The sudden upheaval caught everyone off guard!
A flash of insight struck Haoran Sage. In an instant, he seemed to grasp something!
"No! We've fallen into a trap!"
"This is a scheme Li Qing devised. He fooled every one of us!"
"Quick! Gather together at once. Whatever you do, don't split up!"
"Everyone, recall all your avatars immediately!"
Haoran Sage's urgent message rang out in everyone's minds!
The eleven powerful figures converged at top speed, their faces grave!
The Immortal Realm's Purple God looked at Haoran Sage. "What exactly is going on?"
Now that they had gathered in one place, eleven streams of logic spread outward from them!
The power of Heavenly Dao Reincarnation covered every direction. They could respond to anything in an instant!
"There's one thing we all calculated wrong!"
"Look! The Dark Ocean hasn't shrunk any further!"
"But the power Li Qing unleashed just now was the same as the strikes that killed the Radiant Emperor, the Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings, and the Yin-Yang Chaos Cavern Dao Lord."
"Back then, we clearly saw the Dark Ocean shrink by two-thirds!"
"We thought he had charged the first strike, the one that killed the Demon Emperor Who Upends All Living Beings, through the Child of Destiny."
"We thought he carried out the next two attacks by consuming the Dark Ocean!"
"But when he struck down Sun Tzu just now, the Dark Ocean didn't shrink."
"What does that mean? You should know by now."
Everyone present froze at his words, then stared in horror!
The Immortal Realm's Purple God came to his senses as well. "You mean the consumption of the Dark Ocean was an illusion, meant to make us believe it was the source of his power!"
Haoran Sage's face darkened like still water. "Exactly. He