Facing an attack from four sides, the Ghost Path army had fallen into certain defeat.
Its low- and mid-level cultivators simply chose to surrender.
Nearly all of the Ghost Path's Longevity Realm cultivators had been wiped out. Only a few Dharma Form cultivators clung to life, and there was no point in holding out.
The Ghost Path lineage might disappear from the world entirely one day.
Or, under the protection of the Immortals, it might raise new powerhouses.
But that was a matter for the future.
At that moment, within Hell Mountain, the heartbeat emanating from the blood-red Stone Stele grew more violent.
All of Hell Mountain shook fiercely.
An endless river rose beneath the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven's feet. It pierced through Hell Mountain and poured into the Ten Halls Wheel-Turning Grand Formation.
His Underlying Logic sustained the entire formation!
The Ten Halls Wheel-Turning Grand Formation was immensely powerful, far exceeding the combined limits of several, even a dozen, Tribulation Realm cultivators.
Layered over his Underlying Logic, it could increase the Nether River Yama Son of Heaven's power by roughly twenty percent.
The four Immortals' attacks continued to bear down on Hell Mountain, even as the earth was overturned.
Their terrifying power seemed capable of tearing everything apart and reducing all things to ash.
Overwhelming pressure fell upon the Ten Halls Wheel-Turning Grand Formation, churning through it as though to shatter it completely.
Though the formation trembled violently under the four Immortals' assault, it barely held.
Destroying it outright would take more time.
Meanwhile, the heartbeat beneath Hell Mountain was nearing its peak.
A pitch-black figure was slowly taking shape inside the Stone Stele.
Once it formed, an inexplicable pressure swept outward.
Unlike the pressure of an Immortal, it carried a will as subtle as rain soaking