There were even tourists in casual clothes with cameras, as well as soft-skinned women dressed in gaudy finery.
But now they were all like walking corpses, their faces blank and numb. Whatever they had once done, they were now building that magnificent Divine Temple by the most primitive means.
Abbess Zhengjue watched them work without a trace of expression, like walking corpses. She knew full well these sacrifices were necessary, yet seeing them with her own eyes still sent a chill through her heart.
"Hee hee, don't worry. Once this Divine Temple is built, we'll be able to bring in the God Realm's army. Then destroying Great Chu and breaking the Heaven-Earth Sealing Array will be as easy as turning over a hand!
"Then we can all ascend to the God Realm, live forever, and enjoy endless blessings. What a rare opportunity..."
A woman in a black veil giggled as she spoke to Abbess Zhengjue.
At least twenty or thirty experts had gathered here, both local and foreign. They might not have amounted to much before certain others, but in this world of cultivation, every one of them was a formidable figure who had been famous for years.
Abbess Zhengjue of the Azure Peak School, for instance, could hardly be counted among the best of them.
Nearly everyone in this world who was dead set on destroying the Heaven-Earth Sealing Array and welcoming the Deities of the God Realm had gathered here to lead the way.
At the Black Veiled Woman's words, Abbess Zhengjue forced a smile. "I'm just worried about Tang Changsheng. Who would've thought he was so powerful..."
She had meant it as a casual excuse. But when she recalled how ruthlessly Tang Changsheng had killed Fire Master at the docks not long ago, with scarcely any effort,