"This boy had already slaughtered two thousand people in a mere three days, nearly destroying the foundation of that matter. Are you all still going to hesitate?"
A burly man whose mannerisms resembled those of a frail scholar, his face likewise utterly obscured, swept his lightning-sharp gaze over the crowd before him.
This place was naturally the Mountain of Miracles on Miracle Continent.
But if Qin Shaofeng had been allowed to see clearly that this was where the upper echelons of the Mountain of Miracles held their meetings, his jaw would surely have dropped.
That was because so many beings standing at the very pinnacle were all gathered before a thatched hut.
More than twenty people sat cross-legged in a courtyard planted with vegetables and fruit trees.
Even the courtyard walls were woven fences.
There was not the slightest air of lofty authority about the place.
Back when Old Ghost Chen Xing, the sect master of the Seven Stars Sect, lived alone atop a mountain, his residence had seemed to be nothing more than a shabby dwelling as well.
The difference was that his mountain had been covered in the finest spiritual materials from the Land of Shining Stars.
And that had merely been the exterior.
The true inner core had been inside the mountain.
The higher-ups of the Mountain of Miracles had clearly not created so many hidden arrangements.
Nor had they needed to.
"Spirit Lord, that boy's divine soul is far too strange. Furthermore, it is protected by numerous powerful means, and there seems to be an extremely formidable existence guarding him. If we use the grand formation to capture his soul, the cost will be so great that we can scarcely bear it."
"Spirit Lord, this old man believes activating the grand formation against that boy would