(Girls' Literature)
This cliff was connected to a universe that stretched beyond the eye's reach, and at its very edge stood a towering stone platform.
By now, all the cultivators from this continent had gathered here. There were only several hundred thousand of them at most. One had to know that several million cultivators had entered before. If every continent had been invaded by those pitch-black creatures at the same time, then the number of cultivators left behind would not be much greater elsewhere either.
From six or seven million to six or seven hundred thousand—nearly a tenfold reduction. That indirectly showed just how brutal the fighting had been.
Ye Tian worried that once the Shiguang Abyss closed, the corrupted cultivators might also use the formation patterns appearing beneath their feet to leave. Though there were more cultivators outside, this state could spread. If it got out, the consequences would be unthinkable.
Just as Ye Tian was deep in thought, the stone platform at the very front lit up, and four images appeared.
The four images showed cultivators on the other four continents gathered in similar places. Their numbers appeared to be no greater than those on Ye Tian's continent.
Before the stone platforms on those four continents, one person already stood at each. One of them shouted toward this side.
"Where is the person chosen to activate it? Why haven't they come out yet? If we delay any longer and those creatures sweep over us, the consequences will be unthinkable!"
Yet the gathered cultivators looked at one another. None of them possessed the selected object that served as the key to activation.
At that moment, Zhao Xian beside Ye Tian slowly walked forward, clutching a cord tightly in her hand.
Ye Tian recognized it. He knew this was the