Wind-Calming Pearl

"Indeed."

Xunwind Patriarch nodded, then sighed. "Over the past tens of thousands of years in the Purple Yin Realm, many exceptionally gifted cultivators have sought to destroy the Demon God Heavenly Pillars and break the formation by which the Outer Realm Demon God sealed away the world's spiritual qi."

"But they all failed."

"Oh?" Chen Nianzhi frowned slightly and asked, "Emperor Jiang was an immortal of the Ninth Heavens. Why did even he fail to succeed?"

"With Emperor Jiang's cultivation, he naturally could have uprooted the Demon God Heavenly Pillars. Yet he chose to abandon the attempt."

Xunwind Patriarch shook his head, his expression incomparably grave.

As he spoke at length, Chen Nianzhi gradually came to understand the terror of the Demon God Heavenly Pillars.

It turned out that the location of Xunwind Divine Ridge was of critical importance. It concerned the wondrous cycle of the Purple Yin Realm's spiritual qi; once fully restored, it would allow the realm's spiritual qi to gradually recover.

Even though the Purple Yin Realm's many earth veins had shattered one after another, as long as Xunwind Divine Ridge remained, the realm's spiritual qi would gradually recover with the passage of time.

Nowadays, high-grade Pure Yang earth veins were already exceedingly rare in the Purple Yin Realm, while sixth-rank high-grade Pure Yang spiritual treasures had mostly gone extinct. The destruction of Xunwind Divine Ridge was closely connected to this.

Fearing that the human race might restore Xunwind Divine Ridge, the Outer Realm Demon God had set down multiple contingencies with seven Demon God Heavenly Pillars.

First, each of those seven Demon God Heavenly Pillars weighed hundreds of millions of jun—heavier than even a vast continent. Even a Half-Immortal, exerting their full strength, could barely uproot one.

Moreover, the seven Demon God Heavenly Pillars were linked