If that had been all, they would still have needed several thousand years and an incomparably enormous price to break this grand formation.
But the crucial point was that the Flowing Flame Star Palace no longer had a half-step Celestial Immortal overseeing it. The formation could only unleash fifty to sixty percent of its full power.
With one side rising and the other falling, the Flowing Flame Star Palace's mountain-protecting formation swiftly reached the brink of collapse.
As Daoist Purple Mystery went all out and unleashed his innate divine ability, the Nine-Heavens Divine Thunder Sword, the mountain-protecting formation finally could not withstand it any longer and was utterly annihilated in a single strike.
Boom—
Seeing the formation broken, everyone revealed delighted expressions.
"Hold on, fellow Daoists!"
Chen Nianzhi was about to order everyone to charge in when a calm voice suddenly rang out from the void.
Everyone turned toward the sound and saw a Daoist clad in a Purple-Sashed Immortal Robe.
Merit Purifying Light wreathed the man's back. Holding a whisk, he strode over, glanced at the crowd, and said, "I am the Western Star Divine Lord of the Western Abyss Immortal Court. I ask that you all give me some face and spare the Flowing Flame Star Palace."
"Oh?"
Chen Nianzhi's brow furrowed slightly, but he did not answer at once.
Daoist Purple Mystery spoke to Chen Nianzhi from the side, "The Western Star Divine Lord is the master of the Western Star Blessed Land, a mighty figure of the Taiyi realm. Because he cultivates the laws of stars, he was able to take a post in the Western Abyss Immortal Court. It is said that he is an old friend of the Flowing Flame Palace Lord. I fear he has come to mediate."
"So that is how it