The Secret of Ten Thousand Years

Time passed, and the Nascent Soul cultivators sealed within Planetary Devastation could do nothing but wait anxiously.

To them, if they could trade cultivation resources for the return of their bodies, they were absolutely unwilling to self-destruct. Otherwise, they would have already blown up their bodies to escape when Deva Path unleashed Planetary Devastation.

Within the Immortal Mansion, news of this battle had already spread. Black Tortoise Zetsu had naturally played a role in this, but Great Sound Pavilion, Luo River Sect, and other factions had done even more to fan the flames.

No one had expected Zero Burial to refine the corpse of the ancient Bright God Sect's sect master. The moment that corpse appeared, the outcome of the entire battle had already been decided.

The people from Great Sound Pavilion brought by Shui Mochan, as well as the reinforcements summoned by Luo Yuxi, Ruan Shizhi, and the others, had become unnecessary. However, after learning that [Akatsuki] intended to use these Nascent Soul cultivators as hostages to extort the factions behind them, they spared no effort in using their respective influence to spread the news. In a sense, they had invisibly lent [Akatsuki] a hand.

Among the crowd, after seeing Deva Path use Planetary Devastation to seal all the Nascent Soul cultivators, Song Qingyuan turned and left, vanishing directly from everyone's sight. Even the old man of golden light, who had been keeping an eye on Song Qingyuan, failed to notice his departure. By the time he sensed something was wrong, not even a trace of Song Qingyuan's aura remained.

This made both the old man of golden light and the beautiful woman's hearts skip a beat. Earlier, the old man had tried to seize Song Qingyuan for questioning, only to be blocked by those bizarre crimson threads. Then