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The epic battle to destroy Kong began.
The four major sects— Cloudsky Sect, Spirit Sword Manor, String-Killing Sect, and Heavenly Thunder Pavilion (rebuilt by Lei Jiajia after being destroyed), as well as various other sects such as Immortal-Ending Hall, Maoshan School, and Water-Control Sect, and cultivation Aristocratic Clan like the Tang family and Nanfeng of the Kunshan Tang Family, all sent people over. Among them were many experts at the Mahayana Stage, as well as powerful figures like Ye Ruheng who had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
A large group of thousands of people arrived at the gate of the Kongtong School, shouting for Immortal Venerable Shen and His Son to come out and give the entire Cultivation World an explanation. Unexpectedly, the once Kongtong School was completely empty. Apart from a few dozen Stone Lions carved from Superior Spirit Stone, there wasn't even a single guard.
However, the order in which these Stone Lions are arranged seems to be different from before.
"Since no one's watching, then don't blame me for being impolite." Without another word, Ye Zhenzhen stepped forward and began hacking at the central Stone Lions with her sword. First, she chopped off its legs, then cut off its body, and then she dug out the Top-Grade Fire Crystal Stone from its eyes. "I'm rich!" The Little Bean put all the pieces of the dismembered Stone Lions into his Heaven and Earth Pearl String, laughing gleefully.
"Is the Cloudsky Sect so desperate for money that even a child is so greedy and commits such robbery?" People mocked Ye Zhenzhen from time to time.
The Little Bean stuck out her tongue at everyone, a look of glee on her face as if she'd struck it rich, and hurried off to the next Stone Lions. Ye Ruheng and the others didn't stop her, and Ye Qingchuan even stepped forward to help. The two of them quickly moved several Stone Lions, drawing gasps of amazement from the crowd.
The large group shouted at the gate for a while, but seeing that no one from the Kongtong School responded, they barged into the sect.
There was still no sign of anyone.
"Nobody's around, that's great!" Ye Zhenzhen's mouth practically stretched to the sky in a grin. She ran to the center of the Lost-Path Tree and started digging at it with her sword.
Bystanders:...
What kind of operation is this? Although the Lost-Path Tree is quite valuable, uprooting it like this is really unsightly.
However, Ye Zhenzhen, adhering to the principle that even a fly's leg is meat, dragged Ye Qingchuan along and excitedly dug out all the Lost-Path Tree in the very center and put them into her Heaven and Earth Pearl String.
"For the daughter of a sect Sect Leader to act like a bandit is truly an insult to civilization." The people around couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to say something harsh to the Little Bean, but Ye Qingchuan's sharp glare silenced them all.
How could such a young boy have such terrifying eyes, as if he could devour people alive... Those people shut their mouths in lingering fear, feeling a chill run down their spines.
After traversing the vast Kongtong School for several hours, the large group finally arrived at the Ascension Platform, which stood nearly a thousand meters high.
Looking up, on the towering Ascension Platform that reaches into the clouds, a figure can be vaguely seen—it is none other than Immortal Venerable Shen. That day, he wore a long, shimmering golden robe, which was dazzling even from afar. The wind blew against him, causing his golden robe to flutter. He treads on clouds and wields his sword, as if he were about to Ascension immortality at any moment.
"Immortal Venerable, as the leader of the Cultivation World, why would you do something so contrary to the laws of Heavenly Dao?"
"Immortal Venerable, we used to respect and honor you, but we never imagined you would be this kind of person. How can you face those female cultivators you exploited and manipulated, and how can you betray the trust that the entire Cultivation World placed in you?"
"Stop wasting time talking to him! This man is vicious and wicked, he deserves to be killed! Charge!"
In a fit of rage, the crowd drew their swords, preparing to charge up the Ascension Platform and fight Immortal Venerable Shen to the death. However, they discovered that the platform seemed to be under some kind of restriction, making it impossible to approach the Ascension Platform on their swords. Helpless, the crowd walked to the front of the Ascension Platform, intending to navigate through the maze paved with Top-Grade Earth Crystal Stone to enter the Ascension Platform first, and then find a way to reach the top.
"Don't go!" Ye Ruheng and the others tried to stop those who were blindly rushing forward, but there were just too many people, and they couldn't stop everyone at all.
With a series of agonizing screams, those who entered the maze first all mysteriously vanished. This wasn't a maze at all; it was clearly a man-eating Magic Formation!
Everyone stopped in their tracks, only to see Ye Zhenzhen already squatting beside the maze, busily digging for Top-Grade Earth Crystal Stone again.
"She's still just a child..." Some people were already laughing in exasperation, looking helplessly at the Little Bean. Others joined her group, digging for Earth Crystal Stone together. Since this maze was suspicious, they might as well destroy it bit by bit.
Before long, hundreds of people had dug a large gap in the maze.
Immortal Venerable Shen looked down and saw that these people were actually destroying his formation. He couldn't wait any longer! He stood high on the Ascension Platform, using his sword as a brush, and quickly drew mysterious Runes in the air. Each Runes contained powerful spiritual energy fluctuations and was full of an aura of destruction and devouring.
As he finished the last stroke, a vast, black-gold net appeared in the sky above the entire Kongtong School, enveloping everyone within it. No matter how they were cut with swords, burned with fire, or struck by lightning, they could not escape. It flickered with terrifying Runes, as if the Principle of heaven and earth had been forcibly distorted.
The spiritual energy flowing through everyone's bodies, as if guided by an invisible hand, began to flow slowly but steadily upwards. With each breath, their cultivation level was silently dissipating.
"Oh no, it's the Heaven-Defying Spirit-Devouring Formation!"
The patriarch of the Kunshan Tang Family, renowned for his array formations, recognized the ancient array. Previously, he had only felt that something was amiss with the Kongtong School, but he had never considered the Heaven-Defying Spirit-Devouring Formation, because this kind of ancient array had been lost for many years and had not been used by anyone for thousands of years. He never expected that this ancient array would reappear in the world now.
"Sect Master Tang, you're right, you're all going to die soon." Immortal Venerable Shen opened his arms towards the crowd, closing his eyes and greedily absorbing the spiritual energy that kept flowing towards him.
He had been planning this day ever since he began cultivating the Chaos Pearl, setting up formations at the sect's entrance and throughout the sect. However, he had only obtained the formation diagram by chance and hadn't tested it, so he dared not use it rashly unless absolutely necessary. His cultivation had been stuck at the Late Tribulation Transcendence for many days without any further advancement. Now, the sect Sect Leader and elites of various sects were all inside, and these people had much more abundant spiritual energy than the female cultivators before. It seemed that he would be able to break through Ascension today.