The Bizarre

This time, it was fortunate that the Mystic Yellow Dao Assembly was being held atop Mystic Yellow Mountain in Huashi Heaven, gathering the masters of the great Dao academies of the Immortal World, along with major figures from various aristocratic clans.

Had something like this happened at any other time, the Heavenly Gate would likely have already fallen. Endless Outer Realm Devils would have surged through it, and for the living beings of Huashi Heaven, it would have been a catastrophic disaster.

Not only Huashi Heaven—even the other heavens connected to it would have been dragged into the calamity.

Once the devils entered the Immortal World and scattered, weak cultivators and lower-ranking immortals would have no power to resist them at all.

Moreover, the number of experts in the Immortal World was limited. Clearing the devils out after they had entered the Immortal World would be hundreds of times harder than fighting them in the starry sky.

When the last devil vanished from the starry sky, Chen Xiao's body shuddered. Boundless merit descended from the heavens, scattering with remarkable evenness over every person present.

In Chen Xiao's eyes, the bright yellow light of merit around the sixteen academy masters had already turned pure gold, dazzling beyond measure.

Unfortunately, those immortals could not sense the existence of merit at all, much less knew how to absorb it. Chen Xiao could only watch helplessly as that merit silently drained away, dispersing back into the void.

Though those immortals could not use the merit, it still had many effects—for instance, upon heavenly tribulations.

The power of merit could influence heavenly tribulations.

Furthermore, though those immortals were unaware of it, they had nonetheless been bathed in merit. Their immortal bodies had been cleansed to the marrow by it, and their future cultivation would become