In an instant, the smiles on everyone's faces froze.
Lin Wuyou, who stood at the head, looked utterly terrified as he shouted at the top of his lungs, "This light... Not good! This... this is Buddhist light! Everyone, retreat!"
Before Lin Wuyou could finish his warning, the dazzling Buddhist light landed squarely on him.
Pfft!
His body swayed in midair as Lin Wuyou spat out a mouthful of blood, then flew backward.
Before he could hit the ground, he was swallowed by a fierce surge of formation energy and vanished from everyone's sight.
As Lin Wuyou met with disaster, the others fared no better.
Under the all-pervading Buddhist light, one Demon Subduing Seal after another flashed into view.
At that moment, the astonishing Demonic Qi within the formation was directly detonated by the Buddhist light.
Demonic Qi and Buddhist light—two powers as incompatible as fire and water—collided in an explosion that instantly produced wave after wave of incomparably terrifying formation energy.
That energy slammed into the remaining cultivators in its entirety.
"Ah... Not good, retreat, retreat now!!!"
"Damn it!"
"I don't want to die yet!"
A string of miserable cries resounded throughout the formation space. Under the impact of that terrifying energy, even Nascent Soul Stage cultivators found it exceedingly difficult to withstand.
What was more, the True Essence remaining within their bodies was already far from abundant.
In but an instant, among the seven Nascent Soul Stage giants present, three were directly destroyed in both body and soul, their lives and paths extinguished.
Two more cultivators had only their Physical Bodies destroyed by the first wave of energy, their Nascent Souls remaining behind to sway within the energy storm like fallen leaves in the wind.
Yet their Nascent Souls did not endure for long. When the second energy storm