While Lin Feng and the others were taking control of the Nine Netherworld Underworld Python Clan, a great battle was underway in a massive valley surrounded by deep mountains in the southwestern region of Central Province.
No, more precisely, it was a one-sided massacre.
Within the valley, a towering black hall that had once stood upon the open ground had already been utterly wrecked.
Its once solemn and magnificent furnishings, along with its enormous stone pillars, lay scattered everywhere. The walls built from massive black stones had long since reverted to their original state of loose rubble.
At the same time, even the vast number of Soul Bodies imprisoned within the great hall had already broken free from the seals of their iron chains and fled into the sky, drifting across the mountains and wilderness.
At a rough estimate, there were at least several hundred thousand of them.
However, a Spatial Barrier had been set up around the valley.
Thus, no matter how frantically those souls circled about, they could not escape.
Perhaps for that very reason, the souls kept shouting and crying out, their voices continuously gathering above the valley.
In the end, the clamor shot into the heavens, leaving people restless and irritated.
"Xiao Yan, don't go too far! Be careful, or I'll summon experts from the clan to kill you!"
Above the valley, a skinny old man in black looked anxiously at the young man opposite him, threatening him in a fierce tone that concealed his weakness.
If some of Pill Tower's top experts had been present, they would certainly have recognized him. He was Gu You, the Second Heavenly Venerate among the Soul Hall's Nine Heavenly Venerates, a High-level Half-Saint and one of Pill Tower's greatest enemies.
However, Gu You had long lost the imposing dignity