Star Picking Girl grabbed the Magnetic Pole and flew out of the sea. Thunder gathered in the sky and suddenly crashed down.
Star Picking Girl flashed aside. The lightning struck the surface of the sea, then spread through the water and onto the islands. Hundreds of thousands of cultivators from both sides were caught in the blast, their cries of pain ringing without pause.
Nan Yanfei retreated, and Old Sixteen and the others had no desire to keep fighting. They began falling back step by step.
But retreating wasn't so easy. Fifth Continent cultivators kept pursuing them, and Hua Xiao joined the fight. The 999 stars of Heavenly Star Palm exploded, wiping out the Sixth Continent cultivators within a hundred-mile radius.
The three of them—Lu Yin, Hua Xiao, and Li—didn't pursue the Sixth Continent cultivators. Lu Yin in particular took out a token: the one that had originally been made of Half-Life Source Material, but which he had forcibly upgraded to Life Source Material. Then he began issuing orders. It was time to put it to use.
The Thunderstorm Zone was vast, and the Magnetic Poles were positioned in five directions: due south, due west, due north, northeast, and northwest. The five Magnetic Poles attracted and repelled one another, keeping the thunder fixed in the sky instead of letting it fall completely. That made the region habitable.
The Magnetic Pole in Star Picking Girl's hands was the one from the northeast.
In the south, hundreds of thousands of cultivators were also fighting. The southern battlefield was where Sixth Continent and Fifth Continent cultivators most often clashed in the Thunderstorm Zone. Yet no Ten Arbiters had appeared there for this battle over the Magnetic Poles.
Zhi Yi arrived at the southern battlefield and swept her gaze across it. She spotted a