Hearing Lin An's words, everyone revealed curious expressions. Especially among the Central River Imperial Family, quite a few people felt their hearts skip a beat when they heard Lin An mention self-destruction.
In truth, none of them knew what this formation was for. They had merely been informed that they needed to sacrifice a bit of blood to trap everyone in the Imperial Capital, including the Akatsuki organization. Yet from Lin An's words, this sacrifice seemed to affect them as well.
"Hmph, we cannot possibly lose. Therefore, this formation will have no effect on us," Prince Cheng said coldly.
Clearly, he knew what the formation did. After Prince Cheng spoke, the curiosity and doubt in everyone's hearts immediately deepened. At least based on the information available so far, Lin An might not have been wrong.
"You're gambling," Lin An said bluntly.
Their conversation swiftly stirred up a commotion among the cultivators.
"I seem to have seen something as well. I have to say, the Central River Empire truly intends to stake everything on a last stand. I am impressed," Lin Chuan said.
With his Tenseigan driven at full power, he finally saw the connection between those crimson hexagonal mirrors and the people casting the spell.
It seemed to be some kind of life contract, linking the formation with those who had performed the blood sacrifice. So long as those people remained alive, the crimson mirrors could continue to exist.
And that meant the formation could only be broken by killing the people who had just performed the blood sacrifice.
But tens of millions of cultivators had performed the sacrifice at once. To break this formation, they would have to slaughter all those tens of millions of people, including eight Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, Empress Yaoguang, and the person inside the dark