As the outermost layer of the secret realm's core restrictions, the first seal had two functions. One was to join with the other two seals to assess the cultivation of intruders and erase foreign enemies; the other was to control the restrictive mechanisms across the vast outer regions of the secret realm.
Once he controlled the first seal, the Sword Immortal Secret Realm had effectively opened itself to Yu Ci, apart from its more central regions. Likewise, he had the authority to make this area accessible to more people without obstruction.
Xuanhuang was deeply displeased by what he had done, yet yielded before reality and could only comfort himself. "There's actually nothing much in the outer region. When Lord Wujie shattered the void in his early years, he practically destroyed that place too... Hey, what are you doing!"
"Mist Shadow Heaven should be more tempting."
Yu Ci answered unhurriedly, but his actions were swift and decisive as thunder and wind. The conversion to the first seal's new operating mode had not yet been fully completed, yet under Yu Ci's control, the process was forcibly cut short. Having lost its new operational core before the old mode could reconnect, the first seal instantly fell into chaos.
With the secret realm core supporting it, the first seal's disorder was destined not to last long. But for those who had prepared in advance, it was already enough!
"One, two, three..."
Auras surfaced one after another. Yu Ci could still count them at first, but as the auras became tangled and the primordial qi chaotic, he lost track. He only knew that at least twenty or thirty people had seized the chance to break through the seal's suppression and rush into Mist Shadow Heaven, and many of them seemed to be familiar faces.
Then