blankly at the scene before him as though his soul had left his body.

For only moments earlier, he had clearly sensed that at the very core of Wolong Pass, at Heavenly River Venerable's command nexus, an unprecedented and massive explosion had erupted for no apparent reason.

And at that very moment, within his senses, Heavenly River Venerable's aura had vanished completely. Even the Soul Lamp representing his life-bound aura had suddenly gone out.

This meant that Heavenly River Venerable—the greatest combat power of Wolong Pass and its most crucial commander—had utterly fallen!

The tremendous explosion caused by his death had directly wiped out Wolong Pass's formation core, throwing the heaven-and-earth feng shui Dragon Trapping Grand Formation, which spanned millions of miles of sea territory, into disorder. Under this chain reaction, let alone holding back the Dragon Palace Army, even this ten-thousand-mile pass would likely suffer severe injury from the formation's backlash.

Then, once the Dragon Palace Army swarmed in, let alone the million cultivators stationed at Wolong Pass, the entire East Sea Cultivation World would face an Endless Tidal Wave and march toward destruction!

"Wan Hai, what exactly happened? Why did the Venerable die without reason?!"

"Deputy Alliance Leader, what should we do now? Our power cannot sustain the activation of this grand formation. If we force it, we will surely die from the backlash!"

"The Dragon Palace Army is still outside, watching us like tigers eyeing their prey. How are we supposed to proceed?!"

One transmission light after another lit up before him, each carrying an incomparably anxious voice, some even tinged with despair.

Even when the Dragon Palace Army had pressed