At this thought, Jiang Xuan tilted his head back slightly and gave the clouds an almost imperceptible nod.
"Buzz—!"
As he nodded, the ash-gray Death Nether Bell Tower hummed once before silently vanishing into the void.
With that, Jiang Xuan had made his decision—beyond benefiting himself, he did not mind securing some advantages for the sect.
Of course, there was another reason behind his choice.
"Whatever. Even if I have to seal the Death Nether Bell, I, Jiang Xuan, will still be invincible in this world!"
The news of the Death-Announcing Nether Bell's disappearance swept across all of Starfall Lake like a hurricane in an instant.
"That bell has been sealed!"
"Whew... Fighting him won't mean immediate death anymore!"
"Jiang Xuan's greatest trump card is gone!"
His action turned the entire Starfall Lake into a cauldron of boiling oil struck by a spark, erupting into a frenzy.
Those Cultivators who had just been silent as cicadas in winter, too frightened even to meet Jiang Xuan's gaze, now seemed to have been injected with a tonic. The fighting spirit extinguished in their eyes reignited.
"Without that bell, he's just an ordinary Dao Foundation! Why should we fear him?!"
"That's right! No matter how strong he is, he's only one person! With a battle of attrition, we can wear him to death!"
"Young Master Bai Yi hasn't lost yet! Senior Brother Chu Ge hasn't even acted! We still have nearly a hundred people—Jiang Xuan is only one man!"
Amid the newly reignited uproar, a figure in white was the first to step forward.
The first to fight was naturally Bai Yi.
He had long since stepped out, only to be entangled by Pang Guan and the others with Phantom Demon arts until he was left in a sorry state. Fortunately, he