After everyone used the Spirit Eye Art, they could easily see through the blood smeared across their protective shields.
Just as they formed hand seals and cast their spells, the Four-Winged Monstrous Birds facing Steward Ma flew high into the sky and unleashed the Wind Pressure Technique.
Countless azure wind blades materialized along the edges of the wind-pressure field, then split into several torrents. Some slashed toward the Golden Core cultivators fighting outside the formations, while another torrent blanketed the sky as it bombarded the seventeen defensive formations below.
Seeing this, Steward Ma, who was still in front of the group, also flew into the sky, his hands forming seals without pause.
Around ten breaths later, no fewer than a hundred stone pillars, each thirty feet thick, erupted without warning throughout the wind-pressure field. They shot straight into the sky, stopping only when they braced against the Mysterious Astral Big Dipper Array overhead.
The stone pillars rose throughout the wind field. The moment they thrust into the whirlwind, the field's speed of generating wind blades plummeted.
With the wind speed suddenly dropping, the Four-Winged Monstrous Birds began attacking the stone pillars in shock and fury.
The five monstrous birds clawed wildly at the pillars while directing wind blades to attack those nearby.
Strangely, these stone pillars were not particularly sturdy. After just a few slashes from the wind blades, they began crumbling into falling clods of earth.
The broken earth was swept up by the gale and scattered everywhere.
"Is that cultivator from Emerging Cloud Peak any good? If he isn't, he should come down! Why is he making things worse?"
Some cultivators inside the protective barriers below began pointing fingers at Steward Ma.
As the stone pillars steadily collapsed, even the wind-pressure field, which had initially slowed, began spinning