Though it seemed like a self-deceiving trinket mocked by the Emperor Donghua, it carried the will of an Ancient Demonic Creature. It was through this that Shen Ming and the others had been completely controlled. Yet even when the Emperor Donghua had deliberately tried to leave behind the Half-Covered Masks, every person who confiscated one had either been burned to death by Daylight or had their physical body vanish, with the strange masks turning to ash alongside them.
Looking back now, the Ancient Demonic Creature had clearly feared that someone might uncover something by studying these masks, and had therefore deliberately focused its attacks on those people. But this swiftly made the clever ones realize something: was not what the Ancient Demonic Creature feared precisely proof that, if they obtained these masks, they might truly be able to research something useful from them?
This highly probable conjecture allowed the Heavenly Qisheng Master to see hope for resolving this calamity. They began urging the organization of a second wave of reinforcements and issued summons to many worlds, including yours, for a second plan to venture deep into the Corrupt Spirit Qi. It was much like the disasters of All Heavens that had been resolved in the past—people always solved their problems again and again with stubborn perseverance...
In the 19,008,539th year, Dinghai's death, as the Dao Sect's sole Dao Array Master, dealt the Dao Sect a tremendous blow. It also invisibly increased the value of formations from the Three Pure Heavens. After all, apart from Dinghai, the Three Pure Heavens' other Dao Array Master, the Ten Absolutes old man, was older, but his attainments in the Array Dao still fell far short of Dinghai's. He could not maintain such a stable and high success rate in crafting formations as Dinghai had.