The Tolling of the Death Knell

When Feng Luoyi's true body appeared underground in Leiyang, beside the Myriad Immortal Mirror, more than twenty Free and Unfettered Cultivators were already standing within the secret chamber that housed it.

More than half of them came from the Myriad Dharma Sect. They were the most sensitive to the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm, and the ones most able to sense the severity of the situation. Most of the Free and Unfettered Cultivators who had relied on their cultivation and failed to retreat immediately also came from the Myriad Dharma Sect.

Besides the Myriad Dharma Sect, all the resident Free and Unfettered Cultivators of Sky Spirit Ridge had arrived as well. However, their expressions were far better than those of the Myriad Dharma Sect cultivators. From Tianze Shenjun downward, every Sky Spirit Ridge cultivator was a normal person who did not get tangled up over such matters. They possessed none of a professional's arrogance; instead, they had the self-awareness to entrust everything to professionals.

Apart from the resident Free and Unfettered Cultivators of those two sects, Wave Heavenly Monarch, who had been guarding a certain secret realm, had also brought over a group of cultivators stationed at the "Immortal Path." The Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm did not merely sustain Shenzhou's daily communications—it was also a vast system spread throughout the entire solar system. Those cultivators outside this world likewise depended on the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm to communicate with Shenzhou without hindrance. The sudden paralysis of the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm had also given the Free and Unfettered Cultivators guarding the Immortal Path beyond Shenzhou quite a fright. They had thought some unknown immortal had bypassed the Immortal Path and descended directly upon Shenzhou by crossing the Star Sea in the flesh. Thus, Wave Heavenly Monarch, the strongest among the guardians